Weekly Glance...

Weekly Glance (Monday, August 17th - Sunday, August 23rd, 2009)

• Very lowkey week both at home & school
• Started to transition into Older Toddlers Room a few times this week
• Daddy took him to Burger King for dinner on Tuesday (Mommy was out with Bridget for dinner) - this is shocking because Dan is not a fan of fast food.
• During project time at school they played with glitter which meant Alexander came home covered in glitter - head, neck, ears, shoulder, face! Even after a bath & a good washcloth rub down, there was still glitter days later
• Played outside in sprinklers at school on Thursday
• Went to Target with Mommy on Thursday for our usual pitstop & was extremely well behaved
• Home with Mommy on Friday because of a fever but in a good mode
• Went shopping with Mommy on Friday to get food for cookout and was very helpful & well behaved
• However while at BJs Wholesale, there was a machine washing the floors that kind of freaked him out so he wanted to hold my hand the whole time in the store
• Friday Night/Saturday morning Alexander woke up with a awful cough/fever
• Couldn't get comfortable once he woke up - cuddled with Mommy, then laid down with Daddy on the floor in his room, finally fell back to sleep with Daddy
• Took a very small nap due to cough on Saturday
• Called doctor on Saturday because Alexander was obviously not feeling well (fever/cough/hard time breathing) and Dr. D said that everything we were doing to keep doing and that he probably has croup
• Had a family cookout on Saturday and Alexander was definitely not feeling like himself, he was tired & coughing
• He played a bit but would then want to cuddle with Mommy
• Had no appetite at all on Saturday and barely ate his one hot dog
• Up almost all night Saturday...asleep at 9:20, then woke up at 9:40pm due to cough and wouldn't go back to bed unless cuddling with Mommy so Mommy & Alexander "slept" on the couch downstairs with the fan, anywhere else he got super wheezy
• We barely slept because it seems as if he had 20 minute intervals of 'resting' then he would cough/wheeze and his breathing would become very labored.
• Finally after two breathing attacks, I woke up Dan and we headed to the ER at 5am. See ER post for all the details
• After the ER, chilled out with Mommy & Mimi for the day (Daddy helped uncle Matt move) and we had a very lowkey day
• Sunday was the first day in his short little life where he stayed in jammies for the entire day - poor kid was too sick to bother him with changing clothes
• Slept much better Sunday night than Saturday - hopefully we've already hit the worst patch
• The other effect of the croup is he has strider breathing which is laryngitis for kids and his voice is so cute
• Other stuff:
• New show he likes is "Super Why!", he loves his Super Readers
• Is getting really good at hitting the ball with a bat and even that much more improved on catching balls