A quick update on Nicholas: he woke up this morning with no fever and went all day without one. Just before bed he was up about a degree and felt the tiniest bit warm, but nothing significant. He has a really awful sounding cough and his voice sounds like he has been smoking a couple packs a day, but he seems to be feeling at least 90%. Unless something changes overnight, he'll be going to school in the morning (knock on wood), but I think we will try to pick him up early, before they do afternoon outside play time, just to keep him from pushing too hard.
But as has now become our routine, we used his sick day at home to work on one of our craft projects. We started a cloth book for his sister a couple months ago, but set it aside to work on the dinosaur costume, so we finished that up today.
I made an ABC book over the summer that is much more photo-worthy, but decided after finishing that one that it wasn't actually baby friendly. I mean, really, infants have no interest in the alphabet and the pastel colors say "baby" to us but are actually pretty boring to a baby. So Nicholas helped me pick out a bunch of black and white patterned fabrics (the colors babies see best and so the patterns they are most captivated by in the first couple months) and fabrics with cool animals. The goal is that whoever is "reading" the book to her will have more to say about the owl wearing a baseball hat than about the letter "B."
Anyway, I still think the premise was good but am not thrilled with some points of the execution. But the goal was to have fun together and involve him in a project for her, not to have something award-winning. And in those goals, we succeeded.
At his big sibling class a couple weeks ago the teacher told the kids that they should bring a birthday present for their baby sibling to the hospital (thanks, lady) and Nicholas has been talking about this a lot, wondering what he should get for his sister. So after we finished the book today I had him wrap it and put it in the diaper bag so it would be at the hospital with us. He can then give it to her when he comes to visit.
He is so excited!
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