sick boy

all these firsts for me...

my first really sick boy.

friday night he started getting ornery, saturday he wasn't quite himself, sunday he cried A LOT and had a fever, monday he cried ALL day, by tuesday his fever broke but he wasn't quite himself, wednesday i had my boy back!

such a sad and hard few days though. 

first time mother that i am, i took him to urgent care sunday night, then to my pediatrician monday night too. 

but all that crying and the high fever? there just had to be something wrong that they could fix.

lesson learned: 

they check eyes, ears, mouth, and nose and brig perks up to play with the table paper and stethoscope.

when eyes, ears, mouth, and nose all look good they say 'sorry' and give you the tylenol and motrin doses. well my little man's fever was barely touched by the medicine and i pretty much just held him and nursed him for 2 days. i felt so bad for little man.

i didn't realize what a smiley boy i have and how much fun it is

until...

he stopped smiling :(

it's funny, as parents we try to do what makes us feel better when we're sick. 

for me that was putting brig in comfy warm clothes (bad idea with the fever), lots of fluids, and reading.

for nate is was giving our boy tubbies. 

not sure our 'feel betters' helped but what did help was when the mail man came tuesday with all the junk mail. brig had a grand old time squashing papers for about 45 minutes.

brig, please don't go away again. i missed you. 

xoxo mommy