Our weekend

It went fast! With family in town we just really tried to lay low since juggling three kids three and under and a whole bunch of adults is not easy. Not much you can do in Arizona in August. Naps and bedtimes are completely off schedule and grouchiness is in full effect. Goes with the territory and in the end all worth it. Number one priority was for the kids to get as much time as possible with everyone.
We had a great time, as always it wasn't long enough.
The family accommodated us and we had nights at our house and played cards and shared laughs. Caden and Riordan had a blast having so much attention from Grammy, Papa, Uncle Tim and Aunt Kelly and wanted to know when they are coming again.
We will hopefully get to make a Boston trip next year...
Riordan woke up yesterday morning with a fever of 102 and croup. He didn't have a cold and Friday night was cuddling with Grammy which if I hadn't had a couple of drinks and involved in cards, I would have realized it was the beginning. He's not and never has been a cuddler. He has only been really sick one other time when he was 2 months old and had the flu. He's had colds for sure, but that's easy to handle. He's had croup too, but to me it was never ever serious.
This time is was. He was miserable all day, totally in sick mode and just not himself. He cuddled a lot. We kept on top of his fever with Motrin and tried to keep it down. Seemed to be doing okay last night. Mike and I had a party to attend and Grammy was still up for babysitting so we went.
Came home to both the boys up and not happy. Riordan sounded horrible, he had stridor along with his croup. He fell asleep around 1:30 but was back up at 6 am. Low fever, but still miserable and couldn't get happy I finally called our awesome doctor who called back in FIVE minutes. She asked if I wanted to be seen today, but told her we could wait till tomorrow and she called in a prescription for him. She reminded me to do a steam shower with him and that crying actually was good because he would inhale more. Also said if I wanted I could do a treatment on him. Couldn't find the nebulizer so we did the aerochamber. No change.
Mike took his family to the airport with Caden, Teagan was asleep so we did a steam for 15 mins. He hated the first half, but finally was calming down ( he literally had been crying all morning) He payed attention to the books I was reading and was becoming more like himself. It was amazing and I should have stuck with it sooner when we were trying to do it the night before. We ended up doing two steams in 2 hours.
Mike came home with the script and when he woke up from his nap the croup sounded much better. Still a slight fever, but feeling confident that it will pass with the prednisone.
We go in tomorrow morning to get him check out, to make sure an ear infection isn't present and get his lungs listened to.
I just felt so bad for him and at the same time it was hard to tend to his needs along with Teagan and so I am thankful that we had family here to help out. Riordan, Teagan, and I stayed home yesterday while the rest went for pizza but we can definitely make that up another day.
We have a Peter Piper pizza party in a couple of weeks so that will be perfect!