What a way to bring in Drew's 5th Year :(

I stayed up working on Drew's cake the night before his party until 3am, the balloon house was delivered bright and early the morning of his party and everyone was very excited to come...until Drew woke up with a fever and started vomiting. I had no choice but to reschedule the party :( Drew was disappointed to say the least (so was I!) but I just couldn't chance getting the other kids sick with what Drew had. I got busy with making the phone calls, got my mommy nurse had on and put the kid back to bed.

He woke up many hours later. We wanted to put a smile on his face so we let him open a couple presents from us. This particular Switch-and-Go Dino was one "I just wanted this for my whole life"

He was out of school for a whole week! I'm not sure what he caught, but it was nasty. I took him to the Med7 doctors on Wednesday since we couldn't get an appointment with his normal doctor (I suspected the fever was still coming from an ear infection that never really went away). The doctor said the right ear drum was inflamed, but not enough to justify an antibiotic. I took him to his normal doc on Friday and a double ear infection was confirmed...great. Back on the nasty pink medication for Drew! He did manage to finally creep out of our bed long enough to hang on the couch with me :)

In Drew's mind, he is still 4 since he didn't have a party yet. This was confirmed when I told him, "Since you're now 5, you have to eat at least 5 bites of this banana." to which he replied, "I haven't had a party yet, so I am still 4. That's 4 bites, mommy." What am I going to do with this smart cookie?

He is doing MUCH better since being on the antibiotics so back to school he goes after being gone over a week and we are back in party planning mode to make it the best 5 year old make-up party ever!