On the Mend......

Things are looking up here at our house. Joel has had a bad cold for three days and he is starting to respond to his medication, which cuts back on the number of times a day I have to listen to him scream when I wipe his runny nose! That is a GOOD thing! We have been nebulizing him at night before bed and that seems to help him sleep. He has been sleeping through the night for the last several nights again, so Mommy and Daddy are happy about that. He also looks like he feels better. This afternoon I put up the Christmas tree in his room. The tree has been there for a couple of days but I put the lights and ornaments on. He was so funny when I plugged in the lights to see if they worked! He stopped dead in his tracks with his mouth open and said "Wow!". From that moment on he was VERY interested in what Mommy was doing! Unfortunately he was taking the ornaments off as fast as I was putting them on, so we didn't make much progress. When Daddy got home he gave Joel a bath and I hurried up and got the tree done. Joel absolutely LOVES it! He just stands and stares at it in amazement. I'm sure he will drive me nuts trying to take all the ornaments off (he has one Elmo ornament in particular that he yanks off at every opportunity!) but I'm just happy that he likes it. Right now he is in there sleeping peacefully with the tree as his nightlight. I found a quote in a magazine the other day that fits perfectly, "I love to watch him as he sleeps. His angelic face rejuvenates my soul for when he will awaken.~Katrina Plum." Good night....more later....