Blog

Sick Days

I got the dreaded "Can you come get Thomas, we think he is sick" phone call from daycare Friday afternoon. They were worried he was getting pink eye because his eyes were all goopy. Great...

Took him to the doctor first thing Monday morning since the eye gunk wasn't improving. His eyes weren't getting red though, so my money wasn't on pink eye. And turns out I was right - poor guy has another ear infection. We're at the point now that every time he gets an ear infection we have to decide if it's time for ear tubes or not. He hasn't had one since December and summer is almost here (ha!), so we opted for the antibiotics again. There's just something about putting my toddler under general anesthesia that doesn't sit well with me. If he gets another ear infection soon, I may just have to suck it up and go with the tubes...

But in the meantime, Thomas had to miss hanging out with his friends for a few days and got some extra playtime with us!

He got to play with the newly repaired WingBat with Matt. Matt ordered this thing awhile ago, but when it arrived, it was missing the very critical nosepiece. Matt managed to McGyver together a nose piece with a K-cup container, spare change and electric tape. Now the WingBat flies like a champ! I'm not sure who was more excited, Thomas or Matt:

We also had some fun playtime inside. He rediscovered an old favorite with his fire truck - and now he's coordinated enough to actually make it go, though not without losing one of his new rocket slippers:

The extra paper towels were then pressed into service as rollers for Thomas to slide on and then blocks so he could bust through them a la the Kool-Aid Man!

Since we had a nice, sunny day to enjoy, we even went to the zoo. Matt was concerned that Henry would get cold, but I remembered that he had the perfect outfit from his Aunt B (Brittney)! It fit him perfectly and even though he may not look terribly excited in the photo, I am sure he was stoked to be going to the zoo in such a fashionable outfit!

The car seat straps are somewhat obscuring the awesomeness - it's a monkey outfit. And he makes the cutest grumpy monkey! :)