Lately

The past two weeks have kind of been a blur, yet they've been the slowest weeks of my life. My whole life, now, revolves around a little eight month old boy who has been having a difficult time as well. After his teeth came in a few weeks ago, he hasn't been the same, and I don't mean that in a bad way, but last week he came down with the flu. There was throw up and diarrhea everywhere for a week. My washing machine has been going nonstop since last Wednesday. Let me put it this way, I bought a brand new bottle of stain remover two weeks ago, and it'll normally last me four or more months. There is only a quarter of a bottle left after one week's use. This bug has been awful! There has been a lot of crying, snuggles, and changes of clothes, sleepless nights, and long days.

My little sickie

Zander gave me a scare a few days ago because he hadn't had a wet diaper in almost 24 hours, he still has diarrhea after a week, and I couldn't get him to drink any fluids. I called my doctor a few times throughout the week, and yesterday she finally told me to take him to the ER for an evaluation just to be safe. So I picked Stephen up from work and we took Zander in to make sure he wasn't dehydrated or had some sort of a different virus other than the flu. He checked out just fine. I knew he would, but that just took a load off my shoulders so I don't have to worry about him anymore.

At the hospital

He's been so irritable lately to the point that nothing I do will calm him down. It's been tough deciphering if he's somehow uncomfortable or just throwing a fit because I'm not always right by his side. I've been frustrated to tears many nights, and wished I could get away and have some peace and quiet and time to my self, but I haven't been able to yet. I finally just had to get out of the house for awhile after being cooped up for a week even though I had to take Zander with me.

We went toy shopping. Zander doesn't have very many toys, and the ones he does have he gets bored with easily and won't play with them. So I bought him a few new books and two toys. Little did I know they would be the most annoying toys on the planet! Haha, I wasn't able to test them out in the store, but when I brought them home and tried them out they wouldn't shut off! He is really good at finding mommy and daddy's cell phones no matter how hard we hide them, and he loves to play with our car keys, so that's what I bought him--his own cell phone and car key, but the phone seems to work by motion, so anytime you face the phone towards you it talks, chimes, and beeps at you nonstop. I took it apart to see if maybe the button was pushed in and got stuck, but nope, that's just how the toy works. Zander loves them and plays with them all the time, so as long as he's happy I'm fine with it.

Stephen leaves for Georgia again in a week, and will be gone for the rest of the month of August. I'm excited for him, but kind of dreading being a single mom for that long especially since Zander is getting old enough to crawl and throw tantrums. This will be the time I can work on my patience--it hasn't been easy this past month, but at the same time I'm looking forward to all time we get to spend together.