sick again

After the grandparents left on Tuesday Eddie came down with a cold. What started off as the occasional exclamatory cough turned into a full blown mucous-filled hack by Tuesday night. And by Wednesday the nose was running too. On Thursday he looked the worst - cheeks reddened from sleep-smeared snot and eyes all glossy. But overall his mood and energy was pretty normal, and he never had a fever. Finally today, Sunday, he seems to be on the road to recovery. After not leaving the house for almost a week we finally bundled him up and took him outside to play in the mounds of snow. It's a tough time of year, and now that Eddie is a toddler, I have accepted the fact that he is going to get sick. Yet that didn't prevent me from starting to feel bad about the fact that this is the third cold he has had this cold/flu season...yet last year he never got sick, and I feel incredibly grateful for that. But then I read that the average baby get 8 colds in the first two years of life...so he is still way below average for sickness. I try to think that getting sick now is good because it will help build his immune system. But it is still hard to see your child not well. Here's to hoping that this week is a better one.