I’m home again with a sick baby today. She’s had a cough for about 5 weeks and it was way worse yesterday so I made an appointment for her today. She was coughing all through the night and this morning so I stayed home with her, and of course she isn’t coughing today. Ends up she has a low-grade fever and red tonsils but lungs are clear and ears look great…doctor thinks she has sinusitis. She took a little nap on the way home from the doctor and then went back to bed when we got home…it was cute – she didn’t want to go to bed but then I told her she could have another one of her bear blankies, she started reaching for her crib. I put her down and realized her sheet was nasty from her yucky cold nose so I wasn’t going to give her a clean bear. But she started freaking out so I got it for her and she curled right up. (How the hell does she know what I was talking about when I said “another bear”, etc? She just amazes me with how smart she is.) She’s been sleeping a long time which she probably needs.
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The director of her daycare told me a funny story yesterday. The director, Miss Diane, was wearing a zip-up hoodie sweatshirt and Mallory was trying to pull it together for her and zip it up; Miss Diane started it and then Mallory was zipping it up and down and up and down. Miss Diane was telling me that it was so cool to see her doing that – she said to have that skill and to “get it” before even going to the toddler room was amazing, and that she has kids in the preschool room who still don’t know about zipping coats, etc.
I don’t mean to brag but I am so proud of my baby girl :-)
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I’ve been trying to get a picture of Mallory & her BFF Alli hugging goodbye at the end of the day. But Mallory was a pill yesterday (probably due to not feeling well) and didn’t want to hug anyone but as we were leaving, Alli reached up with her fist to give Mallory knuckles! Usually all the kids (Alli included) look at Mallory like she’s loony when she tries to do knuckles to them, so the fact that Alli initiated it was a RIOT.
Uh oh – she is starting to hack up a lung again. I better wrap this up and be prepared for her to wake up. Peace out.