Sick Day Pt. 2
Happy National Hot Toddy Day!
I stayed home from work today because Parker was still running a fever and not feeling very good. Zac also stayed home with us. Parker took his medicine around 7:00am and that took care of his fever for a while. With no fever he was ready to run around and play like normal. I had to convince him that it was a “sick day” and we needed to relax so that his body could fight off his sickness. This meant movies, video games, board games, and playing with a few toys. We started with some tablet time, then Toaster Strudels for breakfast, then more tablet time. After tablets, the boys went upstairs to change into their outfits for the day. That’s when they decided that they needed to find out where Harley was so they could take a picture of him with the camera on their tablets. This started a “big adventure” to find Harley cat. We spent a little over 5 minutes searching for him until Parker found him sitting on the kitchen table chair. They sneaked up on him like Steve Irwin, with their cameras ready, and got a couple of pictures…mission accomplished. Harley’s always such a good sport!
We spent the rest of the morning playing downstairs in the toy room, eating snacks while sitting inside some ottomans, and playing Zelda/Mario on the Wii. We had some leftover Skyline for lunch, then it was back downstairs to play some more since neither were wanting to lay down for a nap. We spent most of the afternoon watching an Iron Man & Captain America cartoon on Netflix. Zac eventually fell asleep during the movie so he had a 1-hour power nap. Parker never fell asleep, but he was very calm and relaxed the whole afternoon. His fever came back after lunch, but remained low grade which was good.
Nicole came home from work and we made some BLT’s for dinner. After dinner Nicole and Parker played Mario Galaxy while Zac and I played with the Kitchen set in the toy room. We gave Parker his Motrin and he went to bed early tonight…hopefully he gets a great night of extra sleep and maybe his fever will break tomorrow. Zac picked “minion Bob” (Despicable Me 3) for his TV time tonight so we watched that until it was his bedtime. I made a Hot Toddy to sip on this evening to celebrate National Hot Toddy Day today! It’s perfect timing with the cold weather, the impending snowpacalypse that’s being forecast this weekend, and to fight the sickness that is going around. Hopefully we get the 4-6 inches that they are predicting…we don’t have any plans to go anywhere so I don’t mind all the snow. Kenton County has already canceled all school related activities for tomorrow (Saturday). The only bad thing is that Parker is sick and won’t be able to go out into the snow if we do actually get a few inches. Maybe he’ll be well enough by Sunday so that he can at least walk outside in it and eat a snowball 🙂
