Costume Parade

Grant's school does a costume parade every year around Halloween and this year was no different. What was different is that this year my little guy did NOT feel well. (As evidenced by his poor little expression in all these pictures.)





So here's the backstory:
Last Thursday at school I was called to come pick Grant up because he had some fever and just did not seem like himself. Well, sure enough he ran fever for 2.5 days which we attributed to a reaction to the flu mist we got at the dr. last Wednesday. That cleared up Saturday and we had a fun weekend but come Monday morning the fever is back and the poor guy feels TERRIBLE!

I go on to work and Jason takes Grant to the dr.: double ear infection! Start the antibiotics, fever breaks by Tuesday afternoon and all is well, right?!?! Not so much. Pardon this next part but there's just no other way around it.

Wednesday the diarrhea starts from the antibiotics and without getting into too many details by Thursday afternoon (after I took Grant home from the costume parade...we did not stay for the rest of the school day...obviously...did you see his face?!) we are both in tears and multiple calls are being made to the pediatrician for the most horrible diaper burn on the planet. I mean, I'm not a boy so there are certain parts I don't have or know about but even I could not fathom the pain this little boy was in after taking a look at his "parts." Burns, y'all. Horrible, huge, raised burns. Oh my gosh. The screaming and the "Mommy help," were just more than I could stand. Worst day I've had with Grant hands down.

Lots of creams and herbal supplements to try to combat all of this but we've got one more day of antibiotics before the dr. told me we could quit. Man, I don't know if I'm going to make it y'all. If not for Gigi arriving yesterday for moral support I think neither Grant nor I would have made it. Here's praying we make it though the next couple of days. Ugh.