Owen has been congested and feverish. Yesterday he woke up with a slight fever and a very scratchy voice. He had slept in our room for the second night in a row, because I was painting his, and ended up under a vent that probably multiplied the effects of whatever virus is disturbing him. He acted just as energetic as usual yesterday and his temperature went down some but this morning he woke up even more congested and his temperature was nearly 100. I gave him a little Tylenol after a pretty hearty breakfast. He seemed happy enough…he just sounded terrible. His little chest would wheeze as he breathed and he hardly has any voice left. He has so rarely been sick like this and I feel absolutely frustrated when he is. This is the first time he’s had a fever since sometime last year and I’ve never heard him lose his voice. Most of the time if he suffers any cold symptoms or anything I chalk it up to teething. This time he’s definitely got something. Poor little Halle, who has been here for a week, woke up with a bit of a fever too and I have heard some rumor of something being spread around. Hopefully it will be short lived. He and Joey are both sleeping right now and though I haven’t gotten much done today I will at least get a load of laundry taken care of. Kris stayed home an hour later so that I could go to the grocery store and get a few necessities. I didn’t want to pack up big Joey and sick Owen to take to Walmart with me. It didn’t take very long by myself anyway. Owen has asked me to pray for him a couple of times and I also slathered his chest with Vicks. He hated that! I wrapped him up in his little comforter and rocked his smelly little self to sleep. He woke up when I laid him down but I sang to him and petted his head until he went back to sleep. When I left him his breathing sounded much better.
I guess Amy and the girls are going to stay over at Tisra’s for the next couple of days…I don’t know how long. I’m glad that they can do that. They were planning to go to an extended stay hotel but Tisra again invited them there and as the Fadely’s are in the middle of a couple of home improvement projects Amy volunteered to keep all children corralled and away from the construction. I know Amy wasn’t looking forward to staying in the hotel without Travis. I am sorry to see them go as I have enjoyed having them, but I understand the need to be moving on as well. I think it is hard being a guest in anyone’s home for very long. We have all gotten along and they have been very helpful and enjoyable as we have tried to be gracious hosts, but no matter how you slice it…staying in someone else’s home is hard. Owen has certainly enjoyed Chloe and her creativity. It’s as if all his toys are new to him because someone has shown him different ways of playing with them. I’m just so glad they will once again be near us and we can enjoy them on a much more regular basis. Praise God for such good friends as the Buttons.
I am very tired. I think just trying to get things done and then a late rehearsal last night for the choir caught up with me this morning. I woke up when Kris’ alarm went off but fell right back to sleep and for the second time in a week was awakened by Joey’s parents ringing the doorbell and knocking on the door. Oh…the embarrassment. I can’t believe I did that. I will be setting my own alarm from now on and I will set it across the room from my sleeping body so that I must get up to turn it off.
Don’t ya hate that???! Whoops. I guess you must be a little wiped out from company and Owen being sick, etc. Poor little man. Hate that he is sick.
As a young teenage babysitter, I’d always be so embarassed if I fell asleep and was awoken by the parents returning home. Granted, their child(ren) was/were sleeping and cared for long before I dozed off, but something seemed so irresponsible about them coming home and discovering the babysitter fell asleep.
poor Owen, we will be praying for him!