Boy, has this been one tough week!!

Monday, I took Kalli to the doc for her 1 year check up. I find out she had an ear infection and she got 4 shots including the first dose of her flu shot. Now it all makes sense to me why she has been crying and clingy more than normal...and here I thought she was starting the terrible 2's early! However, she had a great check up and I praise God for that!

So Tuesday morning, at 2 a.m., have you, Ava woke up vomiting, hot as a pistol and crying that her stomach was running. Due to her being sick we made an exception and let her sleep in our bed. At 5 a.m. she again woke up fevery (sp?) and dry heaving. Nothing the rest of the day after that. As a matter of fact, she cried and begged for a hot dog at lunch time.

Let me pause here and tell you that Wayne has been sick for two weeks and for some reason will not go and visit the doctor. Anyhow....

Wednesday & Thursday are my work days and my girls stay with my mom. Both days she ran fever but it would quickly go away and was never higher than 101. I was attributing it to the flu mist that she had on that Monday. Also, I had made the doctor check her ears to make sure that there was no sign of ear infections....all was clear on Monday.

Friday was a pretty normal day. I went and worked out but noticed that most of my time there that Ava was not being her normal, playful self. So that night we went out to eat, drove to Cedar Hill to shop & about 30 minutes into shopping Ava went downhill. Her eyes started oozing green and she had big circles all the way around her eyes. I felt so bad for her. I called my sister and she said it could be pink eye but suggested I take her to the doctor the next day.

So here we are! It is Saturday. Before Wayne & I could even get in bed last night at 11 Ava woke up screaming that she could not see. Her eyes were matted together. Again, I get her up out of bed and take her to my bed. She tossed turned, coughed, kicked and eventually at 5 something she puked all over our bed. We had to get up change her, myself and the sheets and then get back in the bed for maybe another hour of sleep. With all that said, I did get up this morning, took Ava to the doctor and found out that she had a double ear infection and the right side was pretty bad. So she is now on antibiotics along with Kalli.

It is 9:30, I just finished up some homework for the week, I am stressed because I have two big papers due this week and now I am feeling the fever. My throat is extremely sore to swallow, I feel a little achy and my cheeks are flush.

I am sorry for making you read about our sicko week but I am telling you all of this because we need prayers!!

I covet all prayers for me and my family! We have not had a sick free week in 5 weeks and I am struggling big time. I still have so much that I feel I have to keep up with and school is a big part of that.

Please pray for Wayne & I and our sweet little sunshines, I know that God hears our cries. We need a better week this week!

Dear Jesus...

Okay, so I have to share this sweet story with you guys so that I do not forget. Last week I was really sick with an upper respiratory infection & ear infection. I was feeling REALLY bad but Ava wanted to jump and play. I told her I was sick and could not play and she said, "Let Ava pray for you". Here is her prayer:

"Dear Jesus-

Please help my mommy's tummy feel better. Keep her safe from all evil and all danger. I love you with my whole heart, Amen."

Then she looked up at me with that sweet smile and said, "Your tummy feel better now, lets play." (I do not know where she got that my tummy hurt LOL)

Anyhow, she displayed to me, at the young age of almost 3, that she already understands our God hears and answers our prayers. The only thing she does not quite have down is that sometimes they are not answered immediately. Sometimes I find myself wanting an immediate response from God also. Lessons to be learned. She opens my eyes more than she will ever know and fills my heart with such joy when I hear her talk to God.

Happy Halloween!

So this will officially be my first blog. I am so excited about blogging and keeping up with sweet memories!

Our Halloween this year consisted of a pretty pirate, lovely fairy and way too much candy. My entire family & I made our first stop at a Methodist Church in Cleburne to participate in "Trunk or Treat". This will be the third year we have attended and we love it. Each car has their trunks opened, decorated to a theme, and ready to hand out candy to the little ones. Next, we stopped off at another church to let our little ones jump in the bounce houses. As if this were not enough we headed to a football game to finish the night off. We were exhausted but had so much fun. Ava kept her entire costume in place the entire night and wanted to eat each piece of candy as it was handed to her. Kalli was interested in all the craziness but we did find out just how scared she can get. She is a big scaredy cat like her daddy!! LOL!

The next morning we woke up and Ava ask if it was time to go "treating" again. So sorry...it will have to wait until next year.

We had the best time!!