Sick Days

Poor Jack is sick. He has a runny nose and a sore throat. So we've been staying home the last few days. But if you know Jack, you know that's a hard thing. That kid loves to be on the go and always doing something, and especially loves to be outside. We've been trying hard to entertain the little man indoors while he recovers and sips on his orange juice (we got it in a juice box, so it's really cool, therefore fun to drink).

We cut out and colored pumpkins today while we listened to our Primary music CD. Jack had more fun putting the crayons in and out of the box than actually coloring, so Mommy got stuck doing most of the work. But now we have pumpkins hanging in our window for Jack to enjoy. We also played with Halloween doggy stickers. They are on all of us now.

Jack has kept busy climbing on everything. He has now figured out how to climb up on the couches and then onto a table where he's now supposed to go. Little stinker!

We have been doing A LOT of reading. Jack seems to have 3 books that he really likes and we read them over and over and over and over again. Dallin and I have them memorized now. Sometimes (although it's very rare) Jack will actually just sit and read by himself, but mostly he loves to be read to.

A major problem with the long days at home is that Jack's nap schedule is all messed up. Now many of you know that Jack is a terrible sleeper, but over the last few months we've at least had a good consistent nap schedule. He would take 2 one hour to an hour and a half naps a day. But a few weeks ago, Jack decided he only wanted to take one nap a day. At first it started out that he would to take 1 two and a half hour nap in the morning and then not sleep the rest of the day. Then it changed to just taking 1 one and half hour nap. Well, since he's been sick, he'll only sleep for a half hour at a time. We've managed to get him to take 2 of those naps over the last few days, but he wakes up terribly unhappy. And really, he should be sleeping more to get better. Hopefully this is just temporary and he'll go back to taking good naps soon. And one benefit of his terrible napping yesterday - he only woke up once last night (this is a kid who generally wakes up about 4-5 times a night). Granted he did get up a 5 o'clock this morning, but still, only once is pretty good in my book. And maybe everybody can pray that Jack will start sleeping better, nighttime and naptime, because his parents are about to go crazy, and that he will start feeling better soon.