My Little Stud!!!

Wow, where did the past few weeks go? I just realized it's been about 3 weeks since I updated last and as you can see the little man is changing daily. His newest and greatest thing is growling. Yea, growling...........it's so funny, I call him my little tiger and now when you growl him, he'll do it right back at ya. He's also learned how to waive so that's pretty cute. Kids are just too funny. When they learn one new thing it's like they just can't stop doing it. He has also figured out how to pull himself up on things. Now I'm just waiting for him to start walking around the furniture and stuff.

The past couple weeks have been a bit challenging. Caleb has been sick for the first time. Last week I stayed home with him one day and then attempted to send him to daycare the next. Not even 2 hours after I got to work his daycare provider called and all I could hear was my baby screaming in the background. My heart just sank. I felt so terrible!!! I left work imediately and went to pick him up to bring him to the doctor. Found out he had an upper respiratory infection and fluid in his ears but the doc said it was clear and appeared more viral rather bacterial so didn't treat it. We continued to give him over the counter stuff for the past week and he seemed like he was doing better a few days ago but then took a step backwards early this week. He's been so stuffed up and has had an extremely hard time breathing. He's not intereted in eating any solid foods at all and is really fussy taking the bottle as he can't breath while he's eating so he gets frustrated. I finally called the doctor yesterday and they wanted to see him again. So, repeat of last week.........I went to daycare and picked him up and back to the doctor we went. Come to find out he now has more fluid in his ears but it still looks clear and viral as the doctor put it but I insisted that we at least got some antibiotics to try since nothing else is working. It's so frustrating and I just feel so bad for him. He just seems so miserable. Today there's not much change but we've only been on the meds for about 24 hours now so I've got my fingers crossed he's going to start feeling better. He weighed in the same as last week. A whoppin' 14.1 pounds.

To top it all off.......Josh is out of town this entire week for work and last week when we were dealing with it all, Josh was so busy getting ready to run a big softball tournament that took place in town this past weekend. So, needeless to say........I've pretty much been single mom dealing with this cranky, sick and miserable kid. Right now I could use a BIG break. I'm suppose to be going to Steven's Point this weekend to watch Josh play in the state softball tourney and Caleb is going to stay with his grandma and grandpa Klinger but if he is not doing better I won't feel right about leaving him so I will probably end up staying home with him once again by myself. Man, I don't know how these single parents do it. It's so much work and so draining at times it's enough to drive a person insane.



Don't get me wrong..........I love this little man more than anything in the world but things have been a little rough lately. Then, just like that he'll give me a smile like this one and all I can do is smile back and realize that even when things are going a bit rough, they could always be worse.

I hope everyone is having a nice summer and getting out to do some fun things with your loved ones.

Take care, Erin