Couple Sickies Here

At 2 months old, Mattias has his first cold.
He caught it, we think Friday evening. Sunday evening he started a bit of a fever (38.6/101.5), but back down to normal now.
Went to the doctor both Monday and yesterday (Tuesday) and will go back Thursday. No meds, of course for a 2 month old; just a lot of monitoring, day and night. May and Jeff take turns sleeping in the kids' room with the heater and vaporizer going at full steam (yes, pun intended). Poor little guy just has big troubles, coughing and snorting. The 15-20 minute stints of steamy time in the shower room help, but just for the short-term.

And as other parents with multiple kids have warned us about: when one kid's sick, they're all sick. Ella picked up Mattias' cold over the weekend. She, thankfully, isn't so bad. Only Saturday night she gave us a scare with some barking cough, but it only happened once or twice, so we're not thinking croup.
[Why on earth do kids' colds always get so much worse at night???]
The worst thing of Ella being sick (but not real sick) is restlessness. There's only so much play time you can have indoors before everyone needs a break. When sick/tired, this kid is a manic maniac. We cannot wait to demonstrate that to folks this summer. :)

Maylia and Jeff are healthy and fine (save for dealing with a snotty 2-month old and a manic maniac). Maybe this cold business is bad karma to us for idolizing Oreos...
Take care and love to all.

-Jeff