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December 14, 2007

Summer in December

Can you believe the weather this week? We spent two days in a row at the St.Elmo park. Even though it was exhausting, I just couldn't keep them indoors when it was nearing 80 degrees!! It was fun to visit with other moms and eat lunch with Andy.

On Wednesday Caroline had her two month appointment. She was NOT happy after her 3 shots and next time I am giving her tylenol before we go to the appointment.
She also weighs 13 pounds 9 ounces which is so exciting. We are thrilled with her weight since Julia was considered failure to thrive and it was SUCH a roller coaster ride for me of stress and struggling with feeling like I failed her. For a little perspective Julia was this same weight at 8 months! I still get so nervous at appointments when we weigh in because I don't want her weight gain to slow down and I'm not sure if that will ever ease up. But for now she is doing great!

And since things just weren't exciting enough in our lives, we thought it would be a good time for Andy to get his wisdom teeth out! UGH! Seriously, they were giving him a great deal of pain so I got him in with the oral surgeon this past Tuesday and they had a cancellation on Thursday so he had them out yesterday. It's such a bad time for this but since we put it off for 4 YEARS now and since he was taking tylenol for headaches, he thought he'd just go for it.
It's been an interesting experience for me. I was nervous while he was getting it done and then when I saw him I got even more nervous. I've never taken care of him through something like this. He's had some major colds since we;ve been married but with those I usually have a suck it up attitude. (I'm not very compassionate) I sat in the room with him waiting on instructions of how to take care of him (while nursing a baby) and he was in and out of it and I almost teared up. I was thinking about how he would be relying on me and I all of a sudden did not want to take him home. LOL Nice huh?!?!? It sort of stressed me out to watch him be in so much pain, poor guy. The bottom two were impacted so it was a doozy of a job to get them out. I think he slept well. When I got up to feed the baby I would get him jello and a pain pill. Caroline and his pain meds were on the same 4 hour cycle. :)
It's been slightly stressful at times but we're making it through. I hope each day for him is a huge improvement on the last. I am SO appreciative of all he does even after just one day! I was getting a little annoyed with Caroline in the middle of the night when she wouldn't just eat and go back to sleep and I realized I had cared for her ALL day. When he holds her in the evening and changes a few diapers, those little moments to myself really help ALOT. So we miss him and hope he feels better soon, for all our sakes!!
Lizzie has been so sweet to him. She is content just to lay on the couch with him and give him lots of hugs and kisses. She certainly has the gift of mercy, and it does not run in the family! I'm really proud of her very kind heart.

| By JennR | 09:15 AM

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Posted by: erin at December 14, 2007 10:30 AM

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