Another Ear Infection

Apparently Mikey has another ear infection.

When I got home from my first class today, at about 11:15, he seemed normal. After a little while I noticed he felt a little warm. Over the next couple hours he got a little warmer, so I checked his temperature. I got 100.8, so no big deal, I'll just keep watching him. We were just sitting on the couch, watching TV together (weird that he just wanted to snuggle with me) when he started crying. I got up to get him some children's motrin when he projectile vomited all over the kitchen floor. (Good thing I got up and went to the kitchen!) So...I called the doctor's office to see if I should bring him in. They said his doctor didn't have any openings today (surprise surprise, I really like his doctor, but apparently so does everyone else. We can never get in when he's sick so we get stuck with someone else) so they suggested taking him to the InstaCare across the street. His temperature had gone down by the time we got there. (I think his puking helped him feel a little better too.) That doctor didn't impress me. The first thing he said when he walked in was a comment that Mike was tugging on his ear. Everyone says that. Mike plays with his ear as a comfort object, usually when he's tired, so everyone always thinks he has an ear infection. He looked at his ears anyway and still decided on an ear infection so he prescribed some omnicef. Whatever. Now that we're home and he's had some motrin, antibiotics, a little pedialyte, and a couple teddy grahams, he's talking and playing again. :)

Baby or Little Boy?

My baby is quickly growing into a little boy, especially in the last few days. (He'll be 11 months tomorrow!) Here are some fun pictures.



Drinking his bottle standing up. He doesn't trust himself enough so he's barely touching the chair.















Playing on his piano.


















Trying to drink from a sippy with a straw.

















His new favorite hiding place.
















Slowly sitting down when we try to get him to stand.














Making a mess in the kitchen, as usual.






Here he is running away before I can put a new diaper on and going straight to making messes. (Joshua thinks I'm weird for taking pictures, but I think his little bum is so cute!

Our new car

Here are some pictures of our new car. Ours is the white one. The yellow M3 is Joshua's friend Kyle's.

We did it

We traded in our 2007 Honda Fit. There wasn’t really anything wrong with it, Joshua just wanted something different. Today we were out running some errands and he saw a car he had to have. It’s bigger and has some fun things like a sunroof, heated seats, etc that the Fit doesn’t have. I told him if he could make it work so that we paid less per month than we do for the Fit, he could get it. They somehow worked it out without a down payment and we are now the proud owners of a white, 2001 BMW 330i sedan.

Armed Robbery

Click on the title for an article of what happened last night.

That Winger's is just a couple of blocks from the Applebee's I work at, so of course last night and tonight everyone was just a little freaked out. The managers are telling everyone who does Carside (that was me tonight) that if someone like that comes in, just open the till and stand back. They are also making sure everyone knows where the panic button is in the office and how to use it. Craziness.

Sicky boy

We took Mike to the doctor's today. The doctor didn't think he had the flu, but we told him to test for it anyway since Joshua's family has all had it this week. Sure enough, he has it. He also still has an ear infection in one ear. We got some more antibiotics (omnicef this time) for the ear infection, but unfortunately there's nothing we can do for the flu. He said it's only going to get worse, and all we can give him for it is Motrin. Poor kid.

He also gave me and Joshua prescriptions for Tamiflu so we can try and prevent catching the flu. The only problem was it's dang expensive since we don't have insurance for us. :S However, it's a lot better than missing lots of work AND being sick, so we paid for it and hope it works!

Mikey in the snow

Some fun pictures from January:


Photo Collage by Dundoo - MySpace Editor