Sick day

Owen was sick again today, no urping, but fever and malaise. We noticed that we've never had such an experience of a compliant child until today...so it was fever-induced lethargy...parts of it were heaven! We went out and about and ran some errands instead of church, and he wasn't SO ill that we shouldn't be doing that, but enough that he just sort of went along for the ride instead of trying to run the show as usual :) Further evidence: after a 1.25 hr nap that started when he let me pat his little head while he fell asleep, he woke accidentally (noise in the house) and was screaming very discontentedly; I went and picked him up and he slept another hour in my arms in the rocking chair. WOW. This has never happened before, at least not since about 3 months old.

I sat down to record tonight's bathtime laugh. Owen has this dreadful 'condition' called molluscum contagiosum...it's some sort of virus that is very commonly passed in young children, and it results in small wartlike thingies that spread very easily. Owen started with one little spot on his back, and now he's covered in probably 40 little spots, all on his torso. At least they are hidden for everyday life. They are flesh-colored, and don't cause him any problem; they just look atrocious! Well, tonight Owen noticed one on his side/mid-tummy for the first time. He started peering down at it and examining. He touched it and came over to me and said, 'nipple!'. I said something like no, silly, that's not a nipple, here's your nipples, and showed him the right spots. So he said, 'li'l nipple!' and pointed back at the molluscum bump. I thought it was pretty funny, but then again I spend all day with a 22 month old and Reuel has been working late all week so it's just been me and little man. So the sense of humor may be in an altered state :P