I will NOT be one of those parents, I will NOT be one of those parents...

I will not be one of those parents who posts about every little health issue of their kids...that is after this post...

Good news: J is potty-training herself. Cookie was changing her clothes last night and Josie said she had to go to the bathroom. She ran into the bathroom, climbed up and pooped in the toliet. Eddie read a story to her to keep her company. Yay Josie! The other day, she and I were shopping (a shock I know) and she told me she had to pee. There I was in the bathing suit I'd been trying on, in the store's bathroom, helping J sit on her first public toliet. I kind of thought we'd be further along in the training process before we took it out of the house. Unfortunately, by the time we got in the bathroom it was too late, but she wanted to give it a whirl anyway.

Not so good news: Eddie had an asthma attack last night--at 1am. While Den is out of town. I'm sure he's had an attack since his initial ER visit Nov. 2006 that got us the asthma designation, but nothing quite this bad. He woke himself (and Josie and me) up coughing that croupy cough and he was clearly struggling to breath. The doctor had told us to wean him off his pulmicort each summer to see if he was outgrowing the asthma, so he hadn't had any in 2 days. Now, granted he didn't have a bath last night to wash all the pollen out of his eyes and face, which may have contributed to the attack.

There we were at 1am, with him taking the nebulizer, not complaining one bit about taking it. He got both pulmicort (maintenance drug) and albuterol (emergency drug). His little stomach was going in and out and he was struggling to breath in between coughs. Fortunately he responded a bit to the albuterol, or we would have been making a wee hours visit to my second home, the ER, as you can only give the albuterol once every 3-4 hours.

We then sat in the bathroom with the shower on full bore soaking in the sauna for an hour. I spread out some blankets, put down the pillows and he just breathed. He was much better after that, but still had the cough. He managed to sleep through the night, but we will be seeing the doctor today. He still has the cough, but I think I've got it under control.

Now you see why I wanted to open with poop story.