Sickness and stuffy noses

Jake's been sick the last 2 days. He hasn't been sick for like 18 months.  It was hard on Jake being home alone with the baby and NOT being able to play and have fun with him.  Fortunately our son is freaking AWESOME, and was really chill yesterday and gave Jake some time to rest and relax.  Jake said his sinus' is/was burning.  I don't think I've ever had that happened.  It's nice to beable to take care of Jake when he's like this, cause he rarely "needs" anything done for him. (even though he's the one that made the guac last night while we were trying to wrap up season 7 of Buffy- only 2 episodes left.)--to be fair, I was feeding the baby. 

If you're reading this, you can pray for him to get better.  He has 3 play performances this weekend. 

Emmaus is doing great. Smiling and talking,  especially during diaper changes..  and He's starting to swat at things, and grab for things more. 

This morning when I put Emmaus back down after an early morning snack, I kept hearing him breathing.  His nose sounded all dry and or stuffed up.  I didn't want to torture him with the blue nose bulb at that time, cause I knew he'd get upset and might not go back to sleep, so I waited.  When he woke me up an hour later, I took him into the nursery for the "procedure."  I started sucking out the boogers, but his poor snot was looking a little bloody..not tons, just a little pink.  I think it might be too dry in the house for him...might need to get a humidifier...(any advice?) 

So point being: I was able to clear both nostrils, and he was such a sweetie while I was doing it.  He's turn his head away from me, but he wasn't screaming like he's done in the past.  I think he understands that the blue nose thingy helps him breath easier...even if it's uncomfortable.  The he let me follow that up with a little q-tip swabbing of the nose to get any excess snot out, and then to finish it off, a wipe with some lotion.  My son is amazing. 

I took a video with my phone of him swatting at one of his Raffe's (pronounced raffee)(our nickname for his many giraffe friends.)  I'll have to see if it will load onto blogspot, my computer doesn't seem compatable when it comes to loading up videos on this thing.  (more pics to come soon.)