We had such a crazy experience last night- we still aren't quite sure as to what happened. We got home around 10pm, and right as we walked in the door I set Dawson down on the couch. I went to get him some corn, but before I could he was fast asleep. We made his bed (which is still on the floor in our room). I got his pj's on, and laid him down. J.D. and I got ready for bed, read our scriptures, said prayers and turned out the lights, and tried to go to sleep. After 20 minutes, all of the sudden Dawson started screaming bloody murder! I jumped down to him and he started smacking me and hitting! He kept screaming, so I turned on the lights and he still flipped out. I kept saying, "Dawson-it's mommy. What's wrong? Dawson it's mommy..." He finally quieted down, but kept smacking his face and saying,
"Bugs! Bugs! Eyes!"
So we asked, "Are their bugs in your eyes?"
Dawson, "YES!!"
Daddy,"Bugs like you get in your nose? or bugs like spiders?"
Dawson, "Bugs like spiders!" he continued to scream and then started ferociously rubbing his right eye. He wouldn't open it, he just kept rubbing and freaking out. J.D. got down and shook out the blankets, however we figured something was still in his eye.
Mom,"Do you want to go shower to get the bugs off?" I knew he was still pretty traumatized, so I figured we'd just play along and see how it went.
Dawson,"Yes. Please. Shower."
So we hopped into the shower. He would not let go of me for the life of him, but I had to ask him to put his head and eyes in the water. He was so tough! He just kept opening his eyes and rinsing them with water all by himself! I just held him and kept telling him things he needed to do so he could better rinse. Finally, I asked if they were gone, and Dawson said, "Yeah.."he sighed. He still kept rubbing, but he'd keep them open long enough for us to look in his eyes to see if anything was there. We couldn't find anything, so we wondered if it was an eye booger from sleeping, or an eye lash.
We started up a bath to calm Dawson down, however he still wouldn't let go of me. He just kept saying, "Hold me mom! hold me." So I did, but I was still concerned he was hurting in some way. So I decided to check his vision by asking him where my eyes, nose, or hands were. He never responded except to say, "I don't know. where is it?" He wouldn't point to them, he'd just look straight forward. J.D. was getting really concerned. He checked his prescribed medicine for the RSV to make sure he wasn't having any allergic reactions within his eyes because he was so concerned. Finally, I asked, "Dawson, do you want bubbles?" He got excited and said, "YES!" He started to be happier as well. J.D. then set the bubbles on the floor outside the tub and said, "Okay, you get to get the bubbles and poor them in yourself!" AND Dawson jumped out, grabbed the bubbles and dumped the ENTIRE container out! LOL- I was of course still in the tub, and now I was covered in bubble solution. haha! BUT- we were relieved to see Dawson could see and was acting calm/excited.
After our bath, Dawson got very clingy again. He wouldn't let go of me at all. So, I told him he could pick out a blanket from the tote (this is where I've put blankets that we don't use. The baby blanket box is what we call it). Dawson loves blankets, so he was excited to see all of his old blankets again. He picked out his favorite one-which was J.D.'s favorite blanket too as a child. It's pink, silky, and worn down completely. BUT it gets my boys to sleep :-) Yes, J.D. still uses it from time to time because he LOVES this thing. I put it away because it was so worn, and I wanted to save it. BUT, tonight this blanket was a much needed and wanted blanket. I wrapped Dawson up, and then Dawson pointed to the rocking chair and said, "Mom sit. Dawson." I definitely wasn't going to pass up time to rock my little one to sleep. I sang our special lullaby that I made up and Dawson fell asleep after an hour of just looking up at me. It was so special and precious. It reminded me of Dawson when he was a baby baby. He always calms down to our song, and J.D. fell asleep too. I just love my boys!
