Avery's Adventure: A busy few weeks

We have had so much happening in the past few weeks.

On Sept 17, Reagan went to the dentist for the first time. She got to pick out sunglasses to wear and got to select what show was on the tv. Then the dentist went to look in her mouth and Reagan cried the whole time even though the dentist wasn't doing anything. Luckily Reagan's teeth are in great shape and she is now a member of the no cavity club. When we were leaving the dentist's office, Reagan said "I had so much fun at the doctor's". I looked at her like she was crazy because the appointment I was at she was crying most of the time. Oh well, at least she left thinking she had fun.

A couple weeks ago, I got a call from the nurse at Avery’s school saying she had 3 diarrhea accidents so I went and picked her up around noon. She had quite a few more accidents that day. Then I was talking to my sister and I said that Avery is 7 years old and has never thrown up before…well of course that night she threw up. Lol.

We were supposed to have a combined party for Avery and Reagan on September 21 for our family but we had to cancel it because I didn’t want anyone to get the stomach virus that Avery had. She also had a low grade fever that morning. I had ordered a big cake the day before for the party and we were stuck with all of this cake. Tim’s sister and kids were in town at Tim’s parents so we took 1/3 of the cake over there on Sunday. Then we celebrated my dad’s birthday Sunday night and took a 1/3 of the cake there..lol.

The next week I received a call from the nurse at Avery’s school saying she had 3 diarrhea accidents again. I picked her up on Thursday and we kept her home from school on Friday just in case.

She had gotten an invitation to a birthday party from one of her friends at school so on Saturday Avery and I went to the party. It was at a bounce house place. Avery doesn’t talk a lot so I have no idea who the kids are in her class. We got to the party, took our shoes off and starting running around, playing on the bounce house. Then we took a break and ate some food. Then it was time to sing happy birthday. We sang happy birthday and when they went to say the name of the birthday kid, they said Jordan. I was thinking who the hell is Jordan? Then I looked around (at the boy decorations and dinosaur things) and realized we were at the wrong party. I said OMG Avery, I think we are at the wrong party. I asked her if she recognized any kids in her class and she said no…LOL. So we were at this party where no one said anything to us, we were running around and eating their food. I looked at the invitation and it was for 9/29…not 9/28. We were there a day early. I was mortified but I wasn’t about to leave our present there so I said “Avery, we forgot to put something in our present, we have to take it out to the car”. We put our shoes on, took the present and got out of there. The people probably thought we stole a gift.

The next day we made it to the correct party and the mom introduced herself when we walked in..lol. The first thing I told her was what happened the day before J

The past two months, we have been getting a notice from the water company, saying they think we have a leak. Our water bill should be about $30/month and it has been $200/month. We called the gas company to mark the line before we started digging and it took 3 or 4 different people coming out before they could find the line. Anyways, long story short, we ended up cutting not just the gas line but also the water line so for a few days we had neither gas or water. We had to take showers at our parents’ houses and buy jugs of water for the chickens, dogs and cats. (Apparently our animals are spoiled because they get bottled water.) Luckily Tim knows how to fix things so he probably saved us a bunch of money with him fixing the water line by himself. Thanks Tim!

On Monday Reagan had a follow up appointment with the eye doctor. We last saw him about a year /year and a half ago. We were supposed to be patching her eye to help with her lazy eye but she was having none of that. It does seem like her lazy eye has gotten worse. The doctor said we could either try patching it or have surgery. The surgery is called BLR Recession (Bilateral lateral rectus recession) and would involve operating on both eyes. It is a quick surgery that she would have on a Wednesday, go for a follow up the next day and then could be back at daycare that Friday. I am just worried because he said side effects could be over-correction and then she could be cross-eyed and have to wear glasses with super thick prisms to try to train her eyes. Right now he said her vision is good. She doesn’t need glasses and the lazy eye doesn’t affect her vision at all. He said if she has the surgery and then goes cross eyed, that will affect her vision. Tim and I are still discussing what we are going to do.

Then on Thursday, Avery had a follow up for her new hearing aid. She has been doing well with it at school but usually refuses to wear it at home. I ask her if it helps her hear and she says yes so I don’t know why she doesn’t want to wear it. I have offered to buy her whatever color/design headbands that she wants to try to make it fun for her. While we were at her appointment, they did a few hearing tests while she was wearing the band and the audiologist was pleased with the results.

I am scared to say it but hopefully we will have a relaxing weekend since these past few weeks have been so hectic. Reagan’s birthday is in a week and a half. Our baby is going to be 3 already! I want time to slow down.

Daddy has some cheap child labor