I am so ready for the end of cold and flu season. We started April off right with croup. I went out of town for one night, and Mallory kept Johnathan up all night long. (Don’t feel too sorry for him, he took off work the next day…but Mallory went to day care). He said that her nose was so stopped up that she just couldn’t breathe very well. She was okay for the next couple of days, but that weekend she kept a fever between 100 and 101 (spiked to 102.5 one time). And I guarantee you that the child did not stay awake for more than 45 minutes at a time. She also didn’t eat well. She would cough really badly (didn’t sound like a seal though), and she would whimper like her throat hurt. One time she got mad and just started kicking (no, I’m not worried that she’ll have a bad temper…why do you ask?) On Monday, the fever had broken, but we went to the pediatrician anyway. We told him that we came for a visit since we hadn’t seen him for over a month. :) He said she had croup. Great. He gave her steroids for her sore throat (it was all red). As he was emailing the prescription to the pharmacy, he said, “Now, this is a liquid steroid.” I said, “Good…cause she doesn’t do pills very well.” He didn’t even look at me. He just chuckled, nodded and said, “Funny.” I thought so. We kept her home until Thursday. When we got to the day care, there was a notice posted on the door that one of the children had croup. Yeah, that would have been nice to know a little earlier. Anyway, she has since recovered, but it was really sad. You could tell that she just didn’t feel well. And how do you explain a sore throat to a 10-month-old?
The second tooth is coming in. It took it a little while longer to actually come through the skin, but it has finally made it. I think the tooth fairy is on rapid fire now. She’ll have a mouth full of teeth before long. Just enough to terrorize Elizabeth. :)
I uploaded some pictures in Mallory – 10 Months (I have lots of videos but for some reason I couldn’t get them to load tonight…I’ll try again soon). Mallory wore her camo dress the other day (thanks, Papa and Katninny). It’s really cute. But then she decided to have some fun. She hid in her highchair and the woods near our house. See if you can find her in the pictures.
Let’s see…what else is new…oh yeah, I whacked all my hair off. It’s about up to my chin. You’ll see a picture of it. I was just so tired of it. The only way I really liked it was in a ponytail, and a ponytail is just not appropriate for all occasions. It will take some getting use to. It has been about 6 years since the last time I cut it short. It’s hair. It’ll grow. She was able to take off 8 inches and still leave me a decent amount. I want to donate it. Locks of Love requires 10 inches, but I just didn’t have the patience to go for another 2. My neighbor said that there is another organization that will take 8. That’s where she donated. But until I can get the information from her, my ponytail is riding shotgun in an envelope.
I have to share something that I found disturbing. I have noticed recently that more and more women are talking on the phone in the restroom at work. And I don’t mean near the sinks. I mean, in the stalls, doing their business. I heard one say that she had to step away from her desk to talk on her cell phone because she has to be “professional”. Hmmmm…how ironic. But this takes the cake. I walked into the restroom before leaving work, and I heard elevator music. My first reaction was, “Are you kidding? They’re piping music into the bathroom??” Then, I noticed that one of the stalls was occupied. (Are you thinking what I’m thinking? “Oh, surely not.”) Then, I heard, “Thank you for calling Southwest Airlines. All of our representatives are busy. Please stay on the line…” Yep. To top it off, she left without washing her hands. She’s one of “those”…you know, the kind that doesn’t wash her hands…and doesn’t care if a customer service rep hears her pee.