when brents away...

When Brent is away the kids dont sleep.  Its guaranteed :)  This weekend Brent went to northern va for his yearly fantasy football draft and was gone from saturday -monday.  The kids and I stayed here.  We spent Saturday going to the pool, playing hockey outside and coloring with chalk.

Joel was awake all night saturday night.  We walked the floors for hours and just as I got him back to sleep Colin woke up ready for the day.  Such is life.  Poor baby - his one last tooth finally broke through that night.  So now he has maybe 14 teeth total.  Crazy.  My mom came over Sunday to play with us all afternoon. Which is always fun. My mom asked Colin if Joel was the umpire in the hockey game we were playing and Colin got so tickled at the word umpire. "haha thats a good one ma-ma-maa!"  haha he thought she made up the word.  Joel was in bed early that night and slept well.

Unfortunately Colin didn't.  He has been coughing at night a lot the past few months and we finally discovered mold in his carpet.  A carpet company was coming tues but I was having Colin sleep in my room until the problem was fixed.  Well Colin woke up shortly after going to bed coughing and couldn't stop.  But this time he was having a hard time breathing.  So we went and rocked in a chair while watching tv for a while.  And for hours he wheezed and coughed and tried to get a breath.  I didn't know what to do. He said it hurt to breathe and he was scared. So was I. I tried everything.  Finally at 4am I called Brent and told him to come home instead of meeting Regis for breakfast.  (Joel had woke up from hearing Colin so for a few hours all 3 of us were watching sesame street - Joel thought the late night party was super fun... mommy not so much) So according to the doctor Colin had an asthma attack.  He is hesitant to say Colin officially has asthma since there can be so many things that trigger it.  So he is on two different medications for the next month and then we go back to the doctor to determine if it was the mold and is now cleared up or if there is something else making Colin sick.  But he's doing better now and for once loves to take his medicine. I think he can feel it helping him.  But the good thing about all this - I'm getting wood floors now since it will be much better on his allergies than carpet. 

This is the reason for the mold. see that crack?  Thats the least of our worries. Get a look at the second picture.

Almost all around his room is this crack between the slab and the wall.  They didnt seal it right so moisture was leaking right into Colin's carpet.  When they put new carpet in (the previous owners) they just put some glue in the crack and didn't bother to fix it.  We had our neighbors come look at it who are contractors and they've seen this before - which helped me not freak out too much thinking our house was falling apart.  So once we fix that we'll be good to go.  We're going to rip up the carpet in Joel's room too since its the same way and then re-do the floors in the living and dinning rooms too while we are at it.  In a few weeks I'll be a happy girl with my new floors. And my sweet boy wont have to worry about coughing all night.  And I'm praying that it was the mold that was making him sick and not something worse.

One good thing out of this weekend is that Brent brought back all his old Legos for Colin to play with.  Joel loves them too and has only tried to eat them a few times.