Luke has had a cough and a runny nose for the past few weeks and we have been using Vicks Vapor Rub on him. He loves his medicine. We have left the jar of vicks on his nightstand for at least a week with no problems. Last night wasn't one of those nights. Joe took him to bed and then about 10 mins later we heard the door open and we did the usual......"Luke go back to bed and shut your door". We listened for the door to shut and hoped he would stay in bed. We then sat down to watch 24 as we still have 2 hrs to go from the 4 hour season finale. Anyway, I started hearing this scraping sound coming over the baby monitor in Luke's room. So I went to investigate.
Luke had taken the jar of vicks and finger painted it everywhere. We had a finger painting session on the walls, bed posts, bookcase, comforter. So we got some towels to clean it up and he wanted to help. He was helpful at pointing out all of the places where he had put the Vicks.
He then became very hyper and was dancing and yelling and running around. He was going up to the globs of vics on the wall and telling us that it was Noah and his big boat and his animals. Needless to say we cleaned it all up and both decided no human could sleep in that room as it was the worst vicks smell ever. Very overpowering, our sinuses were cleared after being in the room for 10 minutes!!! So he had to come to bed with us, which his response was "really". He loves to sleep in Mom and Dad's bed. If he slept that would be one thing but he normally doesn't and pokes and prods you and it isn't fun for the adults in the bed. So we gave him Benadryl and he was still hyper for a good hr, but eventually he stopped squirming in bed and fell asleep, then at 2 am had a coughing fit for an hour every. I think the Benadryl was working though because I couldn't wake him up to get him to drink water. So it was a sleepless night for Mom to say the least. I know this won't be the last incident with "finger paint".
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