It’s strange how quiet the house is today; we’ve had screaming, cat chasing, hissing, cat fights and tearing around the house like a herd of elephants, and that’s just been the munchkin. I was wanting to pack up for one of those Outer Banks vacations the past few days given it’s been so cold and we’re so freshly over the plague, still with the dregs in the case of the munchkin and myself that I didn’t want to go out anywhere lest we cause a relapse.
So the munchkin has been going stir crazy and also med-dye crazy from what I can tell. He would get to this point where there was just no reasoning with him. It was very frustrating, but I realized that we’ve been trying to stay away from him having drinks and things with red dye, in particular, in them because there seemed to be a correlation between when he had red drinks in particular, even the sugar free Crystal Light drinks and his misbehavior. Then I realized the cold meds we’ve had for him have all been cherry or berry or grape, all with those red dyes. I paid $7.19 to get some dye free Tylenol rather than the regular which is $5.99 and voila happy, relatively calm (he is three after all) toddler willing to sit and watch TV or sit and color, or play a bit of Wii Games, without tearing through the house like his butt is on fire.
Such a great relief.
