Shave and a haircut....two bits...

Buddy has gotten a little shabby with his appearances lately. Nothing a nice trip to the barber shop can't cure!



Thankfully while we were there the barber/dentist offered to take care of Buddy's loose tooth with a tool aptly named Lucifer's anvil...

Did you know I have a great-uncle named Lucifer? Those southerners are wild and crazy, who knew he was so famous to have a tooth pulling machine named after him. Next thing you know my maiden name of Breeding will actually mean something!
All in all a super fantastic, keeping up with appearances, day

Who you lookin' at?

Ever wonder where these big eyes came from?

Wonder no longer!

All in all, a super fantastic, now we have pneumonia (but hey you get antibiotics for that), day!

Cops and Robbers....

The robbers are having a heyday....

Whilst our Sherriff is lounging around on his laurels (actually his tummy, but you get the point)...

Look out fever, your days are numbered, there's an old kid in town, ready to reclaim his territory(which is not the couch)!

All in all a super, seriously in the wise words of Buddy "I hate those germs", day!

A day of rest...

Today I took a much needed rest, I mean really, it's hard work taking care of a kid by yourself for so long, thank goodness I found a nice resting spot...

Unfortunately my resting spot pushed me off seconds after I snapped this picture. So I did what any self respecting person that needs a break would do, I went to my parents and found a really good resting spot. Unfortunately someone else already claimed it...

So we came back home and Buddy decided to find himself a great resting spot. Especially great when you have frequent toxic emissions that need to escape and you want to torture your mother...

In other news, the boy is still sick. Believe me if you could smell his toots you would completely agree! I have watched way more television in the last week than I think I have in the last 10 years, not even the good kind-all cartoons and not super fantastic on the fantastic scale. So to make me smile of our happier, less stinkier days I'm adding this picture that I found while I was perusing some old pictures...

That's right, I'm an amazing super hero, just call me when you're being eaten by a bear...in a kiosk...in a shopping mall...in Alaska (I know Buddy's happy he did)!
All in all a tele-tastic, seriously fever we're quite over having you as our guest, day!

Moving on up...

Buddy has been dying of boredom (which beats the dying of sickness), he keeps whining he wants to do something, but doesn't have energy to do anything! Hmmm, quite the conundrum, so with our few good hours today we did what any normal meningitis sufferer would do. We made gloop...

Then we made a high rise that George Jefferson would be envious of, complete with light of course (just in case a visitor is afraid of the dark, we're not of course)!

Unfortunately all that construction work can wear a fellow out.....

All in all, seriously could this fever last any longer, day!

Antipyretics...

That's right, I said it! I have a new found love of some of these drugs. Namely Tylenol and Ibuprofen. In a lovely cocktail mix every 6 to 8 hours, they turn my little pile of crying goo, into a little bit of this...

As long as his fever is down to a somewhat tolerable range, the headache is gone and the crying ends (yippee). Buddy has been such a brave boy and frequently checking his own temperature. I think he has super thermometer powers in this finger...

So for now, a super fantastic, you can never be cuddled too often by mom when you're sick day!

Therapy...

For kindergarten, Buddy's school sent out a letter saying that all he needed was a pencil box, some pencils, erasers and a few crayons. Yesterday, our masterpiece arrived...

Buddy is so fancy, it's got his name all over it, no really it does...

Sadly, I didn't order it in time to for his first day, so Buddy has been begrudgingly
hanging around the house for the last 3 days waiting for it. Those last three days have looked a lot like this...

What a great kid, he gets sick so no one will know that his mom didn't get his pencil box in a timely manner like all the other moms! He's an overachiever too, instead of it being strep like the doctor initially thought, Buddy developed a full blown case of viral meningitis (I'm so proud).
Anyway, he's on the upswing. Truthfully we've been to the doctors twice in the last 3 days and to Primary Children's ED last night and the previous two nights I slept with my hand on his chest(OK, not sure if sleeping is the right word, but you moms know what I'm talking about, counting respiration's, becoming the human thermometer). Today his temperature has slightly decreased and he has spent most of the day doing this...

Who knew an iPhone would have such a curative effect, like pet therapy, it's iPhone therapy (my catchphrase, I'm totally patenting it!)
So all in all a super fantastically, getting better day!