Keeping up...

Things have been moving along at warp speed (what's new?!) but last weekend we were able to go over to the Westside and visit Gma/Gpa DeMeerleer for a few days.  We lucked out that our visit overlapped a visit from the Alaska fam...so Grace got LOTS of playtime in with cousins Alexis and Daniel.  Kellan enjoyed watching everything but jsut wasn't able to keep up - yet.  He did manage to make sure he wasn't forgotten in the hustle and bustle of everything else by cutting his first tooth on Saturday and then getting a 24-hour flu bug on Sunday.  The little man was not feeling good.
Then it was back home and two days later Grace spiked a major fever and after a visit to the doctor, had another ear infection (we thought we'd wrapped this up 2 weeks ago, but no...). Chuck and I each took a day home with her and by Friday, she was back to normal...just having to still take "the bad medicine" as she calls it because apparently it doesn't taste good.
Then yesterday, Kellan starting coughing a bit, but nothing alarming...normal daycare cold stuff...or so we thought.  All last night he was wheezing and coughing, so this morning we figured we take him into the doctor just to be safe. Well, as Chuck put it - they were all spooked.  They sent us immediately to Urgent Care to get chest images and to get an infant nebulizer ready to get his airway to open up. Then they slowed down and actually checked him...temperature = normal, blood pressure = normal, oxygen levels = normal, attitude = happy and flirting with the nurses....hmmmmm.....  Then he had a major coughing fit, spit up some phlemg and then stopped wheezing for awhile.  They sent us home with a bunch of antibiotics and mediciations to make sure he doesn't get any additional infections and that it doesn't get into his lungs or become pnemonia...but otherwise said he should be fine in a few days.  Thanks for panicing and inducing parental panic, fear and helplessness!!!  errrgggg.....
Tomorrow I am hosting a Pampered Chef party with a number of family, friends and coworkers, so should be fun!