I’m sitting here getting the kids ready for school when I tell Jordan (who isn’t even dressed yet) 4 minutes. He looks at me and dripping with something close to sarcasm, he says:
You can stop it.
EXCUSE ME? I can stop what? I can stop giving you the time because you’re running late? AGAIN!
Well, it’s annoying.
Oh son, it’s my job to annoy you and you’ve got quite a few years left of that, deal, dude, deal.
That was a fresh start to my morning.
In other news, Christiano can’t seem to kick the c.diff all the way. He took the medicine and it stopped 2 days into that round of antibiotics. He was great the rest of the time. By the time he went to the dr for his 1 year check he had diarrhea again. (Yes, I know you live for my poop stories. At least it’s Christiano baby poop and not Jordan 11 year old poop right?) The dr told me to just watch him because the meds he took for the first round were really strong and he didn’t want to give him more antibiotics if we didn’t have to.
Christiano has been flipping back and forth between solid and not solid since then. The night before last it got worse again. 4 diapers after 7 PM and then yesterday morning 5 before 11. He’s never had diaper rash before. Even with as bad as it got when he had diarrhea for almost 2 weeks with that first round of the c.diff. Never. I thought the child had a butt like a tank. Nothing getting through that skin. Wednesday night we started flipping back and forth between the different diaper rash stuff I have: Desitin creamy, A&D cream, A&D ointment, and Butt Paste (I’m stocked up on that, because Alyce is the opposite. She sits for 30 seconds in a soiled diaper and her butt is fire engine red, thank God she’s mostly potty trained now.). Nothing was helping and he was toosh was getting worse.
Yesterday morning it was Pato’s turn to change the stinky (honestly, if Pato’s home, it’s his turn, period. He’s gone 60-65 hours a week at work and I change every single diaper while he’s gone, I think it’s only fair if he’s here, he changes. I’ll wake him up from a dead sleep to change a poopy diaper. I’m such a nice wife.). He’s changing Christiano and keeps saying, look look in Spanish to me. Yes honey. I’ve seen his butt. I know, it looks horrible. No, look look. Go away. I’m cranky in the morning. I went over and looked and Nano’s little um….well, his part below the wee wee (as we call it in our house) was screaming red and had bumps on it. Pato’s all is that normal?
I looked at him. I couldn’t help myself. I really couldn’t. I said, honey, do I have balls? Check your own to see if it’s normal. Some people just don’t appreciate my sarcasm.
Back to the diaper rash. I called Nano’s doctor and asked them to call in whatever cream it was we used when Jordan had diaper rash. (That’s exactly how I described it too. As if my doctor will say, ah, yes. Jordan. 11 years I ago I prescribed him this…right off the top of his head. Jordan had a butt like Alyce’s, I swear if I simply thought, Jordan hasn’t had diaper rash in a couple of weeks, he’d get a raging flare up of it.) I told the nurse about him having diarrhea again. The Dr called in Nystatin cream (I had an oh yeah! That’s what it was moment when I saw the tube.) By the time the doctor got back to me, Pato was at work.
I called him and said will you get that on break. He’s like you go get it, it’s a freaking 4 minutes drive for you, it’s 30 minutes for me. Cue Christiano. He started screaming. Pato brought me the cream on break.
Up until I got that on him I was having to carry him in my arms in the cradle hold ALL.DAY.LONG. (Child weighs 25 lbs.) He couldn’t sit any other way. While I was holding him, he’d drape one leg over my arm so that his legs were spread wide open and then wouldn’t move. Poor thing hurt down there.
It stinks. Every time I change him, I get out a q-tip, paint him all up white. It will look so much better when I change the next wet diaper. Like it’s starting to back off. But as soon as he has a stinky diaper, it’s raw and sore again. Doesn’t matter how fast I get the diaper off. For example, I changed him once last night. 5 minutes later he’s stinking again. Immediately changed it. Immediately it looked worse than it did when I changed him the first time.
Poor baby. Wednesday night he was tossing and turning and wouldn’t sleep more than 30 minutes at a time. Same with nap time yesterday. Last night he went to bed for the last time at 2 in the morning and he’s still asleep (would have been awesome if I didn’t have to get up at 7). He must be feeling a little better. *knock on the proverbial wood*
No plans for today. I love no plan day. Tomorrow is Pato’s day off and I think we are taking turns going out. I want to go thrifting (after I check our account) and I’d like to go to the casino with my mom for a bit. I’ll probably come home and nurse Christiano in between. Though, if I’m trying to wean, it might be a good idea just to stay gone all day. Pato said his friends invited him to the casino also, he wants to go when I get back. That’s how we go out. Never together because we don’t have anyone to watch all 4 kids except for each other. My mom can’t lift/hold Christiano for long so she can’t do it. My sister works full time plus goes to school plus is interning (is it interning if your just starting out?) at a nursing home. (I’ve mentioned that she is going to school to be an RN.) She needs whatever time she has off to spend with her own family. And my sister in law works when my brother is off work. Notice I don’t offer up the men in my family. I adore them and they’d be great with my kids if Alyce wouldn’t flip out. She’s shy with the women in our family, with the guys, she’ll cry if they talk to her. (Kat was the same way until about 3 1/2.) We have never found a regular babysitter.
One time when I was doing pizza demos for a friend of mine’s company, I had a 13 year old from upstairs watching Jordan and Kat. I felt good, her mom was right upstairs if she needed me. Came home the first time I had her watch them and Jordan was all the way down at the end of our building and behind the building where she couldn’t see him (she was inside while he was out, he was 7 at this point). Plus when I looked at my history on my computer, she’d been looking up porn sites. Last time I tried a sitter that wasn’t family. Pato and I haven’t been out together without kids since Katiana was 2 months, that’s almost 6 years. I keep holding on to the fact that Jordan will be old enough to babysit in a few years right? I started babysitting when I was his age. I watched 2 kids. They were 2 and 4. When I turned 12, their mom had a baby and I watched the newborn also every Thursday night from 6 weeks on until I was in high school and got to busy with extra curricular activities and my own part time job to babysit. I can’t imagine letting Jordan babysit now. I must have been mature for 11.
Ok, I’ve babbled on enough. Tomorrow I shall tackle number 1 on my bucket list. Well, not tackle it as in do it. Tackle it is in explain why it’s on there.
Have a great day!
ETA – I had a couple of great Artscow coupons hit my mailbox that I wanted to share.
A grand total of 5 canvas sizes (up to 12” x 18”) are available in this sale for $9.99* (and $6.99/each thereafter) with free shipping included.
Coupon Code – 2010CNVSPRINT
Expires 3/19/2010
I’ve actually gotten their canvases before and they are beautiful. We have one hanging on our living room wall that was a 4 X 6 Pato’s mom sent of their family. It looks like a professional print now.
That one you use at checkout.
and this one
eight 8” x 8” twenty-paged hardcover photo books
Coupon Code – 88820BOOKS
Expires 3/11/10
On that one, register at Artscow then go to credits and discounts. Enter the code and the box and I think it said you had until 4 X 4 to use them. Their books are great. It’s what I do with all of my digital scrapbook layouts. Just make use of their zoom in and out too to make sure the page is lined up exactly how you want it too so you don’t lose anything from your picture.
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