Sidelined

As much as the daily negotiating and sassy back-talking makes me crazy, this peanut has been such a trooper considering his life over the last month. The Mid-Atlantic pollen apparently doesn't jive with the Midwest and Southern DNA he was given. He's been on a cocktail of more drugs than I can count - I have a spreadsheet to keep track of them. 2 of the medicines make him bounce off the walls ... much more so than a 4 year old already bounces. He gets bathed twice a day to get all of the pollen off his body and out of his hair - just from a morning and/or afternoon trip to the playground. Then on top of it all, he had strep throat and now has a double ear infection. Can a mini not get a break?!! This is a picture from the day before we figured out the ears ... he didn't move the entire day. :(

I bumped into our neighbor at the pharmacy the other day. She asked me in a very concerned voice if everyone was OK at our house because she heard this terrible coughing from her side of the fence. I explained #1's situation with the pollen when she looked down a little sheepishly and said, "so I guess it doesn't help that we have a 150 year old Oak tree in our yard that covers your entire patio where the boys play." I didn't need to answer. Do you think our neighbors will suspect something if their tree goes missing one day?

Mother Nature are you listening? ENOUGH with the spring sprouting.