Strange Birthdays

Yesterday was the yearly anniversary of my 29th birthday and it was an odd day indeed.

To summarize: I missed church, sort of lied to my mother, skipped a birthday gathering, and spent most of the day on the couch knitting.

Yep.

See, what had happin'd wuz little Tooter spent most of Saturday night crying, clutching his throat, not sleeping and developing a seal-bark type of cough.  (No, he doesn't actually have croup - his chest colds start off sounding that way and then turn into "normal" coughing after about half a day or so).  Anyway, by the time he woke up Sunday morning, he was running a decent fever so that we were able to brilliantly deduce that he had.....  drum roll.......  a cold.  Yippee!  In all seriousness, I really am grateful that it wasn't anything more than a cold, but he's oh-so dramatic about any type of illness.

So, I skip church to stay home with him and Jmk takes Poodle.  My folks, sister, and youngest brother all left for a week and a half in Scotland yesterday, and my Mom was calling from the various airports letting me know that they made it here and there.  She would ask how church was and ask how the kids are and those types of questions, and I would just.......  not tell the whole truth.  It's not like Toot was really sick, but if I had told her he had a cold and we had skipped church, she would have been all worried for no reason and there was no point in all that.  Heck, he's already acting like he feels fine today, although he's still running a low-grade fever.  And, then, Jmk's sweet mom planned to have us all over to her house after church for a birthday celebration.  SO....  (because Poodle cried when we told her we might not go to SueSue's) Jmk took Poodle and I stayed home with the Tootman.

Toot is really quite pitiful when he's sick and Mommy can't be more than 3 feet away from him during the worst of it.  Else there is much whining and gnashing of teeth.  So, I sat on the couch, watching Disney channel with him and knitted on the wee lass' baby blanket.  When I wasn't actually holding the poor, pitiful little man.  (In his defense, those seal-bark coughs do hurt in the beginning).  It was a quiet, pretty relaxing day, to be honest.  Plus, Jmk came home with roast beef, potatoes and carrots, rolls, chocolate pecan pie and brownies from SueSue's!  YUMMO.  And, you know what - as unorthodox of a birthday as it was, it was a quiet, relaxing day overall.  As busy and noisy as my life usually is, to have a quiet, relaxing day was actually a very nice treat.  Not a bad way to spend a birthday!

And, even though I had to send Poodle off to Singing School at church with another family this morning, we should all be able to be there tomorrow.  Because except for the little bit of fever (and the coughing and such), you'd never think Toot missed a single beat yesterday.  Ahhhh, the resilience of kids!  Now, to keep him relatively calm during the day today so he doesn't over do it.....  good luck to me!