How I've Spent My April Vacation

Friday 4/18 Gabbie turns 14...YAY
Saturday 4/19 Gabbie bike rides with her friend for a few hours and boys play while dad is out dj'ing a benefit gig. Saturday night Gabbie comes home with a possible dislocated finger from falling off her bike and Daddy comes home with a broken nose from when he was struck by a piece of equpiment while loading it into the truck.
Sunday 4/20 church goes well except that Miss K is super clingy and won't leave me to go to nursery as she always does. Sunday night Gabbie feels icky and we think she's just worn out from riding her bike for 4hrs the day before.
Monday 4/21 Gabbie still doesn't feel great,but her friend asks her to visit so she does and I bring Eli to the pedi becuase he's running a temp and has a sore throat. We suspect strep,but the test comes back negative. Pedi tells me that it's just a virus, but be careful because Hand/Foot/Mouth (Coxsacki? virus is going around). Go home and let him rest and keep him comfortable the rest of the day.
Tuesday 4/22 Gabbie is sick again; lethargic, achy and generally not feeling well. Eli is spunky again and has no fever. Gabbie manages to go out for a bit with Daddy and I bring Quinn to his baseball game. Dad treats kids to BK for dinner. Gabbie manages part of it and goes to bed.
Wednesday 4/23 Gabbie can't get up. Feels really lousy and has no strength, coughing, tummy ache; let her rest all she wants. We figure it's the virus that Eli had. Miss K is not drinking well, but since we just introduced milk we guessed that she just doesn't like it. She's also a little more clingy than usual and I remember that she did have her vaccines last Thursday so this could be a side affect.
Thursday 4/24 Both girls are not themselves. Gabbie can't get up off the bed and has a temp over 104 and Miss K still doesn't want to drink much and her temp is 101; call the dr. Dr said to piggyback Tylenol and Motrin and make sure they're both getting fluids in and bring them in next morning to be checked for strep (it was too late at this point by the time they had the fevers). Thursday overnight Gabbie is alseep off and on because of coughing and Miss K wakes up 2-3 times crying; VERY unusual for her.
Today, Friday 4/25 bring both girls to the dr with 101-102 temps and same symptoms as yesterday. After various tests and exams, Gabbie has pneumonia and Miss K has measels!! Mind you the pneumonia IS possible to get at this time of year; something people keep questioning. And the measels? They only popped out on her while we were in the dr's office!! A rare but possible side affect of the MMR shot she had last week. I've had 5 babies and she's the first to react. Gabbie is on antibs and an inhaler and Motrin as needed. Miss K is on Motrin as needed. Thankfully, neither of them is contagious. I just feel so sad that my girlies are sick. I'm doing all I can to keep them comfortable and hopefully both will be well soon. Of course none of this comes without some MommyGuilt because I thought I should have just known it was pneumonia and that if only I had been able to breastfeed Miss K she wouldn't be sick. Logically, I know that's silly, but sometimes my mind just goes to those places. I know that what matters is that I'm taking care of them properly and they know that too. Poor Gabbie though; she didn't get to enjoy her Spring Break, but as I told her, it would probably be better than missing 5 more days of school.
Now it's on to better things. Tonight Eli had his very first TBall game and tomorow he has another. He loved it and the kids were so cute to watch; looked like the Keystone Cops! LOL And Eli the silly boy, every time a player on the OTHER team hit the ball, HE would run the bases!! LOL By about the 4th time he figured out he didn't need to do it. He had fun though and that's all that counts. Tomorrow is another game simultaneously with Quinn on the adjoining field. We've got some VERY busy weeknights and Saturdays ahead of us with all three (G,Q, E) all playing ball, but they'll have fun.

I hope you all had enjoyable spring breaks! :-)