Likes: 7:00AM; Hybrid narrators
Dislikes: Sugar coma; unpacking

And he's OK

Clear Skies

We think that we've weathered the storm. Ethan slept from about 11:30am until 2:00pm and then fussed for about an hour and didn't want to do anything I suggested (except me holding him).

We did head down to church for the last hour but he wouldn't go to Mia, so I didn't end up teaching my class anyway. We also left a bit early.

But, after church Ethan had much more energy, was willing to eat, and generally acted better. He's been talkative again, has wanted to play instead of just sitting around, and actually ate his dinner of chicken soup with stars.

Unfortunately, his poop is still pretty watery and rather frequent. But, he's started asking for diaper changes just before he actually makes the poop, which means that he's got some control. We are putting him to bed now (7:00pm) and hoping he'll go the night without waking up with a messy diaper.

It's been quite the up-and-down couple of days with him but we think this should be the end of it. (Or very close.)

Recovery

Ethan woke up this morning at 5:00 a.m. asking for his cup, and then some bread. He ate two slices, watched a little Blue's Clue's with me and went back to bed a 7:00. He woke up again at about 8:00, but by 8:30 he was in our bedroom snuggling with me and we laid in bed (with some sleeping) until about 10:00. We gave him some Cheerios and a popsicle. At this point we were thinking that he was just playing us to get his way with the popsicles. He ate pretty well at breakfast, and hadn't had any messy diapers yet. I started getting him dressed for church, which he didn't like, and then he made a very small (but still watery) poop. I changed him, and he started getting sleepy again.

Realizing that we would never make it through church with him crashing like this (and Mia and I needed to at least catch some of Primary since we both have callings there) I put him back down about 11:30 and we are hoping he'll only sleep for an hour again so we can get to church on time.

His fever is down, he was 99.8 when Mia checked him earlier. His appetite is coming back and he seems to be getting more energy. He played a little this morning while he was awake, including some coloring. We think that the worst is over and now it's just a matter of getting him back up to full strength.

Fever

After getting home yesterday, he still had a fever of about 103. However, he was able to drink some juice (mixed with water) and even ate half of a jelly sandwich that I made for him. We wanted him to eat and drink more, but compared to the plane trips he was doing pretty well. He fell asleep at about 7:00pm. Mia and I went to bed around 8:30pm. We'd had a long day and were exhausted.

Today, Ethan woke up at 5AM and needed his diaper changed (still a very watery diaherra) then went back to sleep. At 8:00AM he woke up again, but just wanted to hold my hand and nearly fell back asleep again! I decided to get him up and try giving him a bottle. He tooke some milk, but wouldn't drink his Pedialite. Later he had a popsicle (actually, I had a popsicle because he wouldn't actually come eat the first one) and we watched Robots.

He still hasn't really eaten anything. After making him a sandwich for lunch, he fell asleep on the couch while I was getting his little table set up. So, I put him down for a nap (about an hour early). We'll see if we can get him to eat more later.

And worse

Ethan did something amazing tonight. He made a poop on the potty.

Actually, he made a poop on the changing pad in his room, then when he was standing in the bathtub getting cleaned off he asked to sit on the potty. He then proceeded to make a number of painful (as evidenced by his need for hugs while sitting there) poops which were still mostly diarehha. Poor little guy.

Fortunately, he'd been eating some pasta before this happened, drank his medicine, and had a few bites of oranges.

So, today was not much better than he's been over the last few days. He lost his appetite again today. Which worried us.

He fell right asleep when I took him into his room (he nearly fell asleep while we were making dinner) and has been down since I left. We are hoping that he won't have any diarehha tonight so that he can get some rest and feel better tomorrow.

I'll post more on his condition tomorrow.

Tomorrow

We are off to the magical world of Utah. Christmas is coming early in 2007, we are going to celebrate it on Jan. 2nd. Actually, I suppose that it's coming late but that's not quite true either since Mia, Ethan and I had a very nice Christmas day here, with our neighbors and friends.

Well, whatever we are calling it, we are all excited to be heading out to visit with my entire family. We don't get to see them all that often because of the distances between where we all live. I'm sure the 6 days we have together will be fun (if cramped).

I might even try to blog while I'm out there.

Christmas!

Here are the first three videos from Christmas morning.



And, right after the discovery of Santa's healthy appetite, came the stockings.



And, once we got into the full swing of things, Ethan opened up one of his big presents.

I <3 LeGuin

K

Likes: Yesk, Glasskes

Dislikes: Single-handed handiness