a visit to the doctor

Brecken had his 6-month check-up yesterday. We get to the clinic and they said, "Your appointment was last week!" I said, "No, you specificallytold me the 14th!" She said, "Well if you come back tomorrow, we can probably squeeze you in." She wasn't going to let me see anyone, even after I told her I was pretty sure Brecken had an ear infection. So in walks Josh and goes, "We can't even see Dr. Noton today?" All of a sudden, the story changed and she goes, "I'll see what I can do." There was NOBODY in the waiting room and no cars in the parking lot, so it's not like they were busy. So we saw Dr. Noton. She checked Brecken's ears first, after I told her he hates laying down and he's been rubbing his right ear for the past couple days. Sure enough, I was right, he has an ear infection!! It's just a mild one though, so she didn't put him on antibiotics, intead she gave him a pretty heavy duty decongestant prescription. (Heavy duty price too- our share was $33!!) She's pretty sure it will clear up when his cold goes away, that's why she didn't give him antibiotics. I called my sister to tell her now that Ryan doesn't get ear infections now, he passed them on to Brecken. :) Anyway, since he's sick, she couldn't give him shots. We have to come back when B is well. I was going to take him next week when we get back from Chicago but Trish, a PA, is the only one in the office that week and I refuse to see her. She's an idiot. So we'll go on the 28th, when we can see Jake. They did weigh B though, and he gained almost another pound. He's up to14 pounds, 2 oz. Still in the 3-5th percentile. We measured him when we got home and he's 26.5 inches, and that's the 50-75th percentile. He's a long skinny guy. :) I looked up in my baby book how much I weighed at 6 months, and from what I can tell on the dot on the chart, he and I weigh about the exact same! I was about 2 inches shorter at that age though! I gave B his medicine at 7:00 and he ate and went to bed about 8:00. He wouldn't lay in his crib again, so I put him in his car seat in the crib and he fell right asleep. The medicine says it might make him sleepy, and I guess it does because he didn't wake up again until 4:00 to eat! Then I had to wake him up at 6:30 to get him dressed. The bottle says to give it to him every 6 hours as needed, and I only gave it to him the one time, so maybe it just made him feel enough better to relax and finally get a good night's rest! I told Josh this morning it was the best $33 I ever spent. :) So hopefully, he'll have a better day at Dana's today- he had a miserable day yesterday. Dana almost called me in the afternoon to come get him because he couldn't quit crying. I gave him medicine at 7:00 this morning so hopefully that will help a bit. He was still pretty stuffy, but I hope his ears feel better! He was smiling and laughing this morning so hopefully that's a good sign.