Round Two . . .

We are sick again, but at least this time it is a different illness! It is nice to mix it up a little. Lily went to school Tuesday and Thursday and seemed totally fine and then Thursday after school she was really tired and run down and asked to nap. After her nap I noticed she was a tad warm and running a really low grade fever, so we just kept it on the down low all evening. But by bedtime she was running around and playing and acting totally normal. Friday morning she woke up at 6am (which is way early for her) yelling that she wanted to go to the doctor and was sick! She was congested and coughing and just looked totally crappy. Plus one of her coughs sounded kinda barky, like croup. So I called the doctor at 8:30 and got her an appt for 9:10 (I LOVE the efficiency of her Doctor's office!). They said with the stomach virus last weekend, she could have croup, but what was more concerning was her really red throat. Thankfully, a strept test came back negative and I haven't heard her bark again since this morning, but we got a steroid prescription just in case. The cold will have to just run it's course and to make it more exciting, I think I am getting it too since my throat hurts now and I am pretty run down. So all day Friday we stayed home wiping "bubbles" (what Lily calls snot) and coughing. Poor Lily has the reddest little nose and she looks pretty awful and she has to miss Matthew and Carys' birthday party today which she is really sad about. They are 2 of her best friends from school. Another fun weekend for us!

A quick update on Chip -- one of his nasal walls is collapsed, but it septum is in tact. So he has surgery scheduled for Tuesday morning to realign his nose and get the nasal wall back up where it belongs. But otherwise it seems to be healing well and honestly, I don't even really notice when I look at him.

Lily at the doctor's office yesterday.

Poor little sicky this morning.