recovering!

I ended up calling Rose's pediatrician yet again on Thursday (I had called Monday and Wednesday as well) and finally they took me seriously and scheduled Rose to come in. Well, it turns out that the fever (104!), vomitting, diarrhea, body aches (we presume), lethargy, and poor sleep wasn't due to "just a cold," as they originally tried to tell me. (Go figure.) It turns out that Little Miss had both influenza and an ear infection!! Poor Rose! No wonder she was so sick and so miserable. We started antiobiotics for the ear infection on Thursday (along with some probiotics to counteract the antiobiotics), and she is feeling so much better already. Whew!

Today (Saturday) Mike had to go in to school since he had stayed home with Rose on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, so she and I took advantage of the last of the warm-ish weather. (Highs of -8, anyone? That's what our forecast is looking like for the next few days.) We walked to the library and got to play with the fun puzzles and watched the big kids play with the toy kitchen. Then we walked over to Byerly's to get more distilled water for her humidifier. By that time we were both starving, so we picked up sushi for lunch - Rose's first sushi! (Don't worry, mommy police, we just had a california roll so there was no raw fish involved!)

So loved it! Well, mostly she loved the sushi's "innards" (crab, avocado, cucumber) dipped in soy sauce, sucking the flavor off the gari (pickled ginger), and all the little old ladies who stopped by to marvel at her adventurous eating. :) She was the star of the Byerly's cafe!

In other news, I taught Rose how to use the bite valve on my camelbak water bottle. She took to it almost immediately, and now seems to prefer it over her sippy cup. But perhaps I should have thought that decision through a bit more before acting on it, because I now realize it is almost completely incompatible with breastfeeding now that she has six huge teeth! (Ouch!) D'oh! At least she's now learning what "no" means.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!