Wordless Wednesday

Sickness confirmed

Jonathon has Roseola!  But I have been very lucky this time around.  The highest his fever got yesterday was 100.7.  His rash was on his inner arms, outer arms and neck and partway down his back.

This morning he has no temp ~ the rash is barely noticeable ~ he is eating and playing again ~ and he is drinking like normal today also.  he will remain contagious until the rash is gone.

I asked Dr. Peditrician if this was airborne ~ no ~ he got it from someone coughing near him ~ runny nose near him ~ someone had it and gave it to him.

Now there is this one particular little boy at school that spends more time outside of school being sick than actually being at school.  He has taken a liking to Jonathon for some reason.  He wants to hold Jonathon's hand all the time.  He wants to hug on Jonathon all the time.  And I have worried about this much contact.  And I don't know if he got it from this particular child, but he has not been anywhere except school.  Except for Thursday afternoon, we went to the park and to McDonalds.  Soooo not sure where he got it.

And the reason I said "I got lucky this time around"  When Kenny was a baby (under 1) he got Roseola.  He had a high temp of 104 that we had a hard time getting down.  It was very scary and he was very sick.  He also burst his eardrum from the fever.  We made it through that and he recovered just fine, but I am so glad that I did not have to go through that with Jonathon.  I am glad he had a mild case.

We have school on Monday and field trip on Tuesday so I hope he is better by then!

Sick little boy

So last night Jonathon woke up needing to go to the bathroom and well lets just say we almost made it ~ but not quite ~ my poor(baby)big boy was almost on toilet and he exploded.  I am very proud of him that he woke up and actually made it that far ~ definitely not his fault.

We stayed in bathroom for about 15 min til he was finished and I cleaned up.  The whole time I am thinking "ok, did he have bad McDonalds", did he catch something at McDonalds, did he catch something at the park, did I remember to wash his hands after everything, maybe he just had an upset stomach.........

This morning he woke up and seemed o.k.  Daddy took him in to go potty and then I got up and took him from daddy to go find his underwear for the day ~ when I took his hand it felt warm ~ I then touched his arm and head ~ yep warm ~ go get thermometer and yes he has a low grade temp ~ got him some juice and let him climb up on couch to watch t.v.

Usually Jonathon eats right away with his brothers before they go off to school ~ not today ~ he did not eat breakfast until 8:30a.m. and it was only yogurt ~ he is still on his first cup of juice ~ he is not playing ~ he is laying around ~ he is being quiet `~ I was kinda hoping that maybe he had 2yr. molars coming in and nothing else ~ now I am not so sure.

I had to make a couple of phone calls and when I was finished I went over to tell him how I was happy and thankful that he was a good boy and remained quiet when I noticed he has a rash.
So I begin to look him over and he has a rash on the back of his neck partway down his back ~ on the insides of his arms ~ and on his cheeks.  So I called the dr. and even though he is doublebooked I am taking Jonathon in this afternoon(the receptionist tried giving me her diagnosis) umm don't care, you are not the dr.  So we will go and wait our turn at 3:30p.m.

Hopefully it's nothing major, but seems how it's the weekend I need to know.
I really hate the E.R. and don't want to end up there.

Another Milestone Complete

I have finally decided that Jonathon is finished with his stairs and we will be donating them to Memphis Schools(Jonathon's school)next week.  He has been working on his stairs since December 09 and now they are pretty much just sitting in the corner unless I take them out for Jonathon to play on.  I say play on because he is really good at going up and down.  He now holds a ball in one hand and holds the rail with the other hand and walks up ~ sits down ~ rolls the ball ~ stands up ~ walks back down ~ and does this all over again.  He will climb the stairs and go down on his butt ~ he will stand on the landing and practice standing on one leg.

Our close friend "Mr Randy" made the stairs for Jonathon and agreed that we could donate them. (Thanks Randy).  We just want other children to be able to have the opportunity for this part of physical therapy if needed.

Stairs are only located at Woodlands in Marysville.  The only reason that we were able to access these stairs was because we were involved in summer school and summer school is located only at Woodlands.  And this is where I got my idea from.  And I am glad that I had these stairs made, what a difference in Jonathon's therapy for walking better.

I hope Memphis staff and the students enjoy the stairs and get as much from them as we did!

I wanted to post a video also, but I am having problems figuring it all out.  Soooo when I finally figure out how to do it  I will show everyone just what Jonathon can do!

Wordless Wednesday

I see the finish line

around the bend!  I started the process of potty training with Jonathon Feb 21 2009.
As of April 5, 2010 Jonathon has been wearing underwear!!

Now he doesn't wear underwear ALL the time, but pretty darn close.  Jonathon wears a pull up to bed at night ~ when he gets up in the morning I take him right to the bathroom to go potty ~ sometimes he is wet ~ sometimes he is not wet ~ after going potty we take off the wet/dry pullup and put underwear on for the day.

I now ask Jonathon around 3 hours if he needs to go potty ~ he will now answer me "yes" and then we go ~ I now ask Jonathon if he needs to go "poop" or pee ~ he will now answer me.

Since Jonathon has been wearing underwear sometimes I catch him undressing from the waist down ~ I ask "do you need to go potty?" ~ and most always his response is "yes" ~ and then we hurry off to the bathroom ~ and 98% of the time he does go.

When Jonathon takes a nap, I put a pull up back on him ~ he understands its just for sleeping ~ and when he wakes up from his nap I give him a few minutes and then we go potty and change back into underwear ~ sometimes he is wet ~ alot of times he is not wet.

When I was leaving the house I put a pull up on Jonathon ~ even though since I started potty training he has only been wet maybe 5 times ~ he has been the easiest out of my 3 boys to potty train ~ but I never wanted him to have an accident and send him 10 steps backwards so this was my security blanket I suppose.

But as of April 19th I decided it's time ~ I no longer put him in a pull up when we leave the house ~ well ok only for 1 thing and that is when he goes to school ~ he has never come home wet ~ it's just a little of my security blanket left I suppose ~ I will be working with Jonathon all summer on how to communicate with the teachers about potty since he will go to preschool full time in Sept ~ cannot even believe I am saying that.
Anyway, we get up, we go potty, we put underwear on for the day!  He has been doing awesome~ I am so proud of him ~ My sister watched him on friday for a couple of hours ~ She told me that Jonathon walked over to her bathroom door ~ she then asked if he needed to go potty and he responded with "yes" AND he did go for her!  HOORAY!

That has been another worry of mine that he won't go for someone else, so this makes me happy.

Now today we had another break thru!  And this is why I say I see the finish line
This morning I was busy putting clothes away and getting ready to take a shower ~ Jonathon was watching t.v. in the living room and playing with his cars in the window ~ I knew he would be entertained for a little while with Elmo so I could hurry and get my shower done ~ I turned around in the bedroom and he was coming in kinda holding belly and pulling at waist of his pants ~ I said "Jonathon do you need to go potty?"  He said "yes"  I said "ok, lets go"  He hurried off ahead of me and went straight to the bathroom, I helped him up on toilet and OMG he went within milliseconds!!!   I was sooo happy that when he finished I let him know just how proud I was for him to come and find me and tell me he needed to go!  He is becoming such a big boy!
And usually I take his hand and walk him off to bathroom, I didn't have to do that he went right ahead of me!
So now I will start working on waiting for as long as I think he can wait and see if he tells me he has to go!  As far as I am concerned my son is potty trained!  He wears underwear all day except for sleeping.  Just because he doesn't verbally tell me ALL the time doesn't matter to me!

I won't give up ~ I will continue to work with him ~ I want him to be able to just go ~ Like I said "I see the finish line"
I am so proud of Jonathon!  He truly is amazing!!

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