Question - is it cheating if I put Joshua to bed an hour early just so that I can have a little extra time in the evening? Okay, well I didn't really do that, only sort of. I actually just happened to let him fall asleep while he was nursing, but I knew that it would mean he was down for the night, and we'd forego bath, lotion, the whole routine. I guess I need to back up, though, and explain why I was okay with this - me, the hard line structured scheduler who won't go out of the house if it's during a scheduled activity such as meal or naptime. The thing is, Joshua had already had TWO baths previously that day. Not just because he loves taking a bath, which he does, or because it's his newest sign, which it is. These would be great, but really it's only because of the projectile vomit we'd been subjected to the whole day. Each time he seemed to get it ALL OVER himself, ALL OVER the floor, and ALL OVER either Tim or myself. How can one little boy hold so much stuff?!I actually tried not to worry too much about the whole thing, telling myself that he just had a little bug. Which is truly what I think it was - but at the time I was on the internet, discovering that maybe he was actually throwing up because he's epileptic, and it's possible that he also had lead poisoning. Or could it be that he had an appendicitis? . . . Meningitis . . . INTUSSUSCEPTION?!?! I'd never heard of this before, yet I was suddenly worried about it, scrutinizing his every move. And I was aware, via the all-knowing internet, that I must "watch for the signs of life-threatening dehydration" so that we don't end up in the hospital for a week on intravenous fluids. Of course, I also couldn't give him too much water, or he'd suffer from water intoxication . . . it never ends.
Thankfully, though, the throwing up did end, as well as the massive bouts of diarrhea that he got the next day. My poor, poor little boy hasn't been sick much in his life, and so he just didn't know what to do. He and daddy got to watch some Veggie Tales videos, which he loved (and it was a treat since watching TV is something we don't do much). He also feasted on several meals of cheerios, his only food of choice - sick or not. Now it's a battle to get him to eat anything else, since he holds out and refuses to eat anything, trying to make us bring out the cereal.
On a happier note, Grandma and Grandpa Waller are coming to visit this week! They've been out of the states since Joshua was about seven months, so they have a lot of catching up to do. Of course, we've been practicing all of the cute things that Joshua can do, so that he can show them right away . . . how he's learned to raise both arms above his head in a kind of "victory" gesture, which is my favorite thing that he does since his arms aren't long enough to get his hands much higher than his head. Also how he scrunches up his face and sticks his tongue between his teeth, to make a gaspy, snorty sound through his nose. Yes, these are the things that we're brushing up on and that we're proud of. After all, it's those little things that makes our little man so special. What a personality he has!
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