Blake's first major health scare......

Wednesday 13th January.....

I had meant to post this earlier... it's been a busy few weeks with Rob away (as usual)...

On Wednesday afternoon I'd decided to take the kids to Mom and Dad's place for the afternoon after daycare so that I could have a relaxing afternoon before taking them home for dinner and bed..... (days just seem to take so much longer when Rob's away)...

We'd been at Mom and Dad's place all of about 10mins when we realised that Blake had got into Gran's room and sprinkled her blood pressure medication all over her room... we found the remains of one tablet in his mouth and not knowing how much he had taken - off we went to the hospital.....

The joy of not knowing how much he'd had was that he got strapped to a heart monitor for a 4hr observation period... and not up in the kids ward where they're prepared for this kind of thing... I had to hold him still for 4hrs..... by the time we got home, my back was so sore.....

getting his blood pressure taken.... how cute is the little arm band?

how to entertain a 14mth old in hospital... glove balloons!!! (these pics were all taken on phone - so not the best quality - but you can see his little hospital arm band too!)

the 5 sticky things on his belly.... he had circles for a few days afterwards from the sticky stuff...

figured he'd had enough to deal with - didn't wanna scrub his tummy too....

After everything, he was fine - we think he may have bitten the tablet but spat most of it out.... it's amazing how quickly they can get into things.... there's no taking your eye off him for a minute now... which makes life 10x more tiring.... but it's worth it....