Sunny San Diego

We spent our Spring Break in sunny San Diego this year. We had been trying to take the trip for months but our kids kept getting sick. We finally decided to go over Spring Break no matter what. Mikey had another ear infection but he was on antibiotics so we figured we were good to go. We didn't get more than an hour down the road when Kira started moaning in the back of the car with a terrible toothache. It didn't improve so we decided to make a quick pit-stop in St. George and have the baby tooth pulled. (We had spoken with our dentist and based on the tooth she thought it was, he thought that must be the problem). So laughing gas and a few shots later Kira had her very last baby tooth pulled.

Well, she left that dentist's office still in tears from the pain. He thought she must be kind of dramatic and told us he would not prescribe her anything for the pain. An hour later she was still in tears, moaning and sobbing even with Motrin so we called our dentist and filled a prescription for Tylenol with Codeine. After a few more hours of traveling with Kira absolutely miserable in pain we didn't know what else to do. We just told her she'd have to just deal with it. (We're so mean).

We spent the next few days having tons of fun visiting with Marc & Karen and their family. We went to the beach (La Jolla Shores), fed the ducks at Lake Poway, made lots of homemade strawberry shakes and drooled over a few homes in the area. We had kept Kira constantly on Motrin and Tylenol with Codeine and it was having little, if any, effect on the pain. On Wednesday we were at Legoland and Kira was so miserable she was crying in pain at Legoland. We figured it must be more than the tooth being pulled. We made an appointment for the next morning with a local dentist that Marc & Karen knew.

Thursday morning the dentist told us that he was pretty sure she needed a root canal in the tooth next to the one that was pulled. (Yikes)! We ended up spending most of Thursday at the Endodontist having a root canal done. Kira was amazing through it all. She kept her cool and was able to handle everything. After the dentist filled the root canal though she was immediately in a ton of pain again. Again, we kept trying the medicine but it wasn't working.

During all of this, poor Isaac was having a ton of ear pain and could not hear ANYTHING! It was a little frightening how deaf he was. We're used to his moderate hearing loss, but this was much more. He wouldn't wear his hearing aids and we figured he probably had another ear infection. We took him to a Minute Clinic in San Diego and sure enough his ears were terribly infected. They were draining and "goopy" and nasty. Poor little guy.

Kira started to get an infection or abscess in her upper palate that swelled to the size of a large marble. It was scary! We finally got a stronger antibiotic and it took the full 10 days for the ball to go away. She was in a ton of pain for about 10 days.

Isaac ended up having to get tubes a week and a half after we got back and his ears were terrible. I could fill another page or two about that.

Anyway, despite all of that we had a TON of fun in San Diego. We loved spending time with Marc & Karen and their kids. We enjoyed the sunny weather, spent time at the beach, went to Legoland and (everyone's favorite) went on a "Marshmallow Tour" all over SD with Uncle Marc in the big white van. We stopped at Balboa Park, Coronado Island, and the Chula Vista Nature Center where the kids got to "pet" the sting rays and sharks. It was a pretty awesome trip!