Sick Baby

So here's the downside to taking off 12 weeks to stay home with your newborn baby, you head back to school with no sick days and you put your baby in daycare and he gets sick! Of course, you have to stay home with him, you are the mother, but you have one sick day and now that's gone and you'll have to wait till next month to earn another. So, building up sick days so you can have another baby in three or four years doesn't seem like it's going to happen! :)

Garrett has had a cough for a while. About a week or two before we went back to school, he got a sinus infection. So, the dr. put him on Claratin. He has never dried up. In the meantime, he has developed a cough. Dr. said at 3 month check up that a cough is normal with the excess slobber he has in his throat from teething (which we now have 2 bottom front teeth...very cute)! So, no worries until this week when it's gotten worse and he wakes himself up at night having a coughing fit and cries cause it hurts to cough. Along with the fact, that Cyndi called and said that she went to the dr. on Thursday and he said if she was a 3 month old she'd have the croop but since she's an adult she has the virus that causes the croop. Guess what, she kept Garrett last Saturday! So, all this adds up to Mommy taking a sick day to take Garrett to the dr. so he can get better plus he can't go to school until he hasn't had a fever for 24 hrs. with no tylenol and he went to bed with 100.3.

It's hard to see your baby sick and all you want to do is take it away! So, pray for us that he gets what he needs tomorrow and can be on the road to recovery! Mommy needs to save her sick days for a little sister...lol! :)

The Beginning of School

School started back and it hasn't been too bad except it is so hard to get up! It makes it even harder when Garrett doesn't sleep well at night! Robert had to miss the first day of school because Garrett woke up with his eye matted over! Our first thought was pink eye, but it turned out to just be his sinuses. So he got eye drops and went back to daycare the next day! His two bottom teeth have began to come through and you can feel them! It is so exciting to watch him grow and change, but not fun to deal with the fussiness that goes with it!

Corbin loves school so far this year! He says it's his best year ever. Yeah!!! He was already starting to say he didn't like school and that worried me! He told us it is because in 3rd grade you have more freedom. He had such a good first two weeks, he had a friend stay over on Friday night. We decided to do movies after Garrett went to bed...Robert and I barely made it through the first 3o minutes and we were asleep! Yes, we're getting old. We all went to the pool on Saturday. Boys are competitive and so we had to stop them from playing anything where they could be competitive because it became a battle! I said we could only do this about once every three months because we were all so tired by the time we took his friend home! We also wanted to give Corbin a night where he had us to himself, so Cyndi watched Garrett for about an hour Saturday night while the three of us went to eat at Applebee's! It was fun and gave us a chance to catch up and just relax and talk. Corbin was so exhausted though from the previous night he was ready to get home and get in bed! He slept from 8:30 pm to 9:00 am! Wish Garrett would do that...lol!

We are enjoying our long weekend just relaxing! Life will begin to get busier as soccer season starts on Tuesday and the demands of games begins to take its toll too! Hope everyone else enjoyed their long weekend! Have a blessed week!