Busy, Busy, Busy...

As usual, it has been a crazy couple of weeks. Let's recap...

I was supposed to leave Jackson for the first time a little over a week ago. It was a couple's trip to motorcycle races in Indianapolis. Let's be honest - I don't have a lot of interest in motorcycles, but I was going for the company (my hubby!). The wife of the other couple dropped out at the last minute, so it became a boy's trip. Although I missed the time with Justin, I was also just fine spending the weekend with Jackson. It was quite the fussy weekend, but he is trying to cut his top molars. I tried to keep him busy. We walked every day. We ran errands every day... and of course, we played. After a weekend of whining, he woke up Monday morning with a low grade fever.... so off to the doctor we went. He had an ear infection in both ears. The doctor said it wasn't too bad. She prescribed antibiotics and we went on our way. I put him to bed Monday night thinking he would be back at daycare the next day. WRONG! He spiked a fever of 104.4 in the night. It scared us to death. After some motrin and a bath at 2 in the morning, his fever did go down below 104 (but not much below). He battled a fever from Tuesday until Thursday evening. Finally, we went back to the doctor after making it long enough that the doctor thought that it was odd that he still had a fever. I am not convinced that he didn't have some other virus going on too because he was having some stomach issues. Well, it turns out that the antibiotics weren't helping, so they gave him a shot of antibiotics. Those shots must hurt pretty bad, because I can honestly say that I could not calm him down and he was really mad at me. Thankfully, Justin came to the rescue.

Saturday (also known as GAMEDAY!!), we drove down to Dreher Island for my nephew's fifth birthday. We battled whether or not that was the right thing to do. The last fever he had was Friday morning. At the end of the day, we thought maybe it would be good for him to get out of the house for a little while. I know he was probably getting stir crazy from having felt so awful and being confined to the house. We had a quick, nice visit that clearly wore him out. It was great to see all the family and friends that were there. He is still whiny today. Thankfully, my friend Nichole (and her fiance Greg) didn't hold it against him. They came for a visit to meet my little joker. They brought him his first Clemson football chair and big football. Pictures will come soon of that.

At this point, I am not sure if I should just blame the whining on the molars or if his ears are still bothering him. I hope it is just his teeth. And... I hope those teeth pop through as soon as possible... I am tired of the whining!! It's starting to wear me down. Tomorrow, I hope our day is uneventful and whine free! I really just want him to be well again. It's so sad to see him feeling bad. I just want him to feel like his fun self again.