Welcome to the family, Xander!

It seems the big kids have passed on some of their secrets to Xander. The most important one being: "For a really fun time, act super duper sick or injured, and watch Mom freak out a bit. Then, as soon as you go through the magical doors of the ER, reveal that you're perfectly fine and perform stunts for the entire ER staff." Past events include Aaric with a concussion asking the doctor if he could see the pictures of his brain and Mikayla with a supposed hurt leg jumping off of the gurney repeatedly. They didn't stress the part about him faking the whole thing though, so he still has some work to do.
He'd had a temperature of about 104 Wednesday night and then stayed around 100-101 until Friday afternoon. Friday evening, he was just fine. Playful, happy, normal temp. He woke frequently to nurse and in my half asleep state, I kept noticing that he sure was feeling warmer and warmer. At 5, I woke up to a child generating enough heat to warm our entire house. He was at 107. One hundred and seven degrees.
By the time we got to the ER, he was a reasonable 102. They checked him over and agreed that there were no other symptoms, so they ordered bloodwork and a urine sample.
He was then treated as a pincushion. No, actually, the three nurses that worked on him were great. Two helped hold and pass the other one stuff, while he did all the poking. Xander was not impressed with the catheter or the needles. They couldn't find any veins in his little arms, so they first went in the shoulder but couldn't get enough so they used one on the top of his foot. Let me just say that it was not fun. Diagnosis: UTI. We've got 2 weeks of antibiotics and have to follow up for further testing. Did I mention that I was in there for 5 hours?

So then, this evening, on our way to some friends' house, Aaric threw up in the car. There's a stomach bug going around.

So because I need to say something about Mikayla...
Check this out. She's had gray/blue/green eyes for the past 4.5 yrs. Now, suddenly, this:

Brown. Weird, huh?
And because I just can't resist:


Lots of new pics have been added to the gallery!