When it rains, it pours!!

Things have been pretty crazy around here. First off, we're still adjusting to Hallie's sleep schedule, or lack of sleep for us :) We have also had so many sicknesses coming through our house! I was sick with a bad cold when I went into labor, then I came home with Hallie and Abby had the stomach flu. Bailey has also had stomach sickness. Well, now I have completely LOST my voice because of this sore throat and cough I have had for the past few days. I seriously have NO voice, which is hard as a Mom, I need my voice as a Mom :) And unfortunately, I was told it is a virus, so I can't take meds to get better either. I am just worried about little Hallie getting sick, when will the sicknesses end? And honestly, I don't get out much these days, so I don't know where we keep getting sick from?

Then, last night, Gavin was trying to fix the side of our rocking chair. He was trying to unscrew a bolt and he said his hands slipped from pushing so hard on the bolt and he pushed the screw driver RIGHT INTO HIS PALM!!!!!! Ahhhhhhh, it makes me hurt just thinking about it. I was cleaning bottles in the kitchen when I heard him yell out, I could tell something really bad had happened by the tone in his voice. He actually pulled out the screw driver himself, he is tough! His hand was shaking from the shock and he jumped into the car and headed to the ER alone because I am sick and the girls were already asleep. A few hours later, he came back with a wrap around it and he was started on antibiotics and pain meds. They are worried that he will get infected, so he has to take a heavy course of antibiotics this week.

The screw driver went into the top of his palm and in between his index and middle finger on his left hand. There was a bulge on the top of his knuckle and the screw driver had almost gone completely through his hand. They did x-rays, and luckily he barely missed hitting bone and tendons. He told me they made him wait in the ER while some Cop was having stitches removed. They had him sit there in tremendous pain for about an hour! Gavin tried calling me a few times to update me, but I have no voice, so I was trying to be supportive, but I couldn't even communicate. Poor Gavin, I feel so bad! He was just trying to be mister fix-it and ended up with this injury!

This is going to be an interesting week with him having to go to school/work. Luckily, it was his left hand, not right.

Another fun thing, our "check engine light" has been on for the last week. We have just kept driving on it, haha. Our car has had SO many problems and we are just about to send it off a cliff! And seeing how we never have excess money (because we are college students), this is another fun thing :)

I thought my biggest challenge would be adjusting to having another newborn, but I guess with a family of five, there are just going to be a lot of challenges all at the same time, haha.

It just always seems like things like this happen at the same time :)

Okay, just wanted to share our crazy stories.