Yesterday, Mr. Gabe was just not himself. He was quite moody and not very cooperative and as the day wore on, he began to feel warm. UH OH we thought to ourselves. He was crankiest when he would lie down, which immediately had me thinking "ears". Once we had a confirmed fever, it was off to the pediatrician where he confirmed an ear infection. We started on the antibiotic and tylenol and by bedtime, he was all smiles and ready to play - and I had to accept that bedtime was still a little ways off! As you can imagine, I had a hard time minding very much - it is always nice when your little ones are obviously feeling better. Hopefully this is just an isolated incident - since we are just heading into winter, it makes me a little uneasy that it might not be. Although he perked up so quickly, maybe it won't be so bad? Oh well, if it becomes a more chronic problem, at least this is one area of medicine that I am comfortable with - and I know a guy. In the grand scheme of things, we can handle this.

In other news, we met with our First Steps team to write a service plan for OT (oral/feeding issues) and PT for his trunk weakness. He will start out at once a week every week on both therapies for as long as we (us and the therapists) see that it is necessary. Should be interesting to see how we will work this into our schedule - but as always, we'll make it work!

In case you were wondering, we still haven't heard anything official on the sleep study results. We are waiting semi-patiently. I did call yesterday and cheerfully left a message stating that whenever they happened to get results and happened to get time to review them and happened to have time to call, we would love to hear about it. If things go like before, hopefully they got the preliminary results pretty quickly - I know the formal report will take longer.