Probably from all the excitement, lack of sleep, possibly new teeth coming in -- along with everything else. Shayna seemed to catch some type of bug, she had a terrible cough and lost her voice -- it was so cute.. If you know Shayna at all you know she's pretty energetic and non-stop. So when she gets sick (knock on wood hasn't been often!) like this, it's pretty sad, b/c she's not one to sit still for long. This bug definitely took some time to get rid of and lots of her energy. We spent several days laying on the couch with Mr.Bear trying to get better.
Lets see during our days to get better from being sick... Mr. Jonah as smiley as ever began to get a bit of a cough but luckily nothing too serious just sounded sad/pathetic. He also decided he wanted to test out his cribs leg room ability and stuck his leg under his bumper and through the slats in his crib...yet he continued to sleep -- such a cutie. When I found him like this he was sound asleep...of course as soon as i tried to remove the leg (luckily with no problems) he woke up screaming :)
Then one night when we decided last minute to meet our friends the Walsh's for dinner - 5 kids (under 2) and 4 adults!! Go us ... Shayna kept saying she had to go to the potty. It's very unusual for Shayna to poop more than once a day since she's started using the potty (about a month or so). So of course since we're still "training" we take her every time she asks. I took her twice during dinner and she kept saying she had to poop.... the last time I said lets sit and wait until you do. Well if i had only known what was going to happen next I might have changed my mind on waiting for her to go poop!!! Finally a little bit of poop and the next thing i know i'm seeing something i hoped to never ever again see in my life. Poor Shayna has something in her tush that is not suppose to be there. I immediately pull up her pants and rush out to Evan and try to say calmly -- which i wasn't by any means -- sorry we need to go to the ER right now. Of course Evan thinks i'm overreacting and decides to go look for himself (with our friend). They both come out of the bathroom and say you better get to the hospital. Again I am trying to remain calm. Shayna of course has no clue there is anything wrong. She is perfectly mellow and calm...thankgoodness!!!!
We get to the ER and Shayna is acting like the crazy happy kid she is. Running around, not sitting still. Everytime she'd sit on a chair or climb over a chair's arm i'd cringe...knowing what i saw in her tush. For a parent the ER is terrible. you sit there waiting and waiting, not knowing what is going on with your kid. Hoping and praying that everything will be okay just scared to find out what is going on. We finally get called back and Shayna lets the nurse take her temperature, she asks them to listen to her heart -- she's so cute!! The nurse asks if she can look at Shayna's tush. By now there is a large amount of blood in her diaper so i'm a bit concerned b/c no one else seems to think its as big of a deal as i do!! The nurse looks in her butt and looks at us and says I don't see anything. And believe it or not...there was nothing there!!!So we wait to see the ER doctor. It's way past Shayna's bedtime -- we didn't leave the ER until after 11 --- so she was out of control. Luckily Jonah was asleep the whole time in his carrier --phew!! The doctor took some blood and some x-rays and said everything looked fine. He thought it was probably some fissues (tears) that over time caused a blood clot and the blood in her diaper was the clot dissolving....ok so fast forward another week while we're in Florida. Shayna is on the potty and again i see this thing in her tush. Immediately we take a picture -- b/c we definitely see something ...luckily my parents friend who is an OB was over their house at this time and looked at it and said it was probably a Prolapsed rectum ...yes its as gross as it sounds. Thankfully Shayna doesn't even really know anything is happening and if anything just feels like she has to poop but isn't in any pain what so ever!! So at least we know we weren't losing our minds that we saw something- but had really hoped it wouldn't happen again. We took Shayna to see a pediatric GI once we got back to NC and they confirmed it was in fact a prolasped rectum ... and that it isnt uncommon and we are now to put shayna on Miralax and hope that will help solve this problem so we don't have to keep pushing her rectum back into her tush -- let me tell you as a parent there are a lot of things i would do for my kids ..this is definitely never one i'd ever imagine i'd have to be doing!!
Wow this is a lot of writing for me :) I'm writing all of this also b/c I had never heard of anything like this in children. I think maybe had I heard something about it I might have not been as freaked out or worried as much.
Aside from this minor set back with Shayna's tushie we have been having lots of fun. We took a road trip down to Florida to visit the family. We stopped at the beach to visit Mimi and Tapa. Shayna had a blast. Aunt Tracy, Uncle Damon, Noah and Jared all came to visit too. Shayna had so much fun playing in the sand, ocean and swimming in the pool. I think she thinks she can swim :) She loved playing with her cousins and didn't really want to sleep much..go figure :)
We then drove to Orlando for a few days to visit with Nana and Papa. Shayna got to swim some more and hang out. She was out of control :) Jonah was a super trooper and just went with the flow. He did get to visit the pool a few times and hang out with everyone -- when he wasn't sleeping -- which he does a lot!!We actually drove all the way to and from florida without using the DVD player once.. i know some people think that is crazy but we look at it as we didn't need it so why turn it on. i'm sure there will be many times when we will need it and it will come in very handy but not right now :)
So now we're back in CLT...and trying to get back to normacly....
