Sick little girl....

I picked up Izzy from daycare on Tuesday, and I noticed she felt a little warmer than normal. Not REAL hot, but definitely a low-grade fever. Miss Cathy mentioned that she had been really clingy during the afternoon, and that she didn't nap very well, so I knew that ISR lessons weren't going to be a lot of fun for her (and they weren't). I had an appointment to get my hair cut that evening, so Joacim had her fed and put to bed before I got home! What a treat!

Izzy woke up the next morning, a little warmer than before. She's been very congested lately, and she's been sleeping with a humidifier to try to break it up. She was drinking her bottle in the morning and started coughing up all this mucous (yes, I know...gross). I freaked out a little (and so did she :), and since she was still running a fever, I decided to keep her home for the day. And THANKFULLY I did, because about an hour later, we were standing in her bedroom doing something that I can't remember, and she started vomiting everywhere. And we both kinda stood there like "what the heck is happening"...it was all over the carpet, her jammies, her socks...EVERYWHERE. And it smelled TERRIBLE. She threw up all of her milk from breakfast. I got her in the bathtub, and she just sat there looking pitiful. Actually, she was pretty pitiful the entire day. I've never seen her so subdued...EVER.

At one point, she was sitting in the office with me while I was editing photos...just sitting in her bean bag chair with her blankie, book, and teddy bear.



She laid like this for 2 hours, dozing in and out of sleep, listening to George Winston....
She didn't end up getting physically sick anymore that day, but she definitely wasn't feeling well. We finally got her fever to break that evening, but not before it went up to 102F (that was a bit worrisome!). We both decided that it would be a good idea to keep her home on Thursday as well, just to make sure she got over whatever she had, so Joacim stayed with her. She ended up taking a 4 HOUR NAP! Wow, he gets soooooo lucky!!!!
I'm happy to report that she's feeling better (no fever for the last 36 hours) but she's still clingy and not eating very well. I hope she makes a full recovery this weekend!!!

Our first big-girl sickness...

Last Friday we had dinner with my old college roommate Carrie. We were going out for sushi, so I decided to feed Izzy before. Nothing special...just some scrambled eggs (have I mentioned that the list of things she'll actually eat is shrinking???). Well, she ate all of the eggs and has some fruit, and seemed fine. We went to dinner, had some nice conversation, came home and gave her a bath and she went to bed.

Well...around 2am, she woke up crying. Joacim had the monitor, so he looked at her through the screen, and then said she was going back to sleep....yeah, not so much. She was still crying so he got up to check on her and all I heard was, "JENN!!! COME IN HERE!!!"

Ok, that's not something you want to hear....EVER. Because it's never good. I jumped up out of bed and ran to her room, and the smell of vomit nearly knocked me to the floor. I have a BIG gag reflex, and it was all I could do to keep it down. But, when it's your little one, you just muster through and get to work. We got her undressed, I gave her a bath while Joacim cleaned up in her room. She was soooooooo pathetic looking. Completely confused as to what was going on, and unable to be satisfied. After we got her cleaned up, I dedided to sleep with her in the spare room, because the only way she would sleep was laying on me. Soo, off to bed we went. I didn't get much sleep...she was awake at 6am....happy. OK, I'm happy she was happy, but couldn't she have been happy..say...around 10am??? I mean, was that too much to ask??? I didn't want to feed her anything quite yet (except for water), so I did my best to entertain her in the room so we didn't wake Joacim up.
Murphy came in to join us...doesn't he look like the saddest dog in the world??? I swear, if they had a contest for it, he'd win. Not that I'm proud of that..

He did a good job of entertaining her. He's getting so good being with her...he lets her pet him and she plays with him. It's so much fun to watch. They were both crawling all over the bed. She was COVERED in dog hair...kinda gross but what can you do?

FINALLY!!! She sleeps....awwww...she's so cute that I almost forgot she woke me up with vomit. :)



She was kinda cranky the whole day, so I thought I'd take her out to her pool. Unfortunately, even this didn't work..

Here's a really cute shot of Murphy. He doesn't look as sad here, does he?