Cade, Cade, Cade...

Heard the cliche' "When it rains, it pours"? I should have known when we woke up on New Year's Day with a high fever what early 2009 had in store for our little Cade-man. That turned out to be an ear infection. (His tubes put in Jan. '08 are almost all the way out.) Ten days of antibiotics for that one. By the third week of January, what started as a little nap-time cough on Thursday, had turned into a fever, and a very restless & unhappy child by Saturday night, that became a diagnosis of pneumonia on Sunday at the pediatrician's office. What?! A double-shot (1/2 in each leg), plus ten more days of antibiotics and breathing treatments for that. Before we could completely recooperate, we had, as Cade would say, a "hursey" accident. His beloved Molly, before she even took her first step with him in the saddle, somehow became spooked, I guess, rared up and rolled him off the back. If only the fall, I think we would have come out better, but then she lost her balance and fell back on him - yes, GASP - pushing him over onto some pavement. He escaped with only some ugly scrapes and hand-swelling, but the entire event certainly took a few years off the three adults' lives who were standing there helpless, trying to prevent something that was already in motion. And we're not sure yet what the consequences will be for poor, old Molly. Anyway... while recovering from those nasty wounds (and finishing up pneumonia treatments I might add), Cade had an annual check-up with the ENT. Yep, tubes are coming out, we knew that, and... wait a minute... What?!... another ear infection! Huh? He's currently taking an antibiotic!!! So they x-ray the adenoids (his 3rd x-ray in 10 days... poor child is glowing in the dark!) and see that they are quite enlarged. Know what comes next? You got it! Surgery is scheduled for the end of February. He'll come out with no adenoids and a new set of tubes. (And we have to stay on an antibiotic until then.) Whew...

Some good news, though! Our baby boy is sleeping in his big boy bed & loves it!
... sweet, angel boy...