Poor LJ!

Well, it's getting late, but I wanted to stay up to give LJ a good dose of Motrin -- that's right - our boy is SICK!  We couldn't exactly tell what was wrong with him, and we're still not certain.  He has had 3 of his last 4 molars pop through this week, allergies are horrible, and there is some stuff going around.  He didn't even have a real symptom at first, aside from irritability.  Tonight, however, he started running a pretty serious temp. - a bit over 101.  After some pasta for dinner, he told me his mouth hurt, (thinking teeth or throat), and then the fever spiked.  He had a good popsicle, a lukewarm bath and a bedtime story - after that, his temp. had come down from some tylenol.  I did check his teeth and throat - both look red, but I could only see it for a moment.  He wasn't too fond of my check - up.  I plan to take him to the doctor tomorrow.

Now, Lance says he feel achey and a head cold coming on.  I am running a low grade temp, feeling just a little yucky -- nothing much more than that, though.  I think the little ones get the brunt of it - what may be a cold for us can be full blown illness for them.  We are hoping for a comfortable night for him.  I just took his temp and gave him motrin - late in the night, his temp is only 99.5 and I feel lucky for that.  I know it's usually hottest at night, so we'll keep trying to control it.  Maybe tomorrow, we'll just sit tight and take it easy.  Hopefully we aren't sick as a family and can just love on our little boy!

Please pray for his throat, teeth and fever.  Nothing is worse than an innocent little one feeling so bad.  Goodnight!