The Cottage Cheese Sneeze Version 2.0

As I mentioned in Monday's post, my son has been suffering from a summer cold.  This has made for a challenging week.  My son does not want to eat much at meals, has not been sleeping well, and he has been spitting up a lot, something he has not done for about a month or so.  To say the least, I am worn out.

But being worn out hardly describes how I feel.  In fact, I am exhausted.  How does an 8 month old with a cold cause such exhaustion?  Well, he decides to practice sharing.  And by sharing, I mean he gave me his cold.  I now also have the cottage cheese sneeze.  It is the reason I have not posted since Monday.

On Monday night, my nose and throat were a mess.  I ended up sleeping (I use that term loosely here) on the couch because it was the only place I could find relief from my burning throat and waterfall of a nose.  Thus, when my son woke up at 6:30 on Tuesday, I was not pleased.  Although he was plenty happy all day, I could barely summon the strength to lift him or move him.  He ended up spending much of the day playing by himself on the floor while I moaned and acted as if I was dying on the couch.  I felt awful for my son, but as my wife likes to preach, so long as we're both alive when she arrives home, we should consider the day a success.  Plus, it sure is nice not to have to go to an office when you feel like that.

Thankfully, my wife had a short day at work and was home around 4.  I immediately handed her our son and dove for the bed.  Three hours later, I felt much more like myself.

Wednesday was a similar day.  My wife had a half day, and I was able to relax a lot more.

We spent today with my mom and my sister, and that made for a speedy day.  Tomorrow a friend is coming over for lunch, and that should help as well.  It is really nice having so much time to spend with family and friends now.

All-in-all, a few lousy days in there, but I'm feeling better and glad to be back.  My son and I both survived, so we consider them successful days.  And the lesson learned: Not all things are meant to be shared.

The Cottage Cheese Sneeze

My little boy is sick.  Nothing too major, just a little cold.  But as a result, he isn't sleeping well, and his nose is running and he is sneezing quite a bit.  Thankfully, he has remained in a happy mood through it all, and that helped today to pass without anything too eventful happening.

That said, I did learn an important lesson.  When you have a child who is sneezing a lot, do not give him food that could be extremely messy when it comes back out.  Don't get me wrong, I understand that any food coming out in a sneeze will be messy.  But cheerios (even the chewed variety), bread, etc. do not look too bad when they come back up. 

Cottage cheese, unfortunately, falls on the messy side of the line.  And of course, I gave my child cottage cheese for breakfast.  Nothing like cottage cheese getting sneezed all over the table.  What a mess!  It took awhile to clean everything up.

Sadly, one would think I would have learned my lesson at breakfast, but I did not.  Smart guy that I am, I decided to give my son a few bites of the sloppy joe we had left over from dinner a few nights before.  Of course my son sneezed again while eating the sloppy joe.   By comparison, the sloppy joe made the cottage cheese look like nothing.  Thankfully, I had remembered to put a bib on my son.  Otherwise, I'd probably still be cleaning.

All-in-all a good day, but I'll be much more cafeful the next time my son has a cold.