Life With The Shirleys: purple belt and the flu

Last week The Mayor had his belt testing...going from green belt to purple belt. I had gotten a call from the school nurse that The Mayor was complaining of a headache and when he got off the bus he told me he had a cold. I gave him a dose of Mucinex for his cough and Advil for his headache. He had no fever so off to karate we went. He made it through his belt testing very well. It was definitely the most calm he had ever been through his test and he passed! He is now a Tiny Tiger purple belt.

Bedtime came and he was still fever free; unfortunately it didn't last. Around 11:00 he woke up crying because he had just vomited and was now burning up with fever. We cleaned him up, stripped his bed and he asked to go sleep in the guest room. He passed out almost as soon as his head hit the pillow. Luckily I had his 6 year well visit scheduled for the next morning so I decided to keep the appointment. Thank goodness I did because he tested positive for the flu. After we picked up his prescriptions, we came home and I tried to get him to eat some Saltines. He only ate a few, got sick again and then he asked to go to sleep. He took almost a 3 hour nap in our bed and when he woke up, he asked to get into his own bed. He didn't want to lie on the couch or on the palette on the floor, he only wanted to be in his bed. He laid there in silence for about an hour and then I brought the iPad to his room. He watched movies on the iPad until bedtime. Because we caught the flu so early and got the Tamiflu in his system so quickly, by the time he went to bed that first night, his fever was already back to 98.6. He woke up the next morning asking to go to school and back to his old self. Of course I made him stay home...he was pretty upset he missed the last two days of school but I was actually glad we were officially on Christmas break.

Because The Mayor came down with the flu I missed Love Bug's Christmas party at school. I was really sad to miss...it was the first party of either of my kids I had missed. Love Bug was really upset I couldn't be there, but my friend whose daughter is in the same class took extra good care of Love Bug. She said Love Bug had so much fun she really didn't notice she didn't have a parent there.

D had also been battling a nasty cough all week and finally decided to go to the doctor. Turns out D has walking pneumonia. Ugh...not the way I wanted our Christmas break to go but luckily everyone is on medication and on the mend. I decided we were going to all lay low until Christmas. We are hosting Christmas dinner here for my family and I really don't want to spend Christmas day with anyone feeling sick. I can't believe another Christmas is almost here...the kids are so excited...and so am I!