Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Ahhhh Youth!

So it's tuesday morning and I have LOTS of errands to run with a toddler in tow.   As we are making our way towards the freeway, two young late teens or early 20-somethings decide to cross the street against on-coming traffic.  They don't start until I am literally into the intersection... I start honking my horn, they simply look at me, I continue to honk my horn and the young girl looks back at me as she's crossing and flips me off.  At that moment, I realized,  I have mellowed to a small degree.  You see, at that fateful moment, I was ready to stop the car and yank little miss attitude's pony tail.  She's flipping me off because I am trying to keep her from getting killed?!  I must admit to being impressed with myself, I didn't roll down my window and yell at her either, which was my other temptation.  Nope, I simply smiled muttered something to myself then looked back to see my precious son giggling at me just 'cuz!  Yup, just another day rolling through the always testy streets of Stamford!

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Happy Mother's Day!

Ahhh Mother's Day!  To all my fabulous mommy friends... a happy day to you!  Allow me to share a true mother's day story to you.... starring.... the Phenomenal Agisi and me!  Well, my mother's day started with my fantastic son Agisi yelping with tears around 5:45 this morning.  Soon the yelping turned to coughing and sniffling.  The little mister is battling seasonal allergies like his momma!  Those of you grew up with me, know what  seasonal allergies are like for me.  Well after a half hour or so of coughing, the intensity of the cough increased dramatically, to the point where I knew we'd be headed somewhere!  But first, Alex said, let's steam him, I said ok... and off to the bathroom we went for a steam session.

It seemed to calm him down, calmed the cough got him relaxed.  But soon the coughing continued and then came the big push.... cough, cough, deep cough, upchuck!   Right after the upchuck, the brightness and joy returned to my munchkin.  Surely this is it then, surely we are done since the nasal drip finally forced him to release it all.  But nope, this was just the beginning.  The cough begins again, I pick him to turn him towards the sink and upchuck.... ALL OVER MY FACE!   Ohh, my sweet boy, nothing says love like a little vomit on your smacker.... I'm thankful my mouth was closed!  He is back to giggling and chatting again.  As happy as a little clam.  We still aren't done yet.  You see this coughing caused by nasal drip, upchuck continued till about 10 am.  He released oh, 6 or 7 different times and every time in between, you would never know that anything out of the ordinary was going on.

I finally called the pediatrician's emergency line, when he called me back, the decision was, Benadryl to tame the cough and keep fighting the allergies.  I obliged... he chucked five minutes after the Benadryl.  But eventually he did calm down and after watching five back-to-back episodes of Bubble Guppies, he fell off to sleep.  The nap lasted 2 whole hours, which was a relief, both for me and my husband but also our little guy.  Good sleep, no coughing.  When he awoke, our whole attitude was about keeping him calm so as not to stir up coughing and give him little sips of water so as not to over do anything and a bite of food here and there.  Again, if you didn't hear him coughing, you'd never know something was up.  No temperature, happily playing, until the coughing starts then he gets cuddly and wants you to end it.  But he seems to be eating and drinking nearly normal now, which makes me happy and also makes me realize, my son will survive me for at least another day or, is it that I will survive him?

I love you Agisi and you've certainly made this Mother's Day, THE MOST memorable yet!