Isaac got his first....

Ear infection. :( I'm so sad...

Well, to start, he has been sick for almost 2 weeks now. He has had a nasty cough and a runny nose; we attributed the runny nose to teething, and actually thought the cough was getting better, but I guess not.

Luckily, my sister came into town last week from Wednesday-Saturday, so she watched Isaac all day while Taylor and I worked all day. It was a nice break and perfect timing for Isaac to not go to daycare, and for my sister to fully live-up her aunt role. On Thursday night I even told Taylor that Isaac's cough sounded a lot better...I was obviously wrong.

Once we took my sister to the airport, we came home just in time to welcome another guest. Long story short, we got a call from Taylor's uncle in Colorado on Friday saying a guy from his stake was driving up to Rexburg to take his daughter to BYU-I and his car broke down. He's been in Pocatello since Tuesday of last week and needed a place to stay for the weekend. So, our guest came to stay with us Saturday and left this morning. He was very nice, but I felt so bad that he came at such a rough time.

Saturday night, Isaac and I didn't go to sleep until 2 a.m. He did fall asleep at his normal bed time of 8:00, but woke up at 10:30, so I put him back down, just in time for him to wake up again, etc, etc. At midnight I finally told Taylor we should put the pack-n-play in our room so our guest didn't have to hear Isaac crying. I tried all sorts of things and finally we fell asleep at 2--then the phone rang at 2:30 and our instant reaction is "emergency," oh no...WRONG PHONE NUMBER! Grrr...Isaac started to fuss when it rang, but not for long, and went back to sleep, thank goodness!

I stayed home with Isaac on Sunday. Despite being sick, he is still our happy little boy! He started running a fever last night and when our home teachers came by I saw Isaac starting to tug at his ear. I literally, in mid sentence, pointed and said, "Look, Taylor, Look!" I have been watching so carefully to see if Isaac would tug at his ears, so when I saw this, I just sank because I knew that he had an ear infection. I actually emailed our doctor last week and told him that Isaac had a runny nose and bad cough but he suggested to get a humidifier and that it was just a cold. So, when I saw this I knew we were headed to the doctor.

He slept well last night and didn't have a fever this morning. We didn't want to take any chances and got him into the doctor this morning. We've got Isaac on antibiotics, so hopefully he'll get feeling better soon! It's so sad to see them so sick! However, despite all of this, I do consider it a great blessing that his worst night so far has been on a weekend--because that means I can stay home with him all day. We sure love our sick--but still happy--little boy!