Here’s the pictures from Disneyland, which we used as Abigail’s birthday present. We didn’t tell her we were going at all (she just knew we were going someplace fun) and she didn’t figure it out until the GPS told us to turn onto Disneyland Drive. To say she was excited was an understatement. It was drizzly in the morning, but that only lessened the crowds slightly. We didn’t go on as many rides as we were able to at Knott’s but we still had a pretty awesome time.
Well, there are a few more pictures besides Knott’s, but Knott’s is the bulk of it. We got into Riverside, and both Paul and Joseph weren’t feeling too well. They felt fine when we left, but both felt pretty crummy by the time we got to Mom’s. The next day, I took them to what was probably the worst Urgent Care we’ve ever been to. They tried telling Paul his symptoms were from high blood pressure (um, other way around, y’all…illness can elevate one’s blood pressure) which they got their reading by using an arm cuff on his forearm instead of his upper arm…so who knows if it was even accurate. Paul was pretty sure he had a sinus infection, but also had a sore throat, so he had them do a strep test for both him and Joseph. Paul’s came back positive and Joseph’s was negative. The urgent care neglected to take either of their temperatures and pretty much ignored Joseph (didn’t look in his ears, nose, throat, nothing). They gave them both a prescription for cough syrup (Joseph wasn’t even coughing) and Paul a prescription for the strep (but ignored the fact that he felt he had a sinus infection, which would have needed a stronger dosage). The next day, Joseph felt warm (he mentioned to me that he’d felt warm the day before but nobody took his temp), so I took him to a different urgent care and low and behold, he had an ear infection. That would have been noticed the day before, if they had looked in his ears. Uuuuugggggghhhhh. So we got him some antibiotics, too. He started feeling better and Paul reached the point where he was no longer contagious (but still felt rather cruddy). Paul looked up the different dosages of amoxicillin for strep versus a sinus infection (sinus infections require more milligrams per dose) and decided to take an extra dose per day. As soon as he started doing that, he started feeling better. I wish that doctor had listened to him. After we got the boys on the mend, we started to do the fun stuff. The started with Knott’s!
It’s been a bit since I’ve made a post. As soon as school hit Christmas Break, we left town to go to California. Consequently, I have a few pictures from before the trip that I’m posting here. I’m going to do a few different posts about the different things we did in California (just as an easier way to separate out the pictures). These are pictures from the last week leading up to break. 🙂
