Loooong week

It has been a rough week around here! Poor Ellie has been so sick. She'd had a runny nose for about 5 days, but no other symptoms and this seems to happen every couple of months, so I didn't think much about it. Last Friday, she started to get a little cough that was a little worse on Saturday and A LOT worse on Saturday night. It started to sound like croup (which she had 3 months ago), so I knew what to do: sit in the bathroom with the hot shower running for 20 minutes, turn on the humidifier, and give her warm apple juice. All of this bought us about 2 hours of sleep. Then she woke up with fever and coughed non-stop until we headed to the doctor at 9:30 a.m. The doctor opened at 10:00, so I got there a little early expecting to get right in. HA! After 12 pages of paperwork and over 2 hours in the waiting room (with no toys, books, or good snacks), we finally saw the doctor who confirmed that Ellie had croup again. She gave her the same steroid as last time and we headed home.

Kyle gave her the first does of medicine which she spit back out at him. He said the told her that she really needed to take the medicine to feel better, even if it didn't taste good. She went and got her cup of juice and said, "Daddy, put it in here." I put her vitamins in her juice, so I guess she thought it would make sense if he put her yucky medicine in there, too. Kyle thought it made sense, too . . . but it was too late. Sunday night was another awful, sleepless night for us all. On Monday, I put her medicine in her juice like she asked, but she only drank half and then refused to drink anymore. Monday night was pretty much the same as Sunday night . . . she was so sick, feverish, irritable, and probably hungry since she hadn't eaten much of anything all weekend. I called Monday morning and made an appointment for Monday afternoon. I thought of a genius way to get Ellie to take her last dose of meds before we went to the doctor. I gave her "coke." It was actually Sprite, but she calls it coke and was SO excited. That lasted about 3 drinks and then she refused the rest. *sigh* BTW, the medicine tasted horrible and she had every right to refuse it.

Once we got to the doctor, we found out that her croup had turned into bronchiolitis. She was perscribed an antibiotic (bubblegum flavored, thank goodness!) and an inhaler with a huge mask that we have to hold over her face. We have to do this every 4 hours until her cough is gone. She's actually handling it much better than I thought she would. I will have to take a picture of her next time. Today, she has felt better and had no fever, but is still very whiny, snotty, and has the horrible cough. Crossing my fingers it's better tomorrow!

We officially have cabin fever! Besides going to the doctor and the pharmacy, we haven't left the house since Saturday. I never thought I'd be sad about not being able to go workout! Even Ellie told me she wants to go to the Y and see Micah (a boy that's always in her class). Hopefully, we can get back into our routine next week.

Another exciting thing going on here is that Ellie is getting her new big girl bedroom furniture moved in this weekend. I can't believe it's happening, but it is! I'll post pics of that once we get everything moved in.

Here are a few pics of my little sickling . . .

This night she cried for 2 hours and would not let us pick her up or touch her in any way. She finally fell asleep in her chair like this.

This was Friday night before going out to eat. She still felt pretty good and looked so precious! Her daddy dressed her and I must say he did a good job!