Illness has finally struck our house. We had a very healthy winter and now that spring has arrived and we still have winter weather the girls have missed day care twice now in a short time span due to fevers. This last week was chaos. Ari had a little fever on Saturday but then was fine the rest of the weekend. She woke up on Monday morning with a very low fever and I decided to play it safe and just keep both girls home for the day. After a does of Tylenol I could not keep her still. Both girls ran and played hard all day long.
Tuesday came and I sent them both to day care. Brynn at this point was the only one at day care that had yet to be hit by this “bug.” At 3:00 as I was getting on the bus for a track meet I received the call saying she now had it. So Daddy left work as soon as he could to rescue her, or maybe I should say rescue our day care mom from another sick kid! Wednesday meant another day at home with mom. Both girls were doing really well all morning playing as well as sisters play. Then I received a phone call from day care saying all the other kids had been to the doctor today and almost all had ear infections and or strep throat. So in a matter of 15-minutes I had both girls packed up and in the car on our way to Express Care. It is a a 35 minute drive and since it was nap-time both girls fell asleep almost instantly. When I arrived to Rochester I decided to fill gas and take my time since they were sleeping. Well when I arrived at Express Care at 1:05 I found out the closed at 1:00 for a mandatory meeting from 1-3:15! UGH!!! So I hurried across town to the second location arriving at 1:20 to find they closed at 1:15. I did not want to wait around with two cranky toddlers who had naps cut short and weren’t feeling 100%. I called our doctor to tell her what happened and asked to be seen. It turns out we could be seen at 2:10…I’ll take it.
I was mostly concerned about Arianna, as she had been much more moody than normal but wanted to have Brynn checked too since we were in. Both girls ended up with right ear infections! I will admit I was shocked and really expected them to say “virus” as this is technically only the second one for each of them. Arianna was put on the z-pack due to her allergic reaction last Easter to augmentin and Brynn was put on amoxicillin in hopes that she does not share her sister’s allergy. We have 3 days left of Brynn’s medicine and are holding out that she doesn’t wake up with hives on day 9 of 10 like Ari did last Good Friday.
We had our two-year pictures taken and neither girl really wanted to participate very well. Arianna was moody (perhaps she had an ear infection then too) and the best picture we have of her she has a basket on her head. Brynn wanted to have her picture taken but wanted it of her dancing. If nothing else they were entertaining during the quick session.
Princesses A & B
Brynn...isn't she beautiful!
Ari with her basket on her head...goofy kid!
April 21, 2011 at 4:39 pm |
Love the pics!!