It has now been one week since Captain Chaos started sniffling and wiping his nose on his sleeve/arm. Is that genetically embedded in the Y chromosome by the way??? I should have been more vigilant, as I believe that my lackadaisical attitude has caused Tiny Princess to become infected. Perhaps, if she hadn't picked up her brother's sippy cup and started drinking his water, she might still have gotten the cold, but perhaps it would have been after Captain Chaos was over his, and I would only have had to deal with one sick child at a time.
Captain Chaos is whiny, tired, needy, clingy, sweaty, sticky, snotty, and has gotten on my last nerve as of 11:33am today. He has done nothing for the last 6 days but wipe his nose, sneeze, cough, cling to my side, wipe his snot on my leg/arm/face/shoulder/back, whine, refuse to eat anything at all, and start the process over and over and over and over again during the day, while BB is at work. As soon as BB steps through the door, he is a completely different little boy! I'd swear that we had a doppelganger or a heretofore unknown evil twin that was in residence...In walks Daddy, and up lights the face, the whining stops, the clinging to me stops, and all he wants is to play with his toys, read his books, and sit on Daddy's lap and watch "Norm!" (New Yankee Workshop and This Old House). It is a struggle to get him to get into the tub, but he is sticky and sweaty, and I know the steam helps. He will not eat anything all day long but will drink boatloads of water and lemonade or apple juice. But at dinner, he'll practically lick his plate clean.
This morning, I had to stop, put him on the floor in the family room, with all baby gates up, let him scream for 10 minutes, in order to allow myself not to lose my sanity, and give in to the desire to open a bottle of Jack and start drinking...which, I suppose, is better than wanting to smother him...
Before you get all up in my grill, let me assure you that:
- Captain Chaos is not running a fever
- He is hydrated, and is eating some food during the day
- He is sleeping in a room with a vaporizer to help alleviate the congestion
- He is being dosed with Motrin or Tylenol sparingly, to allow the bug to work through him
- He is never in danger from my temper, or frustration
- I have called the doctor to insure that there is not some freak infection going around
- My gut tells me that he'll be fine a few more days
I would never deliberately do anything to harm my children, but if someone doesn't provide me a large Chai Tea, a Chipotle burrito, a box of frosted sugar cookies from the Safeway bakery, and a new book that has nothing to do with magic, government agencies, and/or talking animals SOON, I may well go over the edge...
Oh, and by the way...did you know that attempting to use the nose-sucker on an 8-month-old that has your personality is not a good way to start the morning?
Tiny Princess' little face was coated with dried snot from sleeping last night (she blessedly has not been awake in the night) when she awoke. I used a warm, damp cloth to soften said snot, hoping to make it easier to clean her face. I gave her a bath, and after she was all dried and warmed and snuggly, and clean, I stuck the end in her nose, and allowed it to "vacuum" out the snot...she let out a screech the likes you only hear in horror flicks when the girl is witnessing the bad guy/scary thing for the 87th time...
OY!
Instead, I shall sit, drink my Strawberry Kefir, play a quick game of Tetris, and then sit on my butt and watch a recorded episode of Days of Our Lives while Tiny Princess sleeps.
The good thing is that we are going to my parents for dinner tonight, and all I have to do is bring a peach crisp. Mmmmmm...peach crisp!
1 comment:
My children also loath the nose sucker. I had to sit on them to use it. My perfect nephew HT on the other hand, stands quietly & allows it. He's an abborition. Either that or he's resigned to his fate. His mother has a snot sucker permanently attached to her arm.
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