Recovering!

Well, we spent the week just trying to recover from so much partying last week. Xander had a touch of an illness or a reactions from his shots, we're not sure which. But, he had a 102 fever for several days and was pretty lethargic, and didn't eat much. Tylenol made him comfortable and he fought it off, whatever it was. By Saturday he was better and back to his regular self.

Grace is still Grace. She is enjoying the whole milk, she's drinking it better than formula. You can see from the picture that she loves the stuffed bear from Dale and Ellen. It talks and she hugs it all the time. It's pretty cute. She is doing great with the walking. She'll walk all over the house behind her push toys. She's even taken to standing. Her new favorite game is to stand at Brian's shoulder (while he's sitting on the floor) and let go. She can stand there for up to 10 seconds before she grabs on or plops on her behind. It's great fun. Both she and Xander are getting pretty daring and letting go when they are standing somewhere. Just this morning I watched Xander stand up at a table, grab two pacifiers (neither of which were his) and hold one in each hand. It was about 8 seconds before he realized he wasn't holding on to anything and he dropped to his knees. So, their balance is getting better.

Poor Will isn't doing as well. Ever since his cold in December he has been coughing and wheezing some. I talked to the doctor about it last week at the appt, but since he wasn't coughing or wheezing then, he couldn't do anything about it. On Saturday and Sunday, Will began coughing a lot and really sounding bad. At one point he was wheezing so much that he sounded like he had a squeak toy in his throat and everytime he exhaled it squeaked. So, I took him in Monday afternoon. The doctor could hear the wheezing/coughing and knew something wasn't right. They gave him an albuterol treatment and it helped. So, they send us home with a nebulizer and albuterol with instructions to do it for a couple more days until we can get this cough a little better. They're not diagnosing him with asthma yet. They're calling it brochiolitis at this point, then if it recurs the next time he has a cold, then they may call it asthma or restrictive airway disease. For now, we are treating the cough with antibiotics and the nebulizer as he needs it and playing it by ear. He is such a trooper during the treatments, he has to wear the mask for about 10 mins. He screamed the first time, but not he'll just sit on my lap and we read books and sing. Poor guy. I'll keep you all up to date as things progress with this. For now, I'll try and take more pictures and post again next week or so.