what a week it has been!

Last week we went through sooooooo much~

The weekend started with us watching over Mercer to see if we needed to take him to the emergency Children's Healthcare center for some breathing issues. After talking to the nurse hot-line and doing some breathing treatments here, he improved overnight, however, we noticed he had thrush in his mouth & needed to take him in to get something to take care of that. (We learned that the breathing treatment medicine made thrush more common.) When the doctor was looking in his mouth, he noticed that his tonsils were swollen and his throat was red... he did a strep throat test... and it was positive! While there, we asked the doctor about a couple of skin infections which he said was a couple of different kinds of fungus! He had 5 different things going on -- his immunity system was completely knocked down. He had a fever off and on for days. He only wanted to lay around. He wouldn't eat or drink because his mouth and throat hurt too much. It was a rough few days until the medicine he got kicked in.

Thankfully, the medicine took effect on Tuesday afternoon. Mercer's 3rd birthday was on Wednesday!! He was able to go back to daycare on Wednesday, so I took up some muffins and snacks. When I arrived, Mercer and his classmates were all wearing plastic fireman hats and stickers on their shirts that looked like gold badges. The daycare had a fire truck there earlier in the day and all of the kids got to climb on the truck! Between the truck and my visit with snacks, he was definitely having a great day at school!

Later in the week, Todd's mom and my mom both came into town for Mercer's birthday party. We had kids from the neighborhood come over for a big play-doh throw-down. Colors, cutters, extractors, shapes, and presses everywhere... it was a lot of fun for them all. But they may have actually had more fun decorating their own cupcakes and eating them or playing outside (thank good for the nice weather). Mercer definitely enjoyed having friends and "grandma" and "other grandma" over to the house. ("grandma" and "other grandma" changed depending on who was closest to him at the time!)

After all of the festivities, it would seem that things would get back to normal, however, when I got back to work after the weekend, I quit my job of the past 6 years! I have found another that also works with building owners to make them more sustainable... but job is much closer to home. I'll be working through the end of the month before making the change.

I think - now - things are finally going to get back to normal. I don't know that we could have another week like this past one?!