The Jones Girls

We rented a bounce house as a surprise for the girls for Easter.  Our friends, Eva, who was the night nanny for the triplets, and her daughter and grandson came over.  Also, our friend Cyn, who is a foster parent for 4 boys, came over.    My brother Ron came over too.

We had a fun Easter Egg Hunt and the kids played in the bouncy house.    We had a nice lunch of ham and the fixings.

I totally forgot to put the Easter baskets out.  They had fun bubble blowing stuff in them.  I will have to figure out a way to surprise them with the baskets…oops!!

I did make some yummy fudge Easter Eggs for everyone.   It was a fun and relaxing day.

The medicine has done its trick and Savannah is no longer itching….whew!  We have one more day to give her medicine.   I am so glad she has gotten relief with the medicine! 

The dr. wrote a prescription for Savannah and the triplets to be excused from swimming lessons due to the rash and the chlorine.    I spoke to Jeanette, the director of swimming at the YMCA and she told me that they will give me a 2 week credit towards May swimming lessons-Yay!    The girls will go back to swimming in a couple of weeks.

I organized a fun day at Oeste Park for the La Habra Moms Club to celebrate Easter for our kiddos.   We all brought picnic lunches.   We had an Egg hunt and I brought some goodies for all of the kids and cupcakes for everyone.  The kids had a blast and also spend a lot of time on the playground.  

The weather was gorgeous today and it was so much fun for all of us!!

Up until now it has been an intimidating thought to attempt the difficult task for me to get the girls ready to go to church.    Morning services are just too hard to get to on a timely manner.

Our church, Morningstar Christian Chapel, which is a non denominational affiliate Calvary Christian church, offers Wednesday evening services at 7:00pm and Sunday services at 6:00pm.   

Today our church offered a 6:00pm Good Friday evening service.   So I got the girls ready and we all went to church tonight.  

Cliff and I took the triplets to their classroom and then we took Savannah to their classroom.    It was all of the girls very first time attending their classrooms at church.    They were all excited.  There was a fun playground, they had lots of toys, art projects and a lesson taught about Good Friday representing the day Jesus died.

Cliff and I attended the church service and the sermon ministered by Pastor Jack Abaleen was so inspiring!!  I teared up and felt the Spirit the whole time we were there.  The songs we sang were beautiful and I felt the love of Jesus our Lord in me and all around us.  It was His amazing Grace.

We are going to try to attend church weekly now.   The girls are old enough now to learn about the teachings of Jesus and Christianity.  I am so excited for them!!   It will also be good for Cliff and I to attend services and get involved in the ministry as well.

Today I took the girls for their follow up eye exams to see how Amanda and Miranda were progressing with their new glasses and to also get a full eye exam for Savannah, I want to get a 2nd opinion to make sure she really needs glasses.

Amanda is showing huge improvement with her glasses.     Dr. Fierson is hoping that the glasses will correct Amanda’s vision and then she won’t need them anymore.  I am crossing my fingers!! xxxxx

Miranda is also showing improvement but is still crossing her left eye.  We will need to patch her right eye (stronger eye) 2 hours a day while she is wearing her glasses.  This is to help her left eye get stronger.  We are doing this to get her optical muscle to get stronger to avoid surgery at all costs.    I have a feeling Miranda will be needing glasses for quite a while but the dr. is optimistic that the glasses are to correct her vision and cross eyedness too.

Dr. Fierson said Savannah’s eyesight has actually gotten better than last year.  He says she doesn’t need to wear the glasses and that they are too strong for her anyway.  He said most kids are farsighted and that it improves as they get older.  He feels the optometrist was negligent in prescribing glasses for Savannah and that it was a way for the optometrist to make money…grrrr…that really peeved me off.    All at the expense of my pocket book, my insurance company, and most importantly at the expense of my daughter’s eyesight!!

Maryssa doesn’t really need to wear her glasses so I am going to not have her wear them.  So now I am down to 2 girls in glasses and 2 girls not in glasses. 

We have a re-check for Miranda’s eyes next month on May 5th.  Amanda needs a re-check in 3 months.

Today the triplets had their first Easter party at Preschool.   I made cute butterfly snacks that were little goodie bags filled with Fruit Loops with a clothes clip in the middle to make the butterfly.  I also made cute boo boo bunnies made out of white wash cloths.    I boiled a dozen eggs because they were going to decorate and dye eggs today! 

Mrs. Darling had made everyone the most precious Easter baskets.   The kids got a glimpse of Easter bunny tracks that were on the playground!  They thought that was so cool!

I went to Savannah’s class and brought all of her classroom boo boo bunnies.  The kids were thrilled.   I spent some time with Savannah in her classroom today and she enjoyed having me there so much.  I really enjoyed myself too.  I helped her decorate her Easter Bunny art project.

This morning Savannah woke up complaining that the back of her ears itched.  I thought maybe it was her glasses making her itch.  I put some calamine lotion on it and told her that if the itching gets worse at school to tell the teacher and go to the nurse so she can call me to pick her up early from school.

At about 11:30am I got a call from the school nurse that Savannah was itching all over and was very uncomfortable.    Since I was in Fullerton at Amanda’s thumb therapy which is about a 1/2 hour away from home and school, I had the nurse call Cliff at home to have him pick up Savannah.  I made a dr’s appt for Savannah at 2pm.

Savannah was in agony.  The dr. took a look at her.   She was now itching all over her body and there were little read welts all over.    The dr. said she is having a reaction to something.   He asked me if she had any known allergies and I couldn’t think of any.    She had been taking Amoxicillin for the past week for the pink ear that Dr. Gonzalez had seen almost 2 weeks ago.  She had also pulled weeds on Saturday and she has also ridden on the pony rides and petted the critters at the petting zoo at the Easter Egg Hunt at La Habra Heights.  Ugh,  it could be a multitude of anything causing the reaction!

The dr. prescribed an oral steroid and an oral medice much stronger than Benadryl.   He also order blood lab tests for Savannah to check for food and other things that could be giving her an allergic reaction.  Oh that is going to be fun…5 vials of blood to take from her.  Savannah is scared to death of needles.  I remember the last time we had to do this she was 2-1/2 and they had to papoose her to do the blood draw…the poor baby.  I think I am going to let Cliff take her this time!!

I am waiting for the prescription to be ready at Rite Aid Pharmacy.   The itching has now spread to Savannah’s feet and ankles.  Her scalp is itching too.    Hugs to my poor baby girl!!