Thursday, October 16, 2008

We're still alive...barely

I'm beginning to get a little bit concerned about the coming cool weather and the sickness that it inevitably brings. My girls seem to be catching everything that's going around. This is the third time in the last 2 months that they have been sick. Sydney is running fever again, and they have that deep, painful-sounding cough. I hear that other people in the church have the same thing, so I guess that's probably where they caught it.

This has served as a reminder that I need to teach them (again) about germs and the importance of washing hands and keeping their hands out of and away from their mouths. You would think that once they get past the baby/toddler phase of putting everything in their mouths, you wouldn't have to stay after them quite so much, but I have caught them so many times just this week sticking one or two fingers in their mouths. Ewww, gross! I can't stand it!

Do you think they could be doing it on purpose? They know that when they are sick, we don't do school, and they get to lay around and watch movies. Surely they aren't that smart, yet! =)

Oh, well...this too shall pass. Please pray that they get better soon. I think I'm going to go work on some crocheting. I recently started Sydney's Tooth Fairy Pillow, because we anticipate her losing her first tooth in the next few months.
We're enjoying "Toy Story" right now, so...."To infinity and beyond!" =)

2 comments:

Brownells said...

If the girls are coughing at night put an onion (cut) on the nightstand. It works like a charm! Completely stops the coughing.

Rebekah Downs said...

Thanks, I'll have to try that, because we aren't getting any sleep with their coughing all night long.