First Sickness of the Year

Have gotten almost no sleep for two nights because this little one has had a mild fever and wants to stay up all night and talk about it. Got smart last night and brought two cups - one juice, one water - plus a stack of clean diapers to bed with us. Since he asked for drinks regularly and continued wetting his diapers, I knew he wasn't dehydrated and wasn't too worried. Just exhausted.

This one is still a little stuffy, but since she got sick first, she is healing up first. She is ever perky.

This one got sick last. There are two things circulating in the house right now, or two manifestations of the same thing - cold, and eye infection. Olivia only got the cold. Julius had the eyes, then after they cleared up, he got the cold. Poor Boo now has both at once.

I feel very blessed that this is the only real sickness we have gotten all winter, and very blessed that I haven't gotten it myself yet - if I do get it, hopefully it will be after the baby is all healed up from the cold.

Since it is hard (okay, IMPOSSIBLE) for Julius to hold a teabag on his eye, I washed his eyes several times each day with a clean cloth for each eye and warm chamomile tea. Then I made him nice warm chamomile baths. He cleared up his eyes in 48 hours.

Now Boo is holding warm teabags on his eyes for as long as he can stand it. I wonder if it will take longer for him to get better since he is fighting both at once.