Sick Boy

Josiah started coughing on Friday evening and woke up on Saturday very congested. He continued to sneeze and cough, with runny boogs all weekend. Sunday night seemed to be the worst of it, so we kept him home today. We always feel so helpless when they are sick like this. Shoot even a pacifier can't pacify, because he can't breath and suck at the same time. We put him to bed last night and he went right down. Then about an hour later I came into the kitchen and heard a pathetic little cry...no idea how long he had been crying because it was so quiet, but I got him up and we snuggled on the couch for a little while until he started feeling better and started playing. We let him play for a little while and Dan took him back into bed. Josiah is a major manipulation stage right now. He won't go down for a nap or to bed at night for me. He just stands right back up and starts jumping and crying. For Dan he goes right back down. And the thing is, I don't even stay in there with him or get him back up when he is acting that way. I just let him cry it out and cry until he gives up and goes to sleep. So I don't know why he keeps doing this..except that he knows that at some point I will probably cave. Well he has another thing coming. The only reason I went and got him last night was because he sounded awful and could hardly breathe. So I got him up and we got out the vaporizor and gave him some tylenol. After Dan put him back to bed at about 10:00pm, he slept until 9:30am this morning. So at least he got a good nights sleep.

I guess he ate a ton for breakfast this morning and kept asking for more. Dan said he finally cut him off because he was afraid he would get sick. So he must be feeling better. Eating is always a good sign with him.