Broken Arm

This may be old news to everyone by now, but I thought I'd put a little about it on here.

Two weeks ago (I know I'm way behind) we were at the park playing with "nana and grandpa" Hyurm's old foster parents. We had my four plus two extras that I was watching. I was helping Hyrum on a spin thing Brigham and Rebekah were running around and Marc was climbing on a stair/ladder thing. I was half watching the others while I helped Hyrum, so I saw Marc begin to climb, but didn't see him fall. Next thing I know "nana" alerted me that he had fallen. I ran over and he was in a heap on the ground. He wasn't screaming or crying. I picked him up, guessing he was fine, and he started fussing and I looked at his arm and it was bent out of shape. I instantly knew he had broken it. We threw all the kids back in the strollers and walked back home. I was getting shaky and my heart was pumping fast- I was trying to decide if I should take him the Urgent Care of the ER. "Nana" stayed with Timothy and the kids while I took Marc, finally deciding on the ER. He was in a lot of pain and my last experience with Urgent Care was SLOW. Luckily the ER got us in right away I walked through the doors and without a word they guided me to the triage room and within about 10 minutes we were in the exam room.
It turns out he broke both bones in his right forearm and luckily he's young enough that they didn't have to do surgery. (Same brake in an adult would have resulted in surgery for placement, pins, and/or plates.) They just put him to sleep and the doctor straightened his arm by physically moving the bones with his hands until they lined up- no incisions! It was very quick. They put a splint on- no cast at first to account for swelling- then he woke up about 2 minutes later.
Two days later I took him into orthopedics to have it checked and they put a cast on. He chose bright orange. He's adapted really fast to only using his left arm, but there's still a lot he can't/won't do with his arm, but it will heal quickly.

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4 toddlers + diarrhea = lots of diapers to wash

Free Swine Flu Infection!

Anybody want to get the swine flu to get it over with? Come on over to our house, we're swimming in germs!

Yesterday Rebekah woke up with a slight fever and a slight cough. I wasn't too worried because the kids get colds off and on during the winter. But, by 9:30 she wasn't moving much and her cough was sounding bad. By, 11:30 her fever was 104.5 and she wasn't talking much anymore. I gave her some tylenol and put her back to bed around 1:00. At 2:00 she woke up with a fever of 105 and wouldn't stop crying. I figured I'd better take her into the doctor. They got her in pretty quick and the doctor said it looked to her like Swine Flu. Rebekah was having a hard time breathing at this point, so they gave her a breathing treatment in the office. They prescribed Tamiflu and told me to use her inhaler ever 6 hours. She's breathing better today, but still coughing and her fever is lower.

Hyrum started getting it while I was at the doctor with Rebekah. When I picked him up, the baby-sitter said he was fussy and felt a little warm. I took his temp when we got home and sure enough, he was starting to get a fever. He also began coughing sometime last evening. I tried to get the doctor to just prescribe Hyrum some Tamiflu because his fever wasn't going down with the fever reducers and was wavering between 102 and 103.8 . But, the doctor wanted to see him to make sure he wasn't developing a secondary infection.

By this time I was feeling horrible. I started coughing this morning and was really dragging. The body aches started this afternoon. So, when it was time to take Hyrum to the doctor I was feeling poorly as well and Brigham had to be awakened from his nap. When I woke him up he was coughing and had red cheeks- no fever yet (although he has one now as I'm typing this). I called and got an appointment for him too so that we didn't have to make a bunch of trips to the doctor. Timothy came and we took everyone. The boys got checked and seem to be fine aside from the flu- no secondary infections. So, they got prescribed Tamiflu too.

They're all sleeping now, and I'm feeling okay because I took Ibuprofen, but I'm headed to bed early so that I can get as much rest as possible.

So, (since we have three toddlers, and they like to put everything in their mouths and touch everything that they can get their hands on) if you want to get the virus and get it over with now, you're welcome to come to our house and play with the toys and touch everything you can, and you'll get the virus now and not have to worry about getting the vaccine or contracting the illness later. I promise I won't charge you for the service. The virus is free! Any takers? :)

Sibling love

Our darling Rebekah


Our handsome Brigham

I took the children shopping yesterday, and they did great! They are such good children. If they are board they just sit back and watch people. They didn't fuss or create havoc and we were shopping for 2 1/2 hours. Well, they did fuss after I had let them play on the playground at the mall and they didn't want to leave, but I expected that.

These two just adore each other. We think one of the reasons they are adjusting to our home so quickly is that they are together, they have each other. We think that brings great comfort. They are mostly very caring and thoughtful of each other. They are just sweet, good children. Timothy and I are amazed at how blessed we are to be adopting such wonderfully behaved little ones.

Just after Brigham woke up from his nap. Becka was so happy to see him and he was glad to see her too.

Brigham sucks his middle two fingers and likes to put his other hand on his belly button. I think it's one of his ways of coping with stress of moving to a new family. But, he's sucked his middle two fingers since he was a baby.

Daddy holding ill Rebekah. She hasn't been feeling well, it seems she got what Brigham had last week. She's had a fever and her nose is very stuffy and her eyes are red and watery. She's just not feeling well. Poor girl. I'm taking her to the doctor tomorrow if she's not better and they let me go even though we don't have their medical cards yet.
Rebekah almost slept through the night last night. She only woke once, and it only took 30 minutes to put her back to sleep, that's down from 90 minutes it has normally been taking! Yeah Rebekah! Mommy feels much better when she gets enough sleep at night.

Today we took the children to church for the second time and stayed for all the meetings. We were planning on taking both the children to nursery, but because Rebekah's not feeling well, we kept her out for today. Oh well, maybe next week she can go. Here's our family in our Sunday clothes.

Illness

Brigham's been ill with a fever and he threw-up last night and this morning. So, he's been cranky. But, he got feeling better for a little while today and was running around with Rebekah. He just wanted "Dada" to hold him, though. That's got to be so hard on a little fellow to be sick in the middle of this stressful time for him. We hope he's feeling better by tomorrow so we can go to sacrament meeting, but he won't be going to nursery at church. That will have to wait another week.

On a more positive note, Rebekah didn't want to leave today when her foster parents came to pick her up. She threw a fit and wanted Timothy to hold her. Yeah! That's our goal is to have the children wanting to be here more than they want to be at their foster home. Brigham didn't want to go back to the foster home on Wednesday and Thursday, but since then he's been sick and just wants his familiar people.

Yesterday afternoon I got to go over and hold my Baby Hyrum. It seems every time I see him at his foster home he poops, eats, and then falls asleep in my arms. (I guess that's really all babies know how to do, but it's funny that he's been messing his diaper each time right as I get there.) It's been good to change my baby's diaper a few times.