We'll start off with the good news. Our 1st parent teacher conference was today. The trio are doing great in class, I'm so pleased...but not too surprised, I mean they are pretty great kids if I do say so myself LOL. Jason and I both really like their teacher, and already see so much growth in just one plus month...it is amazing. Lily read me a book tonight, pretty much all on her own. She came in to Kindy at a level B for reading according to her teacher...which was news to me, we read to them a lot, but had never asked them to try reading to us...anyway I guess Lily is now at a level C. The girl can read, like read, she can make it through a whole 30 page beginner book with very little help! Xan and Haddie are not too far behind her at level B, they too can read us beginner books..with just a bit more help. They adore school and learning...I hope we can keep that going. Top it off with this cuteness...their first school pictures, which turned out pretty great too.
Xander, your teacher says you are a very sweet and kind boy. She told us you are very smart and work well for her. She also says you need a lot of instruction and attention...and that you tend to get into a little bit of rowdiness with your friend Emanuel.
Haddie, the teacher told us you are her model student. You are very attentive and do everything you are supposed to with gusto. You tend to be a leader and getting things done right and perfectly is very important to you.
Xan has an abstract flair and is a bit all over the place.
Lily loves to add lots of details. Nice jobs kiddos...and well done on school so far!
Jericho had a fun day at school today too!
He gets so much 1:1 learning time, I can't wait to see how he is doing by the end of the year...and then he will get 1 more year at this preschool before starting Kindy. He is going to have such a great foundation!
A look at how we did it...this insert for a hard hat worked better than a baseball cap, keeps it more steady on Xan's head when he spins the shade.
Gluing the hat on.
All done..and it turned out pretty great I think! I can't wait to see everyone dressed up!
Unfortunately the good news ends here....
The kiddos have been fighting off a minor (or so we thought) cold for the last 3 or 4 days. Today Lily woke up with a pretty icky cough and just seemed a little more down than the others. When she was reading to me tonight I noticed that she was a little out of breath, then later when she was playing with Hayden before bed she started to act fatigued. I was right in the middle of putting them to bed when I stopped and really looked at Lily. She seemed pale, her lips were not pink and her fingernails seemed dull too. I asked her how she was feeling, but she is a tough kid and said fine. I noticed her whole body moved when she breathed, her stomach, her ribs and the base of her throat...just looked like she was working hard to breathe. I had an uneasy feeling, she is the one who needed an inhaler twice before in her life so when she is breathing funny I get nervous...not to mention that her teacher had told us that her son was recently diagnosed with walking pneumonia. I was second guessing myself and told her that she could go to bed, but to come get me if she had a hard time breathing or felt like she couldn't get enough air...she looked at me and said it was kind of already like that. I decided to take a video of her breathing and text it to Jason...who was of course working. I told him she was freaking me out and I felt like she needed to go to the local urgent care. He agreed with me, so I loaded up the not yet asleep kids, at got to the urgent care at 9 pm. Jason left work early and beat us there. I took Lily in and he took the rest of our crew home and tried to put them to bed. They were resistant, especially Hayden...she refused to go to sleep without her sister, she was crying and really worried. Haddie ended up having to sleep with Dad, poor girl.
Lily was not having a better time. She got taken back pretty quickly, the urgent care Nurse took us to a small room and put a monitor on Lily's finger. About a minute later she said "Oh no." She had just asked me what inhaler Lily had used for the camp fire smoke a month ago, I told her what it was called and then asked if that was bad when she said "oh no", she told me that is not what she was talking about, so I look over at the monitor and asked if the 83% oxygen level on the screen was bad and she said yes, and immediately moved us to a different room. Poor Bug did not want to go to the hospital, she tried telling me she was fine and kept asking to go home. I told her we had to get her better if she wanted to be able to go to the costume party on Saturday...this got her cooperation.
The Doctor came in right away and got Lily started on a nebulizer treatment. This was all new to both of us, she has never reacted this bad to anything before. The Doctor said it was most likely an asthma attack...even though she doesn't have an actual asthma diagnosis. The treatment took a few minutes, then we waited about 20 for it to work...it didn't. They gave her a steroid shot and a second nebulizer treatment...she got stickers, that made her happier.
Once in the PICU they were blasting her with oxygen and a 4 hour long breathing treatment. They gave her a bag of fluids and also put her on mag...which was funny for me, that stuff messed me up...but did it's job, when I was in preterm labor with the triplets. I was super scared. No one knew what was causing this or why the treatments were not helping her out. We got settled into the PICU around 3:30 in the morning. Lily was really out, I didn't think I could sleep, but the Nurses were insistent that I needed to rest. I finally passed out at 5 am...then got back up at 8, but fear does that to me. She got a new teddy bear for being hooked up to all this crap. I am so thankful for highly trained and outfitted medical professionals, I am thankful that Oregon has great hospitals and staff, I am so thankful to all the people that got Lily through the night. I'm sure with a new day will come some answers. There is nothing more horrible than feeling so helpless when your child is in a life or death situation. I am just so very glad I didn't ignore my gut and send her to bed, who knows what could have happened.
Rest baby girl...your body has a lot of healing to do.
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