ER trip with 5

Well, we had a scare. Wed. night Mareea's fever was up very high 104-105ish and she was breathing heavy and rapidly. I gave her Tylenol (which I never, ever do)just to see if her breath rate would go down with the fever. Once it kicked in, she went to sleep but was still breathing quickly. The next morning she was breathing heavy and quickly and I could tell she was very agitated. We took her to the local ER where the took and X-ray and found pneumonia. They transferred us to the Children's ER saying we were looking at a 2-3 night stay. 5 hours later, Children's sent us home with an oral antibiotic saying there was no reason why she needed to be admitted or needed IV antibiotics. I guess our local hospital just wasn't as comfortable treating babies. We're thankful everything turned out fine and that she's feeling well. Just for fun, I took these pictures of us at the ER before Dan got there. Thankfully his work insisted that he come home and be with us! Otherwise it would have been a reeeeaaaallly long day!


When I woke the children up early, I told them we were going to the hospital. I told them to get dressed and get a tote bag together of things to do. They did!