Rough Week!

This week started out like any other... Fun times! The kids painted pictures, made Valentine's cards for Daddy, had a picnic lunch, etc... LOTS of play time.


Trenton was enjoying painting! He was concentrating pretty hard on his picture :)


He isn't as "neat" of a painter as his sister. He had it everywhere! It was so cute!


Brooklyn did a very nice job. She likes to keep it all on the paper. And she covered EVERY inch of this paper. Kurt came out of his office and caught us. She says "Look Dad, I'm making you a valentine". Oops, spoiled the surprise.


My happy boy having some milk before bedtime...


And then Wed/Thur hit and my happy/healthy children were nowhere to be found...

Trenton ended up getting a really bad eye infection. Green goop draining from both eyes and he'd wake up with them completely glued shut. And to top it all off, he had a fever of 102.7 and a bad cold too. He was miserable! Although he did handle it very well. He's my laid back, easy going guy.

He looked so pitiful. I felt SO bad for him!


Then 2 days later, Brooklyn caught the eye infection so I took her to the Dr right away. She also caught the cold and had a fever of 102.5. She is not so easy going. She turns into a very sad little girl when she's not feeling well.

She's not sick in this picture... but sure looks cute anyway.


On Tuesday, Trenton had his surgery to fix a clogged tear duct. I was a little worried that it would be postponed since he had been sick a few days earlier, but he reacted well to the antibiotics and we got the green light to go ahead with surgery. Yeay! Otherwise it would have been another 2 month wait.

I wasn't sure what to expect with the surgery and how he was going to react, but as it turns out, the hardest part of the whole thing was having to wake up at 5am. But seriously, he was such a trooper. He didn't complain that I woke him up, he didn't complain that he couldn't have any food/drink, he didn't complain that we drug him out of the house that early... He is so laid back!

Car ride in the dark. I sure am glad I don't have to do that on a daily basis. Isn't he in good spirits for being so early?


We got all checked in to the surgery center, filled out the paperwork, etc. He got to play in the pre-op area for quite a while. He was actually having fun even though it was so early. They took him from us at 7:00am and Kurt and I went to the waiting room. At 7:10, the surgeon came out and said all went well. 7:15 we went to the recovery room as Trenton was waking up, and by 7:30, we were in the truck on the way home! Seriously, it was that fast!!!!

Trenton took his monkey with us and monkey got a matching hospital band. The only time that Trenton even complained about anything (other than when they took him from me) was when he wanted his band off in the truck and I didn't have any scissors. He wasn't in any pain at all. I was so relieved.


He ran around the house playing like nothing even happened. It didn't bother him one bit. He came home and took a 4.5 hour nap though! He was a little tired here, but that was the worst of it! I am so thankful everything went well.


Brooklyn, on the other hand, took a turn for the worse while Trenton was having surgery. She kept complaining about her ears while she was staying with my parents so I took her back to the Dr when Trenton was done. Her eye infection wasn't better and she now had an ear infection too! I guess when it rains, it pours. We had 4 Dr visits for the kids in less than a week.

Day after surgery and you can't even tell anything is wrong with this boy. He is such a trooper!


I am ready for both kiddos to be completely healthy again! It is very draining on Mommy when both the kids are sick! Especially a pregnant mommy :) So far, it looks like they are on the mend though! Yeay!