This was one of the most difficult days we've spent as parents. He has apparently caught the bad stomach bug that plagued his Daddy and me yesterday and the day before, and he was ill equipped to deal with it. He would not stay in his bed last night, and he lay in ours beside us staring up at the ceiling and whimpering for hours. He cried hard, and he woke up a number of times during the night crying. None of us got much sleep. We hurt for him because he's so miserable.
We thought it was a tooth. Or that he's getting a little cold, because his nose was stuffy. And I thought his nose was stuffy because of all the crying. Or we thought it was a new phase with bad temper tantrums. It turns out that he is sick. He cried ALL DAY LONG today, and wanted to be held so he could cry on us. Tonight he was absolutely inconsolable for 2 hours, and I started to think about how different he's been the last few days. Then he had a bad diarrhea diaper and began burping up foul stuff and crying harder, and then we noticed a fever. We brought him home (he was out running errands with us because he didn't seem to want to be at home), and took his temp to find it had reached 103.7. No wonder he feels so awful. We gave him tylenol and called the nurse at his pediatrician's office, and we've been given orders to watch him tonight, make sure his fever doesn't go above 105 (and it's already come down a bit from 103), and bring him in if he keeps on crying. But right now, for the first time in days, he's sleeping peacefully if a bit stuffily (I can hear him mouth breathing on the baby monitor). The nurse believes it's bad stomach cramping that is causing the screaming and we're in no imminent danger. So off to the doctor tomorrow for us...
We had one cute happy moment today. While we were waiting in the nice air conditioned car for David to finish something, I let Dennis hang out in the front seat with me while we were parked. He was getting a little tired of his car seat. He played 'driver' with the steering wheel, turned on the windshield wipers, turned on the turn signals, relocated the rear view mirror, locked and unlocked the doors, repositioned the side mirrors, played with the air vents, and nearly shifted us out of park. This was great fun for him, and I was so happy that he wasn't crying for once that I just let him run with it. He laughed and did a little dance in the driver's seat.
Goodness I hope he feels better tomorrow! We'd have acted sooner, but we suspected that we were experiencing the delayed results from his immunizations that we'd been warned about. I no longer think this is the case, but will know more tomorrow. Going to be a long night.
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