Its been crazy out our house!!!!!

That might be an understatement actually!!!!! School has started and so has the sickness…Back to school back to illness right????!!!!! It all started last Thursday night…..Destiny started running a high fever and ran one for ten days..it would run anywhere from 101-104.  She was sooo tired and wiped out!!!! She stayed in bed pretty much the whole time..I did take her to the dr and she tested neg for strep but the dr said that her lymph nodes were really swollen so he took her blood for mono…that was A LOT of fun…{not really!!!} I had asked about the flu but he thought it wasn’t the flu so he didn’t test for it…anyways the test ended up coming back negative but the nurse said that it can actually take up to a month to get a positive result ..she said that her counts were really high which indicated probably it was being mono. so he said we were just going to treat it like mono..so that is what we did..I went home and went crazy with the bleach and lysol!!!We opened up the windows and doors and tried to air it out as much as possible.  I wanted to make sure that no one else got it especially me!!!!!  When I took her in the second time to the dr {bc he wanted to check on her bc she still had fever and still feeling the same way but he just wanted to waste my money pretty sure bc he didn’t tell me anything thing he didn’t tell me before that we just have tot wait it out..and while we were there I had Avery with me and she had a rash on her face so he suggested that I take her to her dr {bc she sees a different dr} bc it looks like strep. So off I went to her dr and low and behold it is strep..Just lovely!!!  Do u know what it feels like to not leave the house for almost two weeks except to go to the dr??? and a quick run to dollar general to get milk??? and cleaning like crazy so no one gets anything else????  I felt like I was going to go CRAZY!!!!!!!!   Just sayin’!!:)   This has been Destiny’s first week back to school but she hasn’t been able to go back all day yet. She gets way to tired..The first day she was only there for a couple of hrs. and then had to come home to bed for the rest of the day and she has just slowly been working her way up..yesterday she went to school until 1130 and then came home and ate lunch and then took a nap until 130 and then went back to school until the end of the day. Hopefully next week she will be able to go all day because she is getting soooo behind in school work..and it is starting to stress her out!!!!

Last swimming hurrah!!!

Yesterday it got up into the 90’s and it was suppose to be the last hot day so I figured it would be a good day to go swimming one last time for the year before it is to cold. It has been getting cold at night so the water is getting pretty cold. Avery is my little fish I am so impressed with how far she has come over the summer in her swimming.. I only had to jump in the pool once with my clothes on to get her bc she had the wrong swimsuit on and she thought she had on her swimsuit with her floaties on…scary!!!! Anyways here are some pictures from our last swimming hurrah!!! At the beginning of the summer we couldn’t even get her to get her face wet..her she is putting her whole head under…

Avery totally just squirted Brielle in the face with water here and shocked her!!! She tought it was funny!!! lol!!

Destiny thinks it’s a little to cold…


I couldn’t get a picture of all three of them..they wouldn’t cooperate so this will have to do!!!

I love this picture of Avery looking up to her big sissy Destiny..she doesn’t realize how much she looks up to her but Avery loves Destiny and is always wanting to do everything she does!!!!




and a video of Avery jumping in and putting her head under..she also puts plugs her babies nose and puts her head under too!!!   Hope you all had a great summer..We sure did  but we are ready for fall cooler temps cant come soon enough!!!!! 

Avery swimming with her Dolly who had to where a floaty too:))

Avery update

Avery has been going to school everyday now and I go pick her up at 1030..it was suppose to be 1045 but they go to lunch then and Avery was getting mad bc she couldn’t go eat..go figure:) I never have a problem getting her to eat!!! So it actually has been going pretty good for the most part..the first part of the week wasn’t looking so good but then she had a good ending to the week.. I think we are getting there but she had some concerns when they go on there field trip that they wouldn’t be able to get her to go where they needed her too and maybe just take off so  I guess I get to go to Strawberry Hill to keep her  in line… {now to find someone to watch the twins for a full day..that is going to be hard!!!}  They have book buddies on Friday where a second grade class comes in and reads to them and it turned out that they were paired with Brielle’s class so Brielle gets to be her book buddy!!  She came home the other day and tried to read me her “A” book…it was so cute..they do book for each letter…The teacher told me that she went to the library and rented some signing times videos so she is learning some signs bc she said Avery is constantly doing signs but she has no idea what she is doing..We went to the back to school bbq last week and while we were walking around playing some of the games a girl in her class came up to her and says..hi Avery and walks over to her and gives her a hug…It made me smile..and I knew that she would be ok in school this year..bc if that little girl stopped to do what she was doing to come say hi to Avery well that means something!!! 
Avery FINALLY got into the GI doctor..we have been waiting for this appointment since last may when we got dud her routine blood work and it came back positive or high number for Celiac disease..So when we were there he said that he wanted to re do her blood work and do more in depth blood work..about five different blood tests and if any of them came back elevated then we would go ahead and do the scope to test her small intestine so I said that was ok…I wasn’t looking forward to getting her blood work done though bc the last time it took at least five people to hold her down and even then it took at least an hour to get a couple tubes of blood..it was so miserable..She was crying and moving and blowing her veins..I walked out of there feeling like the worst mother ever..that I would make her go through that..well anyways we got her blood work done in the same building as the doctor and all I can say is WOW!!!!!! It only took two people to get her blood and they had to get more tubes and they didn’t even blow one vein and she didn’t even cry..I couldn’t believe it…I will definitely go back there when we need blood work done!!!!  So after about a week the dr called back to let me know the results and not one of them were elevated all of them looked good…so apparently we got a false positive which is common in the one test that they run I guess..So she doesn’t have Celiacs..and we don’t have to worry about her eating gluten every meal…Praise God!!!  I knew that I could do it if I had to but knowing that we don’t have well I am pretty happy!!!  We did it for a couple of weeks trial run and it was sooo hard!!!  I really commended all them parents out there that have to deal with it every meal and every day!!!   We also talked about getting her constipation under control while we were at the dr bc I know she has a problem with that…he suggested Fruiteze…it is an all natural remedy.. a blend of dried prunes, raisins, dates and prune juice..it comes in a big container and u just eat a couple of teaspoons for kids and couple of tablespoons for adults..it actually tastes good..but of course Avery has problems with the consistency/texture of some foods and she didn’t like eating this plain..so I mix some up with her juice and then she drinks from a straw so she can get all the good stuff at the bottom of the cup..and she does fine taking it like that..you can also spread it on toast or something too bc its like jam consistency. So far it is working really good..I would totally recommend it to anyone that deals with constipation on a regular basis…You can get it online..just google it…We used to use Miralax everyday but that didn’t work with us..u really have to have to correct dose right down to a T or it was the opposite..and sometimes she would need more or less and it was a big headache and mess most of the time!!!! 
Just a quick funny story that Avery did the other day…She comes running into the house completely naked and her hair was wet and she is running for the bathroom..I'm thinking what in the world..then I can hear the hose is one..and it clicked she went yucks in her pants and sprayed her self off with the hose before she came in the house.. I was scared to go outside for the fear of the unknown on my sidewalk…haha!!  But what a good girl for cleaning herself off!!!:) 
Well I hope everyone has a good day!!!