SO....it's been a strange past few weeks. I have mostly been trying to lay low, yet keep my kids semi happy, as they have both been sick. Janna had a double ear infection, then reacted to the antibiotics she was on. After switching medications, her new one was giving her some tummy troubles, and she has been awake 3-8 times per night for who knows how long at a time. The same night Janna reacted to her medication, Jesse had to be rushed into the hospital when he woke up barely breathing between intense coughing and unable to talk. Our first encounter with the croup. SO... keeping a 2 year old who loves the outside and being with new people and friends "resting" for a few days has also been a challenge. Throw in that Dave has been away for 3 days on a teaching conference...let's just say Thank God for Grandparents. I think it was Predetermined devine intervention on God's part, when several months ago, my mom-in-law grabbed a super good seat sale for October 20. She arrived the day the chaos began, and leaves this Monday. It's been very fantastic (and might I add necessary to my sanity) to have an extra set of hands and company around through all of this.
Anyways, the past 3 nights in a row, after the kids have gone to bed, I have had some time on my hands, thanks to the dishes and laundry being taken over by Nana. I have spent hours and hours working on Jesse's Halloween costume. I found the cutest pattern for a FROG PRINCE. Floppy feet, and bodysuit with a cute collar-n-bells, and the headpiece with boggly eyes and a golden crown. I was quite pleased to present this to Jesse this morning. He's been asking about his costume and trick or treating over the past few weeks ever since we got our pumpkin.
SO, he was very excited to see it this morning, and we tried it all on, and he loved it. He looked at himself in the mirror all smiles and exuberance. He kept coming back to try on the hat all morning, and finally I tossed the costume on the coffee table when he seemed finish. We curled up to watch some morning cartoons, and not even 10 minute later he went back to his costume to take a look. He picked up the headpiece and sort of held it out to get a good look at it. At the EXACT same moment, Cooper who was curled up behind him took this hair-ball wheezing fit. Jesse stared at the frog head, back to me, then back at the head, eyes wide. Then, he broke into this frenzy of shrieking as he whipped it as far across the room as possible. Screamed all the way to mommy, jumped on my lap, and clung to me like superglue. HE thought the noise was coming from the frog head. I tried through some laughter to explain that Cooper was the one making the scary noises. He eventually calmed down, and got back into his cartoons. It was only 10 minutes later when he hopped off the couch and noticed the froggy head on the floor, that he took another nightmarish screaming and shaking fit.
All morning long everyone has taken turns trying to get him from freaking out. Nana has been dancing around with it on her head, We've shown him Kermit the Frog Cartoons, Aunt Katie has been beating the frog head up, I have tried kissing and hugging the thing. Sigh.... At Janna's nap time, Jesse found a thermometer in her room with a bobbly frog head on it. He usually loves this thing, but picked it up, SCREAMED, And flung it across the room like it was on fire. All this sewing work... and the child has developed a frog phobia because of my dog's dumb hairball. Really? I have a few days to work this out before Halloween. SO with that, thanks for reading. I'm out.
