Mom & Snuggles

It has been awhile since I posted and it's because we are getting over the flu. I was the first person to get it, closely followed by Joshua and now Robert. And it was definitely the flu not a cold, we had fevers, stuffy heads, coughs, achy body, everything. The saddest part about all of this was Joshua. I knew he started feeling bad when all he wanted to do was have me hold him and read to him. Joshua, as lots of you know, does not sit still for very long. He loves to move from one thing to another and another, but not when he feels bad. Last Friday his fever got high so the doctor wanted to see him. We went in and they did blood work, checked for infections and everything was fine, it was just the flu. So all we could do was wait. For the next few days we spent lots of time in his chair, under a blanket snuggling and reading. Every time I put him down to see if he wanted to play, he cried. So I picked him up and we snuggled more. This whole thing was fine with me because I felt so poor. Today was the first day Joshua was doing much better, not a lot of snuggles, just a lot of playing. Since we were feeling better I started to think about the last week or so. When Joshua felt bad all he wanted was his mom, dad wasn't even as good. It's funny, when I was feeling bad all I wanted was my mom for help and rest. I guess you never grow out of that.