End of Summer:(

And just like that…summer’s over The kids and I ran ourselves to the ground and are slowly getting back to a normal schedule. We’ve had a little bit of excitement in the last week but hopefully will be settling down now.
The kids and I (with the help of ‘Grandma from Ohio’) did a 10 day Wood family tour in July, hitting Michigan to see new baby cousin Adelyn and play with Aubrey, then trekking down to Ohio for a week with the grandparents and see cousins Asha and Eli. We went to play places, COSI, the zoo, the pool, and of course had a water-gun fight, courtesy of Papa Wood. Rob flew in for the last weekend and join for the drive home. The kids did great and had a blast.
At Brett’s 3 year check up, they suggested we visit an ENT (Ears, Nose, Throat) Specialist. He has always snored but it has gotten pretty bad and started showing some signs of sleep apnea. In the initial evaluation the doctor asked to have his hearing checked, which showed his hearing was low in both ears. Here I thought he was being oppositional, the poor kid couldn’t hear me. The doctor described it as ‘it’s like he’s on an airplane and his ears haven’t popped yet’. In addition to ‘retracted eardrums/water in the ears’, we discovered Brett had enlarged adenoids and tonsils. The doctor asked Brett to clinch his lips shut and breathe out of his nose…he couldn’t do it. So we scheduled surgery for tubes in his ears and to get his adenoids and tonsils out.
Last Friday we were going for a walk after dinner, Brett was acting a little strange like maybe he was starting to get sick. Bailey just had a fever a couple days before so we figured maybe it was making its rounds. We split up for Rob to take Bailey home with some groceries and Brett decided to come with me to get more covers for the thermometer to check his temperature. We were having a sweet walk home, he had just picked out a card and wrapping paper to wrap up Josie’s birthday present (Cars, of course). I just said 'Hey Brett it’s really nice having some quiet Brett and Mommy time.' He agreed and held my hand. Two seconds later, he dropped. I picked him up thinking he just tripped, but soon realized he was having a seizure. After a very dramatic and stressful run to the Jewel, yelling at people, and trip to the ER….we learned Brett had a febrile seizure resulting from a high fever that jumped quickly. They were concerned because he fell straight to the sidewalk and had a sizeable knot on his forehead, so lots of tests were ran to find out he is just fine. They said it very well could have been the same thing Bailey had but because it jumped up so quickly, Brett’s body wasn’t able to adjust fast enough. Now that we have experienced it and have learned more about it, apparently it’s pretty common and usually kids are fine after. I still would be perfectly fine if we never have to experience that again, it was not fun. We thought for sure they would postpone his scheduled surgery wanting to give him more time to recover, but since his fever was gone, they went forward as planned. So 3 trips to the hospital in 5 days for Brett and now we have 2 weeks of recovery. He’s doing better as the time goes by but is not a fan of taking medicine so that tends to be a fight. The bigger struggle will be in the next week keeping him calm. He and his father were both told they were restricted from any type of wrestling or rough housing for 2 whole weeks. It’s going to be tough! It was nerve-racking to have all this done in such a short amount of time, but I will say he is already sleeping/breathing better and much more soundly.