Jinx!!!

I knew I shouldn't have written that last post. I hadn't planned on doing it until tomorrow, when I was sure Geddy would be all better. Then he was acting so normal for awhile that I thought I would go ahead and post it. As I concluded the last entry I mentioned that he wanted me to hold him on the couch and watch the Elmo movie. I did and I noticed he was feeling hot again so I gave him Tylenol around 2:30. He dozed off and on while watching the movie (so did I). Then about an hour later he started getting really restless and moaning and then it turned into all out crying and sobbing. He acted like he was going to be sick to his stomach again but he was resisting the urge. After almost two hours of crying he finally got sick and started to feel a little better. But his temperature was quite high. I had called our Dr. but of course he is on vacation. None of the other Dr's. at our clinic had an opening. So we went to a pediatrician here in town that has late hours. Of course the Dr. office had lots of fun toys so Geddy started acting pretty normal. (I always wonder how well they clean those toys in the waiting room considering how many different illnesses go in and out of there each day - I just make sure and use sanitizer on Geddy's hands afterwards). When we saw the Dr. Geddy's temperature was still over 102. The Dr. checked him out and said his throat was extremely red with lots of little white spots. But wait, it is not strep throat, it is hand foot and mouth disease! So it's viral and there's nothing we can do about it except try to keep him hydrated and keep giving him ibuprofen and Tylenol. None of which is easy as his throat hurts too bad. The good news is the Dr. said it should be gone by Monday. It shouldn't affect our trip to California at all. Thankfully he is asleep now after having a pretty good evening. Let's just hope he gets a few hours of sleep before the discomfort wakes him up. Oh yeah, and the Dr. said Geddy was the 7Th kid he had seen today with the same thing. So apparently there is some sort of outbreak here and yes, he said we could blame nursery.

Rough couple of days

Geddy seemed to be fine when he woke up yesterday (Wednesday morning) but after a couple of hours he started being fussy. I thought he was just being difficult about breakfast then realized he was shivering because of a fever. I gave him some Tylenol and lay down on the couch with him. After two doses of Tylenol the fever was just getting higher (almost 104). Then I decided to alternate it with Ibuprofen every few hours. That seemed to do the trick. Even though he wasn't feeling good, he still smiled as soon as he saw the camera (first picture).
For a while anyhow. Geddy perked up when Scott got home. He started running around and playing basketball. Of course he over did it and ended up with the chills and his fever went right back up to 104. I got damp washcloths and sponge bathed him and eventually it dropped. Of course he hadn't been able to eat anything all day. Every time his fever peaked he would throw up.
We finally got him to eat a Popsicle late last night. I told him to not get used to being allowed to eat Popsicles on the couch. That revived him a bit and he played (more quietly this time) for an hour or so. Doesn't his hair look great in that picture, thanks to me constantly wiping his head with a damp cloth and also his sweating when his fever would break. He wouldn't look at me because there was a basketball game on TV. He did go to bed and sleep for about three hours. Of course he was up again around 2:30 this morning with a high fever and throwing up. But that was the last time. I checked his temperature a couple of hours ago and it was right at 99.2, so pretty normal.
Thankfully he is feeling a bit better. Though he isn't wanting to eat anything. But then he is fussy because he is hungry. I did manage to get him to eat some Chicken Noodle-O Soup (only because there were O's in it). I took him to McDonald's for a milkshake. That has livened him up a bit. Though you can tell from this picture taken a few minutes ago that he is definitely not his normal exuberant self. I just hate illnesses like this though, he has no symptoms other than a fever. I don't know if I should blame nursery or not. Whenever he gets sick it is on a Wednesday after he has been to nursery. He is wanting me to lay down on the couch with him and watch Elmo in Grouchland so I better quit typing.

Spider-Man, Spider-Man!

Here are the pictures of Geddy's meeting with Spider-Man. I was hoping he would be smiling in one of them, but he seems a bit wary and curious in these two. I guess it took him a while to warm up. Within ten minutes of meeting Spider-Man, Geddy wanted to follow him around.

Like Father, Like Son (comics, action figures and of course, basketball)

Geddy has always shown an interest in Scott's comics. He has received free comics from various sources. We have let him have some of them, but they don't always survive. Geddy tries to be careful but it's pretty rare for a little guy his age not to tear things. He really wants to be like Dad though and he tries so hard to not rip or crease pages. Last week I finally decided to get a box that is his special box to keep his comics in. He is very proud of his box and only gets to have it when dad is reading his comics (or when mom wants to read a book). He is extraordinarily gentle with these comics. In fact, Scott said tonight Geddy went through the box and separated out the four or five that were in poor condition. He set those aside and put only the nice ones back in his box.

Last weekend was an exciting one for Geddy. Saturday was free comic book day at the comic shop so we all went. Spider-man was there!!!!! Geddy might be terrified of Santa, but not so with Spider-man. He followed him around and kept giving him high-fives. We should have pictures of that soon. When we were done there we went to Burger King for lunch as they have Iron Man toys in their kids meals. We all three got kids meals so we could get three different toys. One of them was this cool pair of Iron Man glasses.

His nose isn't quite big enough to hold them up, but he doesn't care, he's Iron Man when he has them on! Then the best part of the day was seeing the Iron Man movie. After sitting through half an hour of commercials, then about 10 trailers, Geddy was worn out and fell asleep in the first few minutes of the movie. This was fine with me as it takes a little while to get to the really cool armor and battle scenes. Geddy had amazing timing and woke up the moment Iron Man was putting on his red and gold armor. He got a big grin on his face (Geddy not Iron Man) and started clapping. He was great and watched the rest of the movie - though he was quite wiggly the last ten minutes, but then again, so was I.

When we got home that night we pulled out a variety of action figures for him to play with. A couple of them he wanted to pose with yesterday when I had the camera out. You can see them in the slide show. For some reason he picked the ugly one as his favorite. It's real name is M.O.D.O.K. (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing) but for some reason Ged decided to call him Bob and Bob he is. He thinks he is sitting in a kind of high chair so when Geddy eats he wants Bob to sit on the table by his high chair and eat too. Silly boy!

Sorry, this is a huge long post. It has been a while since my last one and I can never decided which pictures I want to use. I probably should just do shorter ones on different days, but I never know when I am going to have time to sit down and blog I would rather get it all done at once. I spent all night on the computer at work so I hadn't planned on coming home and spending anouther half hour typing and uploading photos, but somehow I ended up doing just that. My allergies are back full force. I have had over a ten year reprieve from them thanks to many, many, many shots. (Thanks Mom and Dad:) Guess I will just have to let Scott mow the lawns from now on! This is the end for now, I plan on taking some much needed Benadryl and crashing. Hopefully Geddy will continue his record-setting behavior of all-night sleeping (so far he's done the last four nights, 10 hours straight). However, I am sure by just writing that he will waken often.