Croup.

Last week was just a bad week.  So bad, in fact that I'm just now posting about it.  Chase was up every hour, on the hour last Tuesday night.  He kept falling asleep and then, like clockwork, 30 min. later he was up coughing.  A deep, horse-sounding, dry cough.  The next morning he had a temperature of over 100 so I took him in to the doctor, who diagnosed him with Croup and sent us home with a prescription of Prednisone to take for 3-5 days.  A few days later that dry, horse-sounding, dry cough turned into a wet-sounding cough accompanied with a lot of snot.  Each morning (after more restless nights), Chase would wake up with dried snot all over his face.  Which was lovely.  Poor little guy was just plain pitiful.  Anyway, it was a long week but this Monday/Tuesday, he started FINALLY feeling better.  Still pretty snotty, but better.  Here is a picture of him playing Monday afternoon.  (If you look closely you'll see the snotty nose.) 

Now THIS:

...is more like it.  :)  Silly boy.  He was in such a funny mood that afternoon, we had so much fun.  (Yes, that is an apple that he is holding.  and biting.  I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to let an almost 16-month-old run around taking bites of an apple, but whatever.  He saw me eating it and was dying to join in the fun so why not?)