Our First Ever Ear Infection :(

So we got our first ear infection, and the unlucky winner was Clayton! He woke up early and restless from his nap Monday afternoon. He said that his left ear was ouchy and asked for it to be kissed and I could never get him to go back down for his nap although he did rest a little longer. I assumed that it was his teeth making his jaw sore and he was just having referred pain and was just saying "ear" because he doesn't know the word "jaw". (His two-year-old molars are finally coming in on the bottom I noticed a few days ago). Well Tuesday morning he woke up and utterly refused to eat breakfast and had a temperature of 100.4. I figured since he was still saying that his ear hurt I better take him in to have them checked just in case I was wrong about it being his teeth. Well, unfortunately, I was wrong about the teeth (although maybe they do hurt and are just compounding his miserableness) and the doctor said that his left ear was pretty angry red and got him on some antibiotics. So hopefully he will be feeling better later this afternoon as we hit the 24-hour mark.

It was pretty obvious yesterday evening that Clayton was not feeling well. It was Mommy's birthday so we tried to party a little bit. . .  The track meet was cancelled so it turns out Daddy got to be home after all so we went to Chances R for supper with Grandma and Grandpa Branz, too and Clayton just cuddled with Grandma most of the time. Later, when we got home, the suggestion of cake and ice cream didn't even get him excited, he just wanted to "lay down on couch" and watch The Lorax (the new favorite movie). He did manage to lick a little frosting off of his cake though. Plus Clayton and Reese got Mommy this really cute birthday card:

They even signed it themselves! (Never mind that it is in Daddy's handwriting!)