The stomach dragon

The day after Rion saw the doctor about his ears, he came home sick from school. He wasn't feeling great the next day either, but made it through the day. Over the weekend he felt great so on Monday it was off to school again. The teacher said he wasn't feeling good again and on Tuesday I ended up getting him during the lunch hour because he really wasn't feeling good that day. He said he had a dragon in his tummy. I think he was saying that because his stomach was burning. The teacher's assistant thought maybe he was having heartburn. I thought it was weird that he was only getting it at school and right after he started this new medicine. When I picked him up on Tuesday he was having lunch in the nurses office. Just like the other time I took him home early, he didn't seem sick at all. The nurse said that some of those medicines can be really hard on a stomach and give "ulcer-like" symptoms. On an empty stomach, the pain is worse. The more lunch Rion ate the better he felt. He kept telling us that his dragon was hungry and he had to feed it. After we got home I called the doctor and she told me to stop the ear medicine and bring him back if his ears still hurt. He was only half way through what he was suppose to take. I really hope his ear infection has healed. The next couple of days he still complained that he had a dragon in his tummy, but today he didn't say anything about it. I hope he is well again. I'm sick of winter and kids being sick.

The carnival

On Saturday night we went to the annual St. Mary's carnival. Rion did not want to go, but later that night he said he was glad he went. Once again we parked at the Capitol and took the shuttle over to the school. That was Rion's favorite part of the carnival last year and this year was no different. The boys had a lot of fun as usual. They also did really good at the games. Torii won a couple of stuffed animals and a big candy bar on games and Rion picked a couple of winner lollipops for stuffed animals. The night got a little long for them and they were ready to go and we still had a lot of tickets to spend. So we dumped a bunch of tickets at the fish pond and the sports card grab. We always seem to win at least one really good prize from the sports card grab. As Fred was going through their packs he found a winner for a stuffed animal. I think Torii grabbed that pack, but Rion didn't win a really big prize and he was getting frustrated each time that Torii won his. So we told Rion he had won and he picked out a blue teddy bear. He picked that one because he had the same teddy bear at home, but in purple, that he won at the same booth the previous year. We had a really good time and Auntie Vicki bought the kids some cookies to take home. And no calls yet to tell us we won the car. Maybe next year....