Catch-Up and Camping

The dentist appointment, while we were there, was somewhat uneventful.  Alex had a really hard time with her cleaning because she's an aspiration risk so they literally just use the pick to scrape her teeth.  She cried - which is not something she usually does, so she wasn't a happy camper.  Zach had to go back this past Monday and have sealants put on his back teeth, but other than that he was good.

When we left the dentist appointment we stopped at the train station to meet up with my parents who were waiting for my Uncle who was coming in for a visit. Warning - this is where it becomes a total vent!  Since we have the wheel chair van now I have to park the car with the ramp side facing the double white lines next to handicap spot.  The white lines indicate more room is needed for that spot.  My car also has not one, but two stickers on the ramp side window that says it's a lift van and additional room is needed.  You probably see where I'm going with this, but as we walk back to the car I see a woman PARKED in the white lines...IT'S NOT EVEN A PARKING SPOT!  Or the size of a parking spot for heaven's sake!  As we're walking and I see her in the spot my cell phone rings.  It's the dentist office.  Apparently when we left someone was cleaning up the room Zach was in, wasn't wearing gloves, and stuck herself with the pick that they used to clean his teeth....and now this is considered an "exposure" and could I please bring Zach in for them to DRAW BLOOD because of someone else's irresponsibility.  Oh man I was HOT.  I typically do not loose my cool very often but after the week we had I was already feeling close to the edge and both of those instances at the same time made me just loose it!!!  I yelled at the woman parked ILLEGALLY and I was NOT nice to the person from the dentist office!  The woman in the parking lot seemed like she could care less - and the longer I had to wait for her to finish whatever she was doing and WAIT to load Alex into the car the madder I got at both circumstances.  You may recall one of my biggest pet peeves is people leaving shopping carts in the handicap spots so imagine how I felt about this!!  Ok, done ranting.

Sunday was mine and Aaron's 12 year wedding anniversary so we were heading out of town that night - and it couldn't have been a better time to get away and decompress!  12 years....wow, time does fly.

Monday I had to take him back to the dentist to have his sealants put on and so they arranged for his blood work to be done at the same time.  I was still quite annoyed, but I have to say they couldn't have been any nicer and were so apologetic.  They even had a present for him when he got there. 

Alex came home from school early on Wednesday running a low grade fever.  She was really congested and I kept her home Thursday and Friday.  Thursday morning at about 3:28AM Aaron and I both woke up from the banging coming from her room from what we're guessing was probably the tale end of a seizure.  She still wasn't better by Friday so I brought her in to the doctor so that I could have her looked at before the weekend.  She has another really bad sinus infection and is on an anti-biotic twice a day for TWO WEEKS.  The doctor and I were also discussing her sleeping issues and the fact that all of her seizures happen when she is laying down and talking through some other issues.  She brought up maybe Alex needed to have her adenoids looked at and it sounded like Alex could very well have sleep apnea.  When she was in the hospital a few months back for the seizures, the Dr. did say her EEG's showed that there was a possibility that she stopped breathing while she was asleep so now we have an appointment with an ENT specialist a week from Wednesday. 

We were supposed to take the kids camping this weekend, but because Alex still wasn't feeling well, Aaron and I just took Zach and Alex stayed home with Tabitha.  I'm thinking she had a much better time with her than she would have with us :)  They went to the park for hours - she loved the ducks and enjoyed the beautiful weather we had this weekend.  Tabitha's amazing.

We had a really good time too.  I grew up camping pretty much every weekend and I LOVE it.  We only went about 25 minutes away.  Aaron is an avid hunter and belongs to a hunt club where he keeps a trailer.  The property up there is amazing.    Zach definitely takes after Aaron and loves anything that has to do with the outdoors and he wants to do everything "just like Daddy does".

 Wearing Daddy's sunglasses

 Hanging in a tree stand!

Little too high for me, come here Dad!

 Father-son bonding

 Not sure what the deal is with the red glove :) 

 Zach is a marshmellow junkie

 Silly little man!