Sickness and Health

[James here again, writing this as a break from working at home...]

Our bosses at work must be feeling rather annoyed at us both as we've been off for most of the week, either being ill ourselves or else tending to to a poorly Finn.

It all began last Thursday when Cori brought Finn into my new workplace (where I'm seconded for only two months) to drop him off before going off on a work night out to Secret Cinema. After being a little upset and shouting a lot at all of my nice new workmates, Finn then vomited in the lobby as we were about to leave. He vomited again as I walked to the bus stop (making for a smelly journey home in a rather damp shirt!), before promptly falling asleep and remaining pretty much comatosed for all of Friday with Cori on the sofa.

He vomited again on Sunday morning (waking us up rather horrifically as he was in our bed, as per usual in the mornings!), but other than that he was mostly ok all weekend, which was very good, as I had him alone during Cori's weekend at work. In fact, we had quite an active weekend, with the two highlights being going swimming with Jevon in the local pool (it's a lot easier to toss Finn in from the side when there's someone there to catch him) and chasing Mogadishu the cat around Ayden and Louise's (where Finn showed that he was finally done and wanted to go home by climbing onto my lap and waving bye bye to Louise).

But the sickness baton was then passed to Cori (on Sunday night) and then me (on Tuesday). Having had Finn go into nursery only briefly on Monday only to have him sent home because of diarrhoea, it was Finn's turn to tend us, sort of. He seemed to rather enjoy having both of his parents lying on the floor near him and seemingly not trying to get away to something else (or else to move, at all). It meant that it was rather easy to keep him happy, even if still wanted to earth to swallow us up in our sickness misery.

[Here is photographic evidence of both Finn's happiness and Cori's desire to be swallowed up by the earth (try and see through her sham facade of a smile)]

Finn was (very gladly for us) back in nursery yesterday, where, by all accounts, he teared about happily, going through all his spare clothes in a reckless abandon of play. This brightened our spirits somewhat when he returned home looking rather more Red Neck that Sick Head:

Yes, they are tights he is wearing there, under those star-spangled shorts. With his nappy on underneath this made him look very Shakespearean (and silly) as he undressed for the bath:

Such wonderful sights must have brought some health back to Cori and I as we are both reasonably well today again, even if we have rather tender tummies. It is just a shame that Finn developed a ranging fever in the night and he has been running a temperature of 102 throughout the day, again at home. But at least Cori's being around has meant that he's been able to sleep through most of it (and Cori's been able to DVD-watch and snooze through that), and I've been around to replenish glasses of water and toast crumpets as I work from home instead of endangering my office with whatever it is we have all have. It's been pretty miserable today, but not as miserable as it could have been.

Let's hope Finn (and the rest of us) get over it soon...