Picked a flower outside El Torito. Goodies provided by loving aunties.
(The box has a BIG bag of m&ms)
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Lessons: The Sickies
I consider myself lucky for having such a healthy child. He rarely gets sick and he is such a trooper when he does. He tries to be his normal self but sometimes the illness brings him down and he gets whiny and cranky and clingy. This week it was a cough with a slight cold.
He started maybe Friday with a cough. I didn't think much of it, people cough without being sick. Then Saturday he was cranky and had a fever. He didn't grub on french fries. That's when I knew he was sick. He suffered this cough Sunday night and every night since then, not eating much and being very whiny. I love my baby and don't like him feeling sick like that. I was tempted for a moment to call the doctor but I know what he'll say: fluids, rest, tylenol for the fever, bring him back if he doesn't get any better in a week or to the ER if his fever gets really high. Why bother? So I decided to take matters into my own hands and play pharmacist.
I spent about 20 minutes standing in front of the children's medicine section at the Walmart comparing boxes. I decided on the Triaminic for cough, grape flavoured (yuck!). It says for kids 4 and older so 3 1/2 is close enough and I wasn't going to give him the full dose anyway since he doesn't take meds often.
I tried it right before bed, at 10pm, with surprising success. It is much more liquidy than the tylenol and I knew the grape flavour wasn't going to be a hit. I used a siringe and little by little with plenty of silliness from me he took 3/4 of a teaspoon (the box said 1 teaspoon for 4-6 years) with little mess. Then I put him in bed.
Big mistake.
Within minutes we noticed he was happily playing in his bed, no coughing, and no intentions of sleep. I kept telling him to settle down and he would, for a few minutes, before starting up again. Then I heard velcro. There is no velcro on his bed so it only meant one thing. I stand up and look into the bed and notice lots of skin. I stand on my bed and see a fully naked, laughing, Nicholas. So I climbed up the bed and put the diaper back on, telling him that if he took it off again he had to wear underwear (I know, BAD!!), dressed him and tucked him in. A few minutes later his feet were hanging off the side of the rail. *sigh* So I tell my SO, over Skype, "Good thing they don't add alcohol to cough syrup anymore!" and reached for the bottle that was still on my bed.
I'm taking very basic chemistry right now, the professor calls it toy department chemistry. Right now we are learning about organic chemistry, at a very basic level, and I am actually understanding this tuff. So I start reading the ingredients list and actually understanding what this crap is and what it looks like. One of the 'inactive' ingredients is sorbitol. The -ol ending tells me it's a type of alcohol. Double *sigh* He finally fell asleep around 12:30am.
He started maybe Friday with a cough. I didn't think much of it, people cough without being sick. Then Saturday he was cranky and had a fever. He didn't grub on french fries. That's when I knew he was sick. He suffered this cough Sunday night and every night since then, not eating much and being very whiny. I love my baby and don't like him feeling sick like that. I was tempted for a moment to call the doctor but I know what he'll say: fluids, rest, tylenol for the fever, bring him back if he doesn't get any better in a week or to the ER if his fever gets really high. Why bother? So I decided to take matters into my own hands and play pharmacist.
I spent about 20 minutes standing in front of the children's medicine section at the Walmart comparing boxes. I decided on the Triaminic for cough, grape flavoured (yuck!). It says for kids 4 and older so 3 1/2 is close enough and I wasn't going to give him the full dose anyway since he doesn't take meds often.
I tried it right before bed, at 10pm, with surprising success. It is much more liquidy than the tylenol and I knew the grape flavour wasn't going to be a hit. I used a siringe and little by little with plenty of silliness from me he took 3/4 of a teaspoon (the box said 1 teaspoon for 4-6 years) with little mess. Then I put him in bed.
Big mistake.
Within minutes we noticed he was happily playing in his bed, no coughing, and no intentions of sleep. I kept telling him to settle down and he would, for a few minutes, before starting up again. Then I heard velcro. There is no velcro on his bed so it only meant one thing. I stand up and look into the bed and notice lots of skin. I stand on my bed and see a fully naked, laughing, Nicholas. So I climbed up the bed and put the diaper back on, telling him that if he took it off again he had to wear underwear (I know, BAD!!), dressed him and tucked him in. A few minutes later his feet were hanging off the side of the rail. *sigh* So I tell my SO, over Skype, "Good thing they don't add alcohol to cough syrup anymore!" and reached for the bottle that was still on my bed.
I'm taking very basic chemistry right now, the professor calls it toy department chemistry. Right now we are learning about organic chemistry, at a very basic level, and I am actually understanding this tuff. So I start reading the ingredients list and actually understanding what this crap is and what it looks like. One of the 'inactive' ingredients is sorbitol. The -ol ending tells me it's a type of alcohol. Double *sigh* He finally fell asleep around 12:30am.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Sleep!
This is the post that got lost.
It seems Nicholas has always been an interesting sleeper and I have gotten some very interesting sleep pictures. I wanted to compare them and this seemed like the best way to do it. Enjoy!
It seems Nicholas has always been an interesting sleeper and I have gotten some very interesting sleep pictures. I wanted to compare them and this seemed like the best way to do it. Enjoy!
Ten days old, momma is the BEST place to sleep!
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
I'm Selfish
The post that got lost is not coming for a while. It was full of pictures and I just can't do that right now since I need to re-select those pictures and with my computer going in for repair tomorrow I rather just wait until I get it back. Anyway...
There is a daycare in my apartment complex. All the apartments are like mine, one bedroom apartments. Someone thought it would be a brilliant idea to rent three of them and run them as a daycare. I guess it works. I see these kids, mostly preschool aged and younger, all the time and I often see them being dropped off or picked up as we go in and out. I have yet to see one kid be left in tears and have seen several leave crying not wanting to go home. Whenever I see that I get a pain in my stomach.
There is a daycare in my apartment complex. All the apartments are like mine, one bedroom apartments. Someone thought it would be a brilliant idea to rent three of them and run them as a daycare. I guess it works. I see these kids, mostly preschool aged and younger, all the time and I often see them being dropped off or picked up as we go in and out. I have yet to see one kid be left in tears and have seen several leave crying not wanting to go home. Whenever I see that I get a pain in my stomach.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Here I Go Again
Seems like I like moving.
I spent almost an hour working on a post today with the old blog. I was almost done and needed a special character which I know the keyboard shortcut too. I pressed something wrong, there is no other explanation, and the whole post was deleted when it sent me to another page. It's not the first time it happens but the other posts had not been so far along and I was easily able to do them again. I had tried to write posts in word program and then copy & paste but that app didn't support it. So I am still very much upset that all that work was lost like that. I'm already loving the autosave on here :D.
I will work on the post that should have gone up today when I have time again. Hopefully this week.
I spent almost an hour working on a post today with the old blog. I was almost done and needed a special character which I know the keyboard shortcut too. I pressed something wrong, there is no other explanation, and the whole post was deleted when it sent me to another page. It's not the first time it happens but the other posts had not been so far along and I was easily able to do them again. I had tried to write posts in word program and then copy & paste but that app didn't support it. So I am still very much upset that all that work was lost like that. I'm already loving the autosave on here :D.
I will work on the post that should have gone up today when I have time again. Hopefully this week.
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