march 2010

Noah's behavior was getting really bad for a while and needed a few spankings from daddy to remind him how to behave. Very sassy and fresh, rude and disrespectful.
I have been really probing his heart to figure out what is going on and handling things differently, which is seeming to work. he is back to being sweet and lovey and telling me he "loves me all the time and wants to keep me forever!"

noah has pneumonia. found out yesterday. Joe went away for 4 days for school so I stayed at sil's house with noah on sat-sun. I wish I did not because I know noah will have gotten his cousins sick. I knew this cough was different which started on Friday. the albuterol was not working and he started out with a cough and fever. and when he gets a cold, he always starts out with a runny/sneezy nose and then maybe a cough. never a fever. in fact, in the past few years, the only time he had a fever was when he had the flu this winter. he was up all night ( me too) fri and sat night. coughing so hard that he kept vomiting. i finally took him out to the cold night air to help him. which also was odd b/c usually the cold air triggers his bronchospams and this time it helped. no croup. when at the park yesterday he was playing and laughing on the swings (before he fell) and coughed so hard and prolonged i knew it was time to go to the pedi. i knew it was pneumonia, and the dr agreed. he is on augmentin now. i am happy we caught it early. besides the cough and fever, he has no difficulty breathing which is great and a slight runny nose. glad joe is back home!

Yesterday he fell off the big boy swings. we took him to the park and joe went to put him in the baby swing and i said no, he needs to go on the big boy swings and learn to pump. so he was doing good and then joe was pushing him and all of a sudden he fell off backwards flat on his back and hit his head. he was not happy to say the least and will not go back on those he said. we try not to baby him-- obvioulsy hug and kiss him and hold him, but encourage him to get back up, brush yourself off and do it again. he has some fears.. like at jumpy houses, he will not go in without joe. he went to a bday party last week and was so clingy joe said, even some parents from church told me how he would not give joe a break.
not sure why he is so cautious. i rather have that than a dare-devil for sure. i told joe once he gets to preschool he will toughen up.