Trio's Allergies (?)

It is very frustrating trying to tell if a child is sick if you don't have a few big signs glaring in your face. For instance a fever; that is a big DING DING DING to know that your child is sick. Also red eyes for pink eye, throwing up, diarrhea (cha cha cha sorry Beavis and Butthead reference there) are good indicators too.



But what if they just sound miserable and look miserable and you know if you were them you would be miserable but other than that they're fine?



Today Trio is like a snot balloon with a slow leak. Sorry for the grossness but that's the closest I can come to describing it. He has mucus coming out of his eyes would warn me to pink eye except there is no pinkness in the eye and it's not constant like it should be with pink eye nor as much (there was this kid at the daycare when I worked there whose eyes were literally glued shut by the mucus). He has a runny nose, and as such a dirty face from wiping said snot all over the place and he is a little whinier than usual not to mention sleepier but from what I can tell I don't think he's sick.



We still have Zyrtec from his diagnosis of dry skin so we're going to try that to see if it helps. I mean the whole sleepy thing could just be a growth spurt; last night for dinner and today for lunch he literally just laid down in the middle of eating and passed out poor thing. So I'm hoping it's allergies because I can fix that easily and without a trip to the doctor. Plus it would be logically what with the weather in Austin not knowing what the heck it wanted to do (hint: it's November can we please have cold now? Thanks). Plus it is not like he is lethargic all the time; if anything he's been getting naughtier every day and he's too young to threaten with Santa (but boy howdy when that day comes....bwahahahaha!!!)



We're doing good other than that. We're starting to talk a little more which is great even though he has no interest in learning body parts which his doctor told me he should be able to point to his nose at least (oops). But hey he blows kisses, says "up" and "down" (although his "down" sounds slightly demonic) so I think I'm good. We're going to work on more as the day progresses. With the weather being (somewhat) cool we can take walks and we talk a lot during that time. I know soon I'll be moaning in my blog about how he won't shut up but for now I want him to talk to me.



Gets boring talking to myself all day.