Brooks and the ER

On Friday, July 10, Tim and I went to the Dave Matthews concert in Charlotte, and the boys spent the night with my parents.  We took his car and already had the van packed ready to leave for the beach. Early Saturday morning my mom texted me and said that Brooks had a fever.  By the time we got there it was 102.  I made an appointment for that morning.  We saw the on call doctor who thought it was just a virus but gave us instructions to call if he got worse.  Since we left late, we hit LOTS of beach traffic.   By the time we got there, Brooks still had a fever and felt terrible. He had several nasty diapers but never threw up.

On Sunday, his fever was up to 103.  Motrin and Tylenol were not controlling it.  He didn't want to eat or drink or anything.  After talking to the on call nurse, we decided to take him to the ER.  They were really nice there, and we really liked the doctor.  Brooks had to have x Rays and blood taken.  Getting the blood was the worst.  It took 3 of us to hold him down and one nurse to get blood and hook up the IV.  They gave him fluids and checked his blood.  We left after 4 hours thinking it was a virus.  Brooks still felt bad on Monday and most of Tuesday.  Brooks and I didn't make it to the beach until Tuesday. His fever finally went down by Wednesday.

Fast forward to Friday.  We spent a lot of time on the beach.  The kids were on the bed playing the iPad. Tim and I were both in our room with them packing.  All of a sudden I hear a big thud and screaming.  When I turn around, Tim is picking up Brooks.  I see that his left arm is at a weird angle.  Brooks is screamming and saying "oweeee oweee." Needless to say, we head back to the ER.  Brooks cries the whole way there and keeps saying, HELP. He had to get more x Rays.  The same doctor from Sunday walked by our room and did a double take.  He came in to check on Brooks and looked at the X Rays too.  Brooks actually broke his arm in two places.  One was a complete fracture and the other just a buckle fracture.  They put on a soft cast and gave us a sling.  He was actually proud of his arm.  When we got back to the house, he showed everyone and kept saying, "doctor."  He handled it better than we did.

Litchfield 2015

We had a great and interesting week at the beach this year. Poor Brooks had a really rough week that ended with 2 visits to the ER.  (That will be another post.)

Jackson loved the beach this year.  He loved the sand and the water.  He never wanted to leave.  We had some great tide pools that were perfect for the kids.  Jackson and Noni built a sand village every afternoon.

Brooks had a love/hate relationship with the beach.  I think it was because he just didn't feel well.  He did like playing with the tractors in the sand and knocking down the sand castles.  He also loved watching the diggers dig in the sand.

We had some great seafood- low country boil, crabs, and fish.  The Watson were at Litchfield too so we enjoyed dinner with them at the Pawley's Island Tavern.

We rented a golf cart this year, and it was worth every penny!  The kids loved it!  We went for morning and evening rides.  They especially liked visiting the alligator that lives in a pond right beside this house. We also saw some bunnies on our rides.

Jackson and Brooks loved spending the week with Brynlee, Luvi, and TuTu. Even though we didn't really go anwhere (except the ER), we still had fun playing cards, making jewelry and spending time with everyone.

Summer Video Clips

Happy 4th!

The day started out rainy, but we headed to the downtown market in Greenvile for peach salsa and cinnamon rolls. It started to rain so we went to the museum for awhile. Then we went to TR for lunch at the Whistle Stop Restaurant.  It is a cute place with train decor.  The boys loved it!  We stopped by Furman on the way home to walk around the lake.  The boys loved looking at the ducks and the turtles. We walked to the Rose Garden and Brooks had an unfortunate accident with the fountain.  He hit is head right above his eye.  That cut our trip around the lake short.  He seemed fine by the time we got home.

 We invited my parents over for a cookout. We even pulled out sparklers from several years ago!

We ate dinner with my parents last night and tried to watch the Newspring fireworks from the top of the hill in their neighborhood.  All of a sudden it started pouring rain, and we had to run back to their house.  Carrying Brooks and running in flip flops down a hill make for some slow running.  We were soaked!  Brooks was mad and did not want to go in the house.  We did finish watching the fireworks from the car.  Brooks loves them, and Jackson like them now too.