you'll never guess how today turned out...

2:30am Jackson wakes up complaining that his "bones hurt" and pointing to a spot underneath his left armpit. he's clearly in severe pain

2:32am take his temp -- 101.something

2:35am give him motrin and a spot in a "nest" on our bedroom floor

3:00am he crawls in bed with us

3:30am wakes up hysterically complaining about the same spot on his left side.... writhing in pain, tremoring, not making much sense

3:40am pain randomly goes away... he is fine and dozes off. so do we!

5:00am coughing fit -- give him albuterol puffer, which hypes him up so that he will never go back to sleep.

5:15am has another hysterical side-pain fit. we think maybe it's gas, and let him play in the tub, which he does happily for a half hour

5:45am dozes back off in our bed

6:40am my alarm rings for MC to get ready for school. J has a temp of 104.6

7:00am Jackson wanders down the stairs and lays on the couch... and is immediately hysterically in pain with his side again

7:30am I get Jackson dressed and we head for the 8am clinic at the doctor's office

8:30am we see the doctor. she isn't sure what's up, and orders lots of tests.

9:30am after seeing oxygen saturations as low as the 70%'s, a really cruddy chest, and a white count that's more than double what it should be, the doctor heads straight out to call an ambulance to drive us to the hospital

10:00am arrive at pediatric ER. J gets poked at for 3 hrs and takes a nap.

1:00pm they admit him, thinking it might be pneumonia but not knowing for sure based on the chest xray.

the whole rest of the day J plays Nintendo and watches Nickelodeon and drinks juice and very much enjoys peeing in the plastic jug the nurse so kindly provided

now we're just waiting for morning to see the attending doctor so we can finally hopefully discern what was causing the fever, coughing, chest pain, and so we can hopefully go HOME!!!

...today just wasn't quite what I expected..... but we are very blessed that Jackson is feeling like a new man after a couple of doses of heavy-duty antibiotics. we are very blessed to have family who has moved heaven and earth to love on us today and make our lives as stress-free as possible. and we are very blessed that Sophie is still on the inside -- the only think that would make me more tired than i already am is having a kid in the hospital and a few-days-old baby!

More tomorrow!