12:30am I’m sitting here listening to you try and breathe through your stuffed up nose. It’s horrible!  I just want to suck it all out, but that will wake you up. 

1:20am you wake up crying. Your ear hurts and you are congested. I give you Motrin and suck out your nose, but that doesn’t seem to work. Mom and I decide it’s time to take you to Children’s Hospital. 

We arrive, check you in and sit in the waiting room for a little while. You are entertained by the large colorful ring lights they have in the ceiling. You find my sticky visitor badge on my jacket and playfully poke at it until you pull it off. It sticks to your finger. You go to put it in your mouth. No!  

We are called back to your room. You are in good spirits but are starting to get cranky. I think the Motrin is wearing off, plus you are tired. We are all tired.  You keep yourself entertained by calling the picture of the animal on the wall a dog. 

The doctor came in and looked at your ears. Your right ear was a little pink, and your left ear was definitely infected. Yay!  She prescribed you Cefdinir, a bubble gum smelling antibiotic. 

They also diagnosed you with Croup Cough. Which is a viral infection of the larynx and trachea. We knew you had a cough but we didn’t know it was Croup. Since the only way to find out if you had Croup was for you to cough in front of the doctor. Of course, you weren’t going to do that. So the doctor had to pull up YouTube clips of kids with Croup and that’s how we diagnosed it. They gave you Dexamethasone, a steroid, to treat it. It pretty much cleared it up overnight. 

On the way home, you fell asleep and slept until 8am. Of course, we got home around 5am so…