Does he look sick to you?
After yet another round of throwing up last night, I decided it was time to take Andy to the doctor this morning. The vomiting has been fairly constant for almost a week now, and it just didn't seem like a bug. If it was something I was feeding him, then I needed to figure out what, and if he had some kind of allergy, I needed to know that too. Also, when I was cleaning his ears in the tub, he was pulling away more than normal and was really not liking me to be any where near his ears. I figured they could check on that too while we were there.
He weighed in a 21.5 pounds (woah) and had a temp of 99.8- not bad at all. When the doctor came back, I explained all of the symptoms and he was pretty baffled. He kept saying, "hmmm, well that IS a mystery!" Uhhh.... okay. He immediately ruled out an ear infection because he thought Andy was too calm and happy. He said babies with ear infections are much more uncomfortable and irritable. He checked everything else and thought everything was good. He thought maybe it was a urine infection, but that was quickly ruled out too. Finally, after checking everything, he looked in his ears...and yup: he has an ear infection in BOTH ears! Bless his heart-- he is just such a mellow kid that he wasn't acting upset about them! The doctor was stunned- ha! Andy is our little mystery kid- haha!
He gave us some antibiotics and we were done. Cal went with us... my mom offered to keep him, but I thought he would be okay to go with us. He was fine for the most part...but he wanted me to hold him while I was holding Andy while he was being examined... it was challenging to say the least! There is a reason you do not take both kids to well visits! It was impossible to talk to the doctor about Andy while Cal was opening and closing slamming the cabinet doors.
And that little snuggle bug above, told me this morning: "Cal no more pay-pers." Let me translate: Cal doesn't wear diapers. I put some on him anyway, and he came to my bathroom about 20 minutes later and told me he had to pee. I took the diaper off and he climbed up on the potty to go. We had some naked time today and he peed on the potty every time.
I put him in a diaper for the doctor and errands today and he announced (loudly) every time he was going.
Looks like it's about that time....
Lord, be with me.
