Sorry no pictures today! Not that anyone in our house has been in the mood to smile lately! I came down with the stomach bug last Wednesday afternoon. Luckily my mom and dad came and got Stratton asap and took him to their house. I was feeling better by Friday afternoon and Jarrod and I had previously planned to to to Memphis and stay the night for our birthdays (his was the 18th and mine is the 25th) and so we went ahead and decided to go. We had a great time, did some eating out, went to a movie, slept in and then did some shopping. And the weather was perfect! We got back to Jonesboro late Saturday and crashed. Sunday we headed to Hickory Ridge for church and our birthday party with the family. We ended up staying the whole day there. We got home about 9:00pm. Monday was super busy, I had missed Thursday and Friday from being sick the week before so I had A LOT to catch up on. Tuesday about 3pm Stratton's daycare called to tell me his was throwing up and had a fever. I assumed it was the stomach bug. Well, the vomiting part ended but he kept running a fever so Jarrod stayed home with him on Wednesday, since I had meetings at work. About 11am Stratton's fever spiked and so Jarrod decided to take him to the Dr. They got an appt at 2pm and Jarrod said poor Stratton was like a zombie. He didn't leave his lap for almost the whole time they were there. The Dr decided to swab him for strep and it came back positive. I didn't know that vomiting was a symptom of strep throat? I learned something new! Any they put him on an antibiotic and told him to keep rotating the Tylenol and Motrin for the fever. I guess by the time I got home the meds had kicked in and he seemed to be feeling much better! He helped me make eggs and we played for awhile. Then after his bath at 7pm things went downhill. You could tell he felt awful and his fever was so high he was wringing wet and wanted to be all balled up with blankets. It was a rough night to say the least. He only slept in his crib for about an hour then we tried to sleep with him in the recliner and that didn't work, so finally we put in him bed with us and he finally went to sleep. we were up and down a lot until about 3am when he finally really crashed. Yep, we (or he I should say) was up eating cheese puffs at midnight. I didn't put up much of a fight. It made him happy and he quit crying and fussing! The hardest part was just seeing him cry and cry and cry and there wasn't anything we could do to make him happy or help him feel better. He hasn't ran a fever since about 5am this morning and has seemed to be much better today! I am hoping we have a better night tonight. Now, if Jarrod gets sick (I won't be surprised) but I am sending him to his momma's!! Haha.
