Allergies

Yesterday Dreyton started developing large hives all around his body, I took him into the doctors and they say its most likely an allergic reaction to something he ate. Hopefully we can figure out what it was and not let it happen again.




2nd allergy attack 2 days later
I took him once again to the doctors and they said they'd try to get him referred to an allergy doctor to see what he is allergic too.

My poor boy

Dreyton and I have been sick last night and today with a fun head cold. My poor boy has just laid on me all morning, or if I put him on the floor to play he will just lay down on something and fall asleep in our living room. Here he is falling asleep in our living room clutching onto the baby thermometer.

Not a good start...

This week is off to a horrible start with going through a whole package of diapers for both kids in one day, and Zoë threw up in the car on our way to costco an incredible amount. I am hoping everything is close to "normal" for Halloween because I am VERY excited to get my kids in there costumes and go trick or treating. It is nice once you have kids so you can get back into Halloween
Zoë had this all set up for me to come eat with her in the play room, eventually her baby took over.

Dreyton loves to sit like a big boy on things, his ride-on car, the Dora quad, and the booster seat etc. He is so proud of himself getting up and down all on his own.

Update on Dreyton

Dreyton was released from the hospital Thursday afternoon, so nice to be home! The stollery is such a nice hospital, they have all the supplies for baby, and the nurses are really nice and helpful. Dreyton got a really nice quilt at the hospital, a donation from a quilting club. Zoë is still in Calgary till Sunday so we can have a few days with just Dreyton and to get some rest from a long week. Right now Lee and I are VERY cautious with every move Dreyton makes, and I am sure it will be hard to loosen up.
Right now we're just getting Dreyton healed as quick as possible and having to prove to child services that we are fit parents. I know it has to be done but you feel like criminals having to go through the whole process. It will be nice for Lee to go back to school and Zoë to be back with us to get back to regular life from a busy fun summer and a hectic week.

My baby boy's trauma

So most of you already know that Dreyton has been admitted into the hospital yesterday evening. Lee first noticed something was wrong with him when he was giving Zoë and Dreyton a bath at 7pm on Monday night. He noticed a huge lump on the right side of Dreytons head and when you touched it, it felt all soft like liquid instead of hard like a skull should be. So Lee rushes to me and tells me if I had noticed it before and of course I hadn't so I rushed to the phone and called 911. The paramedics got here a few minutes later and they said it doesn't look like anything serious and we should maybe go see our family doctor the following day. I didn't believe a word they said as there was a massive softball lump on my boys head and I shouldn't be worried? So instead of having them drive Dreyton to the hospital for a few hundred dollars we left to the Children's hospital in our vehicle as soon as the paramedics left.
We get to the ER and get ready to sit for hours as it was a packed room, but instead we get rushed ahead of people who have been waiting over 10 hours and get a room right away. We had a couple of nurses, and resident doctors look at him and none of them could figure out what it was so they went and got some advice from a more experienced doctor and he ordered some tests to be done. I then had Lee go home with Zoë so she could go to bed as it was almost 10pm while Dreyton and I waited for tests. The first test was going to be a catscan to get a closer look inside, they said he would have to be put asleep and we would have to wait a couple of hours after taking his bottle before we could do it. Dreyton fell asleep not too long after so one of the nurses said we should try do the catscan while he was asleep. He was perfectly still the whole time and they were able to do the scan without him getting put asleep.
When the results came in the doctor told me that he had a fracture in his skull in two place and in the middle of those two places his skull had been pushed in a bit. I was in absolute shock when he told me this as Lee and I could not figure out how he had gotten a fractured skull. There had been no big trauma at all, just small ones that are normal for a 8 mos. old active baby. He was happy all day and nothing seemed to be indifferent. The brain surgeon told us that he doesn't think the brain was damaged at all but we would have to wait a few weeks to make sure once the swelling had gone down. Dreyton has been amazing through all of this, he's still extremely happy and smiley. He will be in the hospital for at least another day until they can get x-rays done and other tests and consultations. Lee met his dad and sister in Red Deer to bring Zoë to Calgary for a couple of days so we are able to take care of just Dreyton and get some sleep in the next couple of days.

If you look on the right side of Dreyton's head you can see that it is all puffy and sticks out quite a bit

Dreyton playing with all the bandages covering his IV

Each time Dreyton fell asleep last night it seemed like a doctor came in a few minutes later to wake him up again, he was exhausted after we finally had gotten a room for him out of the ER.

My sick baby girl

Zoë has had hand,feet,mouth syndrome the last couple days, not fun! She has sores all in our mouth so she doesn't want to eat anything, and a itchy rash all over her skin and a high fever. Needless to say she has not been a happy girl lately. Hopefully it goes away quick and she can be her happy, hyperactive self.

My sick baby girl

Zoë has been pretty sick this weekend with a high fever and cold so I have kept her home for a few days.

Zoë not feeling the greatest


Zoë and mommy watching a little bit of The Lion King before bed. She loves to watch all the animals and make the sound effects for each one as they pass by the screen, or ask "what's that" if she doesn't know what it is. Her vocabulary is getting so strong now.

It's gone for good

I finally got my tumour removed off my thumb, so I have been having to have this on my thumb. I was able to take it off yesterday, glad to have that behind me. I seem to have bad luck with things pertaining to pregnancy as I also had a gallstone attack less then a year ago because of the changing hormones of pregnancy. I had some gross pictures of my thumb but didn't think anyone would want to see those.