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Happy Labor Day everyone. We spent the day cleaning up…how pathetic is that! However, we had fun on the weekend. We went to a BBQ on Saturday, and we ate some awesome, fresh caught tuna, that the host fished in Mexico. Outstanding! Keegan was a big hit: very well behaved, and smiley, and a few of the kids took turns entertaining him. And Sunday we went for a nice pic-nic at Balboa park.

Most of all, beside today, we took it easy: we had a tough week. Keegan got sick over last weekend. We are still not sure what it was exactly, as he had any possible symptom: he started by being irritable on Friday. On Saturday, he was great all day till the late afternoon, when he didn’t want to nap. We have just lowered his crib, so we figured he didn’t like it much. It does feel a little like falling in a bottomless pit,  as it is quite a bit lower, after all. We went out for a date, and when we got back around 10.30 (yes, we are living the life!) he was up, crying. The babysitter who usually has a magic touch couldn’t get him back to sleep, even after feeding him. We took over, but he kept on waking up quite often during the night. The next day, he was obviously quite cranky, but he seemed almost normal…we went to an outdoor concert in Coronado, and he was happy, playing and crawling till dinner time, when he threw up his whole dinner. Another difficult night: he kept on waking up, and he felt warm, so we gave him some Tylenol.

The next morning it was clear he was really sick: he was hot, and not very active. We had to keep him home. Matt stayed with him in the morning. When Tizi got back from work he was not doing any better: he was just limp and whiny in daddy’s arm. Poor little guy: we felt so bad for him, and there was nothing really we could do. We have never seen him like this, so calm and mellow. We called the doctor and scheduled an appointment. Tylenol was not really helping, and we measured a 102 + fever (we had to do the anal probe, just to be sure). Of course he was not eating, and started having some diarrhea, so we simply tried to keep him hydrated with milk, water and Pedialite.

The doctor visit was  an ordeal: afternoons are busy, and the doctor was late so Tizi really had her hands full, literally, trying to keep him entertained, or at least to soothe him through it. It took two hours, and a few back and forth between the nurse and the doctor: first they didn’t weight him, then the nurse tried to weight him on a non-digital scale and she obviously was not able to use it: she tried to say he was 5 kg, when we weighted him two weeks ago and he was more than 7 kg. Finally she got to the digital scale and he was about 7.8 kg. Now, this is important, because the weight determine how much Tylenol we should give him.

Anyway, after all that what genius advice did we get? “Keep him hydrated, and give him Tylenol every 4 hours”.  That was two hours well spent! At least we ruled out any serious infection. The doctor seems to think he had some kind of GI infections (for the ones like me that don’t know, GI stands for gastro-Intestinal). he seems to be quite susceptible to those, since it is the second one on three months. I know it is the seasons for it, still…Plus someone HAS to put everything in his mouth. We should probably start baby yogurt.

Fortunately the next day he was a lot better. We still kept him at home, and it was mommie’s turn to stay with him… and of course she got somewhat sick too. By the end of the day, she was exhausted, and achy all over. He was active again, but also wanting more attention than usual and not eating much…which meant he was waking up again in the middle of the night and had to eat. Grueling.

We finally got him back on track towards the end of the week, not without having to let him cry (while giving him water) for his night wakings. It is amazing how fast babies revert to bad habits (i.e. night feedings and cuddling). More than a month of sleeping through the night undone in a couple of days!!! Fortunately now he is back to normal. He is the same smiling, laughing, hyperactive self, and we are the same exhausted, sleepy and whiny selves. He sleeps once again through the night: yeah!!! We are keeping our fingers crossed he will stay that way for the long trip ahead.

It was a little bit of a scare: he really seemed in pain, and the high fever got him good, but as they say, he is building up his immune system. Researches do say that babies that go at daycare and get colds and various illnesses early, will do better later in life and will be stronger…let’s hope it is true. That would be a nice silver lining.