Sickness!

My household has been fighting the winter illnesses, and it just seems to be doing this vicious cycle. The boys had what I believe was RSV a few weeks ago...finally got them so that they're not wheezing anymore, and now they have bronchitis. I'm going to see if they can get in to see the dr. today. On top of that, I now have a sinus infection (hubby had it last week). Fun times, let me tell ya, fun times! (can you hear the sarcasm dripping?) With the repeated illnesses come the poor appetites. The boys are even refusing to eat favorite foods (Micah, who adores bananas, wouldn't finish his yesterday and neither would even eat their marshmallows the other day).

I do believe that Micah said "dog" yesterday, though! He heard a neighbor's dog barking, pointed to his ear, and said an approximation of dog. Though it wasn't a clear word, it DID sound like dog to me. That was fun to hear! I've been leary of bumping up his speech processors to the next level because of the constant illness (I know they're not related, but bumping his processors up can cause him to be even more fussy). He definitely understands "give me a kiss" as I said that to him yesterday, completely out of context of what we were doing, and he did give me a kiss. It's so fun to know that he's understanding what we're saying to him. We have to remind ourselves that he can't hear us if his processors are off for one reason or another. It's been hard keeping up the sign language, but I'm working hard to maintain it and to grow our vocabulary. It really does help us understand what he's trying to say when he says the word and signs it (it helps us considerably with Jacob, too, for that matter)