One of Those Days

In fact it's been more like one of those weeks. On Monday night Jefferson felt warm to me. On Tuesday my mom called and said he had a fever and she had given him some medicine. Tuesday night I took him to my Primary meeting, he felt warm and was fussy. His temperature was 101.7 when I got home and took it and he woke up four times during the night. Wednesday morning I came to work and was only here 15 minutes before I went home to take care of him and get my house ready for a jewelry party I was hosting that I had planned three weeks before. Before he went to sleep his temperature was 102 but he only woke up once during the night. Thursday morning Jefferson woke me up and he felt normal and was sitting in bed by me being his happy, normal self. I was so tired so I called in late for work and tried to get Jefferson down for a nap. After four tries I gave in and just laid down and held him and we both feel asleep in my bed. He felt warm again when he got up from his nap but Joel's mom Marty came to our house and watched him for me. I got to work a little after twelve and at about a quarter to three Joel called and said he was on his way home because Emylee was home and had called him to say Jefferson had thrown up. I called the doctor and left work. Luckily we were able to get into the doctor quickly. She said he has an ear infection and that his throat is a little pink and gave us an antibiotic (of course when we were at the doctor's office his temperature was only 98.4). We gave him the antibiotic last night and he didn't like that at all, he had to take a teaspoon and a half which seems like a ton for a baby. He was so tired and fought it but finally fell asleep a little before 8, just to wake up again at 10:30. I thought I could just feed him and lay him back down, but Jefferson thought otherwise. He finally fell asleep at 1:07am. He woke up once more in the night and then my alarm went off. As hard as these last few days have been for me, I know they've been even worse for Jefferson. We are all looking so forward to the weekend and a chance to relax and be home with nothing to do.

Something New

Joel and I discovered something new that Jefferson likes last night. We had gone to dinner at Ming's, a yummy Chinese restaurant that we love downtown. Jefferson was so tired and I had him asleep before we left but when I put him in his car seat he woke up. So I was worried about entertaining him while we were eating but Joel found the perfect thing. I have to give you a little bit of back ground first though. About three months ago Jefferson decided that he didn't like his binky and it made him mad when we would try to give it to him. While we were camping I pulled the binky out of the diaper bag to let him play with and he chewed on it for a while. So last night at dinner he had been playing with it and Joel dipped it the sweet and sour sauce. Jefferson thought that was great and sucked on it for over five minutes before he took it out, looked at it, and put it back in his mouth. We did it a few times during dinner and he loved it every time. We started him on baby food and cereal about two months ago and I love to see how he reacts to new things. When I bought baby food last time they had "pineapple glazed ham" he hasn't tried it yet but we'll see how he like it. I didn't have my camera last night to take pictures but here are some cute one of him eating.

Notice his cute little bib, Em got it for him right after he was born and it says "I'm the Little Brother". Speaking of Emylee, she gets home tonight and we are all so excited. I didn't think she was coming home till the fifteenth so I was pleasantly surprised when we found out she was flying in tonight. We have all totally missed her and Jefferson is going to be so excited to see her. I have chicken in the crock pot for dinner tonight because it's one of Em's favorite, it's so nice to go home and already have dinner cooking.