babysitter croup Jesus sick

January 4, 2012

Happy New Year! It’s an exciting time around our house – boys are growing and learning and busy, busy, busy. Here’s today –

Cole and Alex are both sick – sickest they’ve ever been. Alex has had croup since last Thursday (a week now) and has completely lost his voice. It’s so pitiful, watching him cry but not hearing any sound come out. I have to really watch him during the day. Quiet doesn’t mean good when you can’t make any noise! He’s had a fever, cough, and general yuckiness. Cole had a tough day today. High fever, terrible terrible cough, sinus pressure, etc. Poor boy – just wanted to snuggle with mom all day but can’t when little brother is around.

We had a babysitter tonight (Kristie Mahon), which was tough since they were both sick. Cole was desperate when we were leaving, asking for “I come too.” When I (mom) said good night to him, he cried. I kissed his hand and told him that he could keep that kiss with him until I got back. He put his hand up to his cheeck, paused for a minute, then said “no, Mommy just stay here.” I told him I needed to go, but Jesus is always here with him and he could talk to Jesus any time he wanted. He again said, “No Jesus, just Mommy.” Poor boy.

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Snow Day

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Cole’s pretty funny

Oh, the silly things Cole says.  Today was especially full of Cole-isms, such as…

“Good job Mommy.  You did it all by yourself.  So proud!”

In the middle of a game of running/chasing with Daddy, Cole stops mid-step and says “this is fun!”  Afterwards, he says (with a huge smile) “Cole is happy!”

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A Trip to the Dentist

Today was Cole’s first official teeth cleaning.  This had been a long anticipated visit as this would be the first time he would have to actually lay down on his own table and actually have a full cleaning with instruments.

Steph and I were both a bit apprehensive about what the morning might turn out like.  Typically if he says no, he means it and there’s very little you can say or do that will change his mind.

However, when we arrived he was in a great mood – he quickly went to play in the small play area and pretty quickly he was called in.  NW Pediatric Dentistry is a great place, their staff is amazingly good at dealing with kids and just as soon as Cole went in they started showing him how everything worked.  He loved it and thought it was cool to see everything before they used it on him.  He just laid right down on the table and opened his mouth and did exactly as he was asked – we were truly amazed.  We would have thought he was 8 or 9 with the way he was acting, not scared or nervous, just slightly quiet and willing to do whatever he was asked.  It was great to watch.  We were so proud.
Alex meanwhile – slept for 10 minutes in the car going to the dentist office and woke up and watched the whole thing.  No fussing, just bemused interest.  He’s next…

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A Ride to Starbucks

Big milestone today.  We let Cole ride his trike to Starbucks.  While he hasn’t been riding for very long he’s become very adept very quickly and today he had energy that we had to figure out a way to burn.  So he rode.  He rode the entire way there and back.  We were pretty confident he would never last one direction, let alone both, but he didn’t even break a sweat….that’s good.  But what do we do tomorrow to burn energy?