My poor little Kaden. He has been mumbling the last couple of days and then whining when I can't understand him. This has been frustating so I end up telling him to go to his room if he can't talk like a big boy, oopen your mouth and enunciate(that spelling looks wrong to me, but everything looks wrong at this point)! Like I said, this has been going on for days so finally at the last fit I said" What is Wrong with You"! So he says "my ear hurts". Well why did he not tell me this days ago! I felt so bad I told him he didn't have to talk at all anymore. Apparently that meant he could cry instead. His jaw was swollen so he couldn't open his mouth hardly at all, hence the mumbling. We tested and he can't hear anything out of his right ear. I am just going to go ahead and blame all of the ignoring that has been going on on the fact that he is deaf in one ear. Why not, I'm just going to go ahead and throw in all of the fits and misbehaving too. The poor little guy has been suffering in silence all this time, well except when he was throwing fits and misbehaving, but definitely when he was ignoring. He cried all night and couldn't sleep even with medicine. I took him to the Dr. this morning and she said he has a very severe ear infection. She kept on saying how bad it was and that it looked really gross and how it's got to hurt really bad. Just to add to my guilt I'm sure. He didn't want to talk much because he had been crying so much, but when she was leaving he stopped her and said that he thinks there are gold fish swimming in his tummy. What is she supposed to do about that?
We went to eat lunch with Grandpa and the second he saw him Kaden said that he was all better and he jumped up to run, he stopped and said, well maybe not all the way better. But he has been happier. So, I figure the next time one of my kids throws a fit or starts to cry I should either ask them if their ears hurt. That might confuse them enough to stop them in their tracks. Or the good old fashioned What is wrong with you. If I get a bunch of mumbling then I will know what to do. Oh yeah, Avary cried the whole way home 30+ min! because she wanted a big carrot! She must know that I carry big carrots in my bag at all times and she was highly offended that I wouldn't share.
