Bad Week?!?!?
So yeah this past week has been a challenge let's just say. It started last Tuesday morning with Savanna waking up at six saying her ear hurt (this virtually never happens. She is a great sleeper and normally does not wake up until eight or sometimes later.) So off to the doctor AGAIN for her ear and yes she has another ear infection. I have been frustrated with this. The doctor told me she would recommend holding off on tubes because she should be outgrowing them and she did not get an ear infection the last time she had a cold but I'm not sure. If she gets another one I may just do it. I'm sick of going to the doctor so much. Anyway so we got another antibiotic for that. Then Wednesday morning TC woke up throwing up and ended up throwing up about nine times I think that day. He could not even get out of bed and was running a 100-101 degree fever. We determined that it must have been food poisoning since he ate some leftovers from a restaurant that had been sitting out in the hot car for three and a half hours. I know-not the smartest choice. I think he learned his lesson. So instead of spending the day working on the garden and some yard work on his day off and going to our friend's house for dinner he was in bed all day. Then for some reason Clark decided on Saturday to not sleep through the night anymore and every night since has been waking up every 4-5 hours to eat at night when he was going 9-10 before. TC has tried giving him the pacifier to get him to go back to sleep but he won't so I just end up feeding him so I don't know what is up with that. And Savanna has been very DIFFICULT this past week. It is not like her. Don't get me wrong. She is not perfect and has her moments but nothing like this. She has been fighting us on everything-she doesn't want to clean up, or get ready for bed, or get dressed in the morning. She is hitting Clark, whining, throwing tantrums. What's the deal?!? She is getting her two year molars on the top so hopefully that is what it is and it will pass. I sure hope so! She is definetely trying our patience! So then the beginning of this week was more work because I did this research study for TC's cousin's wife who is a psychology professor at BYU. I had to go in two mornings for a couple of hours so had to arrange sitters for Savanna. It was a mother/infant study I did with Clark where they are studying stress hormones, bonding, etc. It was fun but a bit of work. I went in Monday morning and got set up with an ambulatory blood pressure machine that took my blood pressure four times a hour for twelve hours and I had to collect my urine for 24 hours. I went back Tuesday morning and was hooked up to machines monitoring my heart rate and blood pressure. Oh and I also got to do about five salivia samples and have a cold compress on my head for two and half minutes and my blood drawn twice. Anyway, I am receiving some compensation but it was a bit exhausting. Oh and I go and do it all over again when Clark is a year. It will be interesting to read the study when it is done. So the point of telling you all this is that TC had been telling me for several days that I needed to pump several bottles because he had planned a date for us Wednesday night. Anyway so I had pumped a whole eight ounce bottle and had gotten a little lazy because pumping is a pain. I was thinking-that should be enough. We will probably only be out for a couple hours. Well I brought this bottle of pumped milk with me to this study because it said in the instructions to bring a bottle in case someone needed to feed him while I was busy with part of the study. Well turns out he was with me for majority of it and I never needed the bottle. So I stored it in the fridge on Monday and forgot to bring it back both Monday and Tuesday. Well I called and sent my brother who lives down there to pick it up and it turns out they threw it out! Bottle and all! After TC finds this out he reveals to me that the date was a late "anniversary surprise" and was an overnight stay at the Homestead Resort the next day and a hot air balloon ride Thursday morning. He rearranged his work schedule for it and everything. So I am stressed because I KNOW I don't have that much milk for Clark now and TC feels his surprise is ruined (Clark won't drink milk that has been frozen so it is harder to build up milk because it has to be fresh. Picky little thing!) Anyway, so as I am debating whether or not to bring Clark or give him formula which he has never had before I decide to just call the Homestead and see if we can reschedule. They say we can "hold the funds" and go at a later date. So we rescheduled it for a later date though TC said it was too late to reschedule the hot air balloon ride. It was scheduled at six thirty in the morning so we just decided we would get up super early and go to that. So we planned on meeting up with our friends Wednesday night who we had canceled on the week before TC had food poisoning and then she called me in the morning saying that her daughter had thrown up three times in the night so we canceled again. I'm thinking, "What is going on?" So April still decided to come over and we took Savanna to see Toy Story. Then we got up at 4:30 this morning, I pumped just enough milk for Clark and we headed out. As we got down the road TC noticed he had a voice mail. He listened to it and was a guy who worked for the place we were going to cancelling the hot air balloon ride because of bad weather!! SO all this work for nothing. Then Savanna woke up after taking only an hour nap today saying her ear hurt so TC took her to the doctor while I stayed home with Clark and made dinner. Her ear is fine. Oh and Savanna has not had any accidents in the month she has been potty trained until this week. She wet her pants at our friend's house on Sunday and apparently pooped her pants at the doctor today. Kind of glad I stayed home-I'm not going to lie. Wheeww, what a week. How was everyone's else's week?
