The scare of our lives!

This rates right up there with Lily's birth, Sydney eating the bloodpressure pill, and Lucas getting sick in the NICU.

Saturday morning, I woke up and as usual, some of our kids had joined us in our bed. Gerald was already awake and downstairs. I looked over and Lily had taken her shirt off in the night because she got hot. Lula is just a tiny thing and you can see every bone in her body. Well, she had her arm stretched up over her head and from way across our king-sized bed, I could see a lump just a few inches below her armpit. First, I felt it, and it was surely a lump, not a bug bite or scratch or anything else. Then I flew out of bed and ran downstairs. Gerald was sitting there in the chair and immediately said, "did you see that lump on Lily's side?" Ok, now I knew that this wasn't all a bad dream. I told him I was taking her straight in. So, I somehow managed to get a hold of the people at JCP to let them know I wouldn't be in to work, and in my panic, I vaguely recall getting dressed, putting my contacts in, and getting clothes on Lily. I got pulled over on my way out of housing for using my cell phone while driving and the poor gate guard, he must have been able to read my face because all I said was, "I'm on my way to Urgent Care." and he was like, "go go go, I'll tell them you need to go."

We got to Urgent Care and first we saw the nurse that takes vitals and all that good stuff. She felt it and said that the fact that it moves was a good thing. BTW, my 2lb 10oz baby is now a whopping 43lbs! I don't know where those 43lbs are, because she is skin and bones! Anyway, we then saw the PA and he said the same thing the nurse said, he didn't think it was anything to worry about because it moves (we'd be much more concerned if it didn't move because tumors usually attach themselves to something), but he wasn't sure that it was just a swollen lymph node either, so he wanted the Doc to see it as well. A very nice woman Dr came in and she felt Lily's neck and said she could feel her lymph nodes there as well and the lump and she said that while she can't be certain, she's pretty sure it's just an infected lymph node due to all of the illness we've had in the last few weeks. I'm not sure if I mentioned it in all of my posts, but Lily did get hit pretty hard with all of it. She did both Strep and the puke bug. She also said that seeing swollen lymph nodes in children in the armpit area wasn't very common. So, we are treating it with antibiotics, watching to see if it goes down, making sure more lumps don't appear, and praying that it's gone in a week or two. If not, we will be getting it evaluated further.

I am still worried about it and it consumes my thoughts pretty frequently, but I'm holding on to the fact that it moves and it seems to fit the description the Dr gave us. I will keep y'all updated!

P.S.
Now that we are all healthy so to speak, I will get pictures up this week for my birthday babies! I promise!

Birthday Posts

I have still not forgotten about Lily and Lucas' birthday posts!

Lily started puking last night...

Will it ever end???

So, today was SUPPOSED to be my 2nd day having my sweet, little, daycare baby and he has to stay home today because of our germs. *pout*

The cops just left...

A few hours ago, one of our girls had her first (and hopefully last) brush with the law.

Guilty!

Aubrey thought it would be great fun to put a phone call into 911! I grabbed the phone from her and hung it up, not realizing the call had gone through because she had dialed a bunch of numbers along with it. I'm amazed at how quickly they call back! We assured them we were all fine, but just to be sure we weren't being forced to say that, an officer still had to pay us a visit. She stepped inside, (poor lady, she'll probably be puking and pooping by tomorrow) and saw that we were ok and laughed that the baby had pranked them, made a comment about our "full house", apologized for disrupting us (we were doing the same to her!), and was on her way.

I'm glad we have such an understanding and prompt police force, but I hope I don't have to see them again for a loooooong time! We'd made it over 8 yrs without a fake call to 911, so I guess we were due.

3 down, 1 to go...

Yep. 3 of the 4 kids are sick. I've dealt with strep throat, diahrreah, puking(Gerald was the lucky one to deal with this), and fevers. I am praying, begging, and pleading for it to be done! I'm not sure I can handle much more of this! Aubrey became a limp noodle last night while she was still awake and just laid on Gerald. We knew something wasn't right. Within 30 minutes, she was blazing hot with a fever. I have been cloroxing away trying to get rid of all this nasty. It really needs to be gone by the party on Sunday and REALLY REALLY needs to be gone before my little daycare boy starts on Monday! So please, say your prayers, cross you fingers, send us get well vibes, or whatever so the illness will check out of the Sims Household!

Here's to a Happy and Healthy April!

I have not forgotten about Lucas' birthday post. It is coming. I promise!

It all happened in the blink of an eye.

My baby boy turned 4 today.

When I am not running between cleaning up blow out poopy diapers from Aubrey, washing clothes from near misses to the toilet with Lucas, and dosing up Lily with Motrin, I will come back and post a proper birthday post with pictures and all.

I just wanted to post Happy Birthday to my bestest little boy because it seems everyone else has forgotten... :( I wish he didn't have to spend most of his birthday sitting on the toilet. Say your prayers that he's all better by Sunday in time for his party!

Never EVER EVER again

I swear I am NEVER going to comment again on how healthy my family has been. A month or so ago, my mother in law and I were talking about how healthy we all had been for such a long time. I think 3 days went by and I came down with a HORRID head cold that took me nearly 2 weeks to recover from. Three days ago, Lily almost stayed home from school because she had been up the night before with an upset tummy. Nothing came of it, but I let her sleep in the next morning. When she woke up, she exclaimed, "BUT MOMMM! I am FINE! I am line leader today, you HAVE to drive me to school!" So I did. She seemed fine after that. Yesterday, we were out late running errands and had a later dinner at our favorite restaurant, The Silver Diner. As we are about 2 minutes from the restaurant, Sydney tells me that her stomach is really upset. She says she's not going to puke or anything, so I just told her, that she didn't have to eat and she laid down in the booth for a few minutes and then decided to order french toast. She ate all of that and then some. She has been fine ever since. This morning, I wake up and see that Lucas is in our bed. No big surprise there till I walk by his room and see two large wet spots on his bed. Great. I thought he had peed (which he hasn't done in forever) and got into our bed. We JUST washed our bedding the day before. Upon walking in the room, I realize from the smell, it's not pee, but puke that Bentley, our loving golden retriever had cleaned up for me. (GAG!) Much to my surprise, when I went to check Lucas, he hadn't gotten even a tiny bit on him. And aside from walking to our bed, he never made a sound. Poor guy, he has tried so hard today to be better, but he's just not. He has it coming out the other end now. As does Aubrey. I am nauseated, but otherwise ok. I sure hope that this is the end of it and not the begining!

Either way...

Lesson learned.

Under NO circumstances will I EVER state how healthy my family has been!

HOMICIDE!

Right in our own kitchen!

The Killer- Cheeto

Phineas Swimmer Sims was killed in the kitchen by way of un-drowning between the hours of 12:00a.m and 6:00a.m. on the morning of March 11th, 2009. Cheeto Sims will be tried by members of the jury at a later date. Funeral will occur at 4p.m. in the downstairs bathroom of the Sims Family Home. In lieu of flowers, you can send donations to Sims_Nicole@hotmail.com via paypal.

In other words, the cat dumped over the fish bowl and I'll be flushing him after the kids have all had their chance to say goodbye! LOL! The girls have already decided we aren't allowed to get anymore fish.