"Mommy, my throat hurts weally bad!"
"Oh really, Will? Where is your throat?"
His little hands rub across his chest, "Right here, mommy!" Oh, of course his "throat" hurts!
He only spent the entire day watching mommy lay on the couch with a "sore throat" I am sure he was pretty starved for attention. How do you know if a toddler legitimately has an ailment or if they are copying what they have heard from their parents? In this case, the fact that he could not properly place where his throat is located made me suspicious that he was okay.
Well, it turns out I was wrong. Will's throat ailment is probably legitamate as he ran a fever in the night and started the cough-up-a-lung hacking that Natalie had all last week. We are just spreading the love germs throughout the house.
"Will, don't drink out of Natalie's cup!!!! She is SICK!!!"
"Natalie, don't slobber on my mouth! You are SICK!!"
"Will, don't drink out of Mommy's cup!! I am SICK!!!"
"Natalie, don't sneeze in Daddy's face! You are SICK!!!"
Will climbed in our bed at 2 am with his fever and cough. Tom promptly went to the couch for the rest of the night to "avoid getting sick".
The phone just rang, "Honey, my ear is hurting really bad. It feels like someone is driving nails into my eardrum!"
"Of course it is sweetie. Your daughter has an ear infection and has drooled all over you. Your son has a cough that he hacked into your face. And your wife feels like she has been hit by a truck and she kissed you goodbye yesterday. I hope you feel better!"