A super exciting post for a Friday…we went to the dentist!
Unfortunately Maxwell has his first cavity. Boo. It’s in a baby tooth but they still want to go on and fill it…but not until April?! Time to start flossing!
Make it a great weekend!
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A super exciting post for a Friday…we went to the dentist!
Unfortunately Maxwell has his first cavity. Boo. It’s in a baby tooth but they still want to go on and fill it…but not until April?! Time to start flossing!
Make it a great weekend!
Well, today I’m usually recapping our fantastic after Christmas stay in Naples. Not this year though. This year I get to recap our Covid quarantine. Yep, covid invaded us! We really have no idea where we got it as we have been as careful as we could while still taking calculated risks. The boys got out of school on December 18th and we didn’t see anyone after that as we were planning to head to Naples on December 27th. We even pulled Spencer out of a basketball tournament that was scheduled for December 18 to 20th because we weren’t comfortable with that level of exposure. Since we had no “known exposure”, after school was out on the 18th we followed the CDC’s least conservative guidelines of quarantine for 7 days with a test at day 5 or later. We all got PCR tests on December 23rd as the place we go to was closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We got our results that night – all 5 of us were negative! Hooray! We had a great Christmas with just the 5 of us – really and truly one of the best Christmas days ever.
On the 26th I was busy putting away all of the Christmas decorations when Maxwell came downstairs around 11am and I could tell he didn’t feel good. I was hoping it was just a migraine but took his temperature and it was 99. Hmmm. I took it about half an hour later and it was 99.5. Not good. I threw him in the car and we went to Urgent Care where we waited in the car over an hour to finally get a rapid test and find out he was positive. What?! Shocked. We had been so careful but this virus still found us. He had to have gotten it at school or basketball the week before. Trip cancelled. Lots of tears and even more disappointment. But, ultimately so incredibly thankful that his fever showed up when it did and we did not fly down and expose GJ and Daddo. So, so thankful. It is CRAZY to me that we escaped this virus for 9 months only to test positive one day before we were to leave for Naples.
Maxwell and I packed a bag and moved into GJ and Dado’s house next door. Unfortunately, two days later, Spencer had a headache and didn’t feel good. We all got tested again. Me, Samantha, and Robert were still negative. Spencer was positive. Boo. Spencer was then quarantined to his room and the playroom. We really did our best to keep all of us completely separated and masked – we even kept the boys separated. Even though they were both positive, the doctor told us it was still best for them to keep their distance from each other so as not to increase their viral load and symptoms. All I have to say is thank goodness for Fortnite!! Those boys played more video games over the next 10 days than they had in their entire lives up to that point…and that’s ok. Survival mode! Spencer really had no symptoms after that first night and felt fine. Maxwell ran a low grade temp – never above 99.5 – for the next 8 days. He became very congested and also lost his sense of smell and taste. Major bummer. Pretty sure my anxiety over the situation was worse then either of their actual symptoms!
We did our best to get outside daily for some Vitamin D and together (but distanced!) time. I hope we never have to go through this again.
The rest of us continued to get tested at the first sign of a symptom but never ended up with a positive result. Hooray! It hasn’t been fun and it hasn’t been fair, but we’ve made it. The kids are back in school today and everyone is feeling good. Praying for no long term effects on the boys and also that the rest of us stay healthy in 2021. Merry Christmas and a Happy Quarantine!
I took the boys up for their annual checkup on Monday. They were thrilled…
ha! But, 8 and 10 year old visits are pretty easy. No shots, no nothing really – especially when you are healthy and growing like these boys!
Maxwell is 54.5 inches tall (41st %)and 65.8 lbs (27th %). Maxwell grew 2.5 inches and gained 8 lbs! Dr. Walley was super impressed with his growth and said the year between 9 and 10 doesn’t usually show this much growth so that’s a great sign for Maxwell! Hooray! I think it was all that football conditioning! 🙂
Spencer is 51 inches tall (50th %) and 58.2 lbs (55th %). That’s a gain of 2 inches and 5 lbs from last year. Also impressive! Maxwell at age 8 was 50 inches tall and 52.4 lbs so quite a bit lighter.
They are both steadily growing just as they should. Will be interesting to see who ends up taller!
Pictures through the years….
3 year checkup…
4 year checkup…
5 year checkup…
and 6 year checkup…
Spencer at 2 year checkup (no Dr. Walley pic!)….
3 year checkup…
and 4 year checkup!
Spencer at 5, Maxwell at 7, and Samantha at 2.5…
Maxwell at 8 and Spencer at 6…
Maxwell at 9 and Spencer at 7…
and now Maxwell at 10 and Spencer at 8!
Always so thankful for good doctor reports.
Last Wednesday Maxwell started the day like this…
and ended it like this!
He got them off almost one year to the day that he got them on! He’s so happy to be rid of his braces just in time to eat all of that chewy Halloween candy! See ya later brace face!!
Well, you never know what’s going to happen around here. Spencer has to go to boot camp for a week!
His foot has been bothering him for a few weeks. He finally started mentioning it to me about a week ago and I noticed him limping around…a lot. He was really in pain. He made it through his sports but we were having to load him up with Motrin and ice it down. Not good! We went to the orthopedist on Wednesday and it turns out Spencer has an extra bone in his foot! I always knew he was special!! Official diagnosis – He has an accessory navicular which is an extra bone or piece of cartilage located at the inner side of the foot just above the arch and is incorporated within the posterior tibial tendon. From my understanding, that little piece of bone can cause the tendon to get really tight during times of growth and times of lots of activities – especially activities in non-supportive shoes like cleats! Check check! Spencer is now getting a nice pair of orthotics to go into his cleats and is wearing this boot for a week to force him to rest his foot. Hopefully after being in the boot for a few days we can get him to a place where he can play in his first baseball game on Sunday. Go Yankees!
I think he felt pretty cool walking back into school that day with his Iron Man leg! 🙂 One other thing that just made me kind of laugh…and kind of cringe…was when the doctor asked what sports Spencer played. We said tennis, golf, flag football, basketball, and baseball. He said “great, which ones are you playing right now?” Ummm…all of them?! Just made me realize how much we have piled onto our plates and maybe we need to rethink some things. Of course, the doctor also said, “I’d rather see that than seeing a kid only focused on one sport at this age.” Valid point too.
After my adventure with Spencer I then got to take Samantha to the dermatologist to get a wart frozen off of her foot. Not surprisingly, Spencer was a better sport about his boot than Samantha was about the freezing blast on her foot!
Gotta get all these feet fixed up!! Have a great weekend.