Never a dull moment....

It is always crazy busy around here with 4 kids. Sometimes I barely remember to brush my own hair. Every once in a while the kids like to add a little more mayhem to the mix. This week we have:

• Jace acting like he has been raised by baboons
• Jace having asthma attacks
• Jackson developing a staph infection.

That's right folks, no dull moments!

So let’s start with the baboon boy. For some reason my little sweet three your old son has turned into a wild animal. It is all we can do not to drop him off at the zoo and RUN! Some say it is because of Jackson (new baby in the house, no attention, blah blah bla) but I don’t think so. I think if it were Jackson then Jace would have been acting out more in the beginning, which he was but he got better and now worse again. I would like to think that it is just his age and this shall soon pass. If not you can you PLEASE pass me a drink.


see the resemblance???

While running around like an insane monkey three year old, Jace is having asthma attacks. I just mentioned to someone at the beginning of the week that he has not had a real attack in about a year. The next day he had an attack. Have you ever tried making an insane monkey three year old take a breathing treatment? It is NO FUN!

While all this with Jace was going on Jason started noticing a lump on Jackson’s chest. Basically it is on his breast. I did some google searches and thought it was due to witches milk. It is very common for boy and girl babies both to develop a tiny little breast bud while nursing. The increased amount of estrogen from mommy can sometimes cause this, no big deal. We left it alone. Then late Tuesday afternoon Jason tells me to take another look at it and thinks that it might be forming a small head on it. I freaked and called the doctor. Of course they thought it was witches milk as well. When I mentioned that it was beginning to look like a pimple they freaked as well. Wednesday morning we took him in to the Dr. W and low and behold, Jackson has a staph infection. Just the thought of having to take Jackson to the ER was giving me major anxiety. ER’s can be very dangerous for babies with EB. EB is so rare and people just don’t know what to do.

Luckily Dr. W was able to drain it in his office and put him on antibiotics. The draining was no fun at all but Jackson is a trooper. He maybe cried for 2-3 minutes. He is a tough guy!!! We are back home now and are running a 10 day course of antibiotics, keeping an eye on it and praying that it goes away!
We are hoping this is not the start of something with Jackson. Staph can be very serious (as I am sure you remember from Kara!). Kids with EB are much more prone to infection due to all the open sores on them. The strange thing about this spot is that there were no blisters or open sores in that area, ever.
They are guessing he may had had a small open pore there and the staph just made its way in there. Poor guy!

The really strange thing is- I just told someone earlier in the week that we have been able to keep Jackson infection free. A few days later, infection! No joke. I can’t make this stuff up people. I am just done making any comment whatsoever concerning my children’s health!

There is never a dull moment around here but I love my crazy life! If thing get a little crazy I like to call my juggling act cardio. It makes me feel better.