The Final Chapter

It was Good Friday and we had a second appointment at The Picture People to get Easter pics of the cousins since last weeks was a disaster due to the oncoming sickness.  By the end of the more than an hour of picture taking we realized that Jackson's ear had been hurting so bad that he had caused it to bleed from pulling at it so much!  That poor little guy just could not catch a break.  He had already cut two teeth in the time he had been here and it was looking like he might get another before the trips end.  So it looked like it was just not in the cards for us to get a cute picture of these three kids on this visit.  Oh well.  Jackson screamed in the car the whole way home.  I dropped Hill, Jax and Mia off at home and told Mia to take a nap cause she was acting kind of whiny.  I was going to go up to Shelby's office to see him give a presentation on his most recent project at school.  Well that was a total bust cause Lennon whined the whole way through the presentation.  Every time I walked in the room he would fuss and as soon as I walked out into the stairwell he would instantly quiet down.  I was really excited to hear about what he had spent so much time on and see the reactions of his coworkers and even one of the partners was there.  I was pretty bummed and I left to run by the store and go home.  As I was leaving the store Hillary called and said Mia just woke up from her nap screaming in agony.  Now she had an ear infection which made us wonder if Maybe the two babies had ear infections too.  Hill got Mia in a hot bath and she calmed down and I rushed home.  At home we treated all three kids with silver and ear oil, gave them tylenol and put them to bed as soon as possible.  I also called my doc and had him call in a prescription for some numbing ear drops that seemed to really help.  

The next day the kids all seemed to feel a little better.  We went to an Easter Egg hunt at The Brill's house with a few families from our Bible study.  It was super fun.  Suzanne made an awesome brunch with waffles, egg casseroles, fresh fruit, bacon, delicious muffins and juice.  The egg hunt was awesome!  There were like 250 hidden plastic eggs!  The kids had an awesome time and the babies played on the floor in the living room.  Later we had another ice skating lesson with Mia and it did not go well.  The new session is in a different rink and it was colder and she was upset to find out that her best friend from school was skating at a higher level than she was.  That night Mia had another fever of around 101 and went to bed early.  Easter morning Mia felt much better.  The Easter Bunny had visited our house and brought the kids lots of cool stuff including a Tinkerbell watch, new pinwheels, a dark chocolate bunny, a toy phone for Lennon, a stuffed bunny for Jackson and a new outfit.  Mia wasn't too into the hunting for egg thing.  I guess it's not as much fun when you are by yourself.  She did have a lot of fun coloring the eggs earlier in the week though.  Church was great.  Jessica, Ella and Diva came and Jessica's sister came with us as well.  Sunday night we went to bed early.  Well, all except Shelby who stayed up late working on a project.  It turned out it was lucky Hillary did extend her stay because around 3:30 AM Shelby sliced his hand open with a utility knife and I had to take him to the ER for what we thought would be stitches, but ended up being fixed with dermabond.  The attending doc was either drunk or just awoken, but he still got the job done I guess.  Shelby also had to have a tetanus booster and got a couple of tylenol, woohoo!  The good news was there was no major damage done, it was his left hand, and it was less than one hour from the time we left for the ER and the time we crawled into bed with the whole episode behind us.  Monday came so much faster than we ever imagined and we had to take Hillary and Jackson to the airport and say goodbye to them.  It was sad, but it had been such a whirlwind that it didn't sink in that they were gone until I got home and put the kids to bed.  I came out and realized I was all alone.  Shelby was at school and the house was quiet.  You would think I would have appreciated the nice quiet house, but I totally wished Hill was here with me to keep me company while I folded laundry or to do the dished she had done so often while here.  

Amazingly, we still had an awesome time together while they were here.  We laughed soo much.  About new things and old things.  Having a sister is pretty cool.  I think Lennon is super lucky to have a sister like Mia.  And I am pretty lucky to have a sister like Hillary.