Infection

So today it finally happened . . .  the babies are ill.  We went 7 months willing killing the little punks, let alone infecting them with anything.  Personally, I'd say we surpassed most people's expectations.  So the last couple of days Maddux has been extremely whiny.  He always wants to be held and won't go three minutes without crying.  He's also decided to wake up between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. wide awake.  Thanks for that bud.  Mommy and Daddy REALLY appreciate it.

So this morning, Avery woke up at 5:45 and unfortunately had both nostrils full of phlegm.  Becca, being an angel, decided to let me sleep and get up and get her.  Personally, I think Becca was making up for the fact that she woke me up at 2:15 and told me to go put MadMan's pacifier back in his mouth (unbeknowst to her, and especially to me who woke up out of bed and limped into their room, he had his pacifier firmly stuck in his mouth).  So yea, Becca wakes up and takes care of her.  She goes to work with the snot sucker squeeze bulb deal and determines that something is wrong due to the insane amount of snot extracted from nostrils A and B.

So Becca, like a good mom, takes little Avery to the doctor.  He says it's very clear that she has a cold and ran a strep test for precaution.  He said that was just a precaution and that she didn't appear to have strep.  You know how when you're playing NCAA '09 and you have like 7 seconds left to go in the game and you're up on your rival by like 3 points deep in their territory and know that you need to impress the recruits with a bigger margin of victory so you throw an ill-advised pass that gets picked off and returned for a touchdown and you end up losing the game AND the recruits?  That's sort of like this.  (No?  Has this never happened to anybody else?  Are you telling me I'm the ONLY one who's ever done this?!?!?!  EA YOU SUCK!!!!)  Anyway, moral of the story:  Avery had strep.  Considering she and Maddux share the same spoon, we're going to go ahead and assume so does he.

So Becca gets a prescription and has it filled.  She brings Avery home and begins to give it to her and Avery says, "Now wait just a darn minute!"  This really isn't unexpected.  She said her first word last week:  Ohio.  No kidding.  She said it!  So Avery is apparently a health freak (I don't know who she got that from) and demanded to inspect the medication before she consumed it.  You can see proof below:

 

Obviously, she approved of the medicine as she immediately began to chug it.  Again, pictured below.  Do it to it, Avery girl.

 

Maddux obviously doesn't care.  This is the face that he made when Becca informed him that he might possibly be infected and would have to take medicine.  Let's hope he's an athlete or something.

 

Immediately after chugging his medicine, Maddux was distracted by another sound at the door.  Wary of the underground clan of ninjas that is obviously after him, he quickly scanned the area for danger.  Luckily, it was just the stupid dog from down the street that likes to pee on the tires of cars parked in the driveway.  Rest easy today, my son.