giggles, smiles, talking and throwing up - again!

Hudson has been talking up a storm these last few days. He's back to saying "mama" again- which I love! Otherwise it's lots of jibberish and screaming. But it's so cute. He has been feeling good for several days now, enjoying playing with all his toys and talking, talking, talking. Till last night. I was nursing him and about 2 minutes from putting him in bed and he started throwing up again. All over me and himself - several times. Ugghh! We are pretty sure this time it was a reaction to the amoxcillin (although he has been taking it for 8 days now) but we had given it to him just 10-15 before the throwing up started. He didn't eat a lot for dinner so we think it was just the medicine on an empty stomach. Hopefully not antoher round of the flu! He seems to be feeling fine so far this morning.
I better get going - I have some laundry to do from last night. We both went through 2 changes of clothes and Jamie had to change once. Plus all the blankets and clean up towels! Yuck!

feeling better

Hudson is finally feeling better - he has actually played pretty good all week, just been fussy at night and nap time - which isn't too unusual for him :) He finally started eating a little bit of food yesterday again too, so that's good. He's been getting up 3 times at night again, which is because of both being sick and not eating good so he's hungry. So hopefully that will get better as he starts filling his tummy more. We'll see. His sleeping has actually been better as far as rocking him to sleep and putting him down, he usually stays/goes right to sleep instead of the crying fits we had been having. So we'll see how long that lasts. Hopefully it's here to stay. It's much nicer than listening to him cry for hours at night! I have officially decided that he just isn't a long napper - 30 minutes max - that is all he does. He has been waking up pretty grumpy the last week too, but that could be contributed to being sick. Plus on top of everything else he might be teething. No teeth peeking through yet, but he is still drooling a lot. Last week I was contributing that to his stuffy nose and cold, but it is still hanging around so maybe it's more than that. We'll see if we see any white in the next few weeks maybe!
We started Hudson on some finger foods this week. He loves to pick them up and is getting really good at using his fingertips but so far doesn't put them in his mough. Which is weird considering he puts everything else in his mouth that he can get his hands on! He loves playing with all the toys he got for Christmas too. I am amazed watching him because he has gotten much better picking things up and using his hands - and he loves standing/walking behind his walkers. No crawling yet but he does stay on his hands and knees for a little bit before getting mad and rolling over. Not long enough to do any moving yet though!

trip to the doctor

Well, when we got home Sunday night, Hudson was inconsolable all night and Monday morning so we took him in to the doctor on Monday afternoon. His cold and cough seemed to be getting better but he was the fussiest he had been so far so I thought there must be something else we weren't seeing. She said he had an ear infection in both ears - no wonder he didn't sleep the night before! I had a lot of ear infections when I was younger - and still have them sometimes - so I know how miserable that is. So we got him some meds and went home and took a nap and he woke up an hour later throwing up. So on top of everything else he also has the stomach flu! My poor baby. He threw up for about 5 hours and hasn't since then, but he started having diarrhea this morning as well. But hopefully the worst has passed.

Just thought I'd share the pics of Hudson at the doctor yesterday - does this look like a boy with a cold, a cough, double ear infection and the stomach flu?!?!?!

4 Christmases down - one to go

So we got home last night from celebrating Christmas with Jamie's family over the weekend. Jeremy and Alisha and their kids came home with us and the plan was to leave this evening to go to Iowa to spend the rest of the week with his parents up there. However, I woke up at 2 am vomiting and Alisha was sick all night too. To go along with the colds that Jeremy, Bryce, Alisha and Hudson all have. Plus Jamie was just home for lunch and said his stomach was starting to bother him too. So we will not be leaving tonight and hopefully we're feeling up to going tomorrow. If all 4 adults are sick that might not happen though - we need at least 2 drivers!
Flu and cold season - what fun!!

we are still alive

Just letting everyone know we are still alive! We took a trip this weekend to Iowa to visit Papa and Binga and Hudson and I made a long weekend out of it - went up Friday with Jenni and the kids and came back Tuesday. Jamie and Aaron came up late Friday night then left Sunday evening to get back to work.
The trip was good, but really long, and unfortunately, Hudson and Jamie are both sick now. :(

So I'll be back eventually to post some pictures of the trip and keep you updated, but for right now, I am too busy taking care of my sick boys.

sick :(

Well, our boy has caught his first cold. He was very fussy on Friday and Saturday he was all stuffed up and running a fever. Luckily for me, Jamie has been home to help me take care of him. He really has been pretty good - just prefers to be held instead of sitting or laying down. His fever was 100.5 last night, but today it's back to normal and he doesn't seem as stuffed up, so hopefully the worst has passed. Jamie made me take his temperature rectally so that I would know how, because he says that is the most accurate way to do it. It seemed to bother me more than it did Hudson!