Easter 2011

My Mom & Dad have video of me when I was Karson's age, coloring Easter eggs in my walker.  With a black hand, crying every time they took my dyed egg away, and laughing when they gave me a new one.  So no, I'm not crazy for coloring eggs with my 13 month old.  My parent's did it too.  And Karson loved it just as much as I did at his age.  He too had a black hand by the end of it, and cried every time we took his dyed egg away, and laughed when we gave him a white one to color.

 he also learned that egg dye doesn't tasted good. neither does sucking on a colored egg.

 I had only had prepared 12 eggs for Karson to dye.  I was getting worried, by his reaction when we took his dyed eggs that he would flip out when we didn't have any more to give him.  But alas, when he had just 1 egg left, he decided he had, had enough.  And he was done.

On Easter morning, I had plans to get up early, play Easter Bunny, and hide the eggs he had dyed the night before.  I had my alarm set, and I was so excited to have everything perfect before Karson woke up.  But alas, he woke up 2 hours early, 5 minutes before my alarm went off. And he woke up on the very wrong side of his crib!  We cuddled in the rocking chair, and I took his temperature.  98.6  He was fine.  Just really crabby!  We managed making a big breakfast, and getting ready for church, with taking care of a crabby Karson.  My Mom & Dad played with Karson in a different room, while DJ and I played Easter Bunny.   I only hid a few, as his mood wasn't very promising.

 He loved it, and had so much fun finding his dyed eggs, and chucking them into his special Easter Basket.

 blurry picture...sorry...still cute though.

 He loved emptying out his Easter Basket, with his goodies.

We went to church, and Karson was acting a little off.  He fell asleep on our way home, and took a 3 hour nap.  He woke up with a 103.3 fever.  I knew it.  I knew he was sick when he first woke up, but that darn thermometer misled me.  He was miserable!  We spent the rest of the day snuggling in the rocking chair.

I took him in on Monday to find he had a mouth full of blisters.  No wonder the poor thing wouldn't eat a thing!  He is finally feeling better today, but still has quite a few blisters in his mouth.  We are enjoying a lot of smoothies, and snuggles on the couch!

Our Day

up early
crying
sad baby
lots of cuddles
crying
fever
praise baby
napping in the chair
crying
call to the nurse
cuddling
crying
clutching paci & blankie
higher fever
visit to the pediatrician
viral infection
mouth full of blisters
cutting teeth
crying
cuddling
napping
begging for 'num num nums'
sore mouth
can't eat 'num num nums'
crying
cuddling

tired mommy
miserable munchkin

Sick, Dumptrucks, and Molly...

Karson has had another rough week.

He started with a fever on Saturday and was acting totally normal.

You would have never known he was sick. 

Sick baby who wouldn't drink or eat anything...a Popsicle does the trick!

Then Sunday evening his fever spiked.

Tylenol wouldn't bring it down.

Mommy got worried.

Karson's attitude changed almost instantly.

He went from acting totally normal, to laying limp in my lap.

We ended up at the ER, right before Super Bowl started.

 We watched Cars.

Took turns snuggling.

Tried everything we could to get Munchkin to drink something.

He even got his first taste of an orange slushie.

Two sips, and he was done.

The doctors watched his fever for a while.

Upped his tylenol dose, and sent us home

Tuesday he broke out with a rash.

Everywhere.

Yesterday, he took 4 naps.

He rarely even takes 2 anymore.

These pictures are deceiving.

He really only let me put him down for about 2 minutes all day.

 

I am pretty sure he is running to me, because I had his blanket.

And apparently his paci too.

See his bumps on his forehead?  The ones that are not supposed to itch, but obviously bother him....

Even though he wasn't feeling well, his dump truck was just too interesting to pass up.

He has become quite inquisitive.

 He loves to try and figure out how things work.

He looked and looked at his dump truck.

Trying to figure out why the teeth kept disappearing and reappearing.

He moved onto inspecting Noah for a few seconds.

 And went right back to investigating that dump truck.

Opening and closing the bucket, trying to figure it all out.

 And Molly always finds a way to crack me up.

Why does it crack me up that she is laying on the floor?

Because she insists she must always lay in front of the heat vent.

Always. She just discovered it. And she loves it. Cracks me up.

Last night we couldn't find her.  She was laying by the heat vent in the bedroom.

We are hoping for a less eventful week next week...

Sick

I love winter.
I love the snow.
But I know understand why Mommies look forward to spring!
My baby is sick.
Last week we noticed that all he wanted to to was snuggle.
Unlike him, but he had no other symptoms. 

I texted DJ this picture on Friday. 
Telling him to look forward to lots of snuggles when he got home from work.
Munchkin was extra cuddly.

 On Sunday he was out of character, fussy.

He is an easy baby.

The only reason he fusses, is because he is hungry.

Give a crabby Karson food, and he goes about running around our house, and terrorizing Molly.

This was Karson on Monday.

When I posted on FB that I thought he might actually be getting teeth.

I was wrong...again...

he stayed in his crib for all of 2 minutes before he wanted to snuggle again

Same day.

Same position.

Different nap...

Yesterday his nose started.

His cough started.

His fever spiked.

Worried Mama.

 

After a long night of crying, fevers, and no sleeping, we headed to the pediatrician.

Where Karson just laid limp on my lap.

Did not fight getting his temperature taken.

Did not fight the gagging-strep test.

Did not fight the pediatrician checking his ears.

He has a temperature.

No ear infections.

Negative strep test.

to the surprise of the pediatrician

No medications means we wait out whatever is making my baby so sad.

Until then, this is how we have been spending our day.

In our PJs.
Snuggling in the rocking chair.
We are ignoring any TV rule, and have our Praise Baby DVDs on repeat.
I have let go of my nutritional obsessions, and offered him have jello.
FYI...the 2nd ingredient in jello is HFCS.   ick
I bought him chocolate milk, because he refused his bottle, and I already know he won't drink regular milk.
He took a few ounces, and was done.
I have yogurt in the freezer for him.
DJ picked up juice cycles on his way home, to sooth his raw throat.

He is sad.
He is miserable.
...is it spring yet??




Excuse the picture quality...they were all taken from my phone.