Oh Croup.....

Well we made it to Jacksonville safe and sound yesterday.....after waiting on the frozen tarmac of O'hare for our plane to be de-iced for over 2 hours......It was a delicious irony that the de-icing trucks were having trouble working in the cold weather.

Yesterday, we had lots of fun playing with Great-Patch, Nana, Patch, and Madgie. Unfortunately, at 2 AM, Ben woke up barely able to breath. KatrinaRun and I were pretty scared but Doctor Patch dusted off the old doctor bag, listened to his chest and said it wouldn't be a bad idea to take him to the hospital but we were probably ok to not call an ambulance.

We went down to Wolfson Children's Hosptial and there they had Ben diagnosed in 20 seconds. Croup....after a quick treatment with a nebulizer and another oral medicine we were sent home after an hour's worth of observation. We were unfamiliar with croup but I think we will be better able to handle it the next time.

Ben was great the whole time. He even got a new hot wheels car out of it from the great nurse we saw.

Everyone is doing great now, back to our regularly scheduled Christmas.