November in Northern Florida

Is perfect...The smells, the temperature, the colours...it's perfect.
In not-as-perfect news, my little boy is sickeepoo.
He started yesterday with a little sniffle and woke up this morning with not-so-little chest congestion. We went into the urgent care where the doctor checked him out and said it was just a virus and he should be fine. Between the exam and checking out he got alot worse so the dr came back in to check him again and decided he needed a breathing treatment and a chest xray. He was being so sweet and amazingly behaved the entire time, but the breathing treatment made him pretty upset, to the point that he started to cry, cough and gag...causing him to throw up ALL OVER ME and all over himself. He and I were covered from shirt to pants in vomit. Not fun.
The nurse offered to wash our clothes, which I had to take her up on cause we were drenched and 45 minutes from home. So while I wore a hospital gown and Caden wore a diaper and socks, he screamed his way through a chest x-ray that showed alot of congestion in his chest...The dr. said it is just a bad case of viral croop and should be easy to clear up. So now he has to take steroids and anti-biotics for the next 5 days and will hopefully be fine after that.
He has been so sweet throughout everything. He is such a little trooper.
I can't imagine having a child with chronic illness that needs testing and medical treatments on a regular basis...it was heartbreaking watching them pin him to the xray table..and the whole time I was telling myself, "Kathy, get over it, it's just an xray!" but I couldn't help to fight back tears watching him like that.
He is taking a much needed nap now and will hopefully be back to his old, funny, mischeivious self in no time.
Luckily nature is perfect. The drive home from the dr. was stunning and reminded me that no matter what happens, God is there with a splash of beauty to calm us down and get us through it.