Aww, Doodle, you caught a cold! Your fever is 100 degrees and you have a cough and runny nose. I am so sorry you're sick. You feel a little down, but mostly you just want to keep playing. When you get tired, though, you get cuddly. That's adorable. You know your Momma loves to cuddle with you!
This is not the first time you've been sick. You got sick at just two months old, a germ you probably picked up at your two-month check-up. It was terrifying. You could hardly breathe, and you could not eat because then you couldn't breathe. It was very scary for us, even though it was just a cold. You were tiny! Now you're just a few days away from being 13 months old and you are so strong. We hate that you are sick, but you look us in the eye with a big grin, as if to say, "Hey, it's not so bad. And can we go outside?" Thanks, dear.
You are getting so knowledgeable, too! You seem to understand much of what I say. Yesterday I sat you on my lap and told you it was time for me to trim your fingernails. I put one of your fingers on my knee and said we'd start with that finger. For the first time, you didn't move the finger at all. You sat still and watched. I trimmed all of your long nails and thanked you for sitting so still. (Until Howie walked by, you barely moved!) It's so much different from your old ways of squirming, fussing and flailing during a nail trimming. Momma likes this new way better.
Feel better quickly, my love. We have important things to do this week!
I love you so, so much.
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