[From Falcon Tales]
My three year old is very sick; he’s got a nasty sinus infection and is on a Z Pack for it. He is definitely getting better and frankly would be better if he WOULD.JUST.SLEEP.
This morning I found him singing loudly with his 6 year old brother in his bed. He had moved all his blankets and stuffies to the bed with his big brother. They were singing… I crap you not–pirate shanties. I don’t even know how they learned pirate shanties???
Fifteen men of the whole ship’s list
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Dead and be damned and the rest gone wisp! (actual word is whist)
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
As a mother I’m both mortified and laughing at the same time, because frankly the way they were lying in the bed looked like they were in row boat drinking rum, swaying offbeat, coughing (sinus infection), singing this song.
So I scoot the 3 year old back to his bed where he cries and coughs himself back to sleep.
Later, I get them all up, and 3 year old hacks and coughs his way thru breakfast. I give him some cough suppressant which does absolutely nothing. He doesn’t finish his breakfast before the older two boys are off to Sports Camp. With them dropped off, back home so youngest could finish his breakfast before bed again.
Little pirate brat pours a whole bottle of water into his yogurt
Now this isn’t the first time he’s flooded his meal, but after the “rum pirate shanty” situation, I’m just done. I carry him off to bed and he’s been there since….
Two hours later… I haven’t heard a cough, song or noise from him. I wonder if he’s finally sleeping?
[In addition to being mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, etc., J. Credence is a Google Marketing Expert, owning Mavenite.Media, of which she is director of Media and Marketing. With her husband, she parents three young kids with special needs, held together thanks primarily to Jesus, by being Bible believing Jesus Followers, and a dash of grit on both their parts. Contact: J.Credence@mavenite.media]
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