I woke up at 3:30am with a stuffy nose, watery eyes, and saying my right ear hurt.  Mommy went  to Walmart to get some Swimmer's Ear and Barbara gave me two chew-able Claritin pills for allergies.

We don't know that the problem is Swimmer's Ear but it could be since I swam yesterday.

I fell asleep at 4:55am.  Poor me.

I woke up at 7am and put Swimmer's Ear drops in my ear, got dressed for school, and ate breakfast, then I assured Mommy and Barbara that I was still to sick for school.   We called the school to tell them I had allergies and tummy ache.

I went up stairs and got back on my bed with Monk Monk and the iPad.  Barbara assured me I was not going to play with iPad all day.  She read me an article about the job of a major league umpire.  She wrote long words on my etch-a-sketch.

She gave me a bell to ring when I needed her and she had left my room for a few minutes.  I enjoyed ringing that bell and hearing her coming up the stairs and walking down the hall.


Around 10am, Daddy brought over my new inhaler, prescription medicine for allergies, and some Vick's Vapor Rub.   I took the pill and Barbara put Vicks on my chest and on the bottoms of my feet.  We put my socks back on my feet.

Actually I'm feeling better but I say I'm still sick.  As long as I'm laying down I don't complain.  When I move around is when I complain. 

I mostly stayed on my bed or Barbara's bed all day except for the time I played Texas Stride.  I read "It Was the Night Before Christmas."  It had a lot of words I didn't know, but I liked reading it.

Daddy picked me up around 3pm. 

We had already decided I would skip swimming practice since that is pretty hard to do with a breathing problem.  And when it was close to time for baseball practice, I was feeling bad again, so we let Coach Bryan know I was not coming due to illness.