During homeschool time with the girls yesterday, I pulled out some dried beans, scoops and bowls and let Silas practice scooping and pouring. He loved it! In fact, despite his usual short attention span, this kept him occupied for almost 20 minutes.
If you try this at your house, I’d recommend laying down a sheet or else watching your child closely as this could result in a big mess in a hurry!
By the way, THANK YOU for all of your suggestions for Silas’ cough. He’s struggled with what we believe is asthma off and on for the past six months and it’s been a new and scary experience for us — especially since he’s so young. (The doctors have yet to give us a for-sure diagnosis as asthma is hard to diagnose in young children, but they are pretty sure that’s what it is based upon his symptoms. Poor Silas has become good friends with his nebulizer at an early age. 
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Last week was an especially bad week for him and Jesse and I were up with him many times in the night for five nights in a row. He was also very clingy during the day and didn’t want to be put down — even refusing to take naps anywhere but my lap.
He’s usually such a happy little guy, so to see him so miserable just broke my heart. By the end of the week, though, I was exhausted and worn down (and realizing that I’ve forgotten how tiring it is to be up with a baby in the night!) so your comments and suggestions meant so much to me.
I have no idea if it’s the reason or not, but we put Vick’s Vapor Rub and socks on him during the night (at the recommendation of many of you) and he’s slept through the night the past two nights!! To say we were thrilled is an understatement. 
Thank you all so very much for how you continually bless me through your comments, emails and kind care for me and my family. I truly believe I have the best readers in the whole world!
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Hi Crystal! Just wondering if you have taken Silas in to a Pediatric Allergist? My daughter (age 15) has suffered from asthma her whole life. I remember going through what you are going through. Unfortunately, it took a major asthma attack to get the ball rolling, as well as a Dentist informing me her adenoids were swollen. I took her to a Pediatric Pulmonologist, ENT’s, and an Allergist. All Doctors agreed it was allergies which triggered the asthma. She underwent a RAST test at an allergist only to find out she was severely allergic to dogs, mold and mildew. (Not our cat? Hmmm…thats weird) She is now on allergy shots and allergy meds to control the astma. Good luck with your little guy, and God Bless!
I would also recommend seeing an allergist. Part of my son’s “asthma” that he had actually turned out to be a peanut allergy (which can be very dangerous). He also has seasonal allergies which cause him to breathe funny when his types of pollen are high. When he was little, I put him on a nebulizer but I didn’t like to use it as much due to the side effects of the medication. Now for seasonal allergies, I’ve found that giving him local raw honey seems to help a bit so that I don’t have to give him as much OTC medication during the pollen season.
Oh, I want to reach out and hug you right now. You and your post are a blessing in my life and I wish I could bless you in some way through what you’re going through with Silas. I have 2 of my 4 kids with severe asthma, and both with unique complications of the asthma. 11 years and dozens of hospital stays later… Well there’s just so much I’d like to encourage you in.
BUT, what made me want to post here is that I read something about the milk in your post today. We began drinking ‘raw’ milk (unpasteurized) last fall. My son had been doing very well and I didn’t realize how well. When our farmer stopped delivering we had to go back to storebought for a few weeks. My son snuggled up to me one night after a cookie and milk and was wheezing like crazy. I was shocked at it bc I realized he hadn’t done this in so long! So we rushed to find another raw milk provider and sure enough after going back to raw he had not been wheezing. I was not a die hard ‘raw milk’ person and thought it to be kind of weird until this experiment and accidental discovery. However, for the first time in 11 years my son had a winter in which he did not use his inhalers at least once a day!!!
You surely know, but milk stays in the system 10+ days so make sure you do a nice long test. I’d tried it before but didn’t know this and would think it didn’t make a difference after a week and give up.
I hope this helps in any way. Bless you, sweet mama, for taking care of this child. God will develop him into a unique person for what he endures – and you, too.
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