Tucker's Antibiotic Allergy

This is more of a medical "note-to-self" post...feel free to skip.

Friday morning Tucker told me that he had been itching his ears and neck in his bed that morning. So I had him lift his shirt up, and he had rash all over. I called the nurse and we decided it must be the Cefdinir he was on for his double ear infections from the week before.








He only had one more dose of it, so the nurse had me give him that last dose Friday night, just to see if that was what he was allergic to.














The rash from the first day was significantly better, but there were all new breakouts that were even worse on Saturday, from the last dose Friday night. Sunday his feet were so swollen he stayed home from church, cause he couldn't get his church shoes on. So I scheduled a doctors appt for Monday morning, thinking I could take him in, and then go be induced (since its all at the same hospital).

That didn't work out as planned, but my sister-in-law, Annalisa was able to take him and his ears are all cleared up, and they have noted the allergy.

Today is Tuesday, and I guess last night he was crying and not wanting to walk because his knees and ankles hurt so bad. Today those are better, and his rash has cleared up on other parts of his body, but his wrists hurt. We're hoping by tomorrow we'll see improvement all over and it will be gone.

UPDATE: Tucker had a birthday party for a neighbor friend today, that Daniel took him to. Daniel wrote down his cell phone number for Tucker to be able to call him to come walk him home after the party. About 25 minutes into the party, Tucker called and asked Daniel to come get him, so he did. We both talked to him (me over the phone) trying to figure out why he wanted to come home. We couldn't really ever get a straight answer.

Later in the evening, Daniel brought the kids down to visit Graydon and I at the hospital. It broke my heart when I saw Tucker. He was walking so awkwardly, because of his joints being so sore from the allergic reaction. There was still more rash on his belly and legs and feet. He went to the bathroom, and could only use one hand to pull up his pants, cause his thumb is so swollen. I finally asked him if this was why he left the party today, cause he felt uncomfortable not being able to walk right, and he said yes.

Luckily I saw my pediatrician today, when she was checking Graydon, she gave me her cell phone number and told me to call if I wanted her to call in steroids for Tucker to stop the reaction, so I did. He'll be starting those tomorrow. I just want this to be done!!

Our little pooper-scooper

Tucker saw a commercial this morning for "stealth rides" and immediately had to have us look them up online for him, so he could learn all about them. Then he just had to have one....TODAY! So we discussed ways that he could earn half the money to buy one. (they're $25) He had $2 he earned this week from helping Dad outside. And if he would read his two books he's passed off at preschool to Grandma Pace, she would pay him $2. I came up with the chore of scooping up a winter's worth of Ginger's poop in the yard, and I would pay him $5. So after much complaining he finally realized this was his best option. I of course had to go out with him, and I held the shovel part while he raked the poop. Daniel came out and said that Tucker should be doing both parts, to earn his money. So I left him to show Tucker how to do it. When I came back, Daniel was doing it all and Tucker was playing on the swings. Apparently Tucker was too slow. :) Then we came up with the idea of putting the newspaper bag on his hand and having him pick up the poop. There still was a lot but we got it all!!


So now Tucker had earned enough that he could get his "stealth rides" (Okay, yeah he should have earned $3 to be half...but parenting is exhausting. And I lucked out and it was on sale at Target for $23, so close enough!)

First he had to come with me to my pedicure:



(And there's the belly. 38 weeks today...so any day now)

And here's the proud new owner of a stealth ride:

Bedtime

Sometimes when we put Nora Jane to bed, and she's just not ready, she'll throw a fit for a few hours. She throws dishes from her kitchen, all the furniture and people out of her doll house, knocks all the books off the shelves...and sometimes strips off her pajamas. By the time we go in to remedy the situation, she is an ice cube and cries that she's freezing and brings us her pajamas to put back on.

Well last night she didn't make a peep. Just went right to bed...so we thought. By the time we were heading upstairs to go to bed, I noticed her light was on in her bedroom. I went in to find this:













No pajamas, pillow and blankets on floor, and stethoscope around her neck. Sound asleep!

Shopping with Nora Jane

Shopping with this little girl is sometimes what I always dreamed shopping with a little girl would be like. Here's two recent examples of this.



On this particular day, we went shopping with my sister-in-law, Annalisa and her little girl Emme. As we were loading all the strollers and carseats into Annalisa's car, Nora Jane wanted to make sure I loaded her stroller for her dolly. At first I thought this was going to be disastrous, but it turned out to be so fun. She acted like she was just one of the mommies, pushing her stroller, and she acted so mature and stayed right with me.

At one point she went running clear across the mall, because she spotted a picture of Ariel. She was so excited! It was so cute I had to take a picture.



Here we were at Old Navy, and she found this hat, and came around the rack to show me, and posed just like this. I don't know where exactly all this personality comes from...but it makes life really fun!



After Old Navy, we headed to Target, wearing the hat of course! She came across this lovely nightgown. I knew we were headed for a meltdown at this point, when I wasn't going to buy it for her. Finally, I decided to try a little trick that works with Tucker. Whenever he wants something really bad, I tell him we can take a picture of it, to remember it when it's his birthday or Christmas. So I told Nora Jane we could take a picture, text it to grandma Pace and ask her to get it for her birthday. Worked like a charm! What she doesn't know is that my text said that if grandma bought this for her, she may not be invited to the birthday party. :)

Valentine's Day!

 We've sort of started a tradition with the Beck's and Goddard's to all go out for dinner together on Valentine's.  This was our second year, and we went to Flemings.  It was a perfect evening, good food, good friends, good conversation.

(Of course thanks to Brette and her trusty camera, I get to have something to blog about!)

Julie and Daniel

Sabrina and Mickey

Curt and Brette

Sabrina, Brette and Julie 

(34 weeks pregnant, since I don't have many pregnant pics of me, I should label it I guess.)

Mickey, Curt and Daniel

New Year's Day - Mark's (Grandpa's) Birthday

New Year's Day is Mark's (Daniel's Dad's) Birthday.  Last year they took the family to Fat Cats for bowling and pizza, and decided to do the same this year.  He invited his parents to come this year, and they were excited and nervous because they hadn't been bowling since they were dating.  Grandmother asked me if I knew how to score it, because she didn't know how...and I explained that they computer just does it for you now.  Later they shared with us how the last time they went bowling, there was actually a man behind the alley, that set the pins back up. :)

Grandpa (who Nora Jane just calls Mark), his Mother "Grandmother", and Anne Marie.

Grandfather Pace

New Year's Eve -- Sledding

In my attempt to be a fun mom, and pass the time on New Year's Eve, I took the kids sledding.  I was a little sore later that evening, but we all had fun!

Later that night we watched "How to Train Your Dragon" with Daniel, who hadn't seen it yet, and it was so fun to all sit on the couch together eating popcorn and watching the movie.  Then we put the kids to bed, and barely made it to Midnight.

Happy New Year!

Grandma and Grandpa Paces Christmas Card Photo Shoot

Grandma and Grandpa Pace decided to do a Christmas card picture with just their grandkids this year.  Here's a little sampling from the photo shoot.

Preschool Christmas Program

Here's the one picture I got of Tucker at his Christmas Program this year.  Poor kid couldn't ever see me, and was searching the crowd in between every song trying to find me.  Toward the end of the program, I overheard two moms in front of me talking, and I kept hearing "Tucker".  Well after my friend that was in front of them, turned around to tell me she got lots of pictures of Tucker for me, one of these other moms turned around and asked if I was Tucker's mom.  Apparently their two daughters talk about Tucker everyday when they get home from preschool.  They said they like him cause he plays house with them. :)

Temple Square Christmas Lights

We went to see the lights at Temple Square this year with some good friends, The Beck's and the Goddard's.  The only downside to the evening was that we went the same night as the rest of the State of Utah.  It was so crowded!!

 We went to Blue Lemon for dinner.  So Yummy!! Here's Tucker eating with the Goddard's, with a family of 4 super cute girls (they left the baby at home sleeping) of course he'd rather sit with them, instead of us. :)

The Beck's

Nora Jane wanted to be sitting with the Goddard girls too, I think.  But how bad would that be for us to just pawn all our kids off on to other people for dinner!

Tucker and Sadie....so cute!!!

Nora Jane being a stinker again!! What a cute picture that could have been!

Tucker and Nora Jane with the Goddard Girls!

Cute Bum shot!

Tucker and Sadie...who were "bumping tongues" that night.  I'm really not sure where he gets this stuff from, but he seems to be smitten! (I am too...she's soooooo cute!)

So fun to have good friends to do fun stuff with through the holidays!