Post Vacation Blues

I am having a hard time adjusting back to our routine after spending spring break with my family in Utah. It was such a nice break from real life. The drive back was brutal. 12 hours in the car is already just hard and when you add in two sick kids, it is a recipe for insanity. I took Grace in to the doctor when we got home and she has some virus that is making her breathing irregular, fast, and wheezy. So we have to do breathing treatments with a nebulizer every 4 hours. I think it is helping, but have you ever tried to make a 10 month old sit still for 10 minutes with a mask on their face? It is impossible. We do the best we can.

Since we have been back, well I guess it started while we were on our crazy 12 hour trek back, Addie has been so naughty. It has been baffling, only because she is usually one of the most obedient and sweet children. So Jon and I keep looking at each other in disbelief as she has turned into a completely different child. On the way home she kept undoing her seat belt, opening her door (while we were on the freeway), undoing her sister's seat belt etc. And it hasn't gotten better since we came home. Throwing all the books off her shelves on the floor, drinking the nebulizer medicine, dumping dirt by the bucketful on my back porch. I hope it is just an adjustment period from playing non stop with cousins. I need to find something to entertain her or move closer to cousins.

We did get some great news yesterday at the eye doctor. He had previously told us that Addie was going to need surgery again (she had it first at 5 months old because she was born with strabismus, I talked about it in this post). We went into the appointment thinking we were there to schedule her eye surgery, but he said that her eyes were looking way straighter and better and that he wouldn't recommend it right now. She still will wear glasses and need to patch her strong eye daily, but no surgery for now. Hooray! It doesn't mean she won't need it in the future, he said she probably will, but it will be when she is older, which will make me less nervous. So last night we had a little celebration, and since then Addie has been acting a little better.

But Utah was wonderful. My youngest brother came home from his mission and we got to be there for his welcome home talk. And my other brother planned his son's baby blessing for the same day so we could all be there as well. It was a little surreal that my family is that "grown up". All my siblings were there and it has been a while since we have all been in the same place...so we got a picture. And one of the 2nd generation (all except most of Amy's kids that couldn't come and baby James who was blessed that day).