It Ain't Easy Being Greene: Sick-o

Monday, February 21, 2011

Sick-o

I've been so happy with the healthy winter our family has been having. The only change I've really made is I started using doTerra essential oils, so they must be helping. Hurrah!

However, I guess you can't beat 'em all. Starting Wednesday, I was headed out to a bookclub when Caden started wailing that his ear was hurting. Uh oh. I rubbed some oil on him and gave him some homeopathics and probiotics, then said "Good luck Dave" and went to bookclub :) Next day he spent all day on the couch with an extremely owie ear.

Friday Dave stayed home from work with Caden and Koen so I could go teach at our home school co-op. Then we went to Costco to do some shopping - I figured Caden would be on the mend and could take it, and we needed to get it done. Caden lounged on the flatbed cart looking downright miserable. Koen was coughing so hard that he threw up. Three times. One time right into my hands. Wow, good times. We got home and Caden once again crashed in our chair and didn't move for the rest of the day. And Saturday. And Sunday. Yikes! He won't even let me touch the outer ear, it's so painful. I feel for the kid. As chance would have it, this is the weekend Dad has to go out of town for work. Of course. He takes off about 5 pm Friday evening.

Koen is hacking up a lung and can't breath right, so he spent most of the night with me in my bed on Friday. On Sat. morning Caden told me at 4:30 am that the oil was leaking out of his ear. Except I hadn't put any oil in his ear that night. So he was having some drainage, which I hoped would lessen the pressure and help him feel better. It was disgusting, that's all I'm going to say. Anyway, now Caden and Koen were both in my bed and I was not going to be getting much sleep at all. Lovely.

Saturday night I gave ALL the kids cough medicine with codeine so I could get some sleep. It worked.

Caden's moving around today, which is so nice. His ear feels better. I even had the distinct pleasure of finally cleaning it out since he can stand to have it touched a little. That was a joy, I tell you. Koen's still got a runny nose but is much better. Caden is still coughing (which sometimes makes him gag and throw up, so that's fun) but we are on the mend.

And I am REALLY looking forward to getting out of the house! Who wants to go for a girls' weekend? I think I deserve it.

And so do you if you made it though this post without getting ill yourself.

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RachelleFebruary 22, 2011 at 7:44 AM
Oh tami that us awful!! And makes me not want any more children. Lol hope they are doing better now and that you're getting some sleep!!
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BetsyFebruary 22, 2011 at 10:47 AM
Umm...that sounds terrible!I'm always up for a girls weekend! :) We actually might be doing one with my sisters, and if we do, you should definitely come along. I'll call you.
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Out of the mouths of monkeys

K: There's another one fly!
M: Can you smash it?
K: No. I don't wann smash it. Da fly is NICE! 11/6/12

Mom: Koen, are you stinky?
K: No. I mean, (meekly) Yes, sir. 10/12

Koen, as we left the parking lot ahead of the boys one night: "See ya lata ... (quietly) suckas." 8/29/12

Sitting in church, whispering:
Caden: Wow, are they allowed to be this boring?
Dave: Yes (laughing).
C: And speak this long?
D: Yes.
C: It should be a crime against kids! 8/26/12

Davin, after a comment by Daddy: "So, are only grown-ups allowed to say 'stupid'?" Whoops, caught ya. 7/12

Koen said, "I wanna lay on baby" today. Then he pulled up my shirt and laid his head down on my bulging belly ... and now he's sleeping. First co-nap with the new sib! :) 4/13/12

Caden: "Mom, the Star Wars Darth Maul Lightsaber is the greatest thing since holographic sliced bread." 4/13/12

Tessa: I try not to let Davin play with my glass dolls.
Gummy: Why? Are you afraid he'll drop them on you?
Tessa: No, I'm afraid he'll drop them on the FLOOR!
4/10/12

Dave recently patched several dings, holes and other imperfections in our walls. The next morning Koen went on a treasure hunt, finding the white spackled patches and shouting excitedly, "SNOW!!!"

When we went camping, we were out playing and Tessa called out, "Caden, where are you, my brother-from-the-same-mother?"

Davin stubbed his toe and said, "Dad, I hurt my thumb toe."

Davin: "Mommy, this is the hugest orange anyone could ever eat!"
Mom: "That's a grapefruit."
Davin: "Oranges are the great fruit? I don't think so."

Koen asked me for an "apple peach" one morning, meaning he wanted it whole instead of cut up :) Way to communicate, 22-month-old!

Tessa was outside with Dad on a chilly morning. She was getting cold and said, "Dad, I think I'm turning into a big Tessacle!" lol

Mom: "Koko, do you need a diaper change?"
Caden: "What about me?" (Granted, he had just asked me for something, but the timing was great.)

Caden: (looking at the map)"Dad, is there such place as Zealand?" Because where does the "New" come from if there is no original?

Mom pours shampoo on Tessa's head. "OK Tessa, rub it in." (High, whiny voice) "'Ha ha, I have shampoo and you don't.' You mean that kind of rubbing in?"

Davin: "I'm leaving da rest of my celery on da floor so da ants can eat it."
Tessa: "Or the mice."
Thanks a million, kids. So helpful.

Dave told Tessa he'd give her a penny if she'd wipe Davin's behind. She said, "Every penny counts!" and did it! They each got 3 pennies for it :) Later Davin wanted more money and Dave said maybe tomorrow Tessa could wipe him again. He said, "Heh. Nah, dat was kinda weird for me."

I was giving Davin a bath and told him to lay down to get his hair wet. Then he said, "Now should I lay up?"

Davin passed some noisy gas and I said, "Heeeeey, tootie!" He looks at me, shrugs, and says, "Dat's just what it do!"

Tessa tells the baby, "Awww, you're so cute! I just can't exist you!" (means 'resist')

I was lecturing Davin about how he doesn't listen to me until I yell, when he mutters under his breath, "Mama, Jesus don't love you." Hiding a smirk, I asked why he would say that, and he said, "'Cuz, you so cwazy! I don't even know what you sayin!"

Davin was marching around in a circle and said, "Look ma! I following the prophet! Like Jesus say!"

Tessa calls her bare feet her "plain old feet."

I was frustrated one night getting the rowdy kids to focus and put on their pajamas. During his bedtime prayer, Caden included: "Oh, and God, here's a little secret: (whisper) Mom's beautiful when she's angry." He later told me I look beautiful and Dad looks cool when we're angry. What a smart kid - dispell the anger with kindess!

Me: "Tessa, do you want a banana?"
T: "Tessa do you want a banana who? ... bwaaa haa haa"

Caden was watching the end of "NeverEnding Story" where the luck dragon chases down the bullies. He got really excited and said, "Yeah! He's giving them a taste of their own medicine! And not the fruity kind ... the hurtin' kind!"

Caden asks lots of questions that I don't have great answers for: "Why is my Slappy Hand sticky? Why is clay hard?" Tessa has figured out the best response: "Because Jesus made your Slappy Hand sticky. Right Mom?" What do you say to that?

During family prayer one night Caden decided to do a rap version of "Let Us Gather In A Circle." At the end he crosses his arms gangsta style and says, "Respect!" We were laughing, and he was annoyed. He said, "What, I'm just trying to make a catch phrase!"

For some reason, Caden and Aunt Betsy were talking about bats. And Caden mentioned fruit bats (heaven knows why). So Betsy said, "Oh, is that from Anastasia?" Caden said, "No ... no, that's not from any country."

Caden had been calling Mom and Tessa his "step-sisters" all day. Later Tessa said, "I am Caden's ... tip-toe sister!"

Tessa: "Mom, you are Dad's life." (She meant wife ... but I like it her way.)

Tessa was trying to come in while I was in the bathroom, and I said, "Tessa, please go out. Mommy needs her privacy." She said "oh" and closed the door. A few seconds later I hear her say, "I can't find it! Dad, do you know where Mom's privacy is?"

Grandma was telling the grandchildren on her birthday that they were her best present. As we were later driving to her house to give her a gift, Caden insisted that he was her present. Over and over. Then he said, "But I'M HER PRESENT! Wrap me up, baby!"

Tessa was horrified to learn where dogs go to the bathroom and occasionally mutters to herself, "Remember when Jake (friend's dog) go'd poopy on the ground?"

A few years ago we were at the grandparents' house and Grandpa was blessing the food. During his prayer Caden said in a loud whisper, "Grandpa! It's too long! That's too long Grandpa!"

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Sick-o

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