Sick time for Liam

Liam has been sick the past few days. He has been running a fever that we have controlled with Advil and Motrin. Once the medicine kicks in Liam has been active and played. He will quickly tire and just want to be held. He has been periodically throwing up when his fever has been high. Liam has done a great job of making it to the bathroom when he has to throw up. He has only had one incident on the kitchen floor, luckily no furniture or carpet! When he has been sitting around and wanting to be held, he has been quite vocal about it. He will repeatedly ask over and over for Jill or I to sit with him. It is hard for him to understand at times that he has to wait while we do other things. He just keeps repeating “Sit with me, sit with me”. Saturday Jill called our pediatrician’s nurse about his fever and how long its been lingering. She suggested that if it gets worse that we take him to the ER Sunday. He didn’t seem that bad Sunday. Since he was seeing the pediatrician Monday we decided to wait. We will see what comes from his appointment Monday. Liam’s appointment Monday was initially to test him for diabetes. We are hoping for the best here. Hopefully it is not diabetes and just a urinary tract infection. We will know Monday evening, hopefully.

In other news, Seamus has started his winter session of soccer. His first game was this past Saturday. They started the season against the same team they beat for the championship in the fall season. They ended up losing this time. They played a great first half with Seamus having 1 goal and 1 assist. The second half though, the team seemed to fall asleep. They were constantly beat defensively leaving the goalie in one on one situations where he was easily beat. Luckily it’s early in the season and we will meet again! Aidan and Brendan have continued to be their silly old selves. Brendan has been enjoying his toys from Santa and playing with his brothers. Aidan continues to amaze us with puzzles. Aidan has put together puzzles for Seamus’ age with little to no help. He even plays the V-tech games with no help from us. We just sit and watch him go about his business when he plays. Listening to him you can hear he is learning from the games. His letter recognition from spelling the train names in Thomas the Train is amazing. It’s good to see an educational game paying off!