Yup, we knew this day was going to happen eventually. Poor little Luku had trouble sleeping Tuesday night because he was congested and coughing. Then the day after that he had a fever of 100.4 degrees and was just so miserable :( "The poor little thing," Marinda said when asked about the night, "He just kept whining in his sleep. It was so sad." Marinda called the nurse just to get a run down of what she should be doing for a baby with a fever, and the nurse said to take him in to the ER since he just barely turned 3 months and 100.4 is the borderline-serious. We went to Children's Hospital and got into a room within 5 minutes of arriving. We had heard that they had streamlined their admission process, but we weren't expecting it to be that nice. The fact that he got his blood drawn the week before and was already registered helped. They also had 24/7 valet parking - which will be funnier after we tell you about the other ER trip.
The doctors looked at him, and decided that he was fine since his fever wasn't that high, there was a cause (his cold/cough thing the night before) and the fact that he was still acting like a baby (smiling, throwing his arms around, exc.) The worst part of the trip was when Marinda was waiting with Luke for the discharge papers while Amit went to get the car. It was a shared room, and even though the curtain was drawn she could still hear the little kid in the next bed crying. As a new mom at the hospital with her baby, it was a little much. After a day of sleeping (for the both of us) he's better now, more or less, but it's never fun to see your baby look so unhappy. The biggest change was that for the next two or so days instead of falling asleep by himself he either had to be in his swing or be held until he was 120% asleep. *sigh* It was a long past couple of nights for Amit and Marinda.
The other ER trip this week was for Marinda. On Sunday night she and Amit were sitting around, when she started getting a weird pain in her abdomen. She thought it was nothing, but it kept getting worse and worse until the area from her pelvis to the base of her ribcage was one solid block of tight muscle with unbearable pain coursing through her body. She could barely breath let alone talk, and she was as close as you can get to writhing. In all honesty, it felt like a contraction during active labor. We called Danny and Julene from down the street to come watch Luke, then Marinda and Amit went to the ER. We got there, and there was a load/unload area and some parking spaces for "emergency vehicles only" and we didn't know what to do. Marinda could barely walk, but there wasn't any place for Amit to put the car so Marinda stumbled in by herself while Amit went to the parking garage. Needless to say, if you walk into the ER looking like death, unable to say more than "pain" while clutching your middle, they take you back right away. The beds were all full, so she got a bed in a hall way, but she was so disoriented that she didn't care. They gave her morphine, which helped for about five minutes, then did nothing. Eventually her muscles relaxed and the pain went away, but she had basically been doing a full body crunch for over an hour and was really weak. They ruled out anything life threatening, and gave her the very detailed diagnosis of "abdominal pain." Yeah. The next day at yoga Marinda was talking to one of the other moms and she said that you could have random contractions up to a year after giving birth. This has yet to be confirmed, but it is the best explanation so far as to what happened. For a funny video summing up what we went though, check out this clip from Brian Regan.
Friday was the church's Chili Cook-Off. There were about 20 different kinds of chili, tons of cornbread and pies too. The best part is that there was a pie-eating contest again this year. Let's just say one of our family members decided to try to redeem him/herself and entered again this year, with a new strategy. Watch the video below to see if it was Marinda or Amit in the contest!
Thursday night was also the annual grad student meeting where they assign out jobs for everyone to do. For the past year Amit has been the planetarium coordinator. He basically schedules shows, finds volunteers and trains people. Amit has...mixed feelings about this job. "Mixed feelings? Not really," he says. "The money's okay and the job's annoying." As we said: mixed feelings. Anyways, at the meeting he asked if anyone else would even consider being willing to do this terrific awesome job, but no takers. "Oh well," was Amit's response. "I'll just become the Ron Swanson of astronomy outreach. I'll be an inside man making sure no actual astronomy is learned by anyone. Ever."
In other Luke-related news, we did a photo-shoot to try to get a good baby picture of him. Not just a good baby picture, a legendary baby picture! This was really important because this will be the picture that they project on the screen when he graduates from high school, when he gets married, and of course when he becomes the new Pampers model in a couple months. Marinda was originally looking for a real photographer, but those were like $300 for an hour. Then we looked at photo studios, which were $6 for a sitting but $25 for a print. So we oped for Danny and Julene's Artisian-Green-Holistic-Organic-Free Trade Photo Studio! They gave us a great price (free) and worked with us and Luke for over an hour trying to get him to smile. We included a couple pictures at the end of the blog post, and we think they did an AMAZING job! When we were done, Marinda and Julene ran off the the Relief Society dinner/broadcast while the guys ordered pizza and watched Chain Reaction.
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| We got a TON of great pictures of the two of us! |
Marinda insists that we mention our TV shows. On Monday night we watched the Castle season premiere with our friends Danny and Julene. It was pretty good. It was all like "I'm gonna shoot you!" and then "You killed my mom meansy-face!" and "You'll never get away with this..." and then ending with "I love you let's spend all day together for the rest of our lives." I think that pretty much covers the entirety of the episode. We've also started watching this hilarious "documentary" on Islam called "Little Mosque." Ok, it isn't really a documentary, but it is a really great show! It is about a small muslim community in a small town in Canada. It starts off a little slow, but now we're hooked. It's weird because we've learned a lot but it's as funny as a real show. It is also 100% clean, which makes for quite a few guilt free evenings.
Hope you all have a good week!
Awesome pictures! Luke keeps getting cuter and cuter...Marinda and Amit, you guys look nice too, I guess :)
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