We're very lucky.
Jack is the sort of child
we all assume we'll have
when we decide to have children,
and the sort of child
less experienced parents
congratulate themselves for.January and February 2004
March and April 2004
May and June 2004
July and August 2004
September and October 2004
November and December 2004
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Sunday, Aug. 08, 2004 - (Dad)
The Wall Walker
Jack has been down with a viral bug for the best part of a week. I got a fairly heavy dose of it on Friday, which wrote me off with very high fever for most of Friday and much of Saturday.
At sometime on Saturday evening, Jack got his hands on a chocolate coated coffee bean and demolished it, declaring it �yum� before either Misti or I could get it from him.
So, paint the picture if you will�
Its Saturday night.
Jack is unwell, but recovering and on a caffeine high like he has never felt before.
Dad had been unwell and was still unwell, with the prospect of fronting up to work in the morning because he has taken 2 days off in a row.
Mum is not particularly well, but is faring better than Dad, all up. (Mum occasionally forgets her vitamins, Dad occasionally remembers his).
Dad has just returned from a late-night shopping jaunt with Jack, mostly an attempt to give the boy sufficient stimulation to �unwind� him when we get home.
At 11:30, Dad gives up all hope of settling the boy and lumbers off to bed in the hope of getting some sleep.
With a fever un-abated and in the twilight of half-sleep, Dad hears �SLAP-thud, SLAP-thud, SLAP-thud.� Dad has long ago learned to enjoy the fantasy that accompanies high fever, letting the mind-plays and melodramas run their course along with the fever.
There was something different about this sensation, however, this was quite real, and quite close ... in fact, it was just down the passage.
The camera shot reveals all.
Our slightly spotty boy was �walking� (US colloquial for walking with support is �cruising�) up the passage to check on Dad. He is a big boy now, and crawling is no longer an appropriate way for him to get around. He now �cruises� around everywhere he can.
There is an interesting footnote to this.
It would seem that many of Jack�s developmental milestones are accompanied by fever. Its hard to distinguish cause and effect here, whether preparation for the milestone weakens his system, thus he gets ill, or whether the illness somehow enables him to make the transition.
Food for thought
Take Care
Rod
