Adventures of Parenting 4-17-06

Adventures of Parenting All week last week I had been so excited about the weekend. Friday night Jonathan and I had a list of about 30 things that we were going to start doing. Saturday was designated as a work day and Saturday night we were going to go to my parents for a sish-ka-bob cook out. Sunday was a cantata at church that I was so excited to see and then of course dinner with the family and an egg hunt for Landon. Great plans...but it did not turn out that way! All day Friday Landon had been acting normal. However, that evening he wet his pants around 7 so we put him in the bath early and while in the bath, he developed a fever...almost instantly. I was so disappointed!!! I ended up sleeping near him that night bc his fever was so high and he was seriously waking every few minutes and crying. Eventually he started saying that he had an owie in his mouth...I assumed that meant his throat hurt. Saturday he had a 104.6 fever and kept crying about his mouth and I just really thought it was strep throat bc the one time I had it...it came on all of a sudden just like his did. By Saturday night his face and ears were beat red and he was so sick...he was breathing fast and his heart was pounding and I just decided he really needed to be seen. So we took him to urgent care at 8 pm. The doctor looked at his throat (which by then was BLEEDING!) and said she thought it was strep...so she took a strep test. I was so relieved bc they would give him an antibiotic and maybe he would be better the next day...but the test came back negative. I was SO disappointed bc she said it was a virus then and there was nothing they could do but let it run its course. So, I had kept my son out past 10 when he was sick, took him to urgent care (paid too much money), exposed him to various other sicknesses in the waiting room (one little boy was throwing up all of the time....poor kid...which if you know me at all you know I do not handle puke well AT ALL!), and gotten my hopes up for an antibiotic all to take my little boy home empty handed...just as sick as when we had gotten there. But I guess it is a gamble and I would rather be safe than sorry. Oh, yeah, and by the way...I am really tired of what seems like continuous sickness! He has been sick so many times this winter! We are praying for a long time of health...a lifetime would be great. I hate it when he is sick! Yesterday his fever was much lower...only about 101. So...no nursery or church for him...but we did take him to my moms for lunch and an egg hunt. He thoroughly enjoyed both! And I did get to make use of the tie I had bought him a few weeks ago :) It is quite a bit cheaper to dress a boy than a girl. Anyway, I thought he looked like a very cute little man :) So the weekend ended up quite different than I had anticipated. We got very little done, had no cook out and did not even get to go to church, but when we said prayers last night Landon thanked Jesus for making a way to go to Heaven and we got to talk to him about Heaven and how wonderful it will be there. I don't think he understands, but it was still really sweet that he could thank Jesus for raising from the dead On a side note: this morning a Victoria Secret commercial came on. Landon started screaming and saying...Monster, Monster, on TV. I thought it was really funny that he thought the Victoria Secret models were monsters...obviously the commercial was quite dark in nature if it made a two year old think of monsters :)