The Sparks Family: February 2009

Sorry it has taken me so long to do this! I've just started feeling better. We had a FABULOUS time in California! I'll cover the first few days now and then you'll have to wait again! LOL!

The kids loved flying and watching all the planes come in and take off! They got a little irritated during our layover, just because they weren't at grandma and papas yet. But they survived!

Our first night brought little to no sleep for my wonderful husband who stayed up with a sick William. He was having some serious breathing issues, which prompted a call the next morning to Dr. Cook, and a nightmare trip to a walk in clinic in Merced. The rest of the day was spent trying to find a script for some predinsone. Would you believe me that we tried 6 different pharmacy's and none of them had it! We tried the "other" doctor first before calling Dr. Cook for a different one. The doctor from the walk in clinic changed the script to a generic called something can't remember, but it turns to the predinsone in your system. However I'm not sure if he had the original dose wrong or what but when I was "almost" given the new script the pharmacist noticed the dose was off. Come to find out that the walk in clinic doctor had given Will a dose 2x the legal limit for his age and weight, and I was suppose to give him that twice a day!! I was one hot momma!!

Oh my goodness I forgot about our morning walk! We took the kids out for some fresh air hoping that would help William out some. But no instead the poor little boy got his 1st bee sting! Of all days! And he has spent endless hours outside at my parents house here with all the bees and not once ever got stung, but gets nailed the first day there!

When we finally got home that afternoon we took the kids to pick oranges. They loved just being in the open and running! Madison and William ended up being good little orange pickers. Kayla wasn't strong enough to pull them all the way off, but she gave it her best.