joys of toddlerhood

Kieran still has a cold. He sounds like an old man when he sleeps, because he's all snorkly and snoring. I've done all I can, drugged him with the weight-guideline (which for him is the same as the age dosage, but still) of decongestant-only cold medicine, since GOD FORBID we give our children cough medicine, it will apparently do them much harm. Not that it seems to work anyway, but still. He's got the cool mist vaporiser, the vaporub generously applied, he's had a nice steamy bath with the vapour bath. He's still snorkly and snoring and coughing. I've tried giving him honey, since that is not technically a drug and apparently it works better than cough syrup anyway, but he won't always take it. I mixed it with his grapey decongestant, and that seemed tasty enough, but it didn't really seem to work.

Anyway. He's napping now. I tried to get him to sleep on his side, but he's not interested. As is generally the way, he decided he needed monkey and a nap about 3 minutes after I put poor snotty monkey into the washer for a bath. I don't tell Kieran about this ahead of time, it does not help. He was way early for wanting a nap, and just seems to have some kind of sense about monkey being unavailable, which makes him want / need him right away. So I had to endure just over half an hour of begging and pleading and crying and "need monkey, please? please?" and explaining that it wasn't because he wasn't asking nicely (which is generally the case when he wants something and doesn't get it, or because it's 7am and he wants chippies {which can be potato chips or chocolate chips, neither a breakfast food}) but that monkey was snotty and gross and was having a bath and then needed to dry off. He only ended up drying for about 10 minutes, just enough so that he's not wet, but is still a bit damp. The kid needed a nap, so we compromised.

I'm going to shower. I'd like to go out this afternoon and feed the cats I'm cat-sitting, but I'll have to see how the roads are. I may leave Kieran at the sitter's, so I can just run in and feed the kitties. They're not big fans of me. They might be today, their parents have been away for almost a week now, but so far they've been mostly indifferent to my visiting. Oh, it's just you. Thanks for the treats. You can go now.