Update

I have needed to do this post for a while now, but I kept forgetting. I wrote a big post several months ago about Cade being potty trained, but I never wrote about Luke being potty trained. I am officially a mother of two potty trained boys!!! YEAH!!! Luke has been fully potty trained for about a month and overall it was a pretty easy process. Of course we had been talking about it a lot because Cade was potty trained, but Luke just didn't have much interest so we didn't push it. We figured he would potty train when he was ready. A couple of months ago, he just woke up and decided he was ready. Within a few days he was wearing "big boys" full time. We just had one problem.... going #2!! After throwing away several pair of big boys (I'm sorry I just don't care anything about scrubbing poop out of big boys) he finally got the hang of it. So he has been officially potty trained for almost 2 months now! I honestly thought I would never see the day they were both potty trained, but now that it is here.....I'm worn out!!! :) Don't get me wrong, I am so glad they are potty trained and it is much cheaper not having to buy so many diapers but.....when we go out in public, I generally leave sweating from taking them both to the bathroom 100 times!! The first time daddy went out to eat with us and with them both potty trained, we left the restaurant and Joe said "dang, if I had known they were going to have to go to the bathroom 100 times, we would have just stayed at home!!" Welcome to my world!!!!! I am normally taking them all by myself!! Glad he got a little taste! ;) I am so proud to have this big step behind us!!

**Update**

We went to the doctor today for a follow-up visit for Luke, and I just thought I would update everyone on how he is doing.  The doctor gave us a great report and said he obviously is looking much better, but his lungs sound much clearer as well.  The official radiology report came back about the xray of his lungs and it said he had pneumonia....glad we went ahead and started the antibiotics!  His body is clear of most of the hives except for a little on his legs.  We can actually go out in public without scaring people, yeah!!!  We talked some more about what might have made the hives appear and she said it could be a number of things with one of those things possibly being an allergic reaction to motrin.  The weekend before all of this happened he had a bad virus and high fever for 3 days so he got quite a bit of motrin.  The doctor said there is no way to tell for sure unless we give him motrin again and see how he responds (not my favorite idea) or we can run a test on him to see if he is allergic.  I plan on having them run the test when we go back for his 3 yr. well check.  Until then, we will just stay away from motrin!!  So....all and all....his body is doing great!!!  Now....his attitude....a different story!!!

I don't know if it is just the age or from being sick and getting away with a little more than usual, but he is giving me all kinds of grief!!  The second he doesn't get his way, about anything, he throws a HUGE fit.  One of many examples....he sat in time out yesterday screaming for an entire hour, before he would say "I'm sorry" to his brother for biting him.  We are back in a biting phase!   He is so strong willed and stubborn.  I have no idea where he got that from.....

I could go on and on with examples, but lets just say...please pray for my patience and pray for his attitude!!!!

What a Week!!

What started out like this....

A really bad cough and fever...

turned into this today!!!

So.....last weekend Luke started having a really bad cough and ran a fever all weekend.  We called the 24 hr nurse line and talked to them a couple times throughout the weekend to make sure we didn't need to take him in to be seen.  After talking through all of the symptoms, they said it sounded like he had croup and it would just kind of run its course and then be through....so that is what we thought it would do.....

By Monday he no longer had a fever, but still had a bad cough.  The nurse had said his barky, dry cough would eventually turn into a more congested cough and that is what happened so we thought he was getting better.

Throughout the week, Luke was still a little irritable but seemed to be getting better.  So we had a full weekend planned out and we had the boys running all weekend.  We spent the entire day in Atlanta Saturday for tailgating and then went to the Tech game that night. ( I will post pics of this later) Luke was ROUGH all day!! I was so frustrated because I didn't know why he was acting so irritable.  It got so bad that I had to leave the game early and take the boys back to the RV.  I just assumed Luke was tired and having a bad day.....

Sunday we woke up and decided just to take it easy since we had had such a long weekend.  By lunch time, Luke all of a sudden started breaking out into welps and hives all over his body. We again talked to the nurse and they said to give him benadryl and he would probably be fine....Well he wasn't.  He woke up this morning covered in hives....it was a VERY scary sight.  His face and hands were swollen and his whole body was red with welps.  Throughout my shaking and crying, I got an appt. and the Dr. saw him at 9:30 this morning.  2 hours later and I was told my baby had bronchitis or early pneumonia and the hives were a reaction to the viral infection he must have had the weekend before.  So they gave him a steroid shot and 2 medications...1 for the bronchitis and 1 for the hives rash.  Wow, I was not expecting all of that!! The Dr. said the rash could last for 2-4 weeks.....this is going to be a long month!!!  Hopefully all of this medicine kicks in soon and he will be looking and feeling better!!

(these pictures were a couple of hours after the steroid shot, he is already looking a little better!)

Isn't that pitiful!!

I was finally getting a little smile from him before naptime.....

Thank goodness Cade has not gotten sick through all of this and we will just pray that he doesn't!! For now, he is just being a very concerned brother. :)