Who said being sick can’t be FUN?!?

For 3 of the last 4 weeks, Natalie has been sick.  This last week has been the worse.  I took her to the doc’s on Tues, and she has bronchiolitis, which basically means a cold with wheezing: http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/lung/bronchiolitis.html.

She HATED her first breathing treatment at the hospital, but since then, we’ve made it into a fun game.  She sits in her swing, and we tell her over and over how much FUN this is – and smile a lot.  So, she likes it now too. 

What a fun game! Who would have thought trying to catch vapor with my tongue would be so hard?

Although it may be hard to see, beneath the mask, she is giving us one of her big open-mouth smiles.  Another possible caption for this picture is: “Hmmm… I wonder why this fun game makes me sneeze and cough so much.  Is this a trick?”

Unf, she is WIRED after these treatments, so she hasn’t been sleeping as well.  I remember feeling jittery after having breathing treatments when I was younger too.  At least I didn’t start them until age 4!  (This is one way that I didn’t want Natalie to take after me!)  Luckily, it is for certain that she’ll have asthma, though she does have a higher propensity to get it.

In short, please keep Natalie in your prayers!  And, if you have some spare room, Jordan and me too.  We both got sick, though since I’m home with Natalie more and Jordan is traveling next week, I’m kinda baring the brunt of it.  I guess this – having a sick kid who you feel so sorry for and getting sick myself – is one of the less fun parts of being a Mom.  Its definitely worth it though – she’s such a good kid…. after all, she smiles during breathing treatments!