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Ever since Saturday night, Hayden has had yet another set of ear infections. He ran a fever on Sunday night 3am of 103.2 degrees farenheight. I worried. I wondered what the temperature was that you were supposed to panic and run off to the hospital. I gave the poor guy kid's ibuprofin and wiped him down with a warm wet cloth. He was so drowsy and out of it he wanted the heavy quilt on him up to his ears. I had to fight him to get him to only have the sheet up to his waist. I took all his clothes off except his diaper (which he still wears overnight) and dabbed him with the cloth. At first he didn't want it, and wimpered pathetically, but after a few dabs and wipes he was offering me his arms to keep wiping. The fever broke and he slept beside me.

Tuesday I stayed home from work and kept the kids home from daycare. When Jake got home we went to the clinic and saw awesome Dr David Joyce. He spent time with us, and even though the clinic was busy, took care of all our needs. He even recruited us for a study that his daytime job was conducting with regard to children's development. Its purpose is to compare kids' doctor's notes on their development with their actual development. Development development development. I'm saying that a lot here. Anyway someone would come to our house and assess both kids thoroughly with regard to language, fine motor skills, the other motor skills that I can't think of the name but the big ones, and other things. Then compare to our dr's notes. Seemed like an interesting study.

Anyway the dr also looked into Hayden's ears and said yes, both ears were quite infected. Also to my horror, Hayden's left ear drum has a hole in it, caused by the infection. He said definitely if Hayden's not feeling better in two days to come back and see the dr again. I have appointments for both kids to see our regular pediatrician Dr Catherine Pluta on Monday, and from there probably get a referral to see an ear nose and throat specialist. We are concerned because especially this time around, Hayden's hearing is decreased. I am hoping that it is just temporary, caused by the infection. It's pretty bad though. We're making sure to enunciate clearly and speak loudly so he can hear us. The kids went back to daycare today and Jake let them know his hearing is low right now, so they'd be aware.

Lame joke: instead of Triple H, he's Quintuple H: Hard of Hearing Hayden Huxley Huss.... but just till his ears clear up. I don't know if holes in eardrums heal. I don't want to look it up, in case they don't. I want to be ignorant on that for a bit. Just in case it's bad news. When he told us, I forgot completely about asking if it healed or what it would mean or anything. He said "I see a hole in his eardrum." then he stood up. Then he said "Wait, maybe it was a bubble. Sometimes that happens." he looked again "nope, it's a hole." And we were like "a hole.. ok a hole."

I'll keep you posted.

On another note, Sage said to me on Tuesday: "I want apple juice, in this cup, now mommy!" A very long and demanding sentence! Of course, to the untrained ear it might've sounded more like this: "Ah wah bapp jooss, ih dih cup NOW MOMMY"

And yet another note Hayden stood on the scale at the clinic yesterday and he finally made it to 40 lbs!!! YAY!! That's a milestone because NOW he can graduate from the harness carseat to the booster with seatbelt! It only took 2 years to put 3 pounds on him. I never thought he'd get up to 40 lbs! He's been 37 lbs since he was 2 years old. Sage is about 33 lbs.

ta ta for now!