Spring Fevers

Down for the count.

The bambini have been battling some bug that brings with it a high fever, an achy tummy, and a generalized malaise. Birdie was sent home from school a week ago Thursday.  Then this past Thursday, it was Joe.  (The timing of the onslaught couldn't get much better: last Friday, Good Friday, Ted had planned to stay home, and this Friday, with Grandma Connie and Grandpa Charles in town for Birdie's fourth birthday bash, Julie had planned to stay home. Of course it was also the day of the kindergarten music concert.  It was surely the musical event of the spring, and so in this one way, the timing was less than ideal.)

Joe was hit quite a bit harder than Birdie was--higher fevers, and harder crashes following periods of bounding around like a jackrabbit.  It was the history with Clara coupled with the periods of jackrabbit-like energy and bounding that made us suspect Joe just had a virus that just had to run its course.  By midday Saturday, he was fever-free.  But Saturday night, he was up in the middle of the night complaining of an itchy ear, and so uncomfortable he couldn't sleep.  He also had a fever again.  We suspected an ear infection, and a visit this morning to the clinic at our big Target confirmed it.  He was really in a bad way: he wadded himself up on his side in the bottom of the big part of a shopping cart and promptly fell asleep while Julie rolled it around the store waiting for his prescription to be filled--but not before he'd selected a snorkel set (Who knows?  But he made a beeline for the swim aisle.) as a pick-me-up treat, as well as grape and fruit punch Gatorade.