My poor sick baby!

Tuesday night Hayden had a fever of 101.  Daycare called at the end of the day & luckily Jeff was already on the way to pick them up.  Gave him some Tylenol, he cooled down some & we put him to bed.  Wednesday morning literally, as I was ready to walk out the door for work, he woke up crying with a fever of 103.6 & his eyes were literally stuck shut with eye goop!  They have all had runny noses... colds, allergies, whatever... for weeks.  So I've just been waiting for this.  So since I was over an hour too late to technically call in sick, I went in to work briefly since Jeff is home in the mornings & bless my co-workers hearts for adjusting assignments so I could be staff adjusted & getting me out of there to go take my baby to the doctor!

Sure enough, ear infection.  Knew it before we walked in the door.  So 10 days of antibiotics (Omnicef which hopefully he isn't allergic too since it worked for Logan last time) & eye drops.  

Then this afternoon he took 4.5 HOUR NAP.  Poor sick baby.  He must really feel awful.  He was relatively cheerful tonight & has eaten & drank well.  But his one really did a number on him.  He even says "Maas looks hot!"  Guess I told him that a few too many times today?  These pictures are after his nap, & much better looking than he looked this morning!

Dr. Harrison {or Dr. Fran.  My kids now all call him by his first name!} mentioned again how his tonsils are big.  Maybe we can get those suckers out this year since that insurance deductible is already met?  I think if we get another plugged up crud nose-throat-ears-sinus virus I'll start asking about that?

They did so well at the Dr. today.  They are so grown up these days.  They all walked in with me (first time going without a stroller).  Olivia peed in the potty before we went back.  Hayden jumped right up on the scale (then Livi & Logan said "my turn!" & jumped up too)  He sat on the chair in the room (not on my lap) & let the doctor look in his ears, listen to him & only shed a few tears when he looked at this throat (but who doesn't hate that!?)  Told the nurses & doctor that he had "eyes owies."  Amazing difference from November.  He listened to Liv & Logan too since they have snot too, considering our recent RSV history & said they sounded great!  Yay!  And said if they get a fever or eyes like this just to call & he'd send them in some prescriptions too.

Dressed, diapered & with crocks on, Hayden weighed 31.8 pounds!  Olivia weighed 27.2.  And while Logan stood on the scale he was holding on to part of it so we didn't get a weight on him (though I'd guess it to be the same as Liv.  He's finally back to looking like his chubby face-no neck self after our RSV run.)

Granted I never want my kids to be sick... with all the house work we have been doing the past 4.5 weeks... it was nice to have a veg out day with them today!  And they were excited that we had some time to kill at Walmart waiting for prescriptions.  They LOVE LOVE going there these days, because they always, always ask to "go look at fish in the water."  {Yeah we need to get to the zoo badly!!}

Hope he's feeling (& looking) a little better tomorrow.  Poor boy!