DAY 38

3 am. wake up but played in his bed until 5 am and fell back to sleep until 7 am (I think that is how it went down, lol, as I just listened restlessly to the monitor!) He has a low grade fever this morning, 99.6, cold may be taking a turn for the worse. Seemed like it was on the mend the past 48 hrs, but nasal discharge this morning. Vocal stimming was rampant during his night owl episode, however his high pitched squeal was mixed with some beautiful articulated babble and "mom and dad's", lol - so it sounded like this "yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, mmmom, mmmom, yi, yi, yi, yi, dad, dad, dad, yi, yi, yi, yi, baabay, peeyah, peeyah, duh, duh, duh, yi, yi, yi, yi". And when he climbed into our bed at 7a. he snuggled in next to me and said "hi yah"! Overall, (knock on wood so we don't jinx it), I am seeing a slight uptake in language since being on the tea. It is subtle, and scattered instances, but better than we have heard in a long time!
Day took a down turn when his fever spiked to 102.5 - lots of motrin, one really nasty BM in his pants, and more fever and chills early evening. Early to bed, poor guy is pretty sick.