silly thing.

 

OD always seems to short out when I want to write. I was just checking my faves (someone has a new baby, EEE!! SO CUTE!) and then all of a sudden i couldn’t redirect anywhere on the site. Annoying.

Speaking of things that are annoying, Ross is all up on my side of the bed, completely IN MY SPOT, and his side is completely untouched. He’s been stressed about work, and we had a bit of a "de-stressing session" and then he rolled slightly to the side of me, and proceeded to fall instantly asleep. How do men DO THAT? I stayed up and finished a novel I started last night (I read 24 chapters in a single night- Billie Letts’ "Shoot The Moon" – she also wrote "Where The Heart Is") which was terribly difficult because Ross was all up on my arm/face/side, completely inhibiting any movement. VERY uncomfortable, especially given that the book is a hard-cover. ARGH!! I’m about to climb over him and sleep on his side of the bed, if I can untangle any of the blankets from him. I know he sleeps on my side when I’m not here at night, so it clearly isn’t as big of a deal for him as it is for me, but I like to sleep on MY SIDE of MY BED. Ross can sleep on couches, floors, futons.. I think it’s a man thing.

Anyhow.

Milo was feeling poorly this last Friday, and by Sunday morning I was convinced that he needed to see the doctor. He was up all of Saturday night, crying and being pitiful, as I may have mentioned, depending on how long ago my last entry was (??) and so I finally took him to the First Care (walk in) office at 11ish and the Dr, a very nice man who is tall and handsome and a bit too old for me (shock of silver hair in his cowlick- hot.) checked the ear the had ruptured a week ago and said it looked fine. Then he looked in the other ear (Milo’s right) and said he couldn’t see anything due to wax. I held him sideways on my lap and wrapped my arms around him to hold him still, and the Dr expertly, swiftly, instantaneously, actually, removed the whole huge clump of ear wax with a single dip of his curette. Very impressed, I was. The pediatrician had refrained from removing the wax at his re-check for his ears the previous Monday, making it sound as though it would be nearly impossible and that he would struggle and be miserable and that it would certainly injure him more in the process… but this random walk-in clinic guy just whipped it right out. Lucked out on that one, I suppose.

Anyways, once the wax was out of the way, he could plainly see that his right ear was quite infected. I wasn’t surprised, he had yipped when anyone would touch his ear at all, and he was pretty upset about the wax removal and the peering into that ear, as well. Poor baby. He also had been having head cold symptoms since about Friday, as I mentioned, and so after all the snot and sinusy goodness that Milo had been combating, I wasn’t surprised at all to learn that the ear was infected. Poor guy. It’s been ages since his last bout with ear infections, but when he had that one it took three rounds of medicine to clear it up.

Since he just finished a 10-day round of Amoxicillin a week ago, the Dr decided to "step up the meds" and give him something stronger this time- Augmentin. It’s the white one. Milo was okay with it for the first few days and took it, but starting this morning he just lets it run out of his mouth, and I had to start prying his mouth open and shoving the syringe into the back of his throat and letting him gag on the goop till he swallows most of it. Poor baby. He also hasn’t been eating well at all since he started the meds, which I think means his belly hurts. He’s usually a BIG eater. This is also a problem because he is supposed to have a full meal with each dosage of the antibiotics, and he’s only just barely eating at all. I gave him a cheese stick in the car when we left work at 6, he had a couple bites of a pretzel that I bought him in Sam’s Club while we shopped, and then he had one of those squeezable fruit puree pouches when we got home. That was "dinner." I had gotten the soft pretzel at Sam’s just for him, but he didn’t want much to do with it. He doesn’t seem unhappy or in pain, and he certainly hasn’t slowed down at all, but not eating is a huge shocker for this kid, and he’s had the icky medicine-poops, too.. I think I will call and make him another appointment tomorrow at the pediatrics department and see if they will switch him to a different medication. He seriously LOVED the amoxicillin, he would sign for "more" every time I gave it to him, and if he saw the bottle and I wasn’t fast enough to dose him up, he’s start throwing a fit. 

Speaking of, MY LORD that child is the BRAT MASTER. When we were in Sam’s today, he had an EPIC fit, basically the entire time we were there. He absolutely REFUSED To sit in the cart, be carried or held, hold anyone’s hand, or anything that did not involve running and shrieking in every direction. Finally we just gave in and took turns following after him and trying to direct him to where the other person (with the cart) was going, without TOUCHING HIM because he would start SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER if you so much as nudged him. 

We did well at Sam’s – got lunch meat, ground beef, frozen chicken, fruit cups, fruit snacks, breakfast bars, cat food, tuna, juice, crackers, chips, bread, eggs, cheese…. lots of tasty goodness. Grocery shopping makes me feel better, peaceful. Like I’m providing for my family. I also got a BIG OLE CASE of diapers for Milo, as they have an "off" brand (Simply Right) now a days. Milo’s skin is really sensitive and he will break out in big red welts and rashes if we put brand name diapers on him, like Pampers or Huggies, because they have so much blue and green dye ON THE INSIDE OF THE DIAPER, no less. So he has to have cheap off brand diapers, like Comforts or Mom To Mom (safway brand) and this Simply Right brand also appears to be dye-free except for the waist band part where the velcro tabs stick down. Phew. Anyhow, the case has like 178 diapers in it, and it cost us 38$. Worth it, I figure, since a regular sized box has like 72 in it for 20ish $. 

I also happened to be in Fred Meyer’s today, getting more tummy medicine (ugh, my belly has been awful lately.. stupid killer ulcers.) and I scored some AWESOME deals in the kids’ clearance section- Kasin got two character tshirts (Angry Birds and Ninjago) for 10$ each and an Angry Birds cap, and Milo got a couple of shirts for like 3$/each, one for 6$, and 3 pairs of pants that were each $1.98! I was SO stoked to see the price on the pants marked down to like $3.99 and then they were also on a "50% off" rack- so we got 3 pairs of shiny track pants (oh so comfy for babies) for less than 6$. I got him 18month size.. I hope they last a while. The shirts I got him are size 2s. 

I should go to bed, it’s like, 2am. I’m so silly… I stayed up to read the rest of that book, and it was so sad at the end that I didn’t want to go right to sleep. SO! Here you have a long, rambling MOM entry about NOTHING. lol

~ME 

 

 

 

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