Sickness

Poor poor Livi. She is not doing well at all, and neither are Mom and Dad. The sickness has spread through the house (as we knew it would.) Brooke was up a lot of the night with her sickness, and I was very achy and snuffly. It is hard taking care of Olivia when we are both sick as well. I imagine this will be our life for the next few months, as she adapts to the germs at Daycare.
We took Livi to the doctor's office this morning since her eye was looking so bad. On examination, she does have pink eye as we expected, but also has a ruptured eardrum from the pressure in her sinuses. So now we have added an antibiotic to her meds. That makes 6 medications that she is on. I don't feel comfortable giving her that much stuff, but the doctors say it will be OK. We just need to keep her fever down. It was 101.8 when I got her at 1:00 from her nap. I will keep everyone informed. I hope that she starts feeling better soon!! Bye bye Halloween :-(

Reap what we Sow

**Updated 8:00PM: We decided since she still had a 101 fever to go ahead and start on Tamiflu to be safe. We are pretty lucky that we even have any as alot of the country is out of the baby formula of this. However, along with her cold (or flu) she has pink eye. We have medication left over from when she was 1 month old so we can use that. We also believe that her ear infection is starting to develop. So here is what she is on: Tamiflu, pink eye med, decongestant, child Tylenol, and her daily Zantac. Can she TAKE any more meds??? I went out and splurged on a 1 second ear thermometer. Doing it under her arm was hard and in her mouth impossible (didn't even consider the third option!!) So now we feel comfortable that we are getting accurate readings.

**Update 11:30: The doctor's office called and said the flu swab came back negative. The only tricky part about that is that a positive is a positive, but a negative 50% of the time can be wrong. We are going to hold off on the Tamiflu for now and see how the rest of the day goes, mainly because of the side effects that the medication can cause. So far she is still puny but temp is holding and she still seems like she just has a cold.

Well, the first day that I went in to see daycare I looked around at all the crusty little noses of the kids, then looked at my beautiful Livi and said, "Why do all the kids have runny noses and messed up hair? I don't want Olivia running around with snot-nosed kids.." Brooke said that is just how kids get. But I was used to a perfectly groomed, clean nosed Olivia, I was spoiled because Brooke is soooo good at keeping her in order.
Well, after getting Olivia up this morning, seeing her crusty nose, and crusty pajamas, and hair that felt like it had hair gel in it, and saw what her sheets looked like after having a runny nose all night, I realized she is a kid too. Ugh, it was disgusting.
But aside from that, her temp is 99 this morning and she is doing OK. Not 100% by far, but we still get smiles out of her now and then, and she ate a good amount as well. She is very needy right now and wants to be held all the time. It is kind of nice. Hopefully she will be well enough to at least wear her costume and go to the Fall Festival in downtown Clinton tomorrow night. We have had this costume ready for too long. We will just keep her away from the other kids.

Immunities

**Updated 5:40: Brooke and I snuck in to get her temperature, and it was down in the 90's, and she woke up from it (we did it under the arm.) She woke up all smiles and excited. We brought her out to the living room and it is the old Livi, though congested. She is happy, clapping, playing, and just finished eating baby food and meat sticks. She sneezed mid food and it went everywhere, what a mess. Either way, no fever and high spirits. So far so good. We will see what tonight and tomorrow holds.

**Updated 4:30: Doctors gave her a flu test but seem to be pretty sure she has the flu. That does not mean she does, but they will let us know tomorrow. Brooke picked up a Tamaflu prescription and we are supposed to give it to her tomorrow morning if symptoms remain or worsen. We are fighting to keep the fever down at the moment.

**Updated 1:30: Young World called me and said that she still has a fever but thinks her thermometer must be broken because Olivia has been playing non-stop and doesn't show any signs of feeling bad. She said that any other kid would be wanting to be held or would be sitting in the corner alone. Little Livi is always a trooper. I told her to call me if the fever gets any worse or if she starts getting needy and I would come get her.
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Olivia usually wakes up at 7:30 on the dot, but this morning 8:00 rolled around and she was still laying there. Brooke turned up the volume on the video monitor and we heard her doing her "singing" while she was laying there. Since it was getting late I went in to get her up so she could get dressed, eat and get to daycare. When I got in the room, she didn't sit up, even with Lu jumping and making all her normal noise, so I pat her back and picked her up. I could see that her nose was running. She was also making wimpy noises. As soon as I got her upright she started coughing. Poor Livi got sick already. She was defiantly not feeling good, so we gave her some Tylenol, fed her and I had to leave to get to work so Brooke brought her to Young World. Young World called me around 12:00 to double check when she last had Tylenol, and to tell me that her temp was going up again. I told them that it would be ok now for her to get some more, and told them to call me if she gets a higher fever or gets a lot worse. Not a good Livi day so far, and just in time for Halloween :-( Mima wants to take her tonight and I hate that she will be sick for them if she does go. I will leave that to Brooke and Mima. But even though she is sick, she is still doing her puny pointing when you carry her around. Nothing stops her from letting us know what she wants.

First Day of Day Care

Today was Olivia's first day at daycare. While Olivia was asleep in her crib w/o a worry in the world, all I did was have strange anxiety daycare dreams. Needless to say, I didn't sleep too well.
The morning started off as normal, I gave Olivia her bottle, she pretty much rejected it then ran around playing with everything. Brooke got up and dressed her, did some pre-work work, before heading out with Olivia to Young World. I left for work myself while Brooke dropped Olivia off. The plan was that Young World would call me if Livi was too uncomfortable or got real cranky and I would go pick her up and bring her home until Brooke got off work. But the call never came. Brooke called and checked with them around 2:00 to see how everything was and they said that she was perfect. No problems at all, in fact they said that if all kid's first days were this good they would watch 100 kids at a time. (They were probably just making us feel better, but I would like to think that she really was that comfortable there.)
Brooke ended up having a meeting later than normal so I left to get Olivia so she wouldn't have to have her first day a LONG one. When I got there I peeked in the window and Olivia was busy kicking around a big bouncy ball. I walked in the room and she looked up at me, walked all the way across the room, got to my feet, looked up and put her hands up in the "pick me up daddy" motion. It was great. I guess she does know who I am ;-)
The lady said the she didn't want to have her second bottle, showed no interest, and didn't really want to nap either (who can blame her.) I think as she spends more time there she will get used to the napping in public. All in all it was a great first day, harder on Mommy and Daddy than her, but that is to be expected.
After Olivia got home, she drank a FULL bottle and went right into a nap. She was a tired tired girl. She is not used to running around that much. After she woke up we gave her a preview of her Halloween gift from my Aunt Gail. Since she loves her gummy worms so much, looks like she is going to really enjoy a big fat gummy centipede. I will be right here with her to help her eat what she can't finish. Or maybe I will save her the sugar rush and just take care of the whole thing myself?? Na, I will at least let her have an antenna.

The Sound Of Silence

I was watching Olivia as usual Sunday morning and realized that everything was just a little too quiet from her normal self. I looked down the hall and saw the linen closet door open (the door opens towards me, obstruction my view.) As I approached I saw the towels on the floor. Olivia had removed all the towels she could reach and had them laid out on the floor. It is funny how she can be so loud while playing with her toys or even walking around, but when she is doing something questionable, the silence begins. Such a little sneak!!
Sunday also marked the day of ending the food and diaper logs. We are now solo, no record of what she did. It feels odd. I feel like I am going to skip a meal because I don't have that log. But looks like we got through the day ok.
We made pizza for dinner last night and Olivia had another whole piece. She is starting to really prefer "real" food to formula or even baby food. We think that after she turns a year she will be totally on real food. Maybe even sooner.
Oh, one more thing, Lulu has found a new favorite place to sleep, Marty Bear...

Homecoming

Yesterday was Homecoming for PC. We had planned on making this Olivias first PC football game and the weather cooperated. It was beautiful out. We put Olivia in her PC dress that she got at her baby shower, tattooed up her cheek, put on the pig-tails and headed out to the game. We had a great time, but only stayed through half-time. Livi was a busy girl the whole time, meeting people, watching kids, playing with dogs, and running around everywhere. I think that she was pretty popular, even the photographer of the game put 9 pictures of her on the game's website.
After half-time she started to get a little tired so we picked a good time to leave.
Brooke got all of Olivia's stuff packed and ready for daycare. Monday we will drop it off and get it all setup in her "cubby" and ready for her Tuesday. I will take an hour Monday and go with them to see the place. I have not seen it yet. It will be nice because it is literally 100 yards from our house. Talk about convenient.
Ok, I am sitting here writing this and Olivia just CRAWLED by. She crawled all the way down the hall and back. It is strange seeing her crawl, she isn't even good at it anymore. Wonder why she is crawling. She is weird sometimes.

Halloween Jammies

I am watching Olivia today until 12:00 so working from home. Olivia has finally gotten to the point of being a little bit cuddly. When SHE wants to, if you squat down in front of her she will walk over to you and put her arms around you neck and hug you. It is great, and long overdue!!
She continues to grow teeth like crazy. Lots coming in on top now. But she still seems to be pushing through the pain well.
Mima got Livi some Halloween jammies a week or so ago and last night we finally got to put them on her. Halloween is close enough now. Enjoy the pics.