Family Life – Page 63 – a hippie with a minivan

well… it was a virus…

Xavier is feeling better but we were still wondering what he had had… Well… Colin got it now and is sporting a nice fever of his own…

Of course, with him I rather treat it then letting it run it’s own course as I usually do… If you have been reading my blog for a while you know that Colin rarely has fevers but the two times he has had one it has landed us in the hospital… (you can read about the second time in the “medical maladies” section)…

Anyways… besides a rough night last night and not wanting to be separated for more then a second today he is still in a good mood and I think that it won’t last as long as Xavier’s fever…

I am also starting to feel better…

ughh…. tired of being sick….

Last weekend I started a cold….

Colin then got it, Simon and then Xavier. Mostly it was just runny/stuffy nose….
Xavier’s nose started running on Tuesday but then he got a fever of 103-104 on wednesday and layed around all day, thursday, friday were the same… on friday evening I decided to give him a dose of tylenol just to get his body a break…

for three days he just stared into space, slept and watched TV…. Sat morning he was feeling a bit better and we went to the mall to get some shopping done… the fever hit again and he was just out of it completely… that night we gave him another dose to help him out… (he was still at about 104)… he played a bit outside sunday morning and again the fever came back and he fell asleep outside while watching me garden…. 5 days of feeling miserable is a lot… we decided to go to the ER… I waited for triage and his fever started going down… faced with an 8 hour wait with both boys I decided to go back home even though hey would have liked to check him out… today has been a ever free day but he is still pretty weak, not eating much but he is playing a bit more…

This morning however, I woke up miserable… I am tired and can hardly keep my eyes open, my nose if stuffy, I have a headache….

Ughh…. I don’t want to be sick anymore!

they like it… they really like it!

Well… the bunk bed wasn’t just a success for a few seconds…

Both boys slept in their beds last night and for the first time in Months (actually it is just the 3rd or 4th time in his life) Colin slept through the night before coming into our bed (8-5) .

I think that the difference was that they were more warm and probably way more comfortable then they were in their old beds… Neither of them came into our bed this morning freezing… they were not wearing different pj’s and didn’t have more blankets but I think just having real mattresses made the difference (those plastic crib mattresses don’t hold heat quite well) and probably their new mattresses made it feel a bit more like our bed…

They also have had quite a bit of fun just hanging out in their room and on their beds today… Xavier brought some books up and Colin did to and both sat in their beds looking at books… Thy also played together, Colin gets under his sheet and Xavier pulls it down and then the wrestle…

Colin still has to remember that he can’t stand up in his bed….he has hit his head a few times now… not hard enough to cry but hard enough to want a kiss to make the bobo go away… but even a blown kiss will do 😉

Here are a few more pics from today…

Colin taking a nap…

Ask a kid to look at the camera and they show you their butt..

The boys playing and laughing…

My Silly little Colin…

Xavier climbing…

Proud of his new bed…

Egg hunt…

Dh made a little egg hunt in the back yard today… I am not a big fan of this holiday, it just has no meaning for me except for chocolate… but it was a lot of fun watching the boys look for their eggs… there were 12 eggs in all 6 marked with X and 6 with a C… so the boys would find eachothers and hand them over to the other without a word… Xavier of course was the one who determined which eggs went where in most cases…

Anyways… here are a few pics…