Sick Week

Well this week was an official sick week.  Ian went in to work a couple hours late on Tues.  to help me because I wasn't feeling well.  We had both noticed Isla had some goop in her eye and as soon as he left it stared getting worse and her eye was red.  So off to the doctor we went to find out she had pink eye.  In addition to that, the nurse she saw (not her ususal doc)  seemed to think we needed to test her for symptoms that she may have due to her UTI she had when she was 3 weeks old. She said her kidney could be affected but wouldn't show any noticable symptoms and this could cause high blood pressure.   She said she needed to have a catheter for this test and we may want to consider putting her under since it can be tramatic.  We're going to get a 2nd opinion since the original doc that diagnosed the UTI said it would just go away with time.  Plus she's seen another doc since then who never mentioned anything about continueing problems.  Don't you just wish when it came to you kids that the doctor could Always be right and never be wrong so you wouldn't have to worry about whether or not you should trust their advice?
Well since Isla was contagious, we spent 24 hours inside of our tiny apartment in a quarentine.  We couldn't even go in the backyard because we share a courtyard with a hundred other people and most of them have kids.  Thank goodness for pinterest!  We used a couple ideas I found on there.  Here is a picture of Isla doing some "spy training."  She loved it.  I didn't think about the fact that she'd want me to do it too.  I soon learned how weak my abs are and how out of shape I am as hovered under the "lasers" over and over. 

 

We also sent Grandpa King a "hug" from Isla by tracing her arms spread open and cutting them out and sending that to him.  Also a pinterest idea.  On the way to the mail box we spotted a worm, so we decided to get a jar and some dirt and bring him back in with us.  Isla named him "Sherman the Wormin", which I believe is a Backyardigan character.  

Grandpa Williams stopped by because he had a hearing in Spokane and said he didn't care about her being contagious, he just wanted to say Hi for a minute.  That small visit from the outside world was huge for both of us and bolstered our spirits!

After our quarentine was over we were a couple of stir crazy girls!  Poor Ian had gotten a cold starting Weds.  and the whole house was feeling droopy.  I took Ian a care package to work with all the works you could need for a cold.  Then after my floral class I called Mariah and asked if she wanted to walk the Centennial trail downtown with the girls.  She said yes.  On the way up to the South Hill to get her, Isla and I stopped at the Public Market to get some food for lunch.  We chose some very huge grapes with a sign next to them appropriately titled, "Big Ass Grapes."  They were quite good.  Then we chose two different scones.  One was Pina colada flavored and it was amazing.  The other was lemon blueberry and it was equally amazing.  Once we all got downtown, we decided to go check out the river instead of the trail because the river is so high right now.  It was an awesome sight to see!  It gives you so much adrenaline to look at because it is going so fast and the water splashes up on the walkway.  Yikes.  Sometimes I confuse the feeling of adrenaline with the feeling of terror so I had to do a little translating for myself while we looked at that river, especially with having the little ones with us...Yikes.  But it was amazing.  Isla said afterwards, "That was a great adventure!"  Awesome.  I'm glad she mixes adrenaline with excitement :)