Tommy is sick!

As always, gotta make this quick, Tommy will be awake any moment now...

Sunday night was the night from hell. Tommy had some kind of illness, he's been congested for a while, but it seemed like something else was bothering him as well. About an hour or so after he went to bed he woke up in a complete and total meltdown. I haven't seen him like that since he was a little tiny baby - he screamed at the top of his lungs for almost 45 minutes. Both Emmett and I were trying so hard to comfort him and he alternated between clinging to us and then when we couldn't seem to help him, he would swing at us. He was completely out of control and nothing we could do would seem to help him or calm him. We gave him a bottle, but he threw it across the room. It was scary and sad and awful. I don't know even now what was hurting or why. At the time I was thinking of an ear infection because of the swim lesson on Saturday, but by Monday he didn't show any other symptoms or fever or anything. He still might have had some kind of ear problem because he did say to me while we were in the car on Sunday, "Mommy, owwwie ear". Anyway, it was awful. I was sitting there debating whether or not we would have to go to the emergency room when he finally cried himself into exhaustion and fell back to sleep.

He got up again a couple hours later and I got up and talked him through it. He got up a third time another hour or so later and I was so tired, debating with myself, 'I should get up. Emmett has to work tomorrow and I don't so I should be the one to get up. ' Then the other side saying, 'but you have to patient with him all day tomorrow, so Emmett should get up this time so that you can be rested to be with Tommy all day' In the end, that side won out and I nudged Emmett awake and asked him to get up with Thomas. Well, poor Emmett. He got the short end of the stick that time because Tommy had vomited all over his bed and Emmett had to clean everything up before he could come back to bed. The good news was that Tommy was so utterly and completely worn out from the vomiting and the crying and all that that he went right back to sleep and did not wake up again until 8:30 in the morning.

I decided to go extra easy on him yesterday. He seemed much better when he woke up in the morning, no fever or anything and his mood seemed much better. We watched Sesame Street and Teletubbies and played with blocks for a while. I had been planning to take him to the doctor's office, but he seemed so much better that I decided against it. [I think I forgot to mention that on Sunday night he had also been coughing and wheezing - another bout with his asthma. But we managed to give him two puffs on both his inhalers and it worked like a charm! The coughing stopped immediately and hasn't been back since - YAY - the wonders of modern medicine at work!!] After a while he said he wanted Simba - so I tried to put in the Lion King DVD which we hadn't yet watched, I thought it would be such a huge treat for him to see the cartoon that goes with the music that he loves. Well, we got about 1/2 hour into it and the dvd stopped working so I don't know if it's the dvd player or the dvd itself but it was SOO frustrating!! I think I was more into the show than Tommy and wanted to see it worse than he did, so I was completely frustrated!!! I never did get it fixed and that made me sort of cranky, although I know I should not have allowed it to.

Tommy took about a 3 1/2 hour nap yesterday, which was due in part to his illness and in part to the Benedryl that I put in his bottle to help with it. I slept about 2 hours of that and then tried to catch up with e-mails, etc. I also gave another go at trying to fix the Lion King, still didn't work. I don't know why I have such a hard time letting go of things - I'm so bullheaded sometimes!!! haha - no comments from the peanut gallery, please! :-)

After his nap I was in a big hurry to get out of the house because we need to get some groceries. Of course trying to rush with a toddler is never a good thing, so that just increased my frustration. I really wanted to walk to the grocery store to get some exercise (it's about 3/4 of a mile each way), but I knew that it would add some time to everything and then dinner would be late and Emmett would be upset, etc. etc. In the end I decided that Emmett would have to deal with it, because if I didn't get out and get some exercise and work off some of my frustration, we weren't going to have a very good night, anyway. So Tommy and I walked to Bell Market and picked up a few staples, like bread and milk and potatoes and walked back home and I felt much better afterwards. We gave Tommy some leftover pasta for dinner and then Emmett gave him a nice bath. After Tommy went to bed, Emmett and I had a yummy dinner of Rockin Oysters Rockefeller (yummy!!) that I made from the fresh oysters I bought on Sunday and also mashed potatoes and salads. It was a pretty good dinner.

To round out the evening, Emmett and I sat and read for about a half hour and then went to bed early. I love not having to go to work!

Well, better run. I need to check on Thomas and I want to get moving today so that he and I can go and do something really fun.

Love,
Melissa