Croup

This post is actually regarding Friday night and Saturday.  The internet wasn't working Saturday night so I couldn't post.

Aubrey got up a few times last night.  Erin ended up giving her a bottle.  Carter also got up a little later (around midnight) and I gave him a bottle.  They didn't get bottles before they went to bed last night so I figured they needed it.

Brayden woke up about 3:30 and was screaming and making a very strange sound.  It almost sounded like he was choking.  When we went in to check on him he was making sort of a barking cough sound.  I picked him up and he didn't appear to be choking, but he obviously wasn't feeling well.  I brought him into our room and sat on the bed with him.  He spit up a bunch of phlegm.  We gave him some Tylenol and let him sleep in the bed with me.  Erin decided to get up at that point, but I layed back down with Brayden.  He didn't wake up again until 6:45.  At that point we got up and headed downstairs for breakfast.  It appears that he has Croup.

Almost ran out of formula so we went to Target and picked up some.  We also got some other things from Target.  It's hard to walk out of that place and not get more than what you planned on picking up.  We put the babies in the side-by-side double stroller again since they seemed to enjoy it so much the other day.  It is more work on us, but if it's good for the babies we can manage.  We take Calvin and Brayden out of the car first and put them in their stroller.  Then I get one of the babies and remove their car seat carrier from the base.  Then I set the carrier in the middle seat and prop it between the boys' car seat and the back of the front seat.  Then it's fairly easy to get the baby out of the carrier and into the stroller.  It also gets everything in a good position for getting them back in the car.

We planned on going to Waller Mill park to walk around.  They had a gate up at the park entrance with a sign saying that there is a $2 vehicle fee.  I thought that was pretty ridiculous so we turned around.  We ended up heading home since the kids were tired.  They all napped quite well once Carter and Aubrey finally got to sleep.  We have been putting them in their swings a lot at nap time because they won't seem to sleep in their cribs. 

We set up a humidifier in Calvin and Brayden's room since it is supposed to help with Croup.  We heard Calvin on the monitor saying "get up Bray Bray".  So I went in to see what was going on.  Calvin had pooped so I changed him and then put him back down.  Poor Brayden's voice got really hoarse.  On a positive note we had previously thought that Carter might be getting sick, but he seems fine (other than pooping five or six times today).

I set up the train set around the Christmas Tree.  I bought a Lionel O-gauge set a few years ago after Christmas when it was on clearance.  It's really easy to set up and it looks great.  Calvin and Brayden absolutely loved the train.   Calvin kept trying to play with the train while I was getting it set up.  He would move it around the track and always get the wheels off the track. I probably put it back together a bunch of times.

We went to the local park after everyone got up from their nap.  They all seemed to have a really good time.  There is a small house that Calvin and Brayden would run in and out of.  Calvin had a basketball and Brayden had a football that they brought.  They would throw their ball out of the house and then run out and pick it up.  We went down a big slide a number of times.  I would be in the middle with Calvin and Brayden on each side of me when we went down.  We loaded everyone back into the strollers and were going to go for a walk around the park on the trail, but Calvin started screaming that he kept wanting us to go "that way" which was always the opposite way we were heading...even when we turned around.  We decided to go to an area of the park where there as a big field and let Calvin and Brayden play with their football and basketball.  For a while we played catch.  I taught the boys to hold their arms together when I threw the ball and they each caught a ball once.  We played around for a while and then headed home.

Calvin was quite fussy today for some reason.  He kept wanting the bowl of candy.  Then he would take something and not eat it.  He wanted it again right before dinner.  I told him that he would have it after he ate.  At first he wasn't happy, but then he actually went over to his table and ate his dinner.  I was shocked that he listened.

I found that one thing I am really good at is understanding toddler talk.  There are many things that Calvin and Brayden say that Erin and others don't know, but I do.  Could this be my six sense? *