Sick again

Today Alex woke up with an upset stomach and a 102F fever. This, along with Daddy's persistent sore throat and cough, led Alex and me to stay home from school and work, respectively. We were pretty miserable all morning, although I have to say I was nowhere near as bad off as poor Alex. By around 10 he nodded off for a nap on the couch, so I took a breather. He slept for an hour or so, then we watched some PBS kids - there was a cute show about a sloth that lives in the rain forest and all of his friends. The ant eater was making a compost heap. After that we watched part of a cooking show, but I think that started to make Alex feel sick again. He tried to eat some yogurt and have some water but he couldn't keep that down.

Later on he had a bath to try and keep his fever down a bit, but I think it was pretty uncomfortable for him. I put him to bed upstairs and he slept fitfully for 45 minutes or so. Then he was sick again. His fever was still high and we tried Tylenol. No luck. Then later he was able to keep some Advil down. Success. That seemed to really turn the corner. We convinced Mommy to come home early, and she brought with her a small toy Volkswagen monster car for Alex, plus a huge selection of videos from the library. This really cheered Alex up, along with the Advil kicking in and his fever breaking. Now in the last 30 minutes or so he's had some plain yogurt and water. We'll see how that sits. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Meanwhile I'm hoping beyond hope that I do not pick up whatever nasty stomach bug he has. We can't figure out where he got it, except maybe the pool yesterday morning.

Breakstist

We now have a pretty regular Mon-Wed-Fri routine set up. We get up sometime around 6:30, stumble downstairs, and have breakfast - or as Alex says - "breakstist". Today he's having toast with cream cheese, pineapple purée, and your-git (yogurt).

In other news, on Wednesday I sold my recumbent trike for a decent price, and then an hour later sold my table saw. As a result I now almost have control over our tiny 1-car garage again. There are still several miscellaneous boxes floating around, but nothing a few hours on the weekend can't fix. (Oh, and when was the last time I had some free time on a weekend?)

It's been a few weeks since the last post but not much has changed. We all caught and fought another round of colds. It snowed a lot. We went sledding. Etcetera.

Fun at Bounce!

Two weekends ago we had quite a lot of fun at Bounce! in Loveland, meeting up with an old friend and a new friend. We met up with Charlotte, who Alex has been playing with for almost a year to learn Chinese, and Sophie, one of Alex's classmates. Charlotte's and Sophie's parents came along too, making it a huge, impromptu party.

Charlotte's Dad Chun-Wei bouncing with the three friends

Sophie's Mom Serena and Sophie's baby sister Emily

Charlotte's Mom Athena exchanging giggles with Genevieve

Sophie's Dad Trevor bouncing with Sophie, Alex, and Charlotte

We hope to be able to do it again soon. The kids were EXHAUSTED! Alex napped for over three hours when we got home.