Crazy, Busy, Happy: Happy (laid back, slow moving) Easter

Spring finally feels like it is here to stay! The weather has been wonderful lately and Easter Sunday fit into one of those beautiful days! Our Easter this year, crazily, turned out to be like our Easter last year. Last year I had influenza for Easter, spent all Easter weekend in bed. This year our Easter was super low key, spent at home, making sure Kynzley got plenty of rest. This year we dealt with MONO - yup, Mono!

A little more on the Mono situation in a bit, first our Easter! Even though it was low key we had a great holiday. Benton was up bright and early wondering if the Easter bunny came to the house. He noticed his basket right away, but we made him wait until Kynzley got up before diving in. Finally, when both kiddos were awake enough the egg hunt was on! They had a great time! After finding the very last egg they were excited to dig through their baskets and enjoyed a piece (or seven!) of candy!
As a family we enjoyed a homemade feast and took in the beautiful afternoon with a (SUPER SLOW) hike on a near by trail!

Our world has seemed to slow down a lot in the last couple of weeks. It feels so weird! A couple weeks back Kynzley came down with what seemed to be a cold. After a couple days of being stuffed up she started to get fevers. We kept her home from her activities and pushed fluids and rest. Some days she seemed just fine and like she was on the mend and then the next day she would be super sick and have a fever again. We tied her seven year well check appointment into a ear check appointment as well since the morning of her appointment she woke up with a fever and stomach ache and was home from school. At the appointment we learned all her yearly stats followed by her ears looking good (for once) but irritated. Since they looked irritated our doctor put through a prescription that we could pick up when needed if her fever didn't seem to go away within a day or two. We waited it out, she missed a couple more days of school and we laid super low. Nothing seemed to be working so we decided the ears must now be infected and filled her prescription. After being on the meds for a couple days she seemed to be turning the corner and perking up! Ha! She fooled us! We would pick her up from school at the end of the day and she could barley walk. She was so exhausted and looked like she was going to fall over. She complained that her stomach and legs hurt so bad - to the point of lots of crying. In the morning it was like getting a sloth ready for the day. She dragged big time! We were starting to think that maybe there was something at school bothering her. Maybe an argument with a friend, struggling with a certain subject, we had no clue! We questioned her constantly hoping to get an answer out of her. All we would get is "Nothing's wrong, I'm just tired", EVERYTIME!
This past weekend Kynzley had a long break for Easter weekend. We were hoping that with no major plans she could relax, collect her baring's and be back to her spunky self by the beginning of the week. What we ended up getting was a very sick and miserable little girl. You could tell she was trying to play so bad, but just didn't have the energy. On Friday evening, after trying to play all day, Kynzley got very VERY sick! So sick I knew something wasn't right! I took her in right away! After many blood tests run we finally had answers to pretty much all our questions - she has MONO! No wonder she was exhausted every day and was falling asleep constantly!
Because of her diagnosis we have to take a LEAP backwards and eliminate a lot of her activities for awhile. Not only do we have take a break from her busy schedule to assure she gets rest, we have to make sure she has little to no chance of being hit in the stomach.
It has been such a weird time for us. Watching her lay around with no energy to do anything is hard! It's not her at all!!!! She loves to play, run, be goofy and always on the go. Lately she goes from the couch to her bed to attempting to play but gets exhausted very quickly. You know when she is hitting her wall. She goes from bright eyed and giggly to droopy eyes and pale. She understands that she needs rest and when she is tired lets us know and will lay down - today she fell asleep just sitting on the couch in the middle of trying to play.
We hope to have our Kynzley back to her full self soon!!!