Sick Kid

We are extremely blessed. I know you see the title "Sick Kid" and "blessed" is not necessarily the first word you would use to describe that situation. In fact there are a lot of words that mean the opposite of blessed that most would use to describe it. However, we have an insanely resilient kid. She has been sick with probably three different colds over the last three weeks and has yet to be phased. I'm positive that she has lost her voice because of her hacking at least 87 times. There are times where you hear about other people's children that don't sleep or eat, cry constantly or just become a complete disaster area 24/7. We are extremely blessed.

V still sleeps through the night for the most part while she's sick. In fact, we are the ones losing sleep because her hacking wakes us up through the monitor. We only have to get up once and sometimes nonce throughout the nights she's been sick. She's been really good about taking naps and eating for the most part and we haven't had to worry about fever except for 1-2 days. Thank God that science and technology have given us Tylenol that we can give to babies! With all the weirdness that is a sick kid, you really do need to thank God for the advances we have with thermometers, medicine, whiskey, etc. We are extremely blessed.

As most of you know, when you have a sick kid you generally let them do things you wouldn't normally let them do. I just found out about this too. Here's some great examples of this interesting concept:

Not only does she get to play with Tupperware, she plays in the cupboard.

She gets to ignore us while she plays in the cupboard.

She gets to close herself in the cupboard.

She gets to wear her pajamas all day!

She gets to read books upside down.

She gets to... well, it's pretty self explanatory...