EI #4

Yep. We've won the ear infection lottery again. WOOOO! This time we had the added bonus of pink eye and a sinus infection as well. Sunday we went to the urgent care clinic to get some medicine for the poor boy.

Yesterday, we went to visit the pedi for a recheck and the left ear was still looking very bad. The pedi switched our antibiotic, so hopefully this will kick the EI to the CURB! He also said to start thinking about who our favorite ENT was, since we'd probably be seeing one in the fall.

Hold the presses!

Ok, so it's not really a real tooth sticking out just yet. At least I haven't been able to feel it. But the sitter, Miss Jodi swears its there at lunchtime every day. :)

TOOOOOOFFF!!!

We have a TOOOF! Finally, after what feels like 5 months of teetching out of 6 months, we have a tooth! YAY!

Country Grammar?

Ok, I'm a nut. I think the grammar is correct in the blog title, but I'm not sure if I've properly placed my apostrophe. Since its news about multiple Drews, it comes after the s and not before, right?!?!

These are the things which weigh on my mind...

Uh oh!

It's on now. Cooper can crawl from one end of the living room to the other in no time flat now!!! It's crazy how quickly he went from swimming in one place on the floor and pushing up on his toes and flopping when he tried to crawl to actually being pretty well able to do it! Watch out world!

Poor Baby!

Okay, so the ear infection of 3 weeks ago has kind of taken on a life of it's own.

For Round One, we got Amoxicillen, the lovely bubble gum pink goop that worked for EI #1. It didn't do a thing for EI #2 though, so we went back to the pedi a week later for something new.

Round two, Augmentin. Cooper got three days worth before he turned into one big mess of blotchy, patchy, splotchy, itchy redness. Of course, I freaked out, thinking it was chicken pox. Why freak? Because Dave has never had the chicken pox and we've been told he can't get a vaccination for it because they only give it to college kids and adults over 65. Huh? Anyway, back to the story. After fretting and talking to some nurse friends and some seasoned mothers, I did call our pedi's on-call nurse. She said to give him Benadryl and see if it went away. That way we'd know if it was chicken pox or a reaction to the medicine. Benadryl worked like a charm, so off to the pedi we went first thing the next day.

Round three, Omnicef. Cooper got two days worth of it in him before he started in with a pin-prick rash, which made his skin feel really grainy. It was odd. And then, he started throwing up pretty much everything he ate. The pedi nurse said it was probably a 24 hour bug and to continue giving him the Omnicef. My mama radar said it was the antibiotics and his ear check had come back clear and the Omnicef was just a "make sure it's really gone" treatment. So, he hasn't had it for two nights now and guess who isn't throwing up anymore? Hmmm, that would be Cooper.

Grandma Jones said, "Welcome to the (allergic to medicine) family Cooper!" LOL