Poor Baby!

We got back from Kentucky and Tennessee last week because Mark's grandpa, "papaw," passed away after a long battle with cancer. He was a great, godly man that we will truly miss. It would have been about a 10 hr. drive if we would have driven straight but we stopped at Mark's parents,"pops and nana's" in Tennessee. I will post pics later.


Luke has been especially fussy and clingy the past few days. He started having a low grade fever on Monday. I attributed it to teething,(he now has one top front tooth poking through). But on Tuesday, when his fever got to 103, I took him to the doc. She said he has an ear infection. She also checked him for the swine flu because it is going around here alot,especially since school has started. Thank the Lord, that was negative. So, we've been giving him amoxicillin. She did prescribe him a new antibiotic that was stronger and would work faster than amoxicillin, but he did not tolerate it that well and puked it up,along with everything else. So, along with his teething and ear infection, he has not been a happy camper. It is so difficult giving him medicine because he is so stinking strong I seriously can hardly hold him down. I searched the internet on ways to give kids medicine(I was desperate) and I came across one way that seems to work. I hate doing it but I really have no choice. I sit on the floor and put his head between my thighs to stabalize it and put his arms under my legs so he won't move them. It's pitiful I know. I hate it. At least its only twice a day. Hopefully he wont' remember it when he grows up. Wesley is pretty good at taking medicine now and will drink it from a cup on his own. Hopefully, Luke will do that too when he gets older:)

Luke is officially a toddler now because he is toddling around everywhere. I remember when Wesley got at this stage where it was a challenge to take him places in his stroller because he wanted to get out and walk. Well, Luke is getting at that stage now. He is showing his little independent streak too. Whenever he is walking and I try to hold his hand to guide him which way to go, he jerks it away. It may also be because he uses it to balance himself. When we pick him up when he's walking to direct him a different way, boy does he get mad. I think we have 2 independent boys on our hands.