The Mechams: January 2010

Well life has been interesting here for the last month! It has been full of tylenol, tissues, vomiting, ear aches, coup...the list goes on. Ever since the 2nd of January someone has been sick in our home. Jaden was first with an earache and fever. When he finally started to feel better, a week later, Hailey caught his bug and it turned into coup. She sounded like she had been a smoker for the last 50 years! It was so sad because she had such a hard time breathing that you could see the panic on her face when she tried to get enough air. Her bug lasted about another week, then Brandon got it, and Jaden got it AGAIN! Jaden was worse this time around. He had an earache, runny nose, horrible cough, vomiting, and his top 4 teeth are coming in! I feel so bad for the little guy. He would just curl up in your arms and wimper. He is starting to feel better, we are having a hard time catching up with the runny nose though, but he is feeling more himself. Last night though Hailey came into our room about 4:30, and she was burning up. Her temperature was 102.4 and she was complaining that her ear hurt. UGH! My poor children :( I feel so helpless when they are sick, I wish I could just take it from them. Luckily I have not caught it, which if you know me this is shocking. I am always the first to catch anything going around. It is pretty scary for me when my kids are sick, because of the prescriptions they are given. I am allergic to basically every antibiodic (thats what the Dr's say anyway), so I hate to be the one to give them their medicine. Jaden was prescribed amoxicillin, and he does not like taking it. When I give it to him, he throws a fit and just spits it everywhere. I have to wear gloves, and pinch my lips tight so none of it gets on me, or accidentally in my mouth. I carry an Epipen with me everywhere, I just hope to never have to use it. It is all scary, and nice when we don't have to go to the Dr at all. We have been blessed so much to have Brandon, a worthy preisthood holder, in our home. H1N1 was going around in our area, and it seemed like everyone was getting it. So we had Brandon give us all a blessing, and we said our prayers, and thankfully none of us got it.
Other then feeling sick, life has been good. We enjoyed the holidays so much, and can't believe they have come and been long gone. Brandon had the whole week off of work between Christmas and New Years, so we decided to take a trip down to Salt Lake City. We went with my brother Jared, and his wife Serena. We had a BLAST! We got an amazing deal on a hotel right by Gateway mall, and just played for three days! Hailey had the chance to spend the night at my sisters house in Provo. She had so much fun at Aunt Jenns and Uncle Jeffs. We don't get to see them as often as we like, so it was a real treat for her. Having one kid for a day was really strange for us. It was so much easier trying to keep one child happy instead of two. The guys had fun keeping eachother entertained while Serena and I went shopping. Jaden figured out how to "properly" crawl in Utah as well. He is such a good roller and gets around so quick that way, he didn't want to try crawling. If he wanted to go somewhere he knew how to get there by rolling. People in our ward would call him the "steam roller". But now that he is crawling he is getting around faster, and into more trouble. I forgot about the path of destruction a crawler leaves in their path. He is so funny. I remember Hailey was terrified of the vacuum when she was a baby, I would have to hold her most of the time while I did it or she would scream at the top of her lungs. Jaden on the other hand will chase me while I am vacuuming and when he catches me he smacks it! It is so funny watching him try to figure this noise maker out. I love watching their personalities develop and how different one child is from another. I LOVE being a mom!

Christmas was so much fun this year!! Hailey is getting old enough to catch onto the magic of the season. Jaden was so confused on Christmas and I can't blame him. For a whole month we have been telling him not to touch the presants, and now we are telling him to go to town. It didn't take him long to get the hang of it though...