2017 started off with our furnace having trouble keeping up and then totally going poo. We were without heat and our house got down to 50ish degrees. We thought we might try to stay and just use space heaters. But I couldn't take it so we ended up heading to Renssy and staying at my parents' house while they were away.
Even though we were in Renssy, we still came back every day because Tommy had a birthday party on Saturday. His buddy Cooper was turning 6 and they were going to the trampoline park. This was going to be Tommy's first big boy birthday party where we leave him and come back to pick him up. I was excited for him. He actually said on the way to the party, "I have a feeling like I'm scared to go to this party." I figured it was just excitement/anxiety. Well, maybe he knew more than we realized...
There were just a few of them and they had a great time... until... Tommy ate the cupcakes at the party. I had talked to the birthday boy's mom about how Tommy can eat vegan cupcakes as long as they are nut-free. She was really excited to order them for him because she knows he never gets to have the cupcakes at the party. There was some sort of mix-up in communication either between me and the mom or the mom and baker. I don't know what happened but the cupcake he ate started an allergic reaction. We weren't there but they said he started sneezing and getting really phlegm-y. Then he got really quiet. He wasn't acting normal. He didn't say anything to anyone. They opened presents and then they went upstairs to play. It wasn't long after that when he started vomiting all over their house. They called us and we raced back there. He was done vomiting by the time we got back but he was still a mess. The mom was crying and everyone felt so bad. I felt especially bad for Cooper. :( Tommy couldn't stop blowing his nose and feeling awful. He still wasn't quite right but I was hoping he was recovering. We packed up everything and headed out. Since we were staying in Renssy, we decided not to leave town and instead we just headed toward hospital because he still wasn't acting normal. His mouth was open like the last time when his tongue swelled but he kept saying he was totally fine. By the time we got to the parking lot of the ER, he started vomiting again. Ah yes, time to go inside.
We checked in very quickly. You can still see how he does his mouth weird when he's in the middle of a reaction. I don't know if it's his lips or tongue that bothers him but he can't shut his mouth. I kept asking him questions in the car about how he was feeling and what his mouth was doing to try to figure out if we needed to use the epi-pen or go in the ER. At one point, he said, "Which one is the right answer?" Poor kid.
For a Saturday evening, there were not that many people there. We got room #1! They gave him anti-vomiting medicine, benadryl and a steroid. No epi this time AND no shots! Whoo hoo!! It was a great ER visit, if you can call it that. Ha! He really recovered very quickly and they sent us home within a couple hours. Awesome!
Middle fingers up to food allergies!
Since he vomited all over his clothes and Andrew took Charlotte home to clean up the car and get new ones, he had nothing to wear. So while we were waiting for them to come back and pick us up, I put him in my coat and hummed the Imperial March while we walked around. He just needed his Vader mask and he would have been complete!
So we learned a major lesson with all of this. We should never let anyone be responsible for feeding our kid like that. We can't put that liability on them. It's just too complicated. Plus everyone thinks it's gluten because that's the new big popular thing. So now we know we should just continue to bring our own food for Tommy so we can be sure it's safe. Lesson learned.
Back to our furnace issues... we came back to Lafayette on Sunday because the kids needed to go to school on Monday and we needed to meet the "furnace fixers" as the kids called them. So we used Andrew's points and got a room and the Ho-tel, Mo-tel, Holiday Innnnn, say what? Check out our gorgeous view!
The kids were totally stoked about using the pool. Too bad when we went down there, our key wouldn't let us in. We know the pool is open, folks, so let us in! The manager finally let us in and swim we did!
Pool time selfies! The pool was so warm. It was awesome! We called and they said they warmed it up for us. AWESOME!
Family pool selfie! Sweet goggles, Dada!
It was finally time to get out. The kids were not excited to stop swimming but we had to eat dinner. Do you like our workout room mirror selfie? Ha!
We finally had a working furnace at 6:30 on Monday night.
I couldn't get close enough to the fire. So cold. I sat in the living room in my winter coat drinking hot tea. What a wimp! :)
But our furnace is working like a champ now! It actually heats the whole house and not just the downstairs. I guess they are normally supposed to do that. Good to know. :)
January 2017 is definitely the time we made lemonade out of the many lemons we were given this month. Here's to the rest of 2017! It's gonna be great! :)
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