Sickies and a house update

We have had an interesting few days!

Monday evening, I noticed that Noah seemed to be coughing a lot and had a yucky, runny nose. We gave him some cold medicine and put him to bed early. The poor guy kept waking up with coughing spells and it actually started to sound like a croup cough. Tuesday morning, his eyes looked sickly and he had a fever of 101. (How do you take the temperature of a 2 year old? I tried to put it under his tongue, but he was having none of that. I tried under his arm, but he wouldn’t hold still long enough for it to get a good reading. I eventually opted to go the other way. I was shocked that he laid still and let me take it!)

Anyway, I decided to take him to the doctor to get him checked out. We got there at 8:30am and there was literally ONE seat in the waiting room that didn’t have someone sitting in it. We stayed in the waiting room for about an hour and a half. That was SUPER fun….. And we also went to the potty about 578 times with no luck. The exhaust fan in the bathroom was kind of loud and it was freaking him out a bit.

We finally got called back to a room.

The doctor said that he just had a cold/virus that would clear up in a day or so. She gave us some cold medicine to try, with the warning that it may just wire him up. Fun times.

So we went home to snuggle a bit and watch Kung Fu Panda 2 and Thomas.

Wednesday, I gave Noah the medicine the doctor gave us and went in to work for half a day while my Mom watched Noah. (Thanks Mom!) When I got back home, I put Noah down for a nap and put a movie on for him. (He always goes to sleep watching a movie.) Two hours later, I heard him playing in his room so I went to go check on him. I opened the door…

Noah: “Hey Mama!”

Me: “Hey baby. Did you have a good nap?”

Noah: “Oh I not nap, I watch my movie!”

Me: “You never went to sleep??”

Noah: “No, I watch my movie!”

Me: “The WHOLE MOVIE??”

Noah: “Yep, I do.”

SOO I would say the meds definitely wired him up! :) That child loves his sleep and always has. I don’t think he has ever not taken a nap!

He never ran another fever and started acting like his old self as the day went on. He went back to school today so hopefully we won’t have the sickies again for a while.

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Now for a house update! My Dad has been out of town a lot lately so the crew has been a little slow without his supervision. But we are still moving forward, even if it’s a slow pace!

This was taken yesterday afternoon. It’s starting to look like an actual house! I’m so ready to move!

But I will miss living in the ‘country’ and being able to see beautiful sunsets on my way home.

And on yet another note, we (Me, Brad, Noah, April, Josh, Griffin, Peyton, Reece and baby #4) are doing The Color Run this weekend! We are so excited and I can’t wait to get pictures of that!