Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
Spencer’s favorite thing to do these days is stack stuff. Toys, blocks, really anything…
He’s especially loved these mason jars he pulled out of the drawer…
and then he loves to clap for himself when he gets them all stacked up!
He’s a stackin’ fool!
and a cute fool at that! 🙂
Around here? Well, this one is sick.
He has a “raging” ear infection in his right ear and pink eye in his right eye. Ugh. His throat hurts too and he could have strep but Dr. Walley basically said there was no reason to put him through the strep test because he’ll be on antibiotics for his ear anyway. Maxwell literally finished a round of amoxicillin last Wednesday and is now starting another round of a different antibiotic. Can we please get a break from the winter sickness?
Luckily, this one is healthy and I’m praying he doesn’t catch his brother’s pink eye!
Update – spoke too soon. Spencer woke up with major pink eye in his right eye. Ugh. Double rounds of antibiotic drops!
We had another “snow day” here yesterday where they cancelled school but no precipitation really came. They did the same thing on Tuesday. Everyone is just a little overly cautious around here these days after the Snowpocalypse of 2 weeks ago!
Ending today with a little video of my two little dudes entertaining themselves at the car dealership last weekend. We went to look at cars for Robert which meant he got to test drive and talk to the salesman while I tried to entertain the boys in the dealership! After the boys climbed all over the seats and console of the test car (which I’m sure the salesman loved)…
we did find this empty and pretty soundproof room which provided plenty of entertainment! I just love watching Spencey toddle around!
Can’t see the video? click here.
See you tomorrow with some Valentine fun!
Easy peasy – that’s how the tubes surgery went! Hooray! We got over to Children’s South bright and early around 5:50 am. Spencer wasn’t quite sure why he was up so early but had fun checking out the waiting room and making friends…
They then took us back and got everything ready to go. Every single person we encountered could not have been nicer or more helpful. Plus, we had several that said Barry (Susan’s husband who works at Children’s) had mentioned that they needed to be extra good to Spencer! 🙂 We felt very well taken care of!
Pre-surgery family selfie!
What? Doesn’t everyone take selfies before surgery? No? 🙂
They took him back and, I am not kidding, Dr. Bhuta was back in our room within 12 minutes to tell us it all went great. She said he did have some sitting fluid in his ears so they vacuumed that out and gave us some antibiotic drops. Other than going in for a checkup in 3 weeks, we’re all set! Spencer came out about 10 minutes later – with his puppy and apple juice in tow! – and was pretty groggy. They took all his vitals and had us hang out for a few more minutes to make sure he was ok, which he was despite a little fussiness.
We were back in the car by 7:45 and home eating breakfast by 8:30!
Spencer continued to do great all day. You couldn’t even tell he’d had anything done that morning! Now let’s hope we’re done with ear infections FOREVER!
Happy weekend to you all!
Tubes surgery scheduled for first thing this morning. I’m sure all will go fine and he’ll probably be back home asleep by 9:00.
I love this baby boy.
Will report in after the surgery.
Update – all went well and Spencer handled it like a champ! Back home and hoping for a good nap today!
So…Monday. Oh, Monday. I had an appointment to take Spencer to the ENT yesterday to discuss the possibility of getting tubes. He’s had enough ear infections to warrant a discussion. Plus, I don’t want to him to have to continue to take so many antibiotics and, also, a part of me is wondering if his ears have anything to do with the fact that he’s not really talking yet. Maxwell should have been at school while I took Spencer but he started complaining of a sore throat on Sunday afternoon. By Sunday night he was miserable – and told me so with screaming tears throughout the night at 11:00, 1:00, 3:30 and 5:00. So, not only did I need to take Spencer to the doc Monday morning, but I had to take Maxwell as well.
I should have known the day was not going to be great when I had them all dressed and ready to walk out the door only to see that Spencer had managed to crawl a hole through the knee of his pants…
1 point for Monday.
(ps – that’s my finger poking through the hole,not a footless leg. I had already taken the pants off when I took the picture.)
After a quick pant change, we went to the ENT and the doctor confirmed that he would recommend tubes for Spencer. In medical terms, he basically said there is so little downside that it can only be a good thing for him. No more antibiotics, no more fluid in his ears, etc. We got the surgery scheduled for Thursday – no time like the present, I guess!
2 points for Monday.
While at the ENT, I also had him look in Maxwell’s throat. He said it looked red but couldn’t tell yet if the small white patches were going to be a virus or bacterial infection or anything at all. He recommended waiting another day until going to see the pediatrician to see what was really going to develop on his throat. Well, I already had the appointment with Dr. Walley and we were already out so I just decided to go on up there anyway. I’m very glad I did. Maxwell felt about this good…
Dr. Walley looked in his throat and said that was a pretty clear cut case of strep. The strep test confirmed it 10 minutes later. Ugh. Poor, poor guy. Cue up the amoxicillin.
3 points for Monday.
I already had an appointment in the calendar to take Spencer up to Dr. Walley on Wednesday of this week to get his 15 month shots that he wasn’t able to get last week at his check-up because he had an ear infection. While we were up there I asked if they could just go on and do them and they could! yay! Well, yay for me…not so yay for this sleeping dude…
He had a very rude awakening about 2 minutes later.
4 points for Monday.
I then learned that my brother has to have back surgery on Thursday for a herniated disk. Not fun, not fun at all.
5 points for Monday.
So, I ended Monday with strep, shots and 2 surgeries. Phew. Well played, Monday. Well played. Is it Friday yet?