Weekend Ups and Downs

What a weekend.  It was full of super exciting highs and some very low lows.  We celebrated the highs and survived the lows.
It all started last Friday with Isabel running a fever and having a raspy voice.  Her fever wasn't too high but by the afternoon she had a cough that just sounded off.  Eli already had a Dr appointment as a follow up to he ear infection, sinus infection and tonsillitis from 2 weeks ago so I called them to see if Isabel could come in too.  I am so glad she was able to be seen because she had croup.  She got a steroid to take take to help keep her airways open and we were instructed to give her Robitussin morning and night for 5 days and to do a 20 minute steam shower each night before bed.  They also told us that if she showed any signs that she was struggling to breath to go right to the ER.

Poor girl felt miserable

We also had something exciting happen on Friday.  The boys got bunk beds!  We have been talking about this for a little while and wanting to make some room for their toys.  I also wanted to get them in before Eli's 2 week fall break from school coming up.  The boys didn't know that Mike was building them on Friday and were super excited at bedtime when they saw them!

Super excited about their new beds!

Isabel was feeling pretty good Saturday morning.  I had to snap a picture of her little horns. :-)

Saturday was a very fun day!  It was Mike's 32nd birthday as well as the day we got to find out if baby #4 is a boy or a girl.  I had my ultrasound on Thursday October 3rd but Mike wasn't able to go since he needed to get Eli to school.  I decided I didn't want to find out without him and thought it would be fun to find out with the kids too.  So I had the ultrasound tech right out boy or girl on a piece of paper and put it in a sealed envelope.  I took that envelope to a bakery and had them bake a cake that was either pink or blue on the inside.  We invited the grandparents over for lunch on Mike's birthday and had our special cake for desert.  I have never been so excited to cut into a cake before!

Our cake from Taylor's Bakery

We got a little peak of the color on the knife!

It's pink!!

Best cake ever!  It could have tasted like cardboard and it still would have been the best cake ever!

We are all excited for another baby girl! I was really hoping for a sister for Isabel!

The excited Grandmas

After cake Daddy got to open his birthday presents!

 Saturday night Jude started to get a raspy voice and a low fever.  This is exactly how Isabel's croup started so we were watching it.  He woke up at 4:00 Sunday morning burning up and having a difficult time breathing.  I gave him some Motrin and we headed to the ER.  I explained his symptoms and that Isabel had croup.  They agreed with me that he had croup too.  They gave him a one dose steroid to help his airways open up and some Tylenol to help bring his fever down and then sent us back home.  We got back home at 5:30am and Jude was exhausted but I didn't want to put him back in his bed so we camped out on the couches.  I turned on a movie for him but he fell asleep pretty quickly.  I was hoping to be able to fall back asleep too but a little before 6:00 Isabel woke up coughing.  I brought her downstairs with us but she wasn't into going back to sleep so we finished watching Epic and then a few Paw Patrol episodes.
Throughout the day Sunday Jude and Isabel both had bursts of energy and would be ready to play but they would quickly crash and not feel well.

Poor Jude at the ER

One of her many naps downstairs over the weekend

Sunday night Eli started in with a little fever and we were worried that he would wake up with croup as well.  Monday morning his fever was 101.5 and he had a cough but not the same croupy cough and raspy voice Jude and Isabel had.  The fever was still hanging around Monday afternoon so I decided to take him into the Dr to at least get a doctor not for school since he would have to be missing on Tuesday as well.  Our pediatrician said he had croup as well just not as bad as the other 2.  Luckily he and Jude were both feeling much better on Tuesday.  Jude still has a lingering cough but it isn't too bad.  Isabel seems to have had it the worst.  Her cough is finally starting to not be so constant today (Wednesday) and this is the first day she hasn't needed Motrin.  Croup is a rough illness but we seem to be moving past it.

Now I am excited to plan for our new baby girl!