I’m so behind. It’s been one of those weeks. A week ago I wrote that we’ve been sick, it’s just colds. But we’ve been dealing with that plus more this past week.

At the beginning of the week, Isabelle was coughing at night. Not extreme coughing. Just regular little coughs. And only at night. But she’d cough and then throw up. We don’t have that kind of sick, the throw up kind. But just the coughing made her throw up because…I don’t know why.

Well, that happened a couple of nights. So, it got to the point where I’d wake at every single cough, frantic that she was going to throw up. It was like a snowball effect. On the first night I was low on sleep, then the next night I was low on sleep again but it was worse because it was the second day. Then it got progressively worse with each day. Finally Alan raised her bed to an angle and we rubbed some vapo rub on her. The vapo rub seemed to do the trick. On the nights when I forgot she would still cough. But as soon as I put the rub on her, no coughing.

I don’t know why we didn’t do it the first couple of nights. Maybe that was because it was just a little bit of coughing. Nothing major. But that nothing major sure wreaked havoc with my sleeping.

But that wasn’t all. It was a very stressful and busy week indeed. See:

Alan noticed a little bump, well the technical term is an abscess. It was on Isabelle’s gum right above her front teeth where she had a cavity last year. It was an infection. On Monday, they took an x-ray and most of the root was gone. So we made an appointment for Wednesday to have it pulled.

Isabelle did so well. She just cried a little. And when it was gone she was so excited. The dentist put her little tooth in a treasure chest and she kept looking into the mirror looking at the missing tooth.

It’s funny, my sister told me her son was growing his adult teeth in behind his baby teeth. So, I said oh yeah, and I emailed her a picture of Isabelle missing a tooth. My sister called me “a tard” saying that wasn’t real. Maybe she thinks I photoshopped it. So, I was going to reply with this post…um 3 days ago but yeah…one of those weeks.

I was going to show her this video. Video, I can’t photoshop that.

Boobah video on Flickr

So, was that the only thing this week? No!

Nathan has this redness on his face. Well, it’s actually been there for a while. Just a little redness that would sort of come and fade a little. You can see it in his rolling pictures. The doctor noticed it at his last well check visit last month but it never really went away. Just this little rashy area on his face and no where else. Well Tuesday night he was rubbing at it like crazy in his sleep. Rubbing it raw. It’s the worst we’d seen it. So, that meant a trip to the doctor’s. We left with two different prescriptions for creams for his face. It’s much improved today.

Is that the end? Nope. Oh gawd, when will this post end?! I’m tired just writing it. Is anyone still reading? Ok. Real short and fast. Isabelle saw a pediatric ophthalmologist at the beginning of this month. Isabelle needed new lenses with a new prescription for her glasses. Alan’s work screwed up our insurance. F-ers. We dealt with that this week too, new glasses. So lots of doctor visits this week. High stress. Sick. Me coughing like crazy now. The end.

I have a four month old now. Wow four months! It absolutely flew by.

Nathan has chunked up so much since this picture was taken. I was just saying the other day that he weighs something like 16 or 17 pounds. We just weighed him on the Wii. He actually weighs 18.5 pounds! My sister’s daughter, who is about 1 year and 2 months old, weighs 18 pounds. How did he get so heavy?! (And we might need to think about getting a real scale. Weighing Nathan on the Wii is so involved. With a scale we can just step on.)

I’m having a hard time finding any words to write today. But I can say this: Nathan is loved.

This past weekend was the last weekend Alan had off of work. No more family leave. He went back to the drudgery on Monday. We asked Isabelle what she would like to do on daddy’s last weekend and she said she wanted to go to the zoo. So off we went.

The lion house was open this time so we got to look at lions and tigers.

And I know you can’t see any lions or tigers in that picture, not even if you squint really hard. But there’s one there. I just liked all the pictures where you CAN’T see the tiger better than the ones where you can.

And I don’t have a single picture of the lion. Isabelle pushed her way past the hoards of people to look at him, but it was just one quick look. She was scared. And seriously, what was up with the hoards? Haven’t we all seen a lion before?

We also rode the miniature steam train.

Poor woman in front. I kept bumping her with my big ol’ butt when I got on and off the train.

We saw the giraffe house and Isabelle’s response was the same as the last time she went.

It stinks.

And did you know giraffes eat hair?

Giraffes eat hair on Flickr.