this week has been well....blah

i was just going to post my normal...wordless Wednesday...but decided i have so much on my mind i figured i would just blog. so much has happened in the last week. last Thursday we took our middle child to audiologist to check her hearing. she has very sensitive hearing, to the point of screaming when we vacuum, and has pretty bad speech delay. we know she can hear since she will respond to us but she doesn't have many words she can say clearly. apparently at the age of 2 1/2 a child should have 100 words and can make 2-3 word sentences. Alyson is not at the stage and not even close. When Maddie was at this age, she could have full conversations with us and we were told she was very advance. So this is all new to us. The audiologist told us she 'passed' the hearing section of the test. But she 'failed' the flow test. Meaning she has so much fluid in her ears that her left ear she probably can't hear out of it and her right is probably sounds plugged when she hears noises. poor kid! so our next step is this Friday, going to an ears, nose and throat specialist. the audiologist said she will most likely be getting tubes in her ears to get rid of the fluid and that should help her speech. i have been taking Alyson to the doctor for almost 2 years now for her ears, so i am so thankful that we are finally getting somewhere now!! so if you feel led, please pray for answers and relief for her.

after Alyson's audiologist appointment we had Christian's 1 year old check up and shots and the girls flu shots. christian is growing well...he is 21 lbs 15 ounces (our biggest child at 1 year old) but is only at 40 percentile. he is 30 inches long and 55 percentile. he is right on track. after they did the measurements for christian it was shot time. this is when i got crazy. Maddie decided to go nuts, crazy, psychotic, any word you would like to call it....it was a true movie clip...honestly there was hissing, screaming, kicking, crying, yelling, hitting and even screaming at the poor nurse that she was 'a very bad girl' in a growl voice. it took my husband and i to hold her down for her flu shot and the nurse to pull her pants down and give her the shot. in the midst of this Maddie kicked me 3 times in the chest. (very painful!!!) after this all, i think we would have done things differently with her but we all have to live and learn. so next year for shots we will be trying something different with our 'crazy scared of needles child'. on the other hand Allie just laid there never cried, never whimpered, never moved, and honestly i didn't even know if she got a shot. lol these girls are complete opposites!!! christian of course cried he got 5 shots :( but as soon as i held him he was fine :)

that night, i had a Lia Sophia party. it was fun getting together with girlfriends, chit chatting and having snacks. after the party was over, that's when the pain hit. i was so glad to have a chiro appointment the following day. So after i picked Maddie up Friday morning from 4k we went the appointment. the chiro, took xrays and said i had possible hairline fractures but it was too fresh to determine for sure. so over the weekend i relaxed a lot and iced my back and chest a lot. I am finally feeling better thankfully.

oh and on Monday i found out that i have severe asthma. i kinda knew something was up and have been using my inhaler (that was prescribed earlier in the year for bronchitis) a lot this summer. well now i am on an inhaler daily to help prevent asthma attacks. so i am hoping this helps my breathing and my lungs. so far i feel a huge improvement already...i just wish i would have went sooner to the doctor for this.

so i am just hoping the rest of the week goes smoothly and more upbeat...i surely don't need anymore craziness in this household. lol

have a great week everyone!