(ACHOO!) Oh hi! (sniff!) I'm sick again!

So, my poor little guy has a mild case of RSV, and now I'm sick too. Fun. We took little man to the doctors office yesterday, and they decided to try the nebulizer (sp?) to see if it helped with his breathing. It was so funny because the nurse came in and asked if I thought he would do better with the mask kind, or the type that he can bite down on. Anyone who knows this little guy knows that if he can't reach his mouth, he's going to be one very unhappy little guy! So I told her to get the kind that he can bite down on. She came back, and as she's setting this thing up, she's explaining that most babies hate these things, and that if he starts crying it's okay because then he's taking deeper breathes and getting more of the medicine. She's going on and on, and finally hands it to me, which I then put in front of his face, and he grabs ahold of it, shoves it in his mouth and sits there happily chewing on this thing. Me and Dave start laughing, and the nurse looks at him and shrugs then says "well, I should have know....he's always been the IDEAL patient!" laughs and walks out of the room. He was as happy as a clam just sitting there keeping this thing in his mouth the whole time.
When the doctor came back in to check him out, she said "Congratulations, you just got yourself a nebulizer!" So now, every 4-6 hours I have to give him this treatment as long as he needs it. Poor little guy is so congested it's messing with his sleep. I was up until 3 a.m. That's when Dave got up and took over. Thankfully I managed to get those 4 hours of sleep.
We are trying everything we can right now to ease his "suffering". We got some of that Vick's Baby Vapo-rub stuff, got the humidifier going, keeping the nose bulb thingy handy, and now that he's just about 6 months, we can give him 1/4 teaspoon of Pediacare cough and cold. We even put a pillow under the crib mattress so he can sleep on an incline. And he is getting a LOT of Mommy time. Everytime he starts to fuss, my heart melts because I know he is sooo miserable, that I have to pick him up and hold him and love on him. (Of course, this is why I am now getting sick.....waaaah! I wanna be held!)

So, our Easter was pretty low-key. We had to stay home for most of it, and here's why: For the three weeks before Easter it's been warm, the sun has been shining, and the snow melting at a pretty decent rate. So last week I decided that it was time to get the summer tires put on the van, and put the winter tires in storage. Get it done before the deadline and the rush of people. Well, Saturday night Dave switched the tires when he got off of work. About 2 hours later, my brother steps outside for a smoke, comes back in and points out the it's snowing. "That's okay" I say, "It'll melt soon enough". Famous last words.
I wake up Easter Morning, to look out my front window and see my van covered in snow, and it's STILL snowing. It snowed all day long, and all night. Great. I just packed away all the winter clothes. Now I gotta go get them out of the crawl space and give the kids back their winter stuff so they can walk to school in the morning. Fun.
We did take the kids to see "Robots" though. The movie theater is close enough to where we live that it wasn't that big of deal to drive there. So we spent Easter at home, and at the theater. Oh, and we did do the whole egg hunt thing here in the house. But instead of candy in the eggs, we put money. Hehehe I joke with Dave that it was his "jewish twist" on Easter. LOL

So I've included a picture of a dinner I made the other night that I was so proud of. I've never made stir-fry before, and this came out perfect! Right down to the presentation!

Well, I've gotta go take care of this little guy.... he's starting to wake up from his nap. The picture of him in his piano/walker thingy was taken about 20 minutes ago. Don't worry, I moved him out of it. He's now asleep in his car seat. (The incline from the car seat helps his breathing)

Until later, Ciao!