Elizabeth came down with a cold late last week (about the same time she banged her knee), then passed it on to Dorothy. Which was OK, because all the other kids at daycare have a cold too. But then they passed it on to me. Today I've been getting a bit of a scratchy throat and runny nose.
So this afternoon, when I was trying desperately to get Dorothy to go to sleep, I tried not making any noise when it looked like she'd closed her eyes while in the crib. But of course, my throat started to get scratchy. Itch... Itch... "Mustn't clear throat" I thought, trying to stay quiet.
Dorothy refused to sleep and promtply opened her eyes and cried, which freed me to let the dam burst and cough up a storm.
Posted by Tom Nugent at September 28, 2004 10:48 PM