The past few weeks...

It has been awhile again since I have blogged... the past couple of weeks have not been very fun. The twins have been sick - up until this point I really thought we were in the clear with sickness - they have been doing great except for the occasional runny nose and cough but nothing major. Then a couple weeks back on a Monday... I got home from work and Ian was not doing great - his breathing was horrible.. it was scary so Mike took him to the ER at St. Joseph hospital.. he left around 10:30pm and I stayed home with Alex and Brevin... I was in tears when Mike left - they didn't release Ian until 4:00am... he ended up having the croup and they had to give him a steroid and breathing treatment to get his breathing and oxygen level under control. Then Alex came down with it... I ended up taking both kids to the pediatrician later that week because they just didn't seem to be getting better -they were tested for RSV which thankfully came back negative - They had me give Ian a breathing treatment at the dr. office.. that was SO horrible... Ian was screaming because he wanted nothing to do with that maching and Alex was screaming because the noise of that machine scared them... the nurses kept coming in to try to help me but they were making it worse because neither twin wanted them.. they wanted me... wow I never sweated so much in my life from just sitting on the floor of an examining room but I got through it... Ian ended up falling alseep on me and Alex feel asleep in the stroller. They were just both miserable for that whole week... they both wanted to be held all day but I only have 2 hands - sitting on the couch and putting them both on my lap was not what they wanted.. they wanted me to themselves and I couldn't do it... I felt horrible and ended up in tears a few times that week.

So...they got better.. for about a week anyway... Mike just took Alex to the Urgent Care last night... his breathing was really short and he just seemed to be struggling to catch his breath - seriously.. that is the most horrible sound that can come from a child - it is so scary!!! So now Alex has Bronchitis AND a double ear infection. He is on a steriod, Zyrtec and an antibiotic. I do have to mention that all this sickness really has not messed up their sleep at all.. they are still sleeping 12 + hours at night... even through all this yucky stuff!!

Can I just say that I am so ready for Spring/Summer... just warm weather to get all this sickness out!! Thankfully Brevin has been healthy and has been at school through most of this which is good - I would have felt bad for him if he was at home to... he would have not had much of my attention with how the twins were. Brevin has been so helpful and understanding... he is just such a good kid. You know... he came home from school with a sheet of paper and that had a wish on it... it was st. patricks day and I guess all the students had to write a wish on a piece of paper and you know what Brevin's wish was?? His wish was for his brothers to feel better soon. He is the best brother!!

So I guess that is it for now... hoping that we can get this sickness gone for good... so prayers would be much appreciated!!!

I do have a few other prayers requests if you don't mind... One is for a friend who is pregnant - she has gone through SO much already with pregnancies.. miscarriage and losing her baby girl twins way to early... she did carry a pregnancy to term and now has a healthy little boy who is the same age as the twins... she is now pregnant again and due in October so prayers for an uneventful and healthy pregnancy!!

Another request is for our neighbor... her Mom is in the hospital... she just had hip surgery and ended up with pneumonia and now is on a ventilator so prayers would be so much appreciated!!

I will update hopefully again soon!!