The last few weeks have been fairly eventful...
We'll start in the life of Shaylyn.
Sunday, May 20: We arrive at Eric's parents house for our weekly Sunday dinner and Shaylyn complains that her ear is bleeding. Eric looks in her ear quickly and decides she just scratched her ear and it wasn't bleeding that bad.
Monday, May 21: Shaylyn wakes up and there is dried blood in her ear and on her pillow are 3 small spots of dried blood. I start to get a little worried. I clean out the ear as best I can, cause she says it still hurts, then I tell Eric what happened and he says if she had scratched the ear and opened up the scab during the night that would've happened. The rest of that day goes by without too much incident.
Tuesday, May 22: Shaylyn is a little bit whiny today. Complaining that her ear hurts. Don't really know what to think as she is a bit of a "drama queen" at times, so it is hard to distinguish when she really is hurt and when she isn't.
Wednesday, May 23: Shaylyn is whiny all day and just isn't acting like herself. She is tired and moody. Doesn't want to do a whole lot at all. She goes to bed that night, but a few hours later she is up crying and complaining that her ear really hurts and she can't sleep. So she comes and sleeps with us...Yeah...She doesn't sleep all night, and neither do we. By this time we have decided that in the morning we need to take her to Instacare.
Thursday, May 24: We take her to Instacare. Luckily we went fairly early in the morning, so we didn't have to wait long at all. Shaylyn is acting more like herself with the prospect of her ear feeling better. The dr. comes in and checks the ear out. He actually says to us, "There is so much dried blood in here that I can't really tell what's going on." He says what probably happened was that her ear drum ruptured and then she had an infection on top of that. He gives us prescriptions - ear drop type stuff to clear out the dried blood and amoxicillan. I was a little bit nervous about the amoxicillan because the first time Tanis had the stuff he broke out in a rash. Luckily, Shaylyn didn't have any reactions. Thankfully as well, she will take medicine for us without any fight. We give her some medicine and she goes to sleep really quick. Not a big suprise as she didn't sleep all night.
That night Eric has his game night and as the guys are talking one of his friends said that this Instacare dr. isn't a very good dr. Apparently he had torn some ligaments or something and went to the Instacare and this dr. just told him that he pulled some muscles.
Friday, May 25: Shaylyn is back to normal, but her ear looks really disgusting as the medicine had pulled that dried blood out. (Picture below) She feels good enough that she even goes to the Bees game with us. Thursday night she was insistant that she didn't want to go.
So after all the hassle we had with her that week, the next week was just crazy with things that needed to be done.
Tuesday, May 29: Shaylyn has dance pictures. Luckily the studio her dance teacher decided to use was located real close to us. A 5 minute drive if that! We made it in time for her pictures but as everyone was crowded in the studio, Shaylyn got into the studio and had her individual picture taken before I got to even see how she looked. Then for her class picture she wanted to look at me instead of the photographer. Oh well. (Dance pic is posted below)
Thursday, May 31: Shaylyn has her last dance class of the season. For once we are actually one time because Tanis got out of school way early.
Friday, June 1: Shaylyn has her dress rehearsal. Her dance teacher is smart and separates each group into 15 minute segments instead of having everyone there for the whole amount of time. Shaylyn has her session at 5:45 P.M. We know we are going to be cutting it close as we were trying to get to my brother in laws graduation at the E Center by 7:00. Eric was taking the kids to a movie at the mall that started at 7:00 as well. We walk into the school for Shaylyn's dress rehearsal and NO ONE is in this same costume. Someone made a mistake - ME! I wasn't sure what time she was really supposed to be there, just knew that I read the paper wrong. Good news is we all made it where we were supposed to be on time because she didn't have to stay and practice.
Saturday, June 2: Shaylyn's dance concert. I am stressed hoping my family will get there in time to see her perform. She was #7. Luckily my parents only missed a slideshow presentation and my sister and brother only missed the first number. Shaylyn did great and looked like she was having a great time. Then when she was supposed to leave the stage, because they couldn't quite find the opening in the curtain, her and 2 other little girls decided to just crawl under the curtain. It was funny to see.
Tanis finished school on Thursday the 31st. He only had to go to school for an hour and a half that day. I don't know what in the heck the point was for that. Oh well. I am glad that he is out of school, although this morning has already been a morning of fighting over nothing.
On Memorial Day, I went to the gym with my mom and sisters. It was supposed to be a $10 one time thing, but then the guy sold me into a membership. I was a little leary at first because I wasn't sure where there was a gym close to me and about the kids. But my $40 a month membership included unlimited daycare, so I couldn't really pass it up. He also explained to me where the nearest gym to me is. It is like a half hour away, but that's better than driving to the valley. It was something I've wanted to do for awhile, but just kept putting off. My 10 year High School reunion is next year and I want to lose like 20 - 25 pounds before then.
So wish me luck and I'll keep you posted. :D
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