The E-man was sick with a virus this week, poor little guy.  Grandma came down to cover us on Tuesday morning since neither of us could stay home from work.  My wife is finishing up her school year and has lots of state-mandated tasks to finish before her students take the regents.  And I had a meeting with my advisory committee, who gave me permission to start my thesis and defend on August 3rd!!

I stayed home with him on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday while he recuperated.  He was pretty miserable because of the fever and then because of the diaper rash that developed.  He wanted to play and explore, but was just too tired.  And then on Friday his bottom was so sore that he didn’t even want to sit down!
Today we decided to stay at home and lock ourselves in.  We shut off the cellphones and turned off the TV.  The E-man was feeling a lot better, so he was able to enjoy the day too.  This afternoon all four of us (the three of us and the cat) took a two-hour nap on the bed.  Nothing better than a long Family Nap!