sore bums and strange sensations

Poor Kadin has had a rough couple of days. About Wednesday he started to have a runny nose and it has gotten worse over the past few days and he's gotten a cough from the drainage from his nose to his throat. Because of the constant sniffing and coughing he m hoasn't really slept well (which means we haven't slept well), either at night or at nap time. Then today when I went to get him up from his nap he was sitting in his crib looking quite forlorn. I asked him how he was doing and he pointed to his diaper and said "Owie." When I put him on the changing table to change his diaper, I could see the "owie" without even having to take his diaper off. He had BAD diaper rash all over his "ha-ha" and bottom and creeping down his legs. Poor little man; he screamed all through me wiping him off and rightfully so. I think I would scream if my tender parts were that raw. I had one old diaper from before we changed over to Pull-ups, so I put that on him because the leg portions are softer than the Pull-ups. Life was great for the next couple hours and then Kadin came over and sat on my lap. Strangely, when he got up to run around again, there was a huge wet spot on my leg. Either the old diaper is not quite as absorbent as the new Pull-ups or the inch thick layer of diaper cream I put on his bottom impeded it's pee-pee holding power. Either way, he was running around with an incredibly soggy diaper (and left a huge wet spot on our comforter, which I literally just got our of the washer this afternoon). Thank goodness for Bob the Builder and 8 o'clock bedtime!