Follow up and niceness....

Today we all finally got out of bed at 9:30 after a not so long night. I got 2.5 hours of sleep in a row, which didnt end up being as horrible as I thought it would. The day went well considering. We got ready right away to go to the walk in clinic for everyone except me : ) I smiled when I went to register all my kids and husband to get in the walk in line : ) oh dear. Bottom line. Taliahs infection seems to be getting better, Seth needs an xray, his chest seems like it could be pnuemonia, chawezi has both ears infected, and vinj has a virus. Wezi and vinj are running fevers tonight, one thing I am thankful for is I can get chawezi temperature down fairly quick. THANK GOD!

Chawezi fell asleep on the couch playing with toys, what we didt realize is his fever was going up :S just when we thought peace came : )

So yesterday (Seths birthday) Krystal and Daniel brought over home made Birthday cake, flowers, oranges and grapes, toffy, and supper. BIG BLESSING. Today one of my friends Angie (who is a mother of three young children her self) Made us an amazing supper! And dropped it off WITH garlic bread. She came over and we didn't hear the bell, we were all in the office down stairs, so she came in and put the food in the fridge for us. Now of corse this had to happen on a day the house is a mess (of corse) no one ever comes over right after you have cleaned : ) haha. Oh well, thankfully I know of anyone she would understand. I guess you know now, we cant hear the bell from down stairs, or anyone yelling for us in the kitchen... 

Taliah taking her temperture.... a common thing to do around here right now.

Me and Taliah chilling, trying to get better!

Here is vinj with the flowers from Dan and Krystal, and the supper from Angie! 

YUMMY!

Taliah after her bath tonight

More faces

Desperate parent!

I have always been of the mind set - have your kids close together and get the child bearing years over with asap (within reason).

This week I have seriously reconsidered this.... It started with Seths 4th birthday party, Taliah seemed a bit off, and by the evening had a fever. Vinj got up to monitor her through the night and give Tylenol. The next day was church and we were doing the music for it. We didnt check her in the morning because we didnt want to wake her up since our friend was going to be watching her until I was done with the music. I was a bit uneasy about it, but since I was the only one who could lead I couldn't let the people down. So I came home right after worship and found taliah VERY VERY SICK, with a VERY high fever. I stripped her down and got her in the tub and got ahold of vinj to come home right away to take her to the hospital. We took her in and while waiting to see the doctor she had a siezure! Scariest moment of my (our) life so far! She was so confused after I just wanted to cry! My poor baby girl.
After X-Ray, I.V, Blood work, Urine test, the young women south african doctor didnt find anything wrong with her. Frustrating for sure. That night Seth had fevers and chawezi, we ended up taking them all into emergency again Monday night to find throat and ear infections. Controlling three kids fevers through the night is exhausting! Emotionally especially, after seeing a seizure from the temperature I was so on edge.  Bath, sponge, temperature, repeat..... and so this mom of three kids just under 4 is TIRED! and SPENT! So I guess when it's bad it's BAD!

Thank God tonight all the kids went to bed with temps under 101.1, I may just get 4 hours of sleep in a row tonight, of which I am truly thankful. I also need a bit of energy to baby vinj, since he is sick too : )

 Oh the plus side, today was Seths 4th birthday! He was sick for it, but he was still really excited! We hung out in the day, he got to play Mario brothers which he loves, hang out with grandma, and the all time favorite opens gifts from mom and dad and grandma and papa.  After that we had some supper (brought over by my sister Krystal! thank you again), and followed by playing with toys and watching the new Disney nature film about African cats. Which Seths loves).

Right before bed we had a bad red nail polish spill on the couch thanx to taliah and vinj : ) Thank goodness those couches are almost disposable! It happened somewhere between her asking vinj to paint her "feet" and him going to do it. Oh well-  life.goes.on!

As of yesterday afternoon we have Internet again! And I will be posting on here again probably for a season, since I have never kept to it consistently.

here's to 2012. Cheers!