Chase and his cough

Today the Chaser and I are hangin at home.
No one is allowed in.
Chase has a cough that sounds like he's been a smoker for 30 years.
I don't know how a lung didn't come up with his last coughing bout.
Ever since Chase was born, he's always gets bad coughs with a typical, run of the mill headcold.
Normally when you get a cold, it moves later on to the chest, but he doesn't waste time and it goes straight to his chest every time.
And it's always a "virus".

It's a challenge when you have a child with autism that gets sick.
They can't tell you what hurts, where it hurts, what the sickness feels like, ect. So we play the guessing game, but it's his usual "this time of year" bad laryngitis, viral, yuckiness that we treat with inhaler's and Tylenol. This year's hasn't gotten as bad as last years tho. A few days before Christmas last year, i went in to check on him after a nap, and his lips were blue. That sent him straight to the ER with a "his chest e-rays are clear, it's a virus, and here's an inhaler to keep him breathing".

Not much we can do but use the inhaler, take it easy and watch Little Einsteins...thank goodness he doesn't like The Fresh Beat Band.

But as i was sitting there watching the show with him, my mind started wandering to yesterday's post, about the people in our lives.
Do you ever think back to the past and remember things you've learned from people over the years?? Like for instance:

When i went to college i was 17 and immature. Hopefully more has changed besides the age, although some may beg to differ.
I had a friend who was very wise and taught me that judging for yourself is the best way to go, no matter what others tell you is the truth. When it came to gossiping, she wouldn't do it. She would say "well, i don't know if that's true, but people should be given the benefit of the doubt. She could always see the other side of it, and kept an open mind. I learned from her, at 17, that important lesson.

I had another friend in college who could always make a decision when there was one to be made, and then she ran with it. Oh how i admire that one. When it comes to making decisions, I usually hee-haw around it, then make it at the last minute. I wish i wasn't like that, but, by and large, that's the way i am. I am currently going thru this right now as we are deciding paint colors for the downstairs. At least Eric keeps changing his mind too. Maybe we'll wallpaper. Ohhh...how Taboo!

Then there were the smaller things I've learned, like, add a packet of ranch dressing to your taco soup to give it just that much more flavor.
Or when you make mac n cheese, add chopped onion, the dried kind you buy in the spice isle, and if they come with dried green onions in them, even better!
I also learned that oven french fries, you know the kind that are crinkly looking, are actually not that bad microwaved when in a hurry. When you're kids are hungry enough...well, ya know. Don't knock it till you try it.
When painting stripes on a wall, to avoid leakage under the tape, first paint the stripe the exact color next to it (then anything that leaks is leaking onto the same color.) Now the "seam" is sealed and you can paint the stripe any color you want. (Thanks HGTV...my fav channel :)



In other news:
Here's an expo, a demonstration if you will, of Chase's fine photography skills...

(Chase sporting his awesome Superman jacket. His favorite phrase to say is "Supermaaaaaannn...to the rescue!)

(Allie chillaxin in the loft after school)

(Good one Chase! That's my boy!)

(Only Chase knows what this was...and ain't tellin')

(Criss cross applesause)

(The beautiful blue sky of Las Vegas, and the street we used to live on until a month ago)

(Greatest Christmas present eva)

(Allie's school backpack...hmm...maybe she took that one)

(Me backing outta the drive way...how galvanizing! I look like a short haired Cousin It.)

(Uh Ooooh...Caught!)