Roberts Family Blog

Hey all! We continue to operate under sick house mode. After giving PJ breathing treatments around the clock for 24 hours, he woke up yesterday seemingly much improved to me. He was alert, with great color, and lots of laughs and smiles. Therefore, I was really expecting a great outcome at his re-check yesterday afternoon at the doctor's office. Well....she immediately agreed that he looked ten times better than two days ago, but unfortunately his lungs still sounded "crackly and wheezy". Her recommendation was to continue the frequent breathing treatments, and to bring him back him before we leave our trip. Apparently if the wheezing hasn't resolved itself by then it might not be a good idea to take him on a plane. But she did feel that the natural progression of this illness would place the peak of symptoms the past two days, and things should be improving a lot before Saturday. I sure hope so!

Unfortunately Hayden seems to be a few days behind Pierce and he is definitely at the peak of his symptoms right now. Poor little dude. Last night he kept waking up from coughing and he'd just lay in his bed crying and calling for me. Finally at midnight I set up the air mattress in his room and just laid there with him to comfort him when I needed to. That cough was really intense! So we are taking him back to the doctor this morning I want to make sure that there is no ear infection starting, and that his lungs are still clear. I am sooooo ready for this illness to leave our house! Here are some photos of my guys doing their breathing treatments.

And here is a funny one of H eating his breakfast under his art table

Pierce, despite being sick, continues to excel at crawling and I'm totally in a whole new world suddenly!  Last night he crawled right over to the fireplace and starting playing with the doors of it, and then he got over to his dehumidifier and was pulling on the cord.  Oh lord....what are we in for LOL!  But I love his newfound independence and freedom.

And I do have a funny Hayden story from last night. After we put Hayden to bed, I heard some rummaging around in his room but I figured he was getting books or toys to bring into bed with him. I said to Nate, "I wonder what he's doing in there" but we both kind of shrugged it off. Well a few minutes later Nate went to check on him and I heard him saying "oh no buddy, oh the fish can't eat that much food, oh no", so I went in there and Hayden had gotten his stool from the bathroom and pulled it up to the dresser, had opened the top of the tank, and had proceeded to feed like half the container of fish food to the fish. Oh my gosh - SO FUNNY!!! Nate I were struggling not to burst out laughing.  There was fish food EVERWHERE! It was like a fishy buffet gone wrong LOL. They were in a frenzy and there is Hayden just calmly feeding them on his step stool, so proud of himself. Well we had to suction out all the food and refill the tank and it was just a major ordeal, but man was it FUNNY. Poor kiddo just trying to help.  Needless to say, the fish food will now be stored in a very high place!  But we both agreed that it is cute to see him try to take care of his little animals.