Poor Kick

It never ends for this kid! He has had a fever on and off - mostly on - since Monday night. Took him to the doctor today and he has tonsillitis - I feel so bad for him when the fever hits him. He sits on Joe's recliner and just zones out :( He came to me this evening and said "Mom, I need medicine". So now the fever is down and he is playing the Wii - my poor boy!

Halloween Pics

Being Silly:
The four muskateers before the raid of my neighborhood!


Homie G:



Nicky's cute Dino Tail!


Double Trouble:



Here are the four of them together before going out...

Update on Kick

I had a teacher conference for the twins last week - The teachers think Jenny is where she is supposed to be - they are worried about Kick b/c he has trouble with transitions (tantrums) and they also don't think his speech is where it is supposed to be. They started out with that and then told me how smart he is - that he can pick up any task after being shown just once - yeah - I know, maybe they should have started with that but whatever. I told them what was going on with the sleep test - and they said that could be the reason for his speech delay.

Well we had the follow up with the ear nose and throat doctor. Originally we had decided to wait
out the winter to see how he did with ear infections. He does have sleep apnea but it is not severe enough to use that for a reason to take tonsils out. Then I told him about the preschool conference and he said "Well let's take a hearing test today and we will go from there."

So...Kick took the hearing test - he has significant fluid in his ears and he is basically at the maximum level of hearing loss that you can have with the fluid - Wonderful - basically he is hearing what we say - but it sounds far away to him - which would explain why we need to repeat ourselves sometimes and why he may be dropping some sounds in his speech.

SO the new plan is - put him on allergy medicine and nose spray for the next 6 weeks - go back and re-check his hearing. If the fluid doesn't decrease and his hearing improves whe will need to get everything out (tonsils and adnoids) plus get tubes in his ears. It never ends.

Crazy Crazy week! We had the halloween parade today - of course Nick was the ONLY kid who refused to put on his costume! Bood fair yesterday, tomorrow is Joey's class party and Saturday is Halloween - honestly I think I am going to collapse on Sunday!

Pictures to follow!

Kicks Sleep Test

Kick had his sleep test - my poor boy - he was ok until they put the stickers on his face - then he started crying "Take me home Mama - no like the doctor!"

He woke up about 3 times - each time he pulled the tube out of his nose and cried for me to take him home. We were woken up about 5:30 and left about 6am. Home at 6:30am where Kick slept until almost 10.

Day before yesterday I was going to take him for his hair cut and he said "No Mommy - no stickers on my head!"

We should have his results by Next Wed. and then we will know if we have to get his tonsils out or not. Let's hope not!

Kick's sleep test

Scheduled Kick's sleep test for next week - we go to Hauppauge and sleep overnight - 8:00 - 6:00am.

Hopefully it will go smooth.

Sad but necessary post..

Since this is basically a diary documenting the kids lives, this is just a quick post.

After church yesterday (where Joey lit two candles - one for Pop and one for his Grandma) I took Joey to the cemetary to visit Pop's grave. At first he hid his eyes and didn't want to go - told me it would make him too sad. Well we got lost in Calverton looking for him - so he couldn't keep hidden for that long. He opened his eyes and realized that it wasn't that scary of a place. We found Pop's section and then wandered around in the rain for another 15 minutes looking for him.

Joey handled it really well. Talked a little and asked if he could bring a picture the next time we went.

Then we went to Toniann's house - another step that he was scared to take b/c it would be weird to be there without Pop. We walked in and he went into Pop's room by himself - only for about 30 seconds - came out and then played with his cousins. He told Toniann about how he went to the cemetary and that he was sad but he understood. So he is handling this about as well as I can hope.

Miss you Pop.

Halloween Costume Decisions

Damn Decisions...well the kids have decided on their costumes. As I suspected last year after I picked Raggedy Ann and Andy for the twins...they had their own ideas this year! SOOOO.....Nicky is going to be a Dinosaur. Joey is going to be the sea monster from Land of the Lost. and.... Jenny wants to be Tinkerbell...yes, I have a girly girl. I am sure my mother will be happy. LOL I ordered their costumes today....Halloween is on its way!