Catching up, Part 1: September

Wow, so we've been a little busy since school started...Let's catch up! (I just may be the worst blogger ever!)

Here are some of the highlights from September:

Back to school shoe shopping...

Audrey's navy Tom's are in that bag...Love her. Lover her Toms :)

My little shopper :)

Ethan picked these out himself :)



The kids LOVE getting balloons from the kids shoe department.

Playing outside while we wait for Daddy to come home from work...

Tricycle Ride! (To whoever invented the long handle on Audrey's tricycle, you are my hero).

Ethan on his bike (given to us by a generous neighbor!)

Wildlife

Trip to the ER (because we do that...regularly)...

This time it was an eye issue. Ethan started rubbing his eye on a Friday. By late afternoon, I was concerned, so we visit our pediatrician. They put some gooey stuff on his eye and examined it under a black light, but didn't see anything, so they said maybe it was an allergy issue (I had my doubts) and we came home. Later that night, Ethan woke up crying that his eye hurt, so on Saturday morning it was back to the pediatrician. They examined his eye under the black light again, still didn't see anything, but could tell by Ethan's level of discomfort that something was going on. Since it was Saturday, they sent us to the ER to see a pediatric ophthalmologist.



Waiting for the doctor...

Right eye problems.

Waiting some more...

 We LOVE the new pediatric ER at AAMC...glad it's there, wish we'd stop having reasons to visit ;) Anyway. Ethan had to do the gooey stuff/black light thing again. He was not a fan (especially since it was the 3rd time in 2 days), but he did a great job cooperating with the nurses. They didn't see anything either and were going to send us home with the "allergy" diagnosis...I wasn't happy with because I knew something was up, but thankfully the doctor called our pediatrician to discuss. I don't know what Dr. G said, but they came back and said they were going to flush his eye in case there was something in there they weren't able to see. It was torture. The nurses basically had to swaddle him so he couldn't move his arm and then squirt water into his eye. It broke my heart having to help hold him down, but as we tell our kids all the time, "sometimes we have to do things we don't want to do to help us feel better." Ethan was a champ.



Reward for water torture.

...And the toy machine, conveniently located right outside of our room.

 We still don't know what was in Ethan's eye, but after the nurses flushed it out, he felt much better. The doctor said his eye would probably hurt for another day or so from the pressure of the water, but I could tell a difference in him very soon after. My boy was back!