The Perfect Storm

This weekend Tai was suffering from all of the following, simultaneously:

an ear infection
a high fever
a runny nose
constipation
oh, and he's cutting his top teeth as well.

But we had plans for the weekend. So we packed up our sick kid, the Tylenol, the teething tablets, and the Amoxicillin and headed east to visit some friends. Tai actually did quite well. He had a great time visiting his buddy Aaron and playing with all of Aaron's toys.

The high fever actually did not show up until we we already at Aaron's house. (I'd just like to point out that there are actually some cases in which I would have cancelled my plans and kept Tai home. He did not have a fever when we headed east). But that night, at 3am, he woke up on fire. His temp was over 102 and we were in an unfamiliar house, far from home. Poor thing. Minh and I dosed Tai with the Tylenol and then I put Tai in the wrap and paced the house until he fell back asleep around 4:30am.

The next morning he was feeling better so we decided to take him out for his very first Dim Sum -- Tai enjoyed some shrimp and pork along with his baby cereal puffs. Then we said goodbye to Aaron and brought Tai to a high end mall where we can barely afford to window shop. The only reason we set foot in that place was to visit a friend who works in a pricey baby boutique. He was feeling feverish again and getting grumpy, so naturally we decided to torture and humiliate him by making him try on a Halloween costume. I knew he'd only stand for trying on ONE costume, so we had to choose wisely.

This Halloween, Tai will greet the trick-or-treaters who ring our doorbell dressed as a Kangaroo.