Sick Asher

Oh, my little tater tot is so sick.  It started with diarrhea and throwing up (in the bath, oh yeah) at 6 or so last night.  After a clean-up and jammies, he *melted* into the mattress shortly thereafter and slept all night.  He slept great all night, no messes.  Then he was up at 5am.  He was fussy, but not crazy, and usually if we go to him, that's the end of the night's sleep.  So we let him fuss for 5 or 10 minutes and he went back to sleep for an hour, and then woke up fussy again.  TERRIBLE DECISION!!  We should have known right away something was wrong when he was fussy at 5, but I guess sleepiness + being accustomed to letting our kids get themselves back to sleep were to blame.  When we got him up, he had had some mess in his diaper, and it basically turned into an acid burn on his skin, and he wouldn't even walk around early this morning, just collapsed on his belly on my legs.  Well, it wasn't just the skin getting him down.  He threw up more today, and was really a limp doll.  I even called the ped. because he was so not himself, but he didn't have any dehydration signs.  He spent the *entire* day either sleeping or being held and laying his head on my shoulder.  Owen couldn't even get a laugh from him!  Owen said at one point, "I like to be a really good big brudder when babies are sick in dis house.  I just want Asher to have his smile on!"  We kept sips of liquid, bites of jello and maybe 1 saltine down him today and he did perk up after the jello just a bit.  At bedtime and naptime though he was asleep before he hit the mattress just from a 1 minute walk around the room with me, and let me tell you, that has never happened with either of my kids.  Wow.  Well, Asher is either sicker or a more pitiful sick person than Owen ever was...never seen the like of it!  Hope it's a 24 hr. bug and asymptomatic by tomorrow. 

Would rather have told of my mom's visit this last week, and all the fun had.  She and Owen saw Toy Story on Ice at Boston Garden, we did various and assorted fun activities during the week and she babysat some nights for us, which was GREAT!!  Don't know how much more there is to tell, but I'm bushed from a day of baby-holding and cleaning/sterilizing!!  Speaking of, I forgot a funny.  Apparently, before work this morning, Reuel told Owen to wash his hands if he touched Asher.  Because let me tell you, Owen washed his hands about 35 times today.  If he so much as brushed Asher, he announced that he needed to wash his hands.  Very sweetly at one point he said, 'Mommy, I am going to pat Asher because he's not feeling good.  It's OK.  I can just wash my hands after that so I don't get sick.'  Owen is very terrified he's going to start up-chucking after watching Asher, and is decidedly against it :}