My children, who are NEVER sick, have been very sick lately. I’m still unsure exactly what they both contracted but it’s kept me from posting (in addition to some tax returns, provision making and fun activity distractions.)
In fact, it was a full seven days before we left the house. That is a long time to be cooped up with two small children, in case you have never attempted it.
They are coming out of it now. Neither of them had a fever but the first several days they both had seal barking coughs that kept them both up all night (and me!) for at least three nights. That was followed by congestion, coughing and nose draining. There is still some lingering coughing going on but everyone seems to be ok now.
We’ve been keeping busy by practicing letters, playing in bubbles in the sink and other sensory activities like this wheat berry play:
We’ve done wacky things like add food color drops to bowls of milk to watch them mix together:
And something even wackier that Chicken Little calls “fight dancing”. We’ve done a lot of dressing up in superhero costumes and sliding down the hallway in socks.
And then we’ve been watching entirely too much Sponge Bob. But we’re better now. And Sponge Bob is once again banned.