Stunt Show

I’ve been trying to gather all my thoughts and memories of our family vacation to Disneyworld and also go through the 800+ (seriously) pictures to see what to blog. I promise a Disney blog is coming sooner or later! In the midst of our return to work and school, Bella came down with strep throat, a virus and a rash all at once. She is usually a pretty healthy girl. I see a lot of runny noses in her daycare class and yet she usually manages to avoid most of the bugs. [By contrast, at this age Jacob seemed to catch every little thing and I swear he coughed every single night the entire year he was two. At three he miraculously turned into a child who is basically never sick. Actually I think it was that his adenoids, nasal and ear structures grew and he is able to use a prescription nasal spray to keep allergies at bay.] I can’t think that Bella’s been sick since she had the flu back in February. When she does get sick, she gets really sick. When I arrived at daycare to pick her up she was lying motionless across the teacher’s lap, with her eyes rolled back in her head, 103 fever and white as a sheet except for deep scarlet shadows under each eye. Scared me. I couldn't understand how she became so sick just since I dropped her off that morning. I was infuriated that the pediatrician would not see her that day (in Humble there is basically a monopoly on pediatric care but that’s a topic for another day) but she did get an appointment for the next day. She was diagnosed with strep throat and a virus and we still have no answer on the tiny rash – it may just be a reaction to so much sunscreen at Disney world. This began roughly four days and nights of nearly constant bleating crying and needing to be held. At 1 am, 2 am, 4 am, 5 am etc. She ate about two bites of food and then would scream and push it away because it hurt her throat. She was so hoarse by the second day that she was squeaking when she tried to talk. Saddest. Thing. Ever. By Sunday the antibiotics kicked in and she turned the corner. She is still home with her Daddy today for one more day of rest and recuperation but by late yesterday she was eating, smiling an and playing and thankfully she slept through the night. Jacob on the other hand had a fabulous weekend. We took him to two birthday parties and to a going-away party. Normally we wouldn’t try to do all of that in one weekend, not that we don’t want to do it all, but it is necessary to say no sometimes in order to keep our family together, rested, and not rushing from one place to another all weekend. All the wonderful gatherings kept a very busy, active, non-sick Jacob occupied and away from Bella. He got to jump in a moon bounce on Saturday, rock out with the guitar hero game on Saturday night, and run and scream and play at a McDonald’s birthday party on Sunday afternoon. The rest of his free time was spent playing cars. He likes to act out the stunt show he saw at Hollywood Studios. Since we’ve been back he has asked to watch that part of the Disney video over and over and he acts out the stunt show very elaborately with all his cars and even asked very nicely if we would get him some motorcycles so he could pretend that part of it. You would think that it was his favorite thing at Disney but in reality –he pretty much hated it the actual show. He does not like loud unpredictable noises (fireworks, gun shots etc.) and this show had all of that, plus things bursting into flames, glass shattering etc. The adults thought it was cool but poor Jacob sort of suffered through it, even though we went because he had wanted to see it. Of all the things I thought he might re-enact once we were home, I never thought it would be that show! (There – see you got a little bit of a Disney post after all) Here is a photo of the stunt show that I took, yes that is a real car and real flames. I don’t know how Will is doing. Honestly, since one of us has been off somewhere with Jacob and the other at home or up all night with Anabel, I feel like I haven’t really seen Will lately. Hi babe! (waves) I Love ya’!