Sick babies

Big Willie still isn't feeling better.  He's taking a long time to get over whatever is trying to run its course through his little body.  He's developed a pretty nice cold on top of his ear infections which isn't making him feel better. He just wants to sit on your lap and love on you. But when there are other children that need food and other basic needs in life it doesn't allow for us to sit around and watches much television as we'd like.

You know a little boy is sick/tired when you can put him in bed and he gladly lays there for you to put blankets on top of him. Usually after I lay him down he sits/stands back up and laughs as though bed/nap time is a game.

I don't know that he's screaming here b/c he's sick. But boy was he mad. I don't know why. Like majority of the times when he's screaming.

I don't know if it's the medicine or whatever is running its course through his body but he essentially poops all day long which has led to a lovely (awful) case of diaper rash.  It looks like welts all over his rump. I decided to let him run around in some of Miss M's underwear to try and let the rash heal up with some fresh air. 

He peed about every five seconds so eventually he ended up with naked buns.  I realized things were pretty quiet in the basement and so I went down to check on him. As I walked downstairs I found him playing in his poop. Oh grand. Off we went straight for the bathtub.  Aunt Jessie was cooking dinner. I don't know where the men-folk were at this point.  Aunt Nessie was here and helped clean up the basement floor.  You know you have a good sister/aunt when she doesn't find something else more urgent to do or call for a taxi to go home at the first signs of poop but rather she helps clean it up.

We all know Big Willie loves his sister. And because he loves his sister so much he can't keep his hands/face out of her business and subsequently has given her his cold.  It's pretty sad. She can't breath very well b/c her little nose is stuffed up.  She's coughing quite a bit also which wakes her up when she does finally get to sleep.  

I wish there were more for babies than humidifiers and some Vick's vapor rub to help them feel better.