Preston's sickness

Again this year it happened, right after Christmas and the New Year, Preston got sick. He had a stuffy nose, cough, swollen glands below his ears, couldn't sleep, just not feeling good at all. At first we thought it was just a cold and it would go away. I'm sure Spencer had a cold around that time and it just spread. 

But then the sleepless nights started coming. He wouldn't be able to sleep and we would have to hold him so he could sleep and be upright. Then there was the way he was acting during the day, just really not himself at all. Not happy or smiling and laying down all the time. There were lots of cuddling in those days too.

We went to an Urgent Care here, and they said it was probably just the flu. But it wouldn't go away, so I got a pediatrician here, and stopped by. They found out he had a severe double ear infection and bronchitis!!! My poor little baby boy was REALLY sick. I felt so bad for him. Luckily the doctor's office started a breathing treatment while we were there, and told me which meds to get him on. 

Preston wasn't a fan of the breathing treatments at first, but slowly just got used to them. 

The funny thing about this is whenever we put the mask on him his mouth would open up, and stay open the whole time! It was super cute.

After a few weeks of treatments and going back to the doctor multiple times to make sure everything was cleared up he was all better!!! I was so happy to see my happy boy again and have him sleep more soundly through the night. 

Also I'm going to be super prepared next year in January to expect him to have something! Hopefully we can catch it before it gets really bad.

snow.

Finally I'm back onto blogging again. These past few months have been a little crazy. We've had sickness, work, school, snow, baseball, and a few months later more sickness. This post will wrap up most things from the beginning of the year until March! So why did I make the title "snow"? Well, because for three months that's pretty much all we heard and saw and wondered about!!!

Getting back from Christmas break we were ready to head back to school, but alas Mother Nature had some tricks up her sleeve that were white and fluffy and made the roads slick. Really. The second day back to school this happened:

Then it turned gradually into this:

By the end of the day it was this:

And that made us miss three days of school!!! It stayed all weekend long!!!!!!! Not only were we getting snow but we got ice, and it was FREEZING here. I don't think it got above 32 degrees for a month. We were cold. So, what did I have to do? Get snow clothes. Living in Africa for 4 years we were not prepared at all, and let's just say NYC did not have mass amounts of snow while we were there. 

Here's Preston's new snow suit. He loved it! Didn't ever want to take it off.

Well, after that first snow fall of the year, it became a habit. Every week of school we knew the kids would be out at least one day or do a 2-hr. delay. The best, for the kids, was this snow fall:

It snowed 15 inches! They were out the entire week so we could thaw out! It was crazy, but so much fun!! Tyler and I were able to show Spencer what you could do in this amount of snow (we both grew up in places it snowed a lot...well at least when we were little kids). 

This is Tyler at one end, and our neighbor boy at the other end making a snow tunnel. 

Spencer working on a fort. 

Crouching in his fort.

Preston waiting for Mom to get ready so he could go out and PLAY!

Finally he gets to play with brother in all this white stuff.

 He wasn't so keen on it at first, but really he did love it.

The snow fort in the end! 

Preston having fun in the snow tunnel. He would giggle at everything.

Uh-oh! Someone got stuck! Giggle!

 And while all this was going on, I made these yummy Valentine cookies. To be ready for Valentine's day! 

My boys!

Finally that snow was gone, and we were good....until we weren't. 

I was baffled by this weather forecast.....64 degrees, but guess what? You have a winter storm watch coming!!! And guess what? They were right, we got another winter storm.

At least it wasn't as much as the 15 inches.

But I do believe it was close to the 8 inch mark.  

We had so much snow that our kids used up all 15 of their extra days they have for snow days!!! We felt like it just wouldn't stop, until the end of March came or maybe it was April, and we started seeing and feeling warmer days. Who knew we could get this much?!?! Let's hope next year won't be like this, because in the end we were completely sick of snow.