Little Burl is Sick

Poor Little Burl! He's had a fever since last night. He's having trouble sleeping and is only able to muster up a little happiness every couple hours.

He's congested and is putting the big ICK in sick. He's gagging and throwing up his tylenol, and the mucus - my god the mucus.

Today, Burl didn't even go to story time, he stayed home with papa. Ivo and I went - and Ivo remembered what letter it was gonna be.

Other than Burl being a little on the fritz, everything's good. Ivo and I just made Xmas cookies for the first time - the kid is SPINNING!!!!!!!

Ivo's loving watching the grinch and frosty. We hope to put up the tree this weekend. Ivo's bday party is planned for Sunday 23 December at Feng Le Park. He's very excited.

Ivo overheard:

• (in the midst of an excrutiating push-pull over every-single-thing Burl touched, I told him to let Burl play with the water bottle) Ivo looked at it and read the nametag sticker, "Let's see, 'IVO. I-V-O. Dat Ivo's. Dat mines."


• "Member, he will get bored in a couple minutes." What we tell Ivo when trying to encourage sharing.


• "One for me. And one for me."


• "I hurt my arm-knee!!!!" (for elbow - which he knows but couldn't think of - I think he hit his funny bone))


• "Member, I almost getting bigger."


• "I can't amember I need to eat."


• "He crawling a da door, find papa. So sad news." describing crying Burl following papa to the door as he left for work.


• singing, "IIIIIIIIIIII, I, I, I... I, I, I."
• When Ivo sees something super cool he says - breathlessly like a teenager, "Oh, my, god." less frequently, "Oh, my, goodness."
• And if that weren't deep enough in the blasphemy stew, when he's frustrated or exasperated Ivo says, "Jeesus" and sometimes "Jeesus Chwist." We hope to help him choose more age appropriate invectives. Currently, I just talk to him about whatever it is he's having trouble with. I'm hesitant to tell him NOT to say things cuz he's back to refusing all proferred fluids from me...