No surprise...sick again

So Tesshin was out of daycare for almost a week and now that he's back to daycare he's sick again. This time he has some cold virus. He's had a serious runny nose since Saturday and he woke up coughing Monday morning. You know how your voice changes when you're sick? He's got that sick-y voice. It's actually kinda cute, especially when he laughs. He must like the sound of it too because he laughs all of the time now. Of course he whines after one of his coughing spells. It's pretty sad because there's nothing I can give him for that. Anyway, I'm totally out of sick time and I told Tesshin to hold off on getting a fever until Friday (start of the new pay period) but he decided to break out with a fever today so I'm off from work. I took him to the doctor but they said there's not too much we can do. I was worried he was going to get RSV (it looked and sounded like he was having trouble breathing) but the doctor said that his lungs were VERY clear. I don't know the difference between very clear and just clear but whatever. I wish kids couldn't get sick. It's just hard right now because Tesshin can't tell me what hurts or what he needs. If all else fails, ice chips seem to be a cure-all.

Ah-chi

Tesshin has become an eating monster. He eats so much more now, which we're really happy about. He lost so much weight being sick. He was 19 pounds at a year and he's still 19 pounds 6 months later. He loves rice more now than before. He gets so excited when the rice cooker beeps. He must know that food is on it's way. He usually eats up to one adult bowl of rice per meal now. Well, everytime I scoop rice onto his plate I have to blow on it to cool it down. While I cool it down, I say "Tesshin, gohan wa ah-chi ah-chi" which mean that the rice is hot. I'll put it down on his high chair tray and he'll keep blowing on it. This past Monday we went to Tessho's grandma's place and had dinner. Tesshin was so excited to be eating that he forgot to blow on the rice and he ended up spitting it out and saying "Ah-chi". Tessho and I looked at each other and laughed. It was pretty cool to hear Tesshin using his words and using them at the appropriate times.

Words Tesshin can say clearly
Down
Oh-no
Mine (this one is the latest word)

Other words Tesshin can say (with translation)
Ba = Ball
Wa Wa = Water
Maa = Mama
Nana = Banana
Ah Dah = All done
Mimi = Milk

Stomach flu

Luckily we started off the new year healthy but our luck changed on the 8th. Tesshin woke up at around 1 a.m. throwing up. We had had curry for dinner that night so you could imagine what that smelled like. I changed his clothes and bedding and rocked him back to sleep. He got up an hour later and threw up again. Changed his clothes and bedding again and he went down. You guessed it, another hour later he was up throwing up. we definitely couldn't take him to daycare so I stayed home with him. I called the doctor but they said that as long as he didn't have a fever, there was no need to bring him in. By the time Tessho got home from work, I was in a skirt and a t-shirt. First thing he says "Why are you in a skirt?!?!" Well, Tesshin threw up on all 3 pairs of pajamas and all of jeans. At the rate he was going I would be in an evening gown by the time we went to bed. I took him back to daycare on Friday. Come to find out, all of the other little ones came down with the same stomach flu. She only had 2 kids that day.

Fast forward to the 18th....This was the first day Tesshin FINALLY gave us a solid poop. Daycare called on Wed. and said "Tesshin has had 6 diarrhea poops in the last hour. I think it's time to get him." So I rushed off, went through McDonalds drive thru to pick up lunch and picked up my boy. Poor kid, he was laying down on the nap mat all by himself. All of the other kids were outside playing. I ended up taking Thursday and Friday off so that gave him 5 days to recover at home.