Double Dose

This is probably a boring post for most of you, but this is life.

(Preston before his dad cut his locks off--it was needed!)

My boys have had non-stop ear infections the past couple of months.  I'm sick of going to the doctor and giving them antibiotics everyday.  Found out today at the ENT that Michael's ear drum ruptured and is still rupturing and that's why his ear has been draining blood and puss for the past month.  Preston's has been draining too, just not blood.  Both boys will have tubes put in next week and their adnoids taken out.  Yippeee!! This will be Michael's second set of tubes, and hopefully he will outgrow ear infections before he needs them again.  The doctor said both boys have a 30 percent hearing loss in both ears because of the amount of fluid in their ears, so hopefully they'll be able to hear better too, not that they've been complaining.

The funny thing is Michael is so used to his ears hurting that he doesn't even complain.  He did have a rough night last night though, and this morning when he woke up he told me, "Mom, I don't want the bubbles to pop in my ears anymore."  Maybe we will all get a little bit more sleep around here because quite frankly, I need it!

Today I took the boys to the ENT for both of their appointments (Preston had another doctor appt, yesterday too), Costco, the surgery center for their pre-op appointment, and then the eye doctor to get Michael's glasses fixed....all before 12:30!  They were so good for me, so that made it a lot easier.  Thank goodness it's nap time because now I need to clean the house, fix dinner for the missionaries, and then Kyle and I both have a meeting tonight.

At Costco the boys were being so good....I didn't know what to do with myself.  They were enjoying how their voices sounded when they yelled/sang in the wide open spaces of Costco, so they were hollering and singing the entire time we were in there, but it was actually really funny, and everyone was loving it.  I could not believe how much noise those two could make.  I would try to get them to be quiet, but they weren't having it.  People kept telling me I was lucky to have such happy boys.  I agree, especially two boys with ear problems.