These are some of the things we've heard from friends, family, and the public health nurse, respectively!
She is certainly changing, growing up too quickly if you ask me.
Poor girl has had the unfortunate luck of having 2 sick parents, and inevitably catching a cold herself. We had to take her to the ER this past Sunday at 3 in the morning because she had a pretty bad head cold that caused her to gasp for air and choke on her own boogies. We've since been dropping saline solution into her nostrils and using a suction bulb to clear her nasal passageways. That's sort of helping, but she's still not yet 100%.
What a little trooper, though.
Anyhoo, here are some of my favourite Maddy'isms this week:
- the evolving of the Maddy inchworm! When I prop her up to burp her, she moves like a little inchworm from my shoulder across my collarbone, head-butting me in the neck and jaw with her bird-peck head bobs! This cracks me up, and I can't help but laugh every time she gets going!
- I had an A-HA moment where I finally was able to recognize what a certain cry means! I now know her "siren" cry means she's hungry!
- she's started to "talk" - not just cries anymore from her, oh no! Now she does a bit of light chatter and coo'ing!
- she has nightmares where, when she's deep in sleep, will whimper and bark curtly like a little puppy, and flail her arms about in front of her face as though she's being attacked by a swarm of bees! After a minute of snuggles, she's ok again!
Poor girl's thrush came back a bit - we received conflicting information from doctors, the pharmacist, the public health nurse - so we probably didn't end up being as aggressive with her meds as we probably should have been (we were told to ease up on them, not 4 times a day, not every day, etc, EVERYTHING we were initially told to do, we were now being told NOT to do).
So this time, I'm not taking chances, and I'm giving her all the recommended doses, whether she likes it or not! We're gonna kick this thrush in the arse! Anyhoo, here she is with her purple mouth from the genviolet (the thrush meds). What a mess, but it's supposed to work!
