Sick Week

We had a couple of fun things planned this week, but that all changed after Natalie starting running a fever last Sunday. After taking her to the doctor on Monday and sitting in the waiting room for 1 hour and 20 minutes, the doctor didn't tell us what she thought she had but put her on an antibiotic because she was congested. She listened to Aubrey as well, but said she sounded fine.  I don't quite remember if it was Monday night or Tuesday night, but I accidentally gave her a 2nd dose of Motrin way before the 8 hours was up. So, Bobby called the doctor and he actually told us to give her MORE medicine (Tylenol this time) and to keep giving it to her every 4 hours, fever or not.

Long story, short (kind of), Natalie's fever lasted until Thursday and finally went away. On Wednesday, the doctor couldn't get us in so we were going to take her to HealthCheck at the hospital and once we arrived, the doctor actually personally called Bobby and told us to come to her office and she would see us after hours!  She diagnosed Natalie with Roseola, on Thursday she got a slight rash for a couple hours and then finally started feeling like herself on Saturday. It was a long week with juggling/canceling my patient's and Bobby had to take Wednesday off so I could see my patient's that day. Luckily it was a slow week for me, so it was manageable. But, we had plans to go the circus and I had my old job's annual Christmas party I still attend. Even though we missed out on some fun things, I'm glad she finally feels better because it was a LONG week.

At the beginning, she took any and all medicine like a pro, but gradually as the week progressed, the pink spewing volcano, otherwise known as Natalie's mouth with antibiotic started again!  It's so frustrating giving her medicine and it's definitely a 2 person job. We stopped giving her the antibiotic once we figured out it was roseola because since it is a virus, the antibiotic does no good.  Natalie barely ate or drank the entire week and was pretty lethargic and whiny! Luckily Aubrey hasn't gotten it!

Natalie amazes us each day with all the new words and things she points to and knows the right name. Sometimes I wonder how she picks these things up. For a couple days now she has been saying "nina" and we could not figure out what she was talking about, but Bobby discovered she will point at a snowman and call it "nina." No idea how snowman sounds like nina, but it must to a 21 month old!

I got our CD in the mail with the pictures from the free session I won. I love the pictures she took, but was pretty disappointed that we didn't get a good family picture, since that is really what I wanted!  Oh well, we got some good ones of the girls. We actually had a friend who is a photographer take some family pictures today since it was so warm out, so hopefully we will have one that is wall-worthy!

Here are my favorites:

Bobby says this one is eerie because it's like a ghost of Natalie, which I see now so I will never print it, but I still think it's a cool picture.

Video of Bobby and the girls:

Aubrey isn't sitting up yet, but she's getting better and better everyday.