So sick

Aidan was miserably sick all week this week. Last Saturday night he came down with a really high temperature and vomited twice. Then, he spent three days with a continuingly high temperature, before visiting the doctor with a slightly lower one (102). He was lethargic and spent days where he hardly ate anything (a few bites of ice cream sandwich one day, a couple of crackers and cheese another - we were just grateful that he kept drinking milk). On Thursday, a combination of Motrin and Tylenol started being more effective in regulating his temperature. Friday, he started being more cheerful, and interested in food (some goldfish for breakfast, a few bites of crunchy Ramen for luch, and a pizza crust for dinner), but then seemed to come down with an ear infection, so had to start taking medicine for that (since he doesn't like it, Mommy called it his "Marshmellow medicine" and gives him a marshmellow each time he takes it!), as well as his fever-reducing Tylenol and/or Motrin. Finally, over the weekend (which Mommy and Aidan spent in the Catskills with Grandma while Daddy left for a conference in Arizona), he began to really get back to his old cheerful, more normally eating, and unfeverish self. It was such a relief! It has been really scary to see him so sick.


Mommy took the week off from work to be with Aidan, and Aidan took the week off of daycare to get better, and we watched lots of Caillou and Wonder Pets and Winnie the Pooh on TV, read books, painted lots of pictures, and did a lot of sleeping(in the daytime - not so much at night!)


Once Aidan started feeling better, he had fun playing baseball with Daddy (looking comfortable hitting lefty!), and playing piano concerts for Mommy and Grandma Ruane (he especially likes playing sad, slow songs; he loves playing low notes to have elephants come to the door, and medium-range notes to have polar bears visit; and he read off the number of bass and treble clefs from Grandma's music scores and made sure he made the same number of high or low notes ("4!") -- it is amazing to see how much he has learned from music class in school, and how much he loves music!). He also enjoyed playing his "letter game" on the computer (he types out the letters or numbers of his favorite trains and makes sure Mommy puts them in the right color - blue A, red 1, etc.), having pretend cocoa parties, and even taking pictures of Mommy, Grandma and his polar bear (and his letter game)!


Daddy will be gone until a week from tonight, but Aidan went back to daycare relatively cheerfully this morning. We are looking forward to visiting Grandpa Ruane, as well as Grandma, in the Catskills this weekend. Then, we'll just have another day and a bit before Daddy comes home again! Aidan told me that "there are too many trips, Mama!" -- it is a bit crazy right now, but I'm looking forward to getting through it!