Baby's first cold and mystery repairman

A couple of days ago Davis became quite fussy, at least by Davis standards. We took his temperature and it seemed normal. Then last night John and I realized he was coughing quite a bit and sounded really congested, so it's pretty official Davis has his first cold. It's heartbreaking, although he seems to be doing alright all things considered. I'm now working at home until I can call the pediatrician at 8:30 to see if they have a recommendation.

Another interesting story is that the heat on our gas dryer has gone out. A Sears repairman came yesterday to work on it. When I left him in the basement he said he would call when he was done. Davis and I headed to Yoga, but Grandma was here and she went to check on him and it was pretty clear he didn't know what he was doing. My mom wished him luck and he said "Yeah, I'm going to need it". Not much for inspiring confidence. Around noon she heard him leave (about an hour and a half after he started), but he didn't call. When she went down there the dryer felt warm, but there were extra parts in front of the dryer and blood on the dryer door. So I called Sears to make sure he hadn't died trying to get himself to the hospital. I never heard, but when John came home he found a receipt stuffed in the mailbox that made it look like it was a thermocycler that had gone out (or some such part) and the repair was complete. Unfortunately, the dryer still doesn't work, no heat. So what we can guess is that he cut himself during the repair but he was able to get the heat to work and so he left a receipt in place of a phone call, but that whatever caused the failure in the first place caused a second failure after he left. Another (I hope someone else) is coming tomorrow to give it another whirl. Yesterday marked a year to date for the dryer purchase and so John bought additional warranty coverage since the other thing the repairman said to my mom is "I've replaced everything I can"...I think the $150 spent will be well worth it in the coming three years.