Wisconsin Dells Trip Cut Short

All I can say is that the Hurter household has had more drama than I care for these past few weeks! We went to the Dells this past Friday for a three night getaway with our good friends Kevin, Susan, and Andrew. After a few days of diarrhea, Nolan scared us by vomiting four times in the course of 30 hours culminating in a trip to the Lutheran General ER at 4:00am on Monday morning because we didn't like his coloring and were afraid that he was dehydrated since he wasn't able to keep down Pedialyte. The ER gave Nolan a Zofran pill for the nausea which allowed him to keep down Pedialyte. After three failed attempts at an IV stick to hydrate him, Nolan was screaming bloody murder and the nurses saw that he could produce tears which eased everyone's concern that he was dehydrated. So they decided to skip the IV and told us to stick with Pedialyte (2 oz. every couple hours). That's all he had on Monday - the doctor told us to hold off on formula and baby food. So after doing that, then half Pedialyte, half formula yesterday, Nolan was really hungry today and is back to his normal eating pattern. I took a vacation day today so he could rest up and I would say that's he's pretty much back to his usual self. It was a stressful few days. It was quite the nasty stomach flu and it seemed to come out of nowhere. None of our family or friends have it and none of the kids in his daycare class had it. Hopefully it's just making his little immune system that much stronger!

Other than Nolan getting sick and having to leave a day early, we were able have some fun at the Dells the first day. Nolan loved splashing around in the kiddie pool with this buddy Andrew and we had a great time grilling out and catching up with our friends Kevin and Susan. Hopefully though our next family vacation is a little more relaxing. Dave and I feel like we need a vacation from our "vacation".

Nolan is still rolling all over the place. Not crawling yet, but trying to pull up on practically everything. He tried to pull himself up on the fireplace today which quickly prompted me to buy something online to babyproof the fireplace. Nolan has five teeth and has been a real trooper with the teething.

Dave bought Nolan his first Cincinnati Bengals jersey and he's excited for him to wear it for Monday's game.