Rough Week at the Low household

Henry is teething. I guess that's why he's had a fever for two days and couldn't go to sleep. Maybe he has an ear infection. Either way, it's really hard to watch him be sad. He is so sick! It took me an hour and a half to get him to bed last night, I've never had any problems with Henry before. What happened to my perfect baby? Hopefully he'll be back to himself when he wakes up today.

Tomorrow is the big surgery. Isaac knows what is happening, and he really doesn't want to do it. But he likes the idea of getting a new toy, hopefully that holds up. We had to coordinate three schedules as we are doing tonsils, umbilical hernia, and filling his cavities at the same time (Yes he has five cavities between his back molars. Who knew you had to FLOSS your kids teeth? I thought brushing was hard enough.)

And as if this wasn't enough, Dawson broke his foot. It was so sad to see him limping around! He was jumping down the stairs, and just landed on it wrong. I knew instantly by his cry that something was wrong. (Gotta love that mother's intuition) Luckily, one of our best friends is a foot doctor. Isn't that handy? He fit us in and with 3 people holding him down (while he screamed bloody murder) they x-rayed his foot. Dr. Spencer (as we call him) couldn't actually see a fracture, he said kids are tricky that way because their bones are still forming so you would need to take an MRI to see the break. After the x-ray we figure an MRI is an impossibility, and unnecessary as treatment is the same for a break or sprain. So Daws is in a boot or "Wee walker" as it is called, for 4 weeks. It is so cute!!! I've never seen one so small before. He actually doesn't mind the boot now, and Isaac has told us that he wants a boot too.

My baby and his boot


The cake Tim and Lauren made for us. Seriously, we have the best next door neighbors EVER!