Sick Week

More from Christmas in Calgary 2008

Wow did the whole last week ever bite! Last Monday I noticed Emmett felt warm and was sleeping a lot..then that night he was sounding really snorty all night. Tuesday he was sneezing and coughing and warm again but no fever and by that afternoon it was a full blown cold for him. His first cold. Now that you are not supposed to give children under the age of 6 cold meds anymore as of this year we only had Baby Tylenol to work with and a few steamy baths and that really seemed to help. That and holding him down and clearing out his nose with a suction bulb for babies which he did not appreciate but it had to be done because he couldn't breath through his nose and that made eating for him very hard. Emmett was really over the worst of it by Friday morning .

I also learned a new lesson in parenthood .... babies have no qualms about sneezing right in your face when they're sick. Needless to say I had it too by the next day. Breastfed babies get less colds that also last for less time and he was over it fairly fast thank God. Unfortunately that doesn't work the same for me..I was sick for a week and could also not take anything other than regular Tylenol, halls and hot baths none of which were good enough for my spoiled migraine strength Advil body....I was not a happy camper. Today I'm finally feeling much better.

Yesterday we of course watched Obama being sworn in on TV at 9 am together, I got some of that on video with Emmett in the background. I thought it would be fun for him to say 'Yeah I saw it..i was hangin out in my saucer when it all went down.' LOL.
Really, I wish I had something more exciting to tell you for the week but that was about it. lol Next week will be a better post : )