colds, puking, mumps? and breakthrough - oh my

What a weekend we had. Estifanos has had a cold since arriving home - but he woke up Sat. with what certianly looked like mumps... (happily it isn't - but boy oh boy did we give the Dr. at the urgent care a fright). He has a raging infection in his glands at the back of his mouth and it looks like mumps - and it hurts and he is running a fever, and occasionally puking... like this morn - ugh. However - the great thing is that he is turning to us for care - friday night when he started to feel bad he let me rub his back while he fell asleep and didn't even try to hide that he was crying... it must be so hard to be in a new family in a new house in a new country and then feel horrible, and not know what these new parents are going to do about it. The funny things is that at lunch on Thurs Scott and I were talking about how easy a kiddo he is - so sweet and funny and quick to listen, and how since he was so much older and self possessed that it might really take and event to get him to really begin to rely on us - an event like being sick. LOL. Then - bam - he is sick and sure enough it is turning out like we expected. (Not that we wanted him to be sick mind you).

I think we are also on the verge of some breakthrough with little miss too - almost hate to put that out there.... but through a variety of reading this weekend and some events on Sat... we will just have to see.