A Little Sick, A Lot of Sleep

Living in such close proximity (sharing the same bed even), it's no wonder that our little guys seem to pass whatever sickness they have between each other. On Saturday morning, Sawyer had what seemed to be an isolated incident of being sick. Though eating and drinking a bit less than normal, he went on to play quietly for most of the day but seemed to recover just fine. On Sunday morning, Xander started the same process. He got sick once, then didn't eat or drink much at all, and was a bit more pitiful for the rest of the day, wanting alternately to be held and to sleep. Sawyer, though still not eating much, seemed fine yesterday, at least fine enough to want brother to stop taking up so much of Mommy's lap. Until he crashed about 5 o'clock last night, dead asleep on the couch and eventually carried upstairs where he slept all night and where he has stayed most of the day. He did come downstairs once this morning on his own, since we left his door open to keep closer tabs on him, but on finding the baby gate locked and Mommy out of sight (in the bathroom helping big brother potty), he simply laid down at the bottom of the steps, and that's where I found him a few minutes later - pitiful and nearly asleep again, stuffed into the small space between the bottom step and the closed baby gate. Xander has not been much better - asleep upstairs for most of the day, with only a few more hours downstairs than his brother, and still extremely pitiful. Both are at least drinking juice (and some electrolytes) again. Two pitiful little boys, sleeping the days (and hopefully the sickness) away. Now, if only we can keep big brother from catching whatever it is too!