Saturday, July 26, 2008

bad phases and plans unravel yet again

Most of you know by now that over the past few months, every time that I have tried to plan something a little special for Allison or the family, it blows up. You might have to refer back to the Huntsville Air Show story for the last version.



So this weekend I had planned a little getaway for Allison and myself and partly for the kids too. I booked a weekend at the http://www.marriott.com/hotels/hotel-photos/mslmc-marriott-shoals-hotel-and-spa/ This hotel is about 5 minutes from our house and it is an awesome place to stay. The schedule was to check in early Friday evening with the kids, swim Friday afternoon and Friday night, Get up Saturday and swim and have lunch with the kids, send the kids away for the evening, romantic dinner with my beautiful wife, pick kids back up late Saturday night, swim Sunday, go home......... I should have known it wouldn't happen like that. I am so snake bitten when it comes to stuff like this lately. The story goes as follows...........



I come rushing in from work Friday afternoon pumped up and ready to go. Allison has not been able to do anything in the way of packing because of Dawson and bad phases ( will explain later.)

No problem, I get a few things together for myself, and I grab Dawson so Allison can get the "Real Packing" done. Madison is asleep in her room ( which I found highly unusual at the time) but whatever, she can sleep until we are ready to go and then she won't be in the way. While I am sitting holding Dawson I smell something... There is a definite smell a baby makes when it goes poo in it's diaper.. There is also a definite smell a baby makes when that Poo has escaped or bypassed the diaper. This was definitely the second smell. I pick him up off my lap and its all over my shorts. I immediately scream for backup. Allison takes him, bathes him, hands him back off to me, I put him on his changing table, get a diaper ready and before I can get it on he starts Peeing everywhere. I didn't even try and stop it either. " Just let it go buddy" is what I said... And he did.... So now he needs another bath. Bath two is over and we progress towards walking out the door to the hotel. I go to wake up Madison and I lean over to kiss her sweet little head and guess what?? She is burning up with fever...........



The same Madison who is NEVER sick, and i mean N-E-V-E-R sick, is obviously, well, sick. After some debate, and taking into effect the rooms are already reserved for me at a hotel that is always booked up, we decide to give some Motrin and then wait and see if her fever comes down any. After a while it does start to come down and the decision is made to trudge forward.



We arrive at the hotel ( several hours after original planned time) get checked in, quick fever check ( it was low grade) then hit the pool. The water was fine, the kids were having a ball, and I was starting to think I had escaped a sure disaster in the making.



Upon going to bed last night, the plan was to get up and hit the pool again with the kids pretty early after breakfast. Before I get into the next part of the story I have to tell those who are not from these parts that it has been very very dry around her the past several weeks. No rain whatsoever, Not even a cloud in the sky. It's been so dry around here that I caught a catfish the other day that had ticks on it. And hot, my goodness has it been hot. It's been so hot that one day last week I saw a dog chasing a cat, and they were both walking. So we get up this morning and guess what?? Yep, its raining, and its cool, and Madison still has a fever. We tried to go for a little bit anyway because Madison was just begging to go. She just got so cold that there was no way for her to swim.



After lunch she started going downhill pretty fast and I made the decision to cut our losses, and pack up and check out a day and a half early so we could at least get Madison to her own bed where she is most comfortable. About 10 minutes after we got home a bit ago, I peeked outside and the sun is shining so brightly and so pretty. AND ITS HOT TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!



I am done trying to plan anything until 2008 is over.



Please do say a prayer for Madison. She came in and went straight to bed and went to sleep. She has never done that before so obviously she is pretty sick. She has no other symptoms other than a high fever. I guess if she still has it tomorrow well take her in to get her checked out.



I mentioned earlier that Dawson was in a bad phase. Well, the past week or so, he has felt the need to be glued to Mommy. And that is no exaggeration either. I kinda feel bad for Allison because she can do NOTHING. If she sets him down he screams until she picks him back up. If she hands him off to me, hes ok for a min or two but then as soon as he sees, hears, or even smells that she in near he starts screaming until she gets him again. When he is away from home while we are at work he seems to be fine. But as soon as Allison walks in the door it starts over again. She can't even go to the bathroom, or take a shower unless he is asleep. Hopefully this will pass soon because it's leaving me with doing all of the work around here. ( just kidding)

Other than the " I have to be sewed to my mommy" thing, he continues to do great. We are coming up on 60 days with no seizures and his progression is full steam ahead right now.

We love you all

Jeff and Allison

1 comment:

Heather said...

Oh,come on,there's a lot left to 2008 and anyway,don't they say "3rd times the charm". Who ever "they" are! Worth another shot.I have all the confidence that next time will come off without a hitch but don't hold me to it! Praying for an uneventful remainder to your weekend.60 days ... wow,simply amazing!Boys' do love their mommma's,that is till a pretty girl comes along, so enjoy it why it lasts!