bugger picker

well, the wee one unfortunately has his first cold. with all the temperature changing that has been going on over the last few weeks, i'm surprised he's stayed healthy this long. heck, i'm surprised i've not got a cold yet too!

so 2 days ago he sneezed this massive green bugger. its the first bugger i've seen from him ever. so, since he can't blow his nose properly yet, i pulled out the handy dandy bugger puller (aka nose syringe, bulb syringe, etc.). i wasn't sure when or how to use this thing, so i asked my mom. basically she said to just stick it in his nose and suck. well, i can hear rattling in his nose/sinuses, but when i look i don't see anything. so, i tried sucking... not sure what i was trying to get, but she said to just suck, so i did. nothing.


today, he sneezed out another big green bugger. this time, i decided it would be my first try at using the snot sucker. i guess i was kinda cheating since the bugger was hanging out of his nose. but, it worked. i caught myself a bugger! a nasty one, too.

well anyway, the humidifiers are pumping as hard as they can, humidity has already risen from 37% to 48 % in just 1 hour. yesterday when we went to bed all the windows were steamy upstairs. but during the night, the humidifier wells run dry and they stop pumping out that warm moist air. today i'll just keep them full and let humidity work its healing magic. hopefully, anyway. because if he isn't any better by friday, i'm calling the doctor!