Sick Kids and Dora

It's been awhile since the kids have been sick until now. It started out with Zach and then went to John and now with Asia. I'm probably next. This flu or whatever seems to hit more at night time - when laying down. Coughing, congestion, and fever. Zach was out of it for quite a few days - no appetite, no energy. He slept 1/2 a day and the two days before that, hardly ate anything. And the kid doesn't eat much in general. So hardly eating anything means maybe a bite for breakfast, a bite for lunch, a bite for dinner. Asia didn't really lose her appetite, just really tired and fever. Both kids had a few episodes where they coughed alot at night and then threw up. Zach missed 3 days of school. Asia missed 2 days of day care. The tough thing with Asia's age is that she doesn't really know how to blow her nose to relieve the congestion. So you have to use that nose unplugger thing, the syringe. The dreaded syringe. Who likes a rubber tube going up your nose and sucking the life out of you? Both Asia and Zach would just see that syringe and Dad coming and start screaming and covering their nose. And it takes two to hold them down.
Anyway, Zach's fully recovered. He's been eating like a storm. He ate green beans yesterday! I called them green sticks. I'd hand him one out of the pan. Asia didn't go for them, but she ate everything else.
So what's with the title of this blog? Well, while the kids were sick, they watched a lot of Dora the Explorer on my computer, which can play DVD's. Or they watched a lot of Dora on video. Or read books about Dora. It was Dora all the time, with a little of Thomas or Bob the Builder or others mingled in.