I hab a code

. . . by bery first code! There is do air com-bing in through my nose but lots of stuff com-bing out of it! I hab to sleep now so I'll let Bobby tell you about it . . .

Mommy here: we feel fortunate to have made it almost to 5 months and almost to November before Otis Chester got sick. Yesterday I noticed that his eyes were red-rimmed and he was sleeping more than usual but the real cold symptoms came on all at once around bedtime.

He is in good spirits, still wanting to play and laugh, but he really has trouble breathing (babies can't breathe through their mouths well yet and can't clear their own noses either -- major evolutionary oversight!) and therefore has trouble sleeping. Meanwhile, since he keeps rubbing his face with his hands and putting everything he can grab into his mouth, I'm starting to envision our house as a scene from Ghostbusters post-sliming.