Mouths Agape

For the past several days the boys have been running fevers off and on, and they've also had runny noses. Mocos here, mocos everywhere. Last night Gabie slept with me as he had a high fever and seemed pretty sick. Jojo was also up with us a few times because he'd hear Gabie crying, and Mike stayed with Christian. I gave Gabie Motrin and that broke his fever, but I decided to take him to the pediatrician because I suspected he may have strep throat. Christian and Jojo seemed ok, although they were running low fevers and still had runny noses.

So off we went to the doctor's and we waited with a group of kids in the 'sick area'. I looked at those cute siblings - there were five of them - and noticed they were all staring at the tv. They each had the same expression with mouths halfway open, a look of wonder on their faces. I looked at Christian and Gabie and their mouths were open, too! By gosh, I'd never noticed how kids look like that when they are sick. Like poor little birds waiting for some food. Innocent sweethearts waiting to be fixed. Jojo was dozing so I didn't notice his mouth was open.

No surprise, Gabie has tonsillitis and the pediatrician thinks his test will come back positive for strep anyway, so she gave us a prescription and off we went. At some point he may have to have his tonsils removed, but we'll wait to see what the ENT specialist tells us at the next visit in March. It's strange how he can have strep but the other two boys are negative, just as it happened last spring. As we were leaving we ran into an old friend with two of her five children, and what a coincidence I'd just seen her and her family yesterday! She has a newborn, and holding little Tristan yesterday almost made me wish I had another one....then all the kids were sick last night and I got over my fantasy.

I wish I could've seen those siblings again with their mouths agape, eyes glazed over watching tv.