Night before Christween?!?

Why does Julie decide to wear Halloween clothes all the time? This was taken the night before Christmas. Silly girl.

Poor Julianna

Poor Julianna woke up with severe abdomen pains Monday morning.  She never had pains like these. The only time she would not be in pain is when she would cry herself to sleep.  I needed to get Audric ready for school and thank goodness I have a wonderful friend that took Audric to school because she was in so much pain I couldn't even push her in the stroller like I planned.

I took her to the ER.  Of course, Julie being Julie tells me she's fine when we get there.  I don't really believe her but not waiting to sit and wait to be seen if nothing is wrong I have her walk it out until she is in the same pain again.  Julianna is one stubburn child.  I can tell she is in pain but she tells the Doc she is fine.  It wasn't until he touches her stomach that you could really see the pain in her face.  They wanted a urine sample because of her history of UTIs.  She hadn't gone pee yet that morning but she just cannot go.  I think we tried fifteen different times for her to go in the cup.  They had an x-ray taken of her tummy.  Next was an IV and blood work.  I must say Julie is very brave; She did great through all this.  Still she could not pee.  The x-rays showed that she was completely full of shit.  Two large balls of pooh blocked everything all the way up through her large intestine.  We were afraid that all this pooh was blocking her urethra and causing her not to be able to pee.  Next came the enema.  It takes her another couple of trips to the bathroom and she gets two large boulder out of her bum; sadly to say not without a mess on the floor and my arm.  Still no pee. 

 Julie doesn't want a catheter but she can't get it out and she has at this point had two large amounts of fluid pumped into her.  I'm strong and can handle seeing my kids in pain if it means their health or safety.  This was painful for both Julie and me.  The nurses tried two times to get a catheter in Julie. And each time it took about five to ten minutes. Finally they got the smallest tube and got it in with much screaming from my daughter.  Only drops came out.  It was enough and they took it to the lab. Minutes later Julie tells me she needs to go to the toilet. I'm exhausted, and tired of going into the hospital bathroom that is outside the ER across a hallway next to the pharmacy.  I ask her to just go in her diaper.  She filled that thing up, I thought it was going to leak everywhere; She felt much better after that.  Plus, Tim had gotten off work early and come to see her and pick up Audric. Julie is such a daddy's girl.  She knows nothing bad happens to her when he's around.  I was glad to see him too because it was 2pm and I was dying to eat something.  Julie fell asleep with the comfort of Tim being around.  By now they had added a heart rate monitor and blood pressure cuff.  She had developed a fever while sleeping.  It was my job to give her meds orally.  That girl can try and talk her way out of meds like no other. It was nice being in the hospital and saying if she doesn't take it then she will get a shot. It still took an hour for her to drink it. 

The big concern was that she had appendicitis. She was still in pain and wouldn't let people touch her tummy.  She did have a UTI but that could be there because of an inflamed appendix.  They waited and waited to decide whether or not to give her antibiotic.  It was in the end given to her with some sent home with us. We have now had a week of cleaning out Julie's bowels. I think we are just about done. We fed her corn tonight and will wait and see if it comes out tomorrow. She is the most stubburn when she needs to take her meds. We try not to get mad but she  is so difficult.  I want to apologize to my mom and dad because I am told she gets her stubburnness from me. I'm sorry whenever you had to deal with me like this.

What a week!

Hurricane Julianna

Before

After

Don't mess with Julianna because she will tear you up!

Julie's Four!

Julie had a princess party that all our English neighbors came to. Audric some how convinced Julie to let him open some of her presents. Our neighbor made her pretty castle cake. It was a great time!

Tim, Julie and I went to Bury for the morning of her birthday. Traditional Tim takes the kids to breakfast on their birthday so we went out for tea and donuts. Julie had a great time. Audric was at school so he missed out on all the fun and we haven't made it back to Bury since. Julie says it's her favorite place to go and she always asks to go to "Berry" because she loves it "berry, berry much". I love how Tim's and Julianna's faces match in each picture.

Dress-up

Here are some pictures of the kids dressing up.

Julie at Preschool

Julianna didn't want her picture taken. She loves going to school three times a week. She has so much friends and our neighbor is in her class as well. All the little kids ride their scooters to school so she started doing it too.

I started volunteering at the thrift shop on Mildenhall so she goes to the CDC once a week as well. She doesn't like that as much.

Bowling

I'm not checking out my bum. I'm making sure my kids aren't going to get their heads hit with the ball. Twice the ran into someone else's lane.

Two Strikes for Audric

The kids also won three ticket for free bowling. Audric got two strikes with bumpers but no ramp. I suck at bowling. No matter how hard I try, in fact I'm worse when I try. We had fun.

Church Farm

Without really knowing what or that it was 45minutes away we went to Church farm with some friends. I wish it was closer because the kids had so much fun and the way it was set up all the mom's got to sit and drink tea while the kids play. There was a big barn full of hay and hay bales for them to jump and roll in. A huge sand box, a big wooden play ground inside, crafts, pig races, pony rides and animals to stroke (pet). I can't wait to go back and same with the kids.

Pool pics

Out patient surgery

Julianna had kidney reflux, that's where when ever she would go pee the urine would go back up into her kidneys. She would always get UTIs that would be very painful and she hated to take medicine. It's something that kids outgrow, in fact my sister had it. Julie was young and didn't understand and instead of peeing she would hold it in making it worst and making herself constipated. It wasn't until I saw a pediatric urologist here that I knew it could be fixed. It came at a good time too. She was starting to throw up her meds that she had to take everyday just not to get a UTI. The "deflux" surgery only took about half an hour to do but with all the prep we were there for about three hours. Julie didn't remember anything. She thought she fell asleep at her Dr appointment and woke up and got some popsicles. The scabs on her nose was from a fall she got falling on the side walk. Now she is doing great! She hasn't had a UTI since before the surgery. Now she is potty training herself. We are going to go full potty training mode after we get to England.

end of gym

Audric and Julie's Gym and Karate finished up. Julie made it to her last class but Audric was sick for his. We were going to keep them in it until we left but we were unsure when we would go. I hope they have something like this in England the kids loved it. Bye Albuquerque Little Gym!