So turns out Timo wasn't getting as better as we thought...he had a set back Monday and was back in the doctors office Tuesday morning with fever and difficult breathing again. Turns out the first antibiotic they prescribed wasn't working and the super duper liquid steroid they gave him in the ER had worn off...creating the perfect storm. So we switched antibiotics and were sent home with four days of the liquid steroid. Young also flew out to NYC Tues. morning before the kids woke up, but luckily was on a flight that had wi-fi so I could email him updates. He also was able to contact our pastor, family and friends for me to ask for prayer for our little boy...all from the plane!
I'm so happy to report that Timo seems to be on the mend now, finally. I think the new meds are working but we'll know for sure tomorrow when the steroids wear off. He is certainly back to his same energy level and no longer having coughing fits. He hasn't been to school this week and each day has wanted to sit in the car while I take Cameron in or pick her up, except for today. He wanted to go in to pick her up and was so excited to see his teachers and friends. I think he is ready to go back to school. And I must say, I'm ready for him to go back. I'm totally spoiled having twins...they always play with each other. With just one child, they expect 100% of your attention 100% of the time! So exhausting...
(Cameron had a really hard time going to school without Timo. She typically run right off when we get there with barely a kiss goodbye...but not while Timo has been gone. Lots "one last hug", "don't go", "I'm sick too Mommy". Seems someone is more attached to her brother than she lets on...)
And like they say, when it rains, it pours...Cameron woke up Monday night crying and crying that her skin burned. I lifted up her jammes to find hives all over her legs, arms, back and face. Apparently she had an allergic reaction to a new soap I used for them in the bath that night. Ugh. She missed one day of school and has been on Benedryl for the past 3 days. Happy to report, she is now is hive free...yay!!
I hope we're done for the year of sickness...
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Runaway Pumpkin
The kids have a new book, The Runaway Pumpkin, that they love. I really like the author Kevin Lewis. We have a few other books by him, Chugga Chugga Choo Choo and My Truck is Stuck. He has a great way of writing with rhyming and rhythm. Young somehow always turns the book into these songs, which up front sound like so much fun, but in reality, it's a nightmare for me! Somehow I never "read" the books right according to the kids...I always hear "that's not how Daddy reads it!" So now I'm video taping and learning how to sing the books!
Monday, October 3, 2011
Timo Upate
Thank you all so much for your prayers for Timo. As some of you may not know, Timo was diagnosed with pneumonia this weekend that quickly got worse, ending us up in the ER on Saturday for over 6 hours. But we praise and rejoice our healing Father for His mighty work over our little boy.
It all started with this little girl....she had bronchitis about two weeks ago and we had to go in for her to have an albuterol treatment. She was never that sick, no fever, runny nose, crankiness, nothing...just a cough that lasted two weeks so we finally took her in and found out bronchitis.
We tried and tried out best to keep Timo from getting it. With his asthma history, a respiratory virus is bad news for him. But as lass, he caught the cough, which at first was slight and we though we could keep it under control with his inhaler. After a few days I could tell it was getting worse and took him in last Friday. Our doctor listened to his chest and immediately said he had pneumonia. She prescribed antibiotic and said if he got worse to bring him right in. Like Cameron, he wasn't even really running a fever or showing an other signs of being sick, just a cough. Saturday morning he woke up with a fever and the cough sounded a lot worse. Throughout the day he just got worse and worse. We couldn't break his fever, he was really inactive, fell asleep just sitting on the sofa and his breathing was sound rapid and shallow. Finally at 5pm we made the call to take him to the ER. They took one look at him and immediately whisked him away, hooking him up to oxygen, heart monitor, and ordered an xray to look at his chest. He was not a happy camper.
Everything was happening so fast, with such speed, nothing like ER experiences I've had in the past. (They later told me when you have a child in breathing distress you get bumped to the top of the list.) The ER doctor came in immediately, check him out and told us we would be admitted over night, he would be fine was wasn't doing very well at the moment. His heart rate was over 155, normal is around 90, and his blood oxygen was around 90, normal being 96-100. And his fever was hoovering around 102. Oh boy! Timo was crying and crying, he hated the oxygen tub in his nose and the heart rate pad on him. My heart was absolutely breaking. I was trying by best to distract him and remembered Young had let him play Angry Birds on his phone this summer while we were flying. I got my phone out and loaded up Angry Birds...perfect! It totally distracted him so the doctors could do the albuterol treatments on him.
The bad thing about giving Timo my phone to play with is I couldn't use it to call Young to keep him updated and the game drained my battery. I tried to get my phone back but Timo got so upset which made him start coughing which made his heart rate go up....so it was just best to use the room phone. I'm so thankful this was a weekend and Young wasn't traveling. He stayed at home with Cameron. And I'm so thankful we grabbed Timo's Papi on our way out the door...Timo would have been a wreck without his Papi. And the nurses even "hooked" Papi up to the heart monitor too...so sweet.
The pediatric doctor came in and told me they would do three albuterol treatments and one super powerful steroid liquid dose to help open his airways up and see how he was doing. After each albuterol they turned off his oxygen and his stats began to fall...didn't look good. They kept preparing me for him to stay the night, even though he was starting to perk up a little. So in a quiet moment in our room, Timo and I prayed together, thanking Jesus for the great doctors that were helping him, giving thanks for his improvements so far (his fever was breaking) and asking Jesus to continue healing him. Then after his third and final treatment of albuterol his oxygen level held steady. But the doctor still weren't convinced and wanted to see if he cold hold it steady for two hours...so we had to wait and wait and wait. Our nurse was awesome. She blew up gloves for us, brought stickers and printed out coloring pages for Timo to color. He was starting to look and act so much better...all praises!
She even made sure Papi was taken care of...
Timo was holding his own breathing, not as high as they like to see, but at least holding his own without the oxgyen. The ER doctor said he was "the bad side of good" holding around 94/95 blood oxygen. But since we are experienced with inhalers they let us go home...with the promise we would bring him back first thing in the morning to check his stats! Praise the Lord! They made him walk a few laps around the ER to make sure he was stable and then we were let go...6 hours later, around 10:30pm. I soooo did not want Timo to spend the night at the hospital. This was the barrage of medicine they sent us home with...two different inhalers, another dose of liquid super powerful steroid, Tylenol, Motrin and antibiotics. (the Advil in the back was for me...talk about a stress headach)
But it's was all worth it. 24 hours later Timo was doing better, eating (he hadn't eaten much at all the whole day before) and hanging with his sister watching his fav movie...Cars.
And here we are two days later and he continues to get better. He's been living like a king the past few days so I know he isn't complaining :)
It all started with this little girl....she had bronchitis about two weeks ago and we had to go in for her to have an albuterol treatment. She was never that sick, no fever, runny nose, crankiness, nothing...just a cough that lasted two weeks so we finally took her in and found out bronchitis.
We tried and tried out best to keep Timo from getting it. With his asthma history, a respiratory virus is bad news for him. But as lass, he caught the cough, which at first was slight and we though we could keep it under control with his inhaler. After a few days I could tell it was getting worse and took him in last Friday. Our doctor listened to his chest and immediately said he had pneumonia. She prescribed antibiotic and said if he got worse to bring him right in. Like Cameron, he wasn't even really running a fever or showing an other signs of being sick, just a cough. Saturday morning he woke up with a fever and the cough sounded a lot worse. Throughout the day he just got worse and worse. We couldn't break his fever, he was really inactive, fell asleep just sitting on the sofa and his breathing was sound rapid and shallow. Finally at 5pm we made the call to take him to the ER. They took one look at him and immediately whisked him away, hooking him up to oxygen, heart monitor, and ordered an xray to look at his chest. He was not a happy camper.
Everything was happening so fast, with such speed, nothing like ER experiences I've had in the past. (They later told me when you have a child in breathing distress you get bumped to the top of the list.) The ER doctor came in immediately, check him out and told us we would be admitted over night, he would be fine was wasn't doing very well at the moment. His heart rate was over 155, normal is around 90, and his blood oxygen was around 90, normal being 96-100. And his fever was hoovering around 102. Oh boy! Timo was crying and crying, he hated the oxygen tub in his nose and the heart rate pad on him. My heart was absolutely breaking. I was trying by best to distract him and remembered Young had let him play Angry Birds on his phone this summer while we were flying. I got my phone out and loaded up Angry Birds...perfect! It totally distracted him so the doctors could do the albuterol treatments on him.
The bad thing about giving Timo my phone to play with is I couldn't use it to call Young to keep him updated and the game drained my battery. I tried to get my phone back but Timo got so upset which made him start coughing which made his heart rate go up....so it was just best to use the room phone. I'm so thankful this was a weekend and Young wasn't traveling. He stayed at home with Cameron. And I'm so thankful we grabbed Timo's Papi on our way out the door...Timo would have been a wreck without his Papi. And the nurses even "hooked" Papi up to the heart monitor too...so sweet.
The pediatric doctor came in and told me they would do three albuterol treatments and one super powerful steroid liquid dose to help open his airways up and see how he was doing. After each albuterol they turned off his oxygen and his stats began to fall...didn't look good. They kept preparing me for him to stay the night, even though he was starting to perk up a little. So in a quiet moment in our room, Timo and I prayed together, thanking Jesus for the great doctors that were helping him, giving thanks for his improvements so far (his fever was breaking) and asking Jesus to continue healing him. Then after his third and final treatment of albuterol his oxygen level held steady. But the doctor still weren't convinced and wanted to see if he cold hold it steady for two hours...so we had to wait and wait and wait. Our nurse was awesome. She blew up gloves for us, brought stickers and printed out coloring pages for Timo to color. He was starting to look and act so much better...all praises!
She even made sure Papi was taken care of...
Timo was holding his own breathing, not as high as they like to see, but at least holding his own without the oxgyen. The ER doctor said he was "the bad side of good" holding around 94/95 blood oxygen. But since we are experienced with inhalers they let us go home...with the promise we would bring him back first thing in the morning to check his stats! Praise the Lord! They made him walk a few laps around the ER to make sure he was stable and then we were let go...6 hours later, around 10:30pm. I soooo did not want Timo to spend the night at the hospital. This was the barrage of medicine they sent us home with...two different inhalers, another dose of liquid super powerful steroid, Tylenol, Motrin and antibiotics. (the Advil in the back was for me...talk about a stress headach)
But it's was all worth it. 24 hours later Timo was doing better, eating (he hadn't eaten much at all the whole day before) and hanging with his sister watching his fav movie...Cars.
And here we are two days later and he continues to get better. He's been living like a king the past few days so I know he isn't complaining :)
Friday, September 30, 2011
Acro Sports
We had the pleasure of going to a birthday party of one of our new preschool friends, Julia, at Acro Sports. They teach gymnastics with a focus on circus arts...what fun! Timo and Cameron loved all the swinging, jumping and riding. Sorry most of the pics are blurry...the little tumblers were in constant motion!
They had a little swing ride there too...kids sit in the "boat" and get raised up by a big bungee cord, then the teacher would swing and bounce them around. All the kids loved it! Timo is riding with his new friend Sammy...and I can't remember who Cameron is riding with...oops.
The most exciting thing was the zip line! The kids would repel from the very top of the gym down to the bottom. Timo was so excited to ride but once he got up there he decided not to...until he saw Cameron do it! Yay...they were both so brave!
Cameron really, really enjoyed the gym...and she seemed right at home there. She ran the trampoline almost non-stop, tumbling and somersaulting. I'm wondering if we should sign her up for some gymnastics class?? She's already telling me she wants her birthday party at the gym too...oh boy.
They had a little swing ride there too...kids sit in the "boat" and get raised up by a big bungee cord, then the teacher would swing and bounce them around. All the kids loved it! Timo is riding with his new friend Sammy...and I can't remember who Cameron is riding with...oops.
The most exciting thing was the zip line! The kids would repel from the very top of the gym down to the bottom. Timo was so excited to ride but once he got up there he decided not to...until he saw Cameron do it! Yay...they were both so brave!
Cameron really, really enjoyed the gym...and she seemed right at home there. She ran the trampoline almost non-stop, tumbling and somersaulting. I'm wondering if we should sign her up for some gymnastics class?? She's already telling me she wants her birthday party at the gym too...oh boy.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Monkey Bars
Over the weekend I noticed these calluses in Cameron's hands. I couldn't think of anything she could be doing at home that would cause it so I was at a loss. Then I started thinking about what she could be doing at school...holding a pencil, crayons, using scissors...then it hit me! She runs to the monkey bars every morning when I drop them off...the monkey bars. But to actually have calluses? How many times does she go across to get calluses?? I decided to hang around one morning to see how far she had actually come in learning how to go across and was so surprised that she made it all the way!! Now mind you, she couldn't even move to one bar by herself 3 weeks ago...now she can go the whole distance! She sure did earn those little spots of tough skin...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Summer Corn!
We had the last of the yummy summer corn a few nights ago. Looks like my summer of teaching them how to shuck and clean up has paid off. They shucked all six ears AND cleaned by themselves!! Kinda made the corn taste even sweeter...
Monday, September 26, 2011
Labor Day Weekend Pt 2
We woke up on Labor Day and hung around the hotel room for a little while...trying to touch the sky and pretending to be race car drivers in our pillow race car!
Then we packed up and headed over to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk. I was excited to go since the last time we were there was about 8 years ago when Young and I were dating! What I was most excited about was there were lots of ride for the kids to ride. Cameron is a little on the small size for her age so she often isn't tall enough for most rides...but not at the Boardwalk! We rode rides for four solid hours. These are only half the rides we did...the other half we were riding with them and couldn't snap pics.
There were a few bigger rides that Timo was tall enough for and wanted to try out...he was a little scared riding them but was asking to go again once they were done! Guess we have a thrill seeker...
This one was a little too scary. He really wanted to ride it with his daddy and even made fast friends with the little boy next to him...but he didn't want to ride this one again...
We made sure to make time for some corn dogs and ice cream!
Timo kept asking and asking to play an arcade game so we gave in and let them play a game each. The good thing was they won tickets that we turned in for shark tattoos!
Our last hurrah was the sky ride! I must say this ride seem totally harmless while we were waiting in line but once we were up in the air...oh boy, it was high.
We finally left after a long day of fun. The kids fell asleep before we even got out of the parking lot! Young decided to take advantage of the quiet to do a little scenic drive through Santa Cruz...so beautiful.
On the way home we stopped for dinner at one of our favorite places, Half Moon Bay. We got a beautiful sunset before the fog rolled in. Yay for family time!
Then we packed up and headed over to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk. I was excited to go since the last time we were there was about 8 years ago when Young and I were dating! What I was most excited about was there were lots of ride for the kids to ride. Cameron is a little on the small size for her age so she often isn't tall enough for most rides...but not at the Boardwalk! We rode rides for four solid hours. These are only half the rides we did...the other half we were riding with them and couldn't snap pics.
There were a few bigger rides that Timo was tall enough for and wanted to try out...he was a little scared riding them but was asking to go again once they were done! Guess we have a thrill seeker...
This one was a little too scary. He really wanted to ride it with his daddy and even made fast friends with the little boy next to him...but he didn't want to ride this one again...
We made sure to make time for some corn dogs and ice cream!
Timo kept asking and asking to play an arcade game so we gave in and let them play a game each. The good thing was they won tickets that we turned in for shark tattoos!
Our last hurrah was the sky ride! I must say this ride seem totally harmless while we were waiting in line but once we were up in the air...oh boy, it was high.
We finally left after a long day of fun. The kids fell asleep before we even got out of the parking lot! Young decided to take advantage of the quiet to do a little scenic drive through Santa Cruz...so beautiful.
On the way home we stopped for dinner at one of our favorite places, Half Moon Bay. We got a beautiful sunset before the fog rolled in. Yay for family time!
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Labor Day Weekend Pt 1
Labor Day weekend we took a little overnight trip down south for some fun and change of scenery. I've been trying to plan a trip to our fourth and final AAA baseball game for the season down to the San Jose Giants and lucked out with them playing at home that weekend! We headed down after church on Sunday (about and hour drive) and met our good friends, the Hertzels, for the game.
Timo is starting to really get into the baseball games. He asks which team is "ours" and then stands to cheer and shout for our team. He also like to sing the "Take me out to the ball game.." song.
But the games do get long, so thank goodness there are always kid's activities to do. Young took Timo and Cameron walking around to play...Timo had to hit the batting cage and Cameron had to do the big slide!
Timo is starting to really get into the baseball games. He asks which team is "ours" and then stands to cheer and shout for our team. He also like to sing the "Take me out to the ball game.." song.
But the games do get long, so thank goodness there are always kid's activities to do. Young took Timo and Cameron walking around to play...Timo had to hit the batting cage and Cameron had to do the big slide!
Our friends Matthew and his baby sister, Noelle enjoying the game...or each other...
Churrios! Luckily Timo didn't like his so I got to eat it...he, he, he...
After the game we went to our hotel to get checked in, baths and ready for our day in Santa Cruz the next day!! Nothing like new furniture to jump and play on !
Churrios! Luckily Timo didn't like his so I got to eat it...he, he, he...
After the game we went to our hotel to get checked in, baths and ready for our day in Santa Cruz the next day!! Nothing like new furniture to jump and play on !
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