What a week, whew!

Whew, it has been quite a week in the Phillips household. It all began last Saturday when Ethan woke up from his nap with a low grade fever. We thought nothing of it, gave him some Tylenol and went about our day. We had been planning a "bye-bye diaper" party for him now that he is potty trained and should have known something was wrong when he did not eat any of his cake. This is not a kid who has ever passed up a piece of cake in his life. We had promised him that we would go to the LA Angels game that night and decided to go ahead with the game. He absolutely loved it, his eyes were as wide as saucers as he watched the game, though once again he did not eat anything, even throwing away his ice cream! He made it through 7 innings and then we came home only to find that he had a temperature of 103.5 and was extremely lethargic. That was only the tip of the iceberg. For the next 4 days his fever stayed extremely high, at one point getting over 104. Each time it would respond to medication, only to spike by the time the medication wore off. The doctor checked him out, even did a chest x-ray but felt that it was viral and it had to run its course. So, needless to say, it was a long 4 days for us, no one got much sleep as Ethan was so uncomfortable at night he was up every 2 hours (back to the newborn stage!!). His fever finally broke today and he is pretty much back to normal, except his appetite. He still really has not eaten at all since getting sick but I have no doubt that his appetite will return with a vengeance.
Here are a few pictures from the game, we got a share in season tickets to the Angels so I am sure Ethan will go to his share of games this year. Even in these pictures, Ethan looks miserable, guess we had no clue how sick he really was.


The other part of this week is that I had my 20w ultrasound and all looked good. They were able to confirm that we are indeed having another boy and we are thrilled. There will be lots of soccer, baseball and sports in the Phillips household and I think Ethan is going to love having a little brother. I am anxious for them to be at the age where they can play together as ever since we went to the baseball game, Ethan is obsessed with me pitching the ball to him while he hits. I swear I think we did it for about 2 1/2 hours today and it was tiring, definitely something brothers can do together! So, all in all, things continue to move along, I am finally starting to look pregnant and feeling good.