Monday Update

Since you've wondered...

Ed is still sick with a cold. I thought you were only contagious up to a certain point, but apparently the whole time you are showing symptoms, you are contagious. And yet there we were trotting Eddie and Josie off to not one, but two parties on Sat.

Ed's cold has developed into a 50 year-old smoker's cough. I feel so bad for him, when after each cough he pleads, "no more coughs!". Any normal two year can on ocassion try the patience of the most affable child-lovers, but the last couple days, Dennis and I have both been pushed to our limits of tolerance of whiny, contradictory statements and demands, supplemented with plenty of hitting, biting, and pushing of people and then there's the old, lets revert back to 14 months and throw my food on the ground, throw my silverware and basically do the opposite of every behavior expected of me.

We'd love to have visitors.

The kid has been sick, so yes, I'll cut him some slack. We have it so lucky with our kids typical demeanor that we only have to deal with this while they are sick. We'll see what it does to Josie, as she's got it too. Crossing my fingers that she cycles through it as quickly as I did (4 or 5 days). Ed's asthma makes it difficult for him to shake colds like this, as his little airways just can't keep up.

We are now giving him three albuterol nebulizer treatments/day (or aiming for this many). It's probably the wrong thing to do, but we've been bribing him with his favorite cheese balls at night and in the morning and afternoon its with a popsicle. They make these tiny pint sized popsicles that are about 1/3 the size of regular ones, which is perfect--plus they come in blue.

Speaking of colors. Ed's world is centered around colors now--and he has a definite order. Bue always comes first, then yellow. I don't remember what is next--red or green? Plates, cupsWhat he eats off of, his bathtoys, everything.

In the above pictures, Ed is helping make dinner. He liked it at first, but then I guess it was just a little too difficult for him. He did help with the silks. THe bath picture is an example of the color scheme. He was giving the bath toys to Dennis, one at at a time, color by color. Den has more patience than I.

I'm a little worried about what my night will be like with Josie--I fear it will either involve sleeping while sitting up, or just being up and about multiple times. She's already puked on me once or tiwce today and same for Den. She is gagging on the goop in her throat. We'll see how long before I've had enough sleep to post again...