Down with the Sickness

So it has been a rough week around the household. First Aiden, then Daddy and finally Mommy all came down with a bit of a spring cold. We're actually going on two weeks since the symptoms started for Aiden and myself. Mommy has been sick for about a week. It hasn't been much fun, although none of us has been well and truly put out of commission.

Aiden being an active 22 month old shook it off during the day for the most part, playing and running around like his normal self, occasionally stopping to sneeze up huge gobs of yuckiness. At night though it was a different matter, with Aiden not being able to breathe very well he often woke up with coughing fits in the middle of the night. Fortunately he is pretty cleared up now and is sleeping peacefully once more (knock on wood).

All this illness was unable to put a damper on a little trip we had planned for Aiden and Daddy to go up and visit mimi and papaw Danny. It was looking like Aiden was not going to be well enough to head up on Monday night, with a planned departure for Tuesday morning. But after a full night sleep on Monday night, Aiden was up and acting much better Tuesday morning, so we made the decision to hit the road and go for our visit.

Aiden had a very nice visit with his grand parents, got to visit lots of places in the small town, and spent a load of time playing in the back yard and helping papaw put up his new shed.

The biggest drawback of the illness, aside from everyone just feeling crummy, is that Aiden had to miss the last two weeks of his ZooBabies class. While I think that Aiden was really too young to fully enjoy and appreciate these classes anyway, I think the animal interactions were a great experience for him, and it is unfortunate we were unable to attend, but we didn't want to expose a sick Aiden (or daddy for that matter) to a dozen other little boys and girls.

Haven't gotten many pictures through the illness, now that Aiden is on the mend, we will break out the camera and make sure we have some pictures for you for next time!