Tumble Bugs

Last month Kylene started attending a tumbling class ("Tumble Bugs") every Monday morning at the gym near our house. She looks forward to going each week and loves showing off the things she has learned at home. At the end of each class, they put their hands in the circle and yell, "Gymnastics!" That has become her new favorite word! She was so proud to be able to show daddy all her moves this last week when he came to watch.

Warming up...


Working on her backward roll...

Showing off her balance beam skills...

Crawling through the tunnel...

Doing Better

Another quick update to say that after a very rough week, we are all doing better. Spencer's rash is pretty well gone now, but he still has itching bouts where he can't stop scratching. He also has scratch marks all over his belly and neck that need to heal (even though we've kept him in a onsie 24/7 to keep him from scratching, we couldn't stop him from putting his hands DOWN his shirt during the night.) The wierdest thing is how sensitive his skin still is; if he itches it or is bumped, or even when I pull a shirt over his head, that spot breaks out bright red and sometimes even has a raised section like his hives. I just hope it will all be gone soon. He had a really rough week with sleeping and now seems to have developed the habit of waking up at 3:45 a.m. every morning and not wanting to go back to sleep, so needless to say, he is very sleep deprived. But, overall, we are doing much better than we were last week.

Kylene had her tumbling class this morning and Kyle came to watch her so I got to shoot some pictures that I'll post as soon as I have a chance. She has been so patient as I wait on Spencer, hold Spencer, get Spencer medicine, etc., and as we all have to listen to Spencer screaming (let's just say the steroid the doctor gave him at one of our four visits last week created a Spencer I hope never returns...). The cute part is when she tells him he better stop waking her up. I wish I could just TELL him to stop waking me up, too! Oh well, at least I get to sleep until 3:45.

More "Reacting"...

I thought I'd just give a quick update: Spencer woke up this morning MUCH worse--the reaction has spread EVERYWHERE and is bright red and pock mark looking, with more swelling in his legs. They look kind of bruised, actually. Looking at these pictures now, I wish this was as bad as it got. We took him to our pediatrician today and he put him on a prescription antihistamine that should help more than the Benadryl, but he said that the swelling might not peak until tomorrow! UGH. He also said it will probably last another four or five days. Spencer was in a lot of pain and VERY itchy today, so he mostly wanted to be held, but he has still been such a trooper. I just hope he can sleep tonight, he is so tired.

Thank you so much to my mom for coming down today so Kylene could still go to her tumbling class and have a friend over while I took Spencer to the doctor. It is so wonderful knowing family and friends are so willing to help when need be.

Tired of Sickness

Our family has all been through the "yucky's" the last several weeks. Kylene has had a bad cough for almost a month, which finally turned into the congestion and runny nose. Then Spencer, Kyle and I got it about two weeks ago. My cough is still deep and in my chest (can you bruise your uterus?--my stomach muscles and/or uterus hurt SO bad, I think I may have, if it's even possible!).

Spencer, poor boy, his cough and congestion turned into a sinus and ear infection. Ten days ago we put him on an antibiotic called Augmentin, which has Amoxicillin in it. Well, this morning, which should have been his last day on the antibiotic, he woke up with a rash on his face and really red ears that he wouldn't stop rubbing. I didn't think much of it since he has had a mild fever as well and I know that can be normal. But, as the day wore on (I kept him home from church fearing people would not be especially excited to see a rash baby in the row next to them), the rash spread to his entire body and kept getting worse. Finally, when his ears were really swollen and his legs were looking a purple-bluish hue, I thought this had to be more than just an allergic reaction to something, so we took him into Urgent Care. (Why do these things always seem to happen on weekends?) Of course, it is just a bad case of hives and it looks like he is allergic to penicillin. (This is hard for me to believe, but I guess I better come to terms with it.) So, we've got him on lots of Benadryl and hope it won't last the four to five days it can. He really is quite the sight, as you can see from these pictures (even though they don't really do it justice). Thankfully, he's acting mostly normal and is not contagious, although the lady with her two kids who is next to me in the checkout line at the grocery store won't know that!

I just hope this is the last of the "yucky's" in our house for a long time. It is getting old.

Can you tell what we've been talking about lately?

Kylene enjoys pretending she has a baby in her tummy, too, as you can tell from this video. I just hope this isn't what my tummy really looks like when our little one is kicking me:). It's always fun to see how it looks through a child's eyes, though.