Oh, the sickness

Last weekend Benjamin started to get a runny nose and cough. Now with him and his allergies, if you miss even a day of his medicines he ends up with a sinus infection and if I'm not diligent, a respiratory infection that has lead to pneumonia several times. Well, being the best mom ever, I missed two days of his Zyrtec, knowing what it would do to him, but I guess hoping that it wouldn't this time. Well, he ended up with an ear infection and a sinus infection, but nothing respiratory. Now to Avery. I have already talked about how she had several croup attacks, well now she has gotten a double ear infection and some nasty kind of cold that has taken a strong grip on her little body. She is still having a really hard time breathing and sleeping. Last night was a bit better, she woke up about 3 times, but was able to get herself back to sleep twice. The one time I had to go in there was to take her to the bathroom, give her a sip of water and blow her nose. I did have to scrap the dried green goo from her eyes (enjoy that??) that had developed, but she was able to go to sleep after only 20 minutes or so. That is a huge improvement from where we were this past weekend. She is ridiculously clingy as this picture shows:

She's awake, but her eyes are just that swollen with sinus pressure. She looks a bit better today, and she is at least on the floor reading. She won't let me leave the room without her, and everything makes her cry, but hopefully we are on the upswing. I'm afraid we are going to have to miss playgroup this week. This is the highlight of the week for both of us. She gets to play and I get to talk to adults for 2 hours. Benjamin has his school Thanksgiving lunch tomorrow as well, but I think I am just going to check him out because I read the menu to him and he turned his nose up to it. We may have to try to do something fun, although I don't know what we can do. My plan today is to let Avery lay around and veg on the couch and try to get as better as we can so maybe we can do something tomorrow, but Benjamin seems to have gotten worse since yesterday than better, so this may not be good. He started to get mad at Avery this morning, saying "YOU gave this to me!" I told him she got it from him first, and he said "I don't want it back!!! YOU keep it!!"