Last Friday night I let the boys stay up late watching a movie. Saturday morning, Declan woke up with red, puffy eyes. I assumed it was because he didn't get enough sleep. However, over the next few days the puffiness/redness never went away so we thought maybe it's a random allergy that's showed up all of a sudden and with a vengeance. We've attempted to treat him with Benadryl, but it never really seemed to help more than puffy reduction for a few hours. Last night, he woke up around midnight looking like this, coughing and wheezing. His cheeks and lips had swelled up with his eyes. After wringing my hands about it for about an hour, Chris and I finally decided to take him to the ER for a visit to see what could be done. Once there, he got some chest x-rays, a breathing treatment, some steroids, and we were sent home with a diagnosis of bronchitis and maybe allergies/maybe bacterial infection of the eyes. We've got some meds for him to treat the whole mess and we'll see how it goes. Today he's breathing much better, but still sporting the red, puffy eyes and face. So, not as much improvement as I was hoping, but at least he's not wheezing like ... a ...... wheezy person?
Apparently Declan's not out much late at night because the whole ride there and back was filled with awed comments about how dark it was and how pretty the night was and how much he loved the moon and tomorrow night can we please get on a rocket and go to the moon? Also, the woman who gave Dex the breathing treatment, after attempting to get him to breathe slowly and follow directions and stop giggling through it all, told me I had my hands full. And I was all, "Uh, doy." And then I thought maybe I'd heard that somewhere before.
School will be out officially for Logan on Friday (and not a moment too soon...Declan's ghost friend Gon has been hanging around a lot lately). He had his Kindergarten graduation last week, in which the class performed "Click Clack Moo" and Logan was a narrator and a dog. He did a fabulous job, thankyouverymuch. We got a really sweet photo of Declan giving Logan and Logan's best friend Caleah the double thumbs up for graduating from Kindergarten. (Incidentally, I've been given the "double thumbs up badge" from Declan several times recently for being so nice to him. I asked him once if I was ever not nice to him, and he informed me that in fact, it happens, when I do things like make him go to bed.) I think the picture is awesome for a lot of reasons, but mostly because Logan has his best brother and his best girl right there together.
On a totally random note, I found a picture in an unrelated folder on my computer and sighed with that motherly nostalgia that makes us feel like time is moving too fast. Logan in binky heaven. Stars blanket. Little hands, little legs, little feet.
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