Wun...Twoooo...Three FOUR

I've been listening to this for about 10-15 minutes. We put soft cloth blocks in Ed's crib and 2 of them make sounds when you press on them One counts in this slow, drawn out way, 1-4. The other is a duck quacking. I can also hear Ed throw the cloth blocks out of his crib. He couldn't fall asleep tonight.

Den is on the road again...this time to Austin, TX for the week. I'd very much like to visit there someday, but decided Puerto Rico was a better option. That's right, we're going to PR and leaving Ed with the g'parents.

It sounded like a good idea at the time and it seemed so far away when we planned it, but now that it's here, I worried. I'm stressing about how Ed will do with us gone--he was pretty upset about Den leaving this morning. Also, what happens if we die in a plane crash, or since Den says a car crash is statistically more likely, what if we die in a car wreck on the island?

To complicate things, Ed is coming down with a cold. Ugh. What perfect timing. He seemed to have been healthy for almost a month, so I guess it was about time. Just have to hope he gets well by the time we leave. I hate when he gets a cold because he doesn't like getting his breathing treatment each night, and then when we have to give him 2-3 more during the day (that each take longer to administer) to help him breathe, you can imagine how much more difficult it can be to get him to hold still. You don't want to let him get too upset/freaked when he already can't breathe because then it gets worse. Yet if he doesn't get the additional breathing treatments, we could end up in the ER or doctor's office again and either place is not a fun place to force a child to get a nebulizer, which is about all they'll do. So how to get him to get the treatments at home without complete meltdown?

Presuming we still go, both sets of g'parents are splitting the duty, with one set leaving shortly after the 2nd set comes in.

Check this photo out, besides that Ed has the 'I can't breathe through my nose' look, he has matched his animals up with those on this mat. He seemed perplexed about there being no pigs or chickens on the mat, but was happy to improvise. He also wasn't sure what to do because there was only one horse on the mat and he had 2. He kept pointing to the toy barn he has and then to the barn on the mat, saying 'barn' each time.

When he looked at these pictures, he wanted to have a couple taken of him with the balls, hence the first photo.