And this is where medicine stopped being fun at our house. It's HORRID stuff. A lady I work with had to fight to get her son to take the exact stuff and she told me that she'd tried a little bit and it's putrid. So Tuesday we kept her home with me working in the morning and then taking over half day so Jason could work.
Wednesday I had my Aunt Gail come to visit and this is the day things got more interesting. We'd been going back and forth giving her motrin and tylenol because the fever wouldn't stay away. By 2:00 on Wednesday Rachel was SO upset about taking medicine of any kind that she started throwing up. Repeatedly. I left work an hour early and met Jason with Rachel at the doctor's office. The NP gave a prescription for a different antibiotic and I swear this stuff is even worse than the first stuff they gave. The first kind was chalky. This stuff tasted like rotten metal. Thankfully, it was only one big dose on the first day, then half a dose for the next 4 days. I tried in vain to dilute it in juice but to no avail. She could still taste the medicine and refused to drink any of the drinks with the medicine in it. We ended up getting a second dosage.
As luck would have it, we had planned for Geri and David to take Rachel for another week. Thankfully, Geri had to be in town for a conference anyway and was at our house by Wednesday evening to take over. Thursday morning she left with Rachel and took care of her at her house. They must have had a good time, because last weekend when I picked her up her fever was finally gone, the diaper rash she got from the antibiotics was finally gone and she was eating and giggling again!!
Matter of fact, when I picked her up this is what she ended up doing:
While she was gone, Jason was horribly sick again. I finally took him to the Medcheck on Wednesday and found out that even without his tonsils, he has strep throat and pink eye. We can't catch a break at our house. We asked what we could possibly do to get rid of all of this sickness that just keeps coming back into our household. We lysol-ed the doorknobs, faucet handles, threw out toothbrushes, washed bed sheets. We've also tried to get more rest and eat more vegetables. I'm hoping it works.
Monday when I picked Rachel up from day care she coughed once or twice and I inwardly groaned. Already? She just got healthy!
This past weekend I helped with our annual Garage Sale at Good's Candies. Rachel and I stayed all night at my Grandma's house to be closer since the sale started so early in the morning. Rachel stayed with my Grandma and Aunt Gail for the day and they had a great time! I think they were extremely exhausted by the time I picked her up. I know I was! It was nearly 100° outside and I know I over-did it. And every time I feel like I've over-done it I get strep throat! Sure enough, I woke up with a sore throat so I've tried very hard to take it easy today.
But when I picked Rachel up, she was running a fever. *sigh* So I'm going to try to take her in during our Pediatrician's office hours today to have her looked at. I know it's her ears again. We HAVE to get rid of this somehow! But to make the day go a little faster and since I'm trying to make sure church is a part of Rachel's life, she and I headed to church this morning. I decided to stop in for a little Starbucks since I was doing good on time. Rachel doesn't like it when we go through the drive thru and I don't give her something as well. So I got her an ice water. She's not a fan of water....she likes juice....but because it had a straw in it, she was thrilled!
But we had a wonderful trip to church, she seemed happy when I picked her up and today she's spending the afternoon with Daddy so I can get some downtime after a very busy and labor-intensive weekend.
So some new things Rachel is doing.....
This morning she wanted me to open her toy box, which I normally keep a tv on top of. 1. the tv needs a place to sit and 2. she's shut her fingers in the toy box before so I like to keep it shut. But she plainly said "monkey" and then pulled out her monkey puppet. Monkey!!
She's also started this pouting thing that I'm not a fan of. Let's say she wants to watch Elmo on the computer. She'll say Elmo, then jut her lower jaw out and keep saying it over. Kind of like she's attempting to be pathetic in order to get her way. You know how a 5 or 6 year old will try to talk like a baby? That's kind of what it sounds like. I don't know where she picked it up, but I don't care much for it.
The other day Jason gave me a kiss and I said, "Kiss!" Normally when you ask her to give you a kiss, she'll tilt her head towards you so you can kiss her. Now I'll say, "Kiss!" and she'll kiss me smack on the lips.
On Friday night when we stayed with my Grandma I slept with Rachel and she's squirmy when it comes to bedtime. I can see her on her monitor that she's squirmy normally anyway. But she'll waller around and at some point she'll roll over to me where I'm pretending to sleep in order to get her to get the idea that it is time to sleep and she'll lightly rub her hand down my face. It's so soft and tender. I wish I could get her to do it all the time!
She still calls a tooth brush "la la", any type of writing utensil a "lello", and Monty still comes out "Mockin".
I have noticed that she sings more. She does sing to herself, but she'll also sing if she's playing by herself with other people in the room.
She does eat well with a fork, but will still insist on eating off of my plate if I'm sitting with her. We still haven't been able to get her to eat much, but she will eat a lot if it's from my plate.
This morning before church she pulled a bag of hair things from her closet and started playing with them. I brought in a large mirror I haven't hung yet and we played with hair bands and barrettes for a long time. I can't wait to paint her nails!
She still loves Sesame street, but has started a new trend where she wants to watch "Bowf".....which is just a continual stream of you tube videos of dogs. We put on shelties, but she doesn't care what kind of "bowf" she watched. Most of the time she doesn't care if the sound is on.
She also likes to use the baby doll she got for her birthday last year with this little horse I got her at a garage sale. It's meant to hold a doll and the child will push it. But the wheels are purposely uneven so the horse "trots" as she walks. Rachel likes to put her baby on and then drag the horse.
Finally, she's become quite the conversationalist! She likes to speak in entire sentences of jibberish. She even uses a voice inflection when she's asking a question! (that I have no idea what it is). So I just agree with her and try to continue the conversation. It's great fun.
