My poor boy was running a fever this morning. After some uncharacteristic vomiting, he took a nap at 10:30. When I took his temp through the morning, it continued to climb towards 102. When it hit 101.7, I gave him the bad news that he would need to take the cherry medicine (acetaminophen). When he responded pretty badly, I researched ibuprofen's effect on fever reduction. Turns out that some researchers concluded it to be even better at reducing fever in children. I had some good news for him. He could have the grape medicine.
After about an hour, he felt so much better that he could help me with the garden, where we had discovered that a squirrel had helped itself to the seeds inside the bigger pumpkin. Alex was intrigued by the idea that pumpkin seeds were edible. Then there was a connection to marshmallows (from a discussion of our upcoming Christmas Eve brunch). I told Alex that after we were done, we could go to the store and get pumpkin seeds and marshmallows. I really wasn't concerned about his diet today. He needed to eat something. It might as well be those two.
The pumpkin seeds bombed, but the marshmallows were a hit.
I commented that he seemed to really be feeling better and that I was grateful that I'd found out that the grape medicine could help him. Alex had another theory:
"I think it was the marshmallows that did it. Yeah, definitely the marshmallows made me feel better."
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