Carter got croup last night! He had a runny nose all day on Wednesday, but a half an hour after we put him to sleep last night he woke up because he could barely breath. He got it about this time last year and it is no fun to hear him try to cry and breath and cough. Since we didn't want to try and deal with this all night until the doctor's office opened up in the morning we took him to the emergency room at Riverton Hospital. It's a really nice hospital and it's super close to us so it was just a couple minute drive and no wait for them to take Carter in. They set him up with some mist to breath in, and then finally gave him a steroid shot to help open up his lungs. Carter definitely did not like all the strange people touching him and attaching this or that to him, but we were finally able to get him to calm down and fall asleep for a few minutes while we waited to get discharged. It was sad to see him so sick, AND on top of it all we found out that he has two ear infections! It is his very first one ever, and it was pretty bad in his right ear and slightly red in his left so we have to fill his prescription today to get rid of that as well. We had seen him kind of itch his ear here and there, but he didn't have any other symptoms of an ear infection so we had no idea. He's actually been sleeping longer lately so we're glad that they were able to catch that before it got too bad.

He slept ok last night after we brought him home. Mike snuggled with him half the night and then Christina was able to put him down in his crib around 4 since he started breathing better. The one good thing about Carter being this sick is that his Mom gets to stay home with him! :-) He already seems to be doing better so hopefully he'll get over this quick and then stop being sick! We can hope anyway.