If it's not one thing, it's another!

So, we had a crazy Thanksgiving week.  Sam did not sleep well the night before we left for Atlanta.  She had a nightmare and kept me up for about an hour.  So, the 9 hour drive was a bit long.  Sam did well for the first part, but hit the wall.  She did not nap until pretty late and only got about an hour and a half.  She was happy when we got there.  Very excited to see Nana and Papa.  She played and went to bed fine, but then woke up at about 2 am in a panic.  She said she was sick and I could not tell exactly what was wrong, if she was gagging or what.  We finally determined she was having trouble breathing, so we took her outside to the cool air and also into the bathroom for a steam treatment.  We were not sure exactly what was going on, thinking she may have gotten her face in the pillow and freaked out when she could not breathe.  She got better, but was still scared.  So into our bed she went, which meant no one got much sleep.  She woke up again in a panic and wheezing at just after 5.  We watched her chest this time, and it was retracting and she began the barking cough, so we knew she had croup.  Back outside and back in for a steam bath.  We knew we were not going back to sleep, so after getting her a little better I called our pediatrician to see if we needed to go to the hospital or could we wait until the clinics opened at 10 am.  The nurse said she really needed the treatments and would probably have another attack, so we headed to Egleston.  She did have one more minor breathing issue, so we waited outside.  We ended up waiting a long time, but got out at 9:30.  She was much better, so they just did steroids to reduce the airway swelling and sent us with an inhaler if needed.  She was much better and only had a minor attack the next night, sending her back to our bed.  So again, not much sleep.  She also ended up getting a lot of congestion and a fever up to 103.  So she was pretty miserable.  We also had to cancel most of the fun stuff we had planned.  She was finally better at the end of our trip and did get to make one run to Krystal with my parents to see all her "friends" on Friday.  But even when she was feeling better, she did not sleep well, staying up and sometimes being scared, so no one got much sleep.  who would have thought the longest week of the semester would be break!

Here is Sam at Egleston.  She only wore the mask a little while, but it was so cute.  She insisted on getting dressed in one of her dresses before we went to the doctor.  They even commented how well dressed she was for the hospital.  And everyone was super nice and loved Sam.

 Sam has been asking for silly bands a lot lately.  I figured she deserved something for being such a trooper at the hospital, so I got her a package when Nick and I ran a few errands.

To keep Sam from getting too stir crazy, we let her play in the yard some.  She had the best time spraying all the plants and such with water.

Nick also found a good deal on a Diego DS game, which Sam loved.

Sam spent a lot of time reading books or being read to.  

We also all played some games with her.  Her she is playing Dora Memory with Dad.

Here we are on Thanksgiving.

Here are Sam, Nana, and Papa on Thanksgiving.

We also had some not so fun luck getting on the road yesterday.  Nick and I rented a trailer to get the rest of our stuff we had left in Atlanta from our move in 2009.  We wanted to get it all together in case we have another move and we needed all that baby stuff!  So we got the trailer on Thanksgiving, loaded it on Friday and were set to take off Saturday morning.  Everything had been working, but when we all loaded up, Nick checked the trailer lights one more time and they were not working.  My dad and Nick tried to fix it, but it was all a mess, spliced and junk and they could only get a very dim light.  We knew it was too dangerous and we could get a ticket.  So I called the roadside service, who said take it to the place we rented it.  We were afraid they would just give us another trailer.  I called to say we were coming in, and when we pulled in they called back and said go to the one an exit up that had a shop.  We went there and they said they were not a shop, it was in Candler and closed on the weekends.  But they would look at the lights.  Amazingly, they were working.  Apparently, something changed on driving it, something dried out from the rain or the ground made contact after rust was rubbed off, etc.  We do not really know.  But we ended up getting on the road at 10 am.  It made for an even longer day since we had to go pretty slowly with the trailer and got in well after dark.      But we did make it and got everything unloaded today and the trailer returned.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and hopefully it was less eventful than our break.  We do have a lot to be thankful for and will have even more in the coming months.  Nick and I also got contacted about phone interviews, so we may be making progress on figuring out where we will be living come next August.  Fingers crossed everyone!  Hugs to all!