And It Continues...

Ugh! I wish I could report good health in the Thorne home, but we dealt with even more baby sickness this week. We rarely get sick, but we have been hit HARD this winter!

Jacob and I started off last Friday with a trip to the zoo with Aunt Peach, Holland, and Piper. It was the girls' first time visiting the animals, so we were thrilled to be a part of it! I was cautiously optimistic that the weather would cooperate and the animals would be active since it was still so cold, but it was honestly one of the most successful adventures to the zoo ever! It warmed up just enough to be comfortable, and all the animals were out to play, especially the gorillas.

There were four bigger gorillas with their backs to the glass in the viewing room. Our favorite started to interact with the kids. He would turn around and put his hands on the glass. Jacob enjoyed a few high fives. As we were leaving the sweetest baby ventured over to check out the commotion. 

Grandmommy and Grandaddy's birthday gift of the zoo membership to Jacob is going to be perfect for the upcoming year. Thank you!

Sadly Jacob woke up with a fever on Saturday morning. Daddy and Tuttle already had plans to go shooting, and Maggie had a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. A friend saved the day and took Maggie to the party, so I could stay home with our sick boy. 

I thought it was a short lived fever because he seemed fine on Monday.

Because we cannot catch a break, the fever returned Tuesday along with pink eye AGAIN for Maggie! We still had eye drops left from last week's infection, so Maggie was treated immediately and was able to return to school on Wednesday in time to celebrate the 100th day of school and dressing like she was 100 years old.

I took Jacob to the doctor, and she confirmed a raging double ear infection, thrush, and the end of Flu B (she cleared him to return to school since he had been fever free for 24 hours after a brief fever Tuesday morning). Jacob was prescribed two new medications and HATES taking them. I swear that Jacob has grounded me so much as a mother. He has already had the flu, HFM, thrush, and ear infections that will not go away. I never dealt with any of that with Maggie or Tuttle.

We are trying to lay today. I just pray that we have a week of calmness and routine sometime in the near future. :)