Happy Halloween!

On Halloween we had a few friends over for dinner,

then to give candy out at our house while the kids

went trick-or-treating.

Jack had woken up from his nap on Halloween 

wheezing and coughing, but then an hour

later seemed fine and was running around.

So Nathan took the kids out this year 

trick-or-treating just two blocks and I gave the candy,

which was fine by me because it was getting pretty chilly.

Superman, Daddy, and Captain America

Both needed to have capes, and they have 

loved dressing up and showing off their "muscles"

Well, later that night Jack was still having a hard

time breathing.  He'd get better when we took him

outside to sit on the porch, so with the cold air it means croup.

But he kept getting better, then worse, then better, then worse.

We hemmed and hawed, but I thought he's going to

get really bad probably at 2am, we should just got now.

So we did.  

We ended up taking him into our doctor's (which has 

 24/7 office hours, BEST THING EVER!),

and while there his breathing got even worse and

his fever spiked at 103, even while on tylenol,

so he had a steroid shot to open his airways and

a breathing treatment, which he took perfectly.

James came down with the virus a day

later with a cough and fever, but nothing nearly

as bad as Jack.

It has taken five days, but today

 he finally woke up without 

a fever!

So that was how our Halloween ended up,

hope yours was better!