I'm Late, I'm Late, For a Very Important Date!

Can I just admit something. I am not a very punctual person. This is a definite flaw that I have and that I constantly struggle with. The struggle to make it out the door on time has magnified greatly since baby girl has come along. The problem is even greater this week because we are attempting to potty train Calum as well. 

Basically my life is entirely consumed with feeding, clothing children (laundry), and taking Calum to the bathroom. CONSUMED! As a result, my house is in shambles and it takes me literally hours to get out the door. HOURS! I have been late to seriously everything I have had scheduled this week; a baby shower, 

(My friends are classy, Breakfast at Tiffany's, LBD required)

...two doctors appointments, church, 

a hike, (Nursing while hiking. Haha. I didn't want to make them wait any longer for me.)

 ...girls night,

a birthday party, (astronaut theme, that's a space helmet on his head, I couldn't get a picture of the front of it but it was pretty cute. Calum played on the playground with it on for like 10 minutes. Haha)

not to mention my visiting teaching appointment that I completely missed. I've been late to it all! It's madness. MADNESS! So I publicly apologize to all those who have waited for me this past week. I am trying my best and hope that I will be able to figure out life and whatnot and become the prompt person that I know must be somewhere inside of me. 

Calum is the biggest helper when I am trying to get out the door. He takes his shoes off

Doesn't listen. (He's driving his car on Ailee's head)

And wont get in his car seat. I actually made it out the door with like a half hour to spare the other day and thought I would take Calum to the park and let him run around before we went to my doctors appointment. The thirty minutes quickly dwindled to zero because he seriously would not get in his car seat and had a hay day just checking out the gadgets in the front seat. While he was playing FOUR BEES flew into the car! Or it might have been the same one coming in over and over. Either way we had to shoo them out. Scary. Then when I finally got Calum buckled and went to turn on the car, he had locked the steering wheel somehow and I couldn't turn my car on for like five minutes. Haha. Once the car did turn on my wipers, blinker and A/C were all going a million miles an hour. Haha. Late for the Doctors. Check.

I thought I would keep Calum entertained with finger paints while I got ready for church this morning. I did not think this plan through. The time I thought I was saving was really time lost because I ended up having to re-bathe Calum and clean up the whole kitchen. Haha. Calum was a little worried he was so messy. I think his face is cute :) Late for Church. Check!

With all this rushing around trying to get here and there, we have really enjoyed when we get to kick back and watch the Aggies,

...Feed the birds,

...Catch some crawdads,

...Play with our train,

...work on our kick-flips,

and snuggle.

(Ailee's telling Calum something funny)

Ailee is feeling awesome and is chubbin up quite nicely. On Monday she weighed 11 lbs 6 oz. My friend said her baby, who was born two weeks before Ailee, weighs a full two pounds less than her. Haha.

 Kevin said she looked like a snowman on his lap! :) 

Cutest snowman I ever saw! I love my chubby babies :)

 Wish I could just snuggle them all day long. But life's not that way. Always rushing to get somewhere. Speaking of, I better get going. There's a devotional in an hour, think I can make it on time? Better late than never? Right?

Three Nights in Swedish

Yes, I said that right. Not Sweden, Swedish. Swedish Hospital. I wish we would've gone to Sweden for three nights but unfortunately that was not the case. Ailee got a fever last Monday after sleeping the entire day. Her fever was 102 at home. So my pediatricians office told us to go to the ER. When we got to the hospital her temperature was 100.8. Since she was acting so lethargic they were pretty worried and thought that it might be a bacterial disease like meningitis. The ER was the worst part of the whole thing. They decided to test her blood, urine and spinal fluid. They had a hard time placing the IV and poked her like 12 times. And they gave her a spinal but couldn't get what they needed. So basically they just tortured her for no reason.

Once they got the IV in and sent her blood and stuff to the lab they admitted us and got Ailee started on some antibiotics in case it was bacterial. They said we would have to stay there at least 48 hours cause it would take that long for the tests to come back, and they wanted to give her the antibiotics for that long.

I stayed in the hospital with her pretty much the whole time since I'm nursing her. Kevin would come and give me a break from time to time. And some of our awesome friends watched Calum from time to time, so Kevin could come hang out with us. Calum didn't mind partying with them :)

 I like to think he missed us though. When he came to the hospital once he kept asking where Ailee was. I told him she was in the PICU. He was really sad he couldn't see her, so we snuck him in to peek at her.

Ailee seemed to be doing a lot better the morning after we went into the ER, but we still had to wait around, and that was really hard. It was no fun worrying about our sweet girl and wondering what was wrong with her. It was also really hard to see her all hooked up to monitors and IV's and not being able to take her more than five feet from her crib.

On the second night she pulled her IV out of her head so they had to place it again. Luckily they got it in there pretty quick.

The plus side of this was I got to spend a lot of snuggle time with this cute girl.

They didn't ever find out what was wrong, and guessed that it was most likely just a virus, like a flu or cold bug and that her body was just fighting it off on her own.

She started being more herself and her white blood count went back up, so after the 48 hours they let us go home. All she had to show for her three days in the hospital was a Dora BandAid :)

We got home and life went back to normal. Other than me now being super paranoid about germs. Kevin and Calum went and got us free Krispy Kreme's by dressing up like pirates :)

Kevin ripped off his toe nail. Calum thought it was jelly on his toe.

Calum was empathetic.

Calum pounded his doughnut, and made a good mess in the process.

And Ailee had a sweet blow out.

Yep life in the Foulger house pretty much went back to normal. Haha. Sad we had to spend three whole nights in Swedish Hospital. Our bill will probably be as much as if we took a trip to Sweden :) But we are glad we got everything checked out and that she is seeming back to normal. It was so sad that she had to go through all of this for a little fever. We just love her tons and hate seeing her sick or hurt. So glad we are all back under the same roof. Hopefully it will be a while before we have to make another trip to the hospital.