Sick Bean

Just as I start to think, "Man, Ava hasn't been sick in a long time..." she comes home from daycare with a fever! She has had a mild cough all week and yesterday it finally turned into something gross. Thankfully, it doesn't seem as ferocious as her previous bug. She's only a little grumpy and mostly cuddly. She's open to being comforted this time which is really nice for Mama. She doesn't have much of an appetite and she's sleeping quite a bit.

It's my turn to stay home with her, so here I am. When we got up this morning we ate some fruit then went for a nice walk. It was chilly and refreshing outside this morning. When we got home from our walk Ava crashed on the couch and watched Sesame Street for about an hour. Then she got up, waved and said "bye" to me and proceeded to climb upstairs. Naturally, I followed. She walked over to her changing pad and I'm pretty sure she asked for me to change her dipaer. Wow. It wasn't even THAT wet. Maybe Honey is right; maybe it is time to introduce "The Potty" dun dun dun dun.

She was awake and full of energy all of the sudden so she played in her room and I began to put her pile of clean clothes away. Ava loves to help...a lot. She "helped" me put her clean clothes away...all over Aspen-dog.

Then she figured she ought to climb into her pink bucket. She played for a while in it until she got stuck. Then she decided that was no longer a fun idea. At this point her mood began to sour so I quickly whisked her downstairs for some milk, a snack and tylenol. We cuddled in the recliner and watched The View until she passed out. She's still napping...

Hopefully we nip this gross-ness in the butt b/c we're supposed to go to NC this weekend for a wedding and to visit Grandma, gimp Grandpa-Yoda (he had surgery), Aunt Zsa Zsa, Uncle Chad, Uncle Duckle and Aunt Lindsey. We're even supposed to meet Jean-Pierre (see Courtney's blog).

I suppose I ought to take advantage of this extremely rare free time and go do something productive.