What a week! This week was one of those weeks that I hope not to repeat any time soon! Monday started off with Caitlin getting sick. When I got up to go wake her up in the morning I walked out of our room and was immediately hit with an extremely unpleasant smell. When I got to Caitlin's room, I found her with poop running up her shirt and on her legs and on the mattress! She didn't like getting put into the shower fully clothed but we managed to get things cleaned up and get her dressed. We figured that she had just had a diaper blowout and weren't too concerned. Unfortunately, she got pretty sick at school and blew out a few more diapers and then threw up quite a bit on herself. :( It was so bad that they had to change her clothes and give us her old ones in a tightly wrapped bag. The day care called us around 4:00 and told us that she wasn't doing well and that we should come and pick her up. I left work early and picked her up. Monday night she didn't have much of an appetite so I stayed home sick from work to take care of her. To top off her Monday, she had also fallen at daycare while trying to run and ended up falling face first onto the floor. She ended up with a scrape on her nose and a bruise in the middle of her forehead.
Tuesday I used some sick time and stayed home with her. She slept a lot and didn't want to eat or drink much. She started the morning with another leaking diaper which I luckily saw before it got too bad. :) By Tuesday night she was eating and drinking a little more so we took her to school on Wednesday. Within 20 minutes of dropping her off the daycare called and told us that she was throwing up her breakfast. We asked them to give her some dry Cheerios and water and let us know how she did with that. By 9:00 they had called back and told us that she was still throwing up even bland food so I left work early to take her to the Doctor. The Doctor said she had a virus and that she didn't look dehydrated but we needed to get some wet diapers from Caitlin and needed to give her Pedialyte, Gatorade or even watered down Sprite. I spent the rest of Wednesday home with her and was able to get her drinking a little and get some wet diapers. Toni stayed home with her on Thursday and Friday to make sure she was ok. Thursday night Caitlin's bad luck continued. She opened one of the drawers on our coffee table and pulled out 2 glass coasters and started looking at them. I told her to put them away but ignoring me, she started clanking them together and one of them broke! I immediately picked her up in fear that she would step on some of the pieces and as I was checking her over, I found a drop of blood on my hand. I started panicking because I couldn't find where the blood had come from at first. She had a small cut on her pinkie and thumb. :( We patched her up with band-aids which she didn't like at first. The only way we could get her to stop trying to take the band-aids off was to show her a band-aid and put it on her thigh. :)
On Friday things started going better. Toni and Caitlin came to join me for lunch and Caitlin started seeming like her old self. To cap off the week, she slipped while trying to climb out of her crib and hit her face 0n the edge of the crib and got a little mark on her cheek. :( What a rough week this was for her!
This weekend was pretty slow for us. On Saturday we just stayed around the house because I was on call. We did make a quick trip to Wal-Mart but that was about it. Sunday we went out to dinner to celebrate Uncle Dan's 34th birthday and Nana Bev's 61st. We went out to eat and at the restaurant, Caitlin started picking up food with her spoon and started feeding herself! I got a quick video of it on my phone. It was cool to see but she quickly realized that it was faster and easier to use her hands and reverted back to that. :) We had a nice time and it was a good way to end the week.
Tonight Toni started cutting Caitlin's hair (as long as she would cooperate) and I heard from my life long friend Mike who is currently living in California. His daughter is graduating from Basic Training here in San Antonio in mid October so he'll be coming out for about a week to see her. It should be a lot of fun to see him again and I look forward to catching up with him. :-) Hope everyone has a great week!
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