Medicine strips

Happy Birthday to my brother Larry!!  He turns 19 today.  I honestly can't believe this is his last year as a teenager!  Time flies...it feels like yesterday he was only 8 and I was moving out of the house.  We miss you and love you!  Hope you had a fun birthday and stayed out of trouble.

Wow, wow, wow, am I tired.  Cooper was up again for a few hours last night.  He is running a fever but it's low enough and he isn't crying in pain, so the doctor says to keep monitoring him.  I bought Hyland's teething tablets and gripe water based on Che's suggestion.   I gave him both before bed so hopefully we all get some sleep tonight.

Actually I didn't get the teething tablets, I got the dissolvable strips.  Genious!  Cooper won't let us go near him with a medicine dropper.  He clamps his lips shut, pushes it away and shakes his head back and forth.  I don't know how many times I've squirted his eyeball or gotten it all over his clothes.  (Unlike Charlotte who says mmm, mmm any time she even sees the medicine bottle.)  These little strips are perfect because he thinks it's food.  I need to see if Tylenol comes this way.

We've decided to attend my work holiday party.  Now we need to work on finding a babysitter and feeling comfortable leaving the kids.  Why is this so hard?  I wish we had family here to do it for us...it would make me feel so much better.  I am really excited to get a new dress, though!  Dinner and dancing at the Queen Mary with my sexy husbands sounds pretty fantastic!!

(err...that should have been husband, as in singular! haha...thanks Che!)