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Happy Halloween!

It was such a boo-tiful night that we set up some chairs in the drive way and a blanket in the yard for Monkey to play on. We saw all kinds of great costumes and are excited to take Monkey trick or treating next year when he's walking :).

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Going home from the hospital Thursday night, Monkey was making come here motions with his hand like like "Lady, quit taking my picture and get in the car, I wanna go home!" We were all pretty excited to sleep in our own beds :).

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What a day, what a day! The Hubs called me a couple of times at work over night to let me know that Monkey's fever weren't totally going away with Tylenol, plus he had started vomiting and having diarrhea. By the time I came home, he wasn't running a fever and was a little more playful. The Hubs went to lay him down for his nap and I laid down to get some sleep. The Hubs woke me up two hours later to show me that poor Monkey's feet were purple, his legs, arms, and stomach were mottled and he was running a high fever. We called his dr's office and they were able to get us in a few hours. By the time we got there, poor Monkey had spiked another temp and was just laying on us, awake but without any energy. He wasn't holding anything down and didn't really want to try. They gave him a 2 shots of antibiotic in his legs and we were planning on taking him home and trying to get him rehydrated with Pedialyte. Before we left, he developed a red rash around where he had gotten his shots and his temp was up to 103.6. His pediatrician thought it would be better for us to be admitted to the hospital for some IV fluids to rehydrate him. So for the second time in his 13 months, Monkey was admitted to the hospital. Our nurses and doctor were great but Monkey's veins weren't cooperating and despite several attempts, they couldn't get an IV started on him. They talked about putting an NG tube down to his stomach but by that point we were all pretty tired and Monkey had been through enough for one day. I ended up waking him up every hour or so to take 1-2 oz of pedialyte. By morning he was up to 4 ounces and keeping it down so we spent the rest of the day working his way up to 6 ounces of formula. We were able to go home that night and luckily Monkey was feeling a little better in time for Halloween!

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I got off of work this morning and had been asleep for a few hours when I got a phone call from Monkey's daycare that he was running a temp of 103.4. Poor kiddo, this is his 5th week of dacycare and so far his first week was his only uneventful one (roseola, viral hives, being bitten, and now this!). The Hubs and I ended up taking him to walk in clinic and our room had this lovely picture on the wall:

The picture is of the J.C. Nichols Fountain where The Hubs and I got engaged and the photo was taken from almost the exact same spot where it happened :). Monkey was diagnosed with an ear infection and started an antibiotic. I went home and caught another hour of sleep before heading back to work.

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It just happened that the unit secretary and I were discussing the number of admits involving sensitive areas of the male and female body when she pulled out this appropriately shaped Hot Tamale for the conversation we were having:

Dirty little tamale... (and on blog entry 169! The irony continues!)

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Whewww...what a day! Last night The Hubs came down with a terrible case of food poisoning (luckily nothing I cooked!). He was feeling better this morning so we headed out to to see The Hubs' family for a nice little sunday meal. Monkey and I had fun playing with sidewalk chalk with Grandma B and cousin Goose:

It has been a little while since we saw my niece and nephew and although we'd heard about it, to was amazing to see little Blue Eyes toddling around. He is quite a walker!

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The Hubs and I have a friendly college football rivalry, I love Kansas State and he likes Oklahoma. Since they were playing each other today I thought I would take advantage and get one more person on my side. Unfortunately it wasn't enough to win but it was a heck of a game (at least in the first half)! Monkey has been hitting the bottle harder since his molars are coming in, I'm afraid you can now tell he's put on some weight:

He loved the ball under his shirt until he tried to get up and cruise with it, then he was none too pleased :).