Sickness and Other Shenanigans

This little nugget has been a sick dude. Over a week ago, before New Year's, he started running a fever. New Year's Eve day we went to the doctor and he had a double ear infection and a cold. So he started on antibiotics for his ears, which upset his tummy for the first 2 days. Last Saturday he started acting more like himself, but was still not sleeping well AT ALL. Like he wouldn't go more than an hour or two at night in his crib. This past Monday we noticed some little bumps on the back of his neck. It looked like a heat rash, so we didn't think much of it. He was also still very congested. Tuesday night his rash had turned into what almost looked like hives and was on his tummy, back, and neck. Wednesday morning I took him to the doctor. They checked his oxygen saturation because his lungs didn't sound great when they listened to them. Needless to say, he needed a breathing treatment in the office and was diagnosed with bronchiolitis. (Inflammation/infection of the small airways of the lungs most common in children under one year, caused by any one of 7 viruses.) They didn't test him for RSV because his oxygen saturation came up quickly after the breathing treatment, so it is probably caused by another virus. Thank goodness. He is on an oral steroid and breathing treatments here at home. He is doing much better! And the rash is almost gone. It is weird because the whole time I was thinking he didn't seem right but I couldn't put my finger on what might be wrong. DUH-get out your stethescope, nurse, who used to work in pediatrics!!!!!! For the most part he has remained his happy self. Lola has been very helpful the whole time. She started back to school this week.

Here are some pictures from the last week of the kids playing.

Lola sharing her kitchen.

"Cool sister, take me in there with you!"
"Mom, why can't we get in the dryer?"

Enjoy the pictures!