May 18, 2011

At the airport awaiting Grannymom
& Grandpa's arrival from Canada!

Highlights from today: (click here for pictures)

• I checked on Campbell around midnight last night and she stirred so I got her out of bed to hang out with us for a bit.  During that time, Grannymom and Grandpa called from Canada.  Campbell was so excited to see them pop up on Robby’s phone.  After the phone call, we laid sweet Campbell down and she snoozed soundly throughout the night….(surprisingly for such a sick little girl).
• Robby went to work and the big task of the morning was clipping finger and toenails.  Reagan wanted her painted but we settled on painting her toenails.  I thought Campbell needed hers painted too-and she wanted none of that.  I had to hold her down to finish-seriously, set on top of her.
• Downstairs we had our breakfast and started on our big craft project for the day.  We made a little something for Jenna’s present.  The boys started off interested but they quickly decided to go and play.  At first, Reagan wasn’t too thrilled with the project either but she eventually came back to work more and finished it up.  She said that girls like art and that is why she liked doing our project but boys don’t and that was why they were playing.
• We had lunch and then waited patiently for Nonna to come-actually, the kids were so excited and screamed so loud that I nearly…well, I was pretty scared.  Nonna came over so I could take little Campbell to the doctor.  By now, even though Campbell had “some” (I hadn’t really taken it much today) fever, she had spent the morning chasing the boys through the house.
• At the doctor, they took her temp and it was 104.8-eek, I might just have panicked if I had seen that at home.  Then we waited in a room (and waited and waited).  Campbell by now was ready for her nap and she snoozed until the doctor came in.  I might have snoozed a bit too-holding a warm and cozy baby.
• When the doctor came in, I told about her cough and right on cue, she coughed for him.  He didn’t like it-said it sounded like a pneumonia cough and that set things turning.  Her ears were both infected (Dr. said horrible infection).  Next up was a chest xray-which I couldn’t go in with her and could hear her screaming and then we had a finger prick to check white blood cells (they were fine).  Finally, we concluded our visit with a roceferin shot (spelling is probably wrong but it is a powerful antibiotic). 
• I then rushed home to pick up the other kids and head downtown to switch cars with Robby.  They kids and Robby were headed to the airport to pick up Grannymom and Grandpa.  They had juice boxes while they waited on the plane to land-on the other side of town I went to pick up Campbell’s medicine (at the second pharmacy since the first didn’t have it) and they had no record of it (even though I was standing by the nurse when she spoke with a person at the store).  Thankfully, Campbell’s first dose is supposed to be in the morning so we will figure that out in the morning (whatever happened to paper prescriptions anyway-that would have solved this problem)
• Back at home, the kids were all in a good mood and ready for supper.  Spaghetti and then lollipops.  You wouldn’t know they had all not had a nap and were pretty good all evening long.  They even all played in the den for awhile without fussing. 
• During prayer time, Anderson’s prayer was “Dear God, thank you for this day and BLESS CAMPBELL’S HEART, help her to get better.”  Yes, bless her heart!  Bless her hearts too!