My Eassie Kai is Sick

He's only got a minor cold, but still...I hate when he's sick. He took two naps yesterday and threw up 3 times (our first clues). But, he was in an awesome mood last night after his second nap. He was so full of energy and so fun. By bedtime, though, he was ready for sleep and threw up for the 3rd time.

He slept his regular 10 hours last night and woke up just a little warm: 99.2, while not "feverish" officially it still tells me his little body is trying to fight something. He's been a little extra cranky today and did not want to go down for his nap just now. After the fiasco last week I refused to rock him completely to sleep today, although I did have to finally go in and rub his little soft head and "shhh shhh shhh" him until he was out. I would want someone to at least do that for me if I wasn't feeling my best. Hopefully he'll take a nice long nap to help him fight off this little bug. He's not too congested but he's being very loud while nursing today. Plus, he's had snot running down his lip a couple times today. Eew! Luckily he's not one of the continuously snot-faced rugrats.

That's probably where he picked this little virus up: some other constant booger face. :) It might have been someone at Circle Time at the library, it might have been at the MOD walk, it might have been one of the times we let him ride in the shopping cart (as opposed to the Snugli). He loves riding in the buggy at the store--he thinks it's a ride. Especially if Daddy is "driving". I might go back to the Snugli for a little while longer. Anyway, back to my point, I know germs are out there and kids are gonna catch stuff. I've just tried really hard to keep him healthy with his lung "situation". I don't want him to have asthma or anything later from have too many respiratory infections at this age. Not much I can do, I guess, but I still try. Or at least I like to think I'm trying.

Hopefully this will be short-lived. It's really not too bad.

On a lighter note, here is the other half of that scrapbooky collage from E's album.

And, I have something else to recommend: Bertolli's Skillet "Dinners for Two". This was the easiest "meal" I've made in months. And it was pretty good too. We had the Chicken Parmigiana & Penne. Jason's review, "Well, it's not like I'm wondering where it's been all my life, but we can have it again." There ya go. I found the suggestion on someone else's random blog and I had to try. Everything is in the bag and you pour it into a skillet then heat it for 10 minutes, stirring once. That's all! They make it so easy, the "sauce" is frozen into little ice cubes so it's faster. The chicken (white meat only!! yay!) was in nuggets so it heated quickly too. I was impressed. The only thing I didn't like was that it's really not a ton of food. I can eat a lot (which I like to blame on breastfeeding, true or not) and anyway, I made garlic toasts for us but I could've eaten more. Despite the smallish size, we'll be trying other varieties too. It was just that easy, seemed high quality, and was tasty. Needless to say, I recommend them!

Okay, now that E's finally down I'm off to watch my TiVo'd "Grey's Anatomy". The re-cap show last week has got me a little more interested again.

Ugh, as soon as I posted this he woke up crying (it had been just half an hour) and wouldn't go back to sleep without the head rub/shushing combo. He's back asleep now, I'm quietly keeping my fingers crossed.