Another Week

This week has been a little quite, we still have a ton going on, but it has been nice to have a little down time too. The kids had there awards program on Tuesday, I remember when I was in school it was a huge deal, the program would be during a PTA meeting and most if not all the school would be there. Now it is done in their class rooms and they say their names out over the intercom. I am disappointed at that, they should make a bigger deal of A and AB honor roll, I feel that if a child has tried that hard to make all A’s then they want to be recognized for that effort, then if they aren’t they might not try as hard, both of my kids made AB honor roll. Collin has been making A honor roll, but slipped with his English grade this time. I know he tries though, Madalyn’s B’s are in English and Reading too.

April got a job at the daycare when Aden goes to school, she just started on Tuesday, and she said she likes it fine, but I know it’s not what she wants to be doing, but will work for now. I don’t blame her for that I mean I love my kids, but I wouldn’t want to take them to work with me where I was also taking care of other peoples kids as well as mine and then come home and take care of my kids with no help from their father. She is in the baby room, so she has Chloe and 2 other babies everyday, and then on Mondays she has Landon too wile I am in Bible study for about 2 hours.

Katlyn went to the doctor yesterday; she has been having some joint/bone problems. Back about 6 months ago, she kept falling down and saying her leg hurt, so April took her to the ER one Saturday and the doctors said her hip was swollen and had fluid build up on it and it was infected. So they gave her some antibiotics an appointment with an orthopedic, who said it was growing pains. Well mom had read and Google some and was not happy with growing pains, so my grandmother talked with her doctor who suggested they take Katlyn to an arthritis doctor, and that is where April took her yesterday. The doctor took 2 vials of blood and is 98% sure she has JRA, they gave April a pain medicine for Katlyn to take everyday, and she goes back in 6 weeks. They would not have given her meds if they didn’t believe she has this. The other things the doctor said were signs that we all over looked are, her red cheeks, we always thought she was over heated, because she has done that all her life, she wines a lot, but she is two and almost all two year olds wine a bunch, waking up in the middle of the night crying and asking for water, well Katlyn has been through a lot and we figured once she got settled somewhere all that would stop, those are all signs of JRA. I put her on the prayer list at church and after the service a lady came up to me and said she has a 19 year old son who has JRA and she gave me some numbers including her own incase April wanted to call and talk to her. CRS will give her all her treatments free, she and April will get a bunch of help from them, they are the ones that do the feeding clinic Landon went to, and so after they get Katlyn’s blood work back and they say for sure she has JRA, we will make sure she gets set up with them. In the mean time we are just praying.

Landon had begun to be a picky eater. I am not sure where that is coming from, I a hoping he doesn’t loose any weight, I need to make him an appointment for his 18 months check up, he never had a 15 month check up because of all the ear infections he was having and he was so sick that wile they checked his weight they didn’t do his height of head measurements. The GI doctor did them and said they were fine, but even that was a couple months ago. I am hoping he is well next week. The doctor’s office is closed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday for Mardi Gras, and I know they will be full on Thursday and Friday because of them closing, so I guess it will be the 2nd week in February before I will be able to get him in. He is also behind on his shots, He got the 12 month shots, but is due for his 15 and his 18 months shots, they can’t get them all at one time so I am guessing he’ll be getting some at 2years old, and maybe even after that, I am not sure what all he’s missing at this point, ah well just another reason we really need to go in. Jason thinks we need a new Pediatrician because she didn’t send us to the ENT. I have tried to tell him that most Pediatricians think that ear tubes have no place in medicine for kids, but he is still up set with her, even more now that we have seen what a difference they have made with Landon’s hearing. With all that I have looked up on the Development of Language now is the most important time for hearing in a person’s life, and in the past week and a half he has went from a 12 month speech development to having mastered the 15 month skills and some has some of the18 month skills too. I am so happy he has no long lasting hearing damage, we were worried about that one, but as far as we can tell he has none.