Sick baby :(

Carter was sick last week, and it was just awful! I used to worry about how I would know if a baby had some illness... And then my happy, active, constantly-babbling baby woke up screaming... proceeded to scream all through breakfast (even bananas!) and didn't stop until he was passed out on his dad's chest with cartoons on in the background. So, when Tylenol didn't help, we called the doctor, and they said to bring him in.

Our little guy had a fever of 103 and was diagnosed with some brutal (because any virus that targets this boy must be especially awful ;)) virus that is apparently most commonly spread through pools (and we have a pool-obsessed baby who wants to dunk his head under every chance he gets!)
So... we put ourselves on "house arrest" for the weekend and took turns snuggling this sweet pitiful baby for 3 days. :(

He's better now so I can say this... while it was absolutely heart-wrenching to see my sweet baby sick and suffering, the only silver lining was that he wanted nothing more than to wrap his arms around us for 3 days straight. And there is just something so absolutely precious about a baby finding comfort in us, that the napless days and long nights were so totally worth it. God sure knew what he was doing when he created us moms and dads! Being a parent has to be THE hardest but BEST gift in the world...sick whining baby or not :)