Sick boy

Caleb is officially sick. What started off as a runny nose on Sunday got worse through the night, and had developed into a cold yesterday. Today he was coughing and vomiting, and this afternoon was wheezing quite badly and short of breath, so I took him to the hospital and he was examined by Dr Kardam (the surgeon for his belly button) who still had to ask if this was the younger or older boy. Anyway, Caleb was nebulized straight away, and is now on antibiotics and has an asthma pump. Dr Kardam reckons he has asthma. Poor Caleb. We still did school today and the boys are thoroughly enjoying the new curriculum. The daily requirements don’t seem to be enough, so this morning we covered the entire week’s work of one particular book in one sitting, since they were enjoying it so much. Aaron and I went to town during the morning (I was actually trying to buy some sniffly-nose medicine for Caleb but nothing was available in the shop, necessitating the hospital visit later). I was really pleased to buy satsumas, oranges, potatoes, grapefruit and apples all in one day. That made up for the otherwise down morning.