Sick

Yesterday Thomas was sick - really sick - for the first time. Well, he had a fever once before and we got nervous, but this time he was vomiting. Somehow I never thought of sicknesses when I thought of all the firsts we would go through.

The poor kid slept nearly 13 hours, so we should have known something was wrong, but when he threw up just a little right after he woke up, I thought it was a fluke. 2 crib sheets and 3 outfits later, we knew: Thomas was sick. At first, every time he threw up he'd look really startled - what just happened to me? - then, after a minute, he'd start to cry. And the poor kid was hungry, so he wanted to eat and drink, but he couldn't keep anything down.

He made it until 1:30 - André was home alone with him for an hour while I frantically kept a coffee date with a girlfriend - and then he fell asleep in my arms. After a 3 1/2 hour nap, Thomas woke up feeling much better & he's been fine ever since. In fact, I can hear him talking to himself upstairs now that he's finished his morning nap, so I should get going!

Oh, and welcome back to the blog: I'm off for the summer & have finished the graduate class I had to take, so for the next few days I'm going to be going back and finishing up some of the half-finished posts as well as starting to write new ones. Wish me luck!