OUCH!

My poor baby got stung by a wasp yesterday. And, the kicker is, he was playing in our house!!! (This picture doesn't do it near the justice it deserves. But, I was to preoccupied to take a picture until I knew he was ok!)

I was literaly sitting 3 ft from him. He was playing with the Weebles and all of a sudden he started to wimper cry. It was that cry that something was really hurting him and he was scared. I looked around trying to see what the problem was. He has been teething lately so I figured that he had tried to eat the toy and hurt his gums. Well he continued the wimper cry and was trying to suck on his left thumb. I went over to pick him up and when I looked down at the Weeble there was this huge wasp on it. I totally freaked! Immediately I'm thinking anaphylaxis? What if it stung him in his mouth? When I picked him up he really started to whine more. Then I started to cry as I ran upstairs to look for some Benadryl. Of course, we didn't have any Benadryl. Note to self ---BUY SOME BENADRYL!

Lukily, I did find Afterbite that I had bought for camping. (If you don't have this I highly recommend it.) After searching visible body parts and I finally found it had stung him on his left palm. It was swelling up fast. In a matter of 5 minutes his arm was swollen to his elbow. Panic set in again. I debated, do I throw him in the car and drive to the hospital or wait it out. I decided since he wasn't showing any signs of having a hard time breathing I would just watch him. And watch him I did--like a hawk for the next hour or so. Once I put the medicine on his hand he clamed down quite a bit. After and hour or two the swelling even went down. Luckily my baby boy is ok now. And the hunt begins for the wasp. I'm gonna kill him!!!

Poor Katie is scared to death now of "swaps" in our house and with good reason. She was in tears when she woke up from her nap and saw Joey's hand. I love that she has such concern for him at such a young age. I hope they always look out for each other.