We have had a good run this year from avoiding getting sick. I’m so careful to wash hands and not hold playdates with sick kids and mums. Which sounds awful when you read it but when you have a little baby and surviving on little sleep, sickness is not something you want to add to the equation.
But for the last week and a half we’ve been hit from all sides. All three of my girls got conjunctivitis a week and a bit ago so we went straight to the doctor to get eye drops. I ended up getting it in my right eye so I was glad we got two scripts for the eye drops.
And then last Sunday, Esther didn’t look too well but she was keen to go to church and connect group which is held in an indoor playground just for our exclusive use. Esther didn’t last long and wanted to go home.
Last Monday morning she clutched her ear and told me her ear was hurting. So I booked another doctor’s appointment only to forget that Jacob had taken the car for the day to work to do some Christmas errands.
My mum came to the rescue and picked Esther up and took her up to the appointment. The prognosis was tonsillitis. Mum did a round trip dropping Esther back home to me and then going out to get her medicine.
Esther is getting better, but now Magdalene has snail trails down her nose. And Phoebe is teething and has her molars coming through! It’s usually the front teeth that come through first I thought, but Phoebe, like her conception, keeps us surprised. In a good way of course.
Last week I saw a lot of vomit, green boogers, snail trails, runny poo and nuggets of poo. Every day there was some sort of sickness drama which has kept me on my toes.
Take Tuesday or Wednesday for example. The days seem to run into each other at the moment so to be accurate let’s just say a day last week.
It was 1pm and I put Magdalene to bed for her sleep. Then Esther threw up and covered herself and the immediate floor with the contents of her stomach. She had just eaten cheese. The smell was not pretty. So I plonked Phoebe in to the baby walker where she happily watched the commotion of me cleaning up the mess and getting Esther into new clothes. As I put Esther to bed for a sleep, I could hear Magdalene cry ‘mummy, mummy’ so went to check in on her and she had projectile vomited over the cot railing, the mattress and the wall next to the cot. She too was covered in her vomit and it was in her hair. I ended up chucking her in the bath with a very small amount of water. I then went to clean the walls, cot and change the sheets on the cot.
The next thing I hear is ‘Poo, Poo’ and Magdalene had done a code brown in the bath and on the side shelf of the bath where she climbs when avoiding to poo in the bath. I may have sworn at this point. So I scooped out the floaties, emptied the bath and cleaned the shelf. I re-ran the bath, scrubbed Magdalene from head to toe, dressed her, gave her a drink and put her back to bed.
By this time Phoebe was getting over the walker so I picked her up and my hand was immediately wet with… you guessed it POO! The seat of the walker had pushed her runny poo from her nappy, up her back and it reached her neck. For the love of gouda!!!
Once I cleaned her up and got her to sleep with a feed, I was exhausted. I don’t remember having to deal with that amount of crap in one day as a plumber.
Anyway, everyone is now on the mend and I got my hair done on Saturday. It’s amazing how great you can feel after taking some time out.
I’m also coming down to Melbourne for the Kidspot Gala Awards at the end of the month which I’m really, really looking forward to. Esther and Magdalene will be babysat by my parents and Jacob, Phoebe and I will head down to Melbourne. I used frequent flyer points and a free night on my Accor card to secure the weekend away. I can’t wait. Just thinking about it is what got me through my week of crap and sick kids. Don’t be surprised if my next sponsored post is from Napisan. I went through a whole canister of the stuff to clean the stained clothes.
Have you ever experienced a week of crap like me? Got an epic tale about sick kids you want to share?
I’m linking up with Essentially Jess for IBOT.
