The hot baby finally fell asleep just in time for someone to wake him up and poke at him a little more.
Wow, what a weekend! Not to mention the week last week! We have definately had our share of drama! Last Wednesday we had a storm (I guess technically it was a "microburst") and within the first 5 minutes of the rain our power went out. We sat all night wondering when it was going to come back on, the power company kept pushing back the reconnect time and finally at about 8 a.m. we found out the real story, the storm had knocked out 11 power poles in Coolidge and becasue of where the town sits in relation to the reservation (pretty much as close as it can get without being reservation land) there was a giant beaurocratic mess to get the poles removed and replaced. So, we bailed out of town for the day thinking we would be back home that evening. No such luck, it was a bigger mess than they thought. We ended up spending the night with my parents and keeping an eye on the news. It took them 2 full days and the actual night of the storm to finally get power restored to 2300 Coolidge residents. We lost almost everything in our fridge and the house was all musty when we got back home, I'm pretty sure there won't be a credit on the electric bill for inconvenience either. So, since we had such a weird week we decided we were staying home for the weekend.
Saturday morning Ben's buddy Scott came out to the house and they loaded up the dirtbikes and went to play in the desert while Deacon and I attempted to get the house defunked and picked up. Deak had been a little grump all morning and he had woken up with a fever of 102. I had a little panic attack at first and called my mom at 5:30 in the morning to ask what to do (Marx and Maddox hardly ever got sick as babies and fevers terrify me), she of course calmed me down and walked me through what to do and Deacons fever was down quick and he was back asleep. Ben came home around 11 and proceeded to start his relaxing, go nowhere weekend. Deacon was up for just a few hours and slept most of the day, I thought it was a little strange but not completely unusual. Ben and Deacon both took a long afternoon nap and I took the oportunity to scrapbook. I went to get Deacon up from his nap at 5 and he was burning hot, I took his temp and it was 104.8!!! I bolted down the hall simultaneously dialing my mom and yelling for Ben to get up NOW. I quickly told my mom what was happening and strapped Deak into the carseat. I filled his carseat with ice packs and cold waterbottles, gave him the last of the motrin I had and we headed out. he didn't make a peep the whole way to the hospital and I sat in the back with him trying to keep him awake. We got to Casa Grande Hospital at 5:30, I told the nurse his temp and they had him in back before I knew it. he registered 104.9 on their thermometer and they started asking if he had a seizure and talking about what it could be. I was so freaked out, I'd never seen a temp that high and I'd heard about brain damage and seizures brought on by high fevers. His fever started to drop pretty fast and we just had to wait for a doctor to look at him to make sure it wasn't something really bad. Turns out it was just a double ear infection and after a prescription for an antibiotic we were home by 9:30. i had somehow managed to forget my phone in the frenzy to get out of the house so by the time we got home my mom was a little freaked, sorry mom. Deacon is doing fine now, thank goodness. I would prefer not to deal with another ear infection though. I had my fun.
