Catching up...

I know I havent been very good at keeping this up the past few weeks but here's a quick "catch-up" so you know what's going on in the ol' household.

Elizabeth is now 6weeks old and is smack dab in the middle of a growth spurt, which means all she wants to do is eat eat eat. She's doing really well though. She smiles all the time now and even has this little cough laugh she does when she gets excited.

Mommy, on the other hand, feels like she's losing her mind. I think I've been doing too much reading on the internet about SIDS. I'm going crazy with worry about it. What can you do but pray and hope that God keeps her protected from that awful.... whatever it is.

Speaking of worry... Sean has been getting sick off and on for the past few months. I've mentioned it before, about him waking up in the morning and just being sick to his stomach but he's not sick, no fever, no tiredness or general sickness other than vomiting. He had a problem similar to this when he was little, if he would fall asleep before getting dinner the next morning he would throw up. I took him to the doctor (back then) and she said it was allergies - post nasal drip - and gave me Zantac. But NOW, he's waking up in the morning, had plenty to eat the night before, and is getting sick. We thought it was a wierd stomach flu at first, then when it continued, we tried changing his foods - making sure he didnt have too much sugar at night. We also tried making sure his meals were more well rounded but still he's been getting up in the morning - not always, but enough to worry us - feeling nauseous and eventually getting sick. So finally, we decided, he needs to see a doctor, there's something wrong here. We got an appointment for last week, got a late start heading into the appointment and (you're not going to believe this) the clinic CANCELS out appointment because we were more than 5mins late!!! Furious!!!!!! Parking is HORRID on this base, there's never anywhere to park, so Dennis dropped Sean and I off so he could drive around and find a spot. I came out of the clinic to tell him they cancelled the appointment so he took Sean in and told me to drive and find a spot. Of course the poor low ranking guy behind the desk couldnt do anything about recovering Sean's appointment. The best they could do for us was have Dennis call the nurse advice line (a 24hour phone line tricare offers) and tell us to reschedule. Even the nurse on the other side of the line thought it was rediculous that they cancelled our appointment. She ran Dennis through some questions about Sean and pretty much couldnt come up with any reason why this might be happening but we should get him to see a doctor (yah, thanks).

She said, maybe that it's stress induced. I dont know, maybe, he is a stress monster. He'll come downstairs after he's sent to bed and come up with some crazy things he's worried about. Like the other night he came down worrying that he wasnt going to get all his homework done by Sunday (first time the teacher gave them homework over a weekend) and that was on Friday, he was worrying. Or another one, one night on the way home we saw a police car in town pulled off to the side with his blue lights on. Sean came downstairs worrying about burglars a few nights later and we asked him where this was coming from, he mentioned seeing the police car. His imagination just explodes everything. He also has been having night terrors again. He really started having those while in Maryland but now they have graduated that he'll be fully asleep get up out of bed and come downstairs looking for us screaming and crying. We just have to sit with him until he finally wakes up on his own. That scares me that he wanders around the house now, I worry about him going outside, so we put the chain lock on the door now. I just dont know what to do with our poor boy. Writing this all out makes me think, hmm maybe his sickness is stress induced. I just dont know how to make it better for him.