Rough week!

It's been a rough week/week-and-a-half in the Gnadt household.  Probably the toughest week with a child so far!  It all started two Fridays ago, when my mom was here.  She was nice enough to send Nick and me on a date.  We went to Sushi Muramoto and ate until we were stuffed!  We put Owen to bed before we left since he goes to bed ~6:45-7 pm and didn't think he would be any trouble for my mom.  We were so wrong.  Apparently, he was up at 8... needed to be rocked and back to bed he went.  Then, he was up again at 10:30 when we got home.  Rinse and repeat every 1-2 hours throughout the night.  Ugh!  Saturday night was the same.  Come Sunday, we were exhausted!  Then Sunday, he slept!  And thank goodness because we needed the sleep!  Then on Monday, he had shots.  And his ear looked a little funny, so the pediatrician said to come back later in the week if he wasn't sleeping better again.  So, after a long week of no sleep, we went back to the doctor's on Thursday.  Bilateral Acute Otitis Media aka double ear infection.  And my response to the doctor?  "But I'm breastfeeding."  Funny what you say when you are really, really tired!  So amoxicillin at 90 mg/kg/day it was.  And it seemed to be working by the weekend.  Then on Saturday, he had blood in his diaper.  We called the nurse line, and they wanted Owen checked out within 24 hours.  So on Sunday, we went to the peds after hours clinic (before Mason's baptism).  The doctor there wasn't sure if it was the amoxicillin, or the rotovirus vaccine, or a cow milk allergy (insert Sarah panic here- for why see my previous post on my milk stock pile), or maybe a small fissure that we couldn't see.  But he said that his ears were still infected and that we should hold the amoxicillin and see the doctor again on Monday.  So on Monday, we went back to the pediatrician.  The blood in the diaper had been there on Sunday, but of course (and luckily) there was none on Monday.  The pediatrician saw a healing fissure and all was good in the world.  Owen got an injection of an antibiotic since his ears still looked bad and the amoxicillin had been held.  Through all of this, Owen has been a rock star!  No fevers.  Mostly the same happy smiley baby.  Every doctor was amazed at how his ears looked given his demeanor.  He had been sleeping better... okay I take that back.  Now he is not sleeping for a different reason.  Owen is not sleeping as well now, because HE IS ROLLING!!!  And he is determined to be a belly sleeper- he just scares himself when he rolls to his belly in the middle of the night, screams for a few minutes, and then settles back down.  Repeat this cycle ~5 times each night.  At least Nick can help settle him now :) 

In addition to all of this... we did a lot of really fun stuff this week! 

On Saturday, Uncle Aaron completed his very first marathon with a time of 5:07!  Way to go Aaron!  Good job to Megan who also ran the 10k in the rain!

Also on Saturday, we walked with our neighbors in the Madison Area Down Syndrome Society walk!  Harper raised over $2000... probably because she bribed people with high-fives and kisses!  Sorry that I don't have any pictures of the whole group... we were quite the site, all dressed in pink!

Owen at the beginning of the walk

Owen containing his excitement at the end of the walk...

Madison Fire Rescue!!!

On Sunday, best buddy Mason was baptized.  And Heather bought the yummiest cake to celebrate!

On Tuesday, Amos had 5 teeth removed.  A vet in Verona recently diagnosed him with autoimmune stomatitis and recommended removing the teeth behind his canines as the first line treatment.  So to Dr. Loof's we went.  Already, he seems to be happier and has just now realized that there is a baby in the house.  Owen received a lot of head rubs this morning...

Okay and this week's reward for listening to me ramble on and on... a great video of Owen and his new favorite word "zebra!"