February Fun

So February was a crazy month! I'm sure January was too, but I'm not good enough at blogging to keep it up to date like I should. I usually hate February, last year it seemed like the boys were sick the whole month. The weather is usually horrible, I feel trapped indoors…. This month I was getting excited for Valentines Day and Thatcher and I decided to do some decorating. . .  we got as far as our front door with home made signs and cut out hearts. . . amazingly crafty, I know! He got to hand out fun little valentines to his friends at school that he was so exited about.

 We had some friends come over to help make Valentine cookies. The boys had so much fun playing and decorating the cookies

… well mostly playing.

                

 The cookies still turned out delicious and festive.

 We were feeling pretty lucky around the 12^th of the month that no one in our family had been sick yet. We had a trip planned for St. George on the 13^th for Presidents weekend, but that day Luke got really sick and had a hard time breathing so we ended up at Primary Children's instead.

We were really lucky to get in right away. He immediately got hooked up to oxygen and was given breathing treatments every two hours. He was also hooked up to an EKG machine, pulse ox, blood pressure…. It was really sad to watch him laying there kind of helpless to do anything.

     They ended up admitting him and we spent three days in the hospital with him.

I think the hardest part was trying to keep him in the bed the whole time. He was attached to so many things he wasn't able to really get up and walk around. We took turns sleeping in the bed with him 24/7.

Primary's is such an amazing hospital. They have a lot of things to try and keep the kids entertained. We had a huge movie selection to choose from, toys, books, food… I think he would have actually enjoyed being there under different circumstances.

His nurses were incredible, I really felt like they cared about him. One of them brought him this awesome truck that he got to take home with him.

Being there really made us appreciate the health that our kids have. It's such an amazing hospital, but not one we like spending time at. I really feel for those families that have to spend weeks or months or more up there with a sick child.

 Here he is in the cute (by cute I mean scary) hospital p.j.'s they gave him to sleep in

We felt really blessed that Luke was able to improve as much as he did, it was so great to see him with all of his energy back on that last day. He was back to being his happy self and we felt confident he would continue to improve once we got him home in his own bed.

Mat and I had a memorable valentines to say the least. We got to spend it together eating ice cream from the hospital café and watching Nick and Nora's infinite playlist while little Lukey slept by our side.