Sick Day

On Wednesday my sweet boy woke up from his nap with a fever. I took him to the doctor and he has strep throat. He acted fine all day yesterday! He played and played . I even let him jump on the trampoline because his little body needed the sensory input ( he was driving me a little nuts crashing into things and throwing his body around the room). He was even running a slight fever most of day. It takes a lot to take that boy down! But man it hit him around 6pm and it DID take him down. He went from playing to becoming lethargic and just "out of it". I took his temperature and it was 103. I gave him some tylenol and he immediately vomited. I wasn't sure what to do ( whether I could give him MORE tylenol after I got him cleaned up) so I called a friend who was on her way over who happens to be a nurse. She suggested I put him in lukewarm water to bring down the fever. I did and MAN did it tick him off! To him it felt like the water was ice cold. He got so upset that it only made the fever higher! I got him out of the tub and got him dried off and calmed down. I put a light tshirt on him and his underwear. I offered him a popsicle but he only ate half of it. I decided to give him a tylenol to see if he could keep it down ( he takes the kind that dissolves in his mouth and takes 3 for his age and weight). He then agreed to have some gatorade. After about 20 minutes I coaxed him into having another tylenol. This was a little tricky because all he wanted to do was sleep and not move. This did the trick and bought the fever down. Hallelujah! His fever stayed down all night. We are staying at home today although he is happily playing with his cars as he just shoved a car in my hand and said "let's play cars." He missed the big Easter Egg hunt yesterday that our moms group has every year. I am hoping he is well enough tomorrow to take to our community Easter Egg hunt and then the Padres game tomorrow night that we have tickets for and have been looking forward to as a family outing. Well I must go now and play cars.


One of the things we did yesterday was build a city out of blocks for Aidans cars. I then was able to sneak in some handwriting by having him label the buildings. lol.

Here is Burger King....
The airport....

The bank and mall....

He had fun!

Our city also included Nordstroms, Target, Albertsons, Chick fil A, Ralphs, and McDonalds. The Ralphs even included a zip line that you could take from aisle to aisle and a massive play area. lol. If only that was real life.....