Friday & Saturday - Still Under the Weather

Gracie is still under the weather. I stayed home from work with her on Friday. She was a good girl, but her fever continues to make her feel lousy at times. Her diagnosis is RSV, a virus that seems to be going around the city. On Friday night, Gracie and I went to bed at 7:00 p.m. She slept until midnight, we got up changed her diaper, checked her temp, and got a drink of water. She fell right back to sleep. She woke up again at 3:00 a.m. and try as she might she
could not fall back asleep. We stayed up until 5:00 a.m., then fell back to sleep and slept until 7:30 a.m.

Gracie was fever free all night and we were optimistic, until she again spiked to 100.4 at 1:30 p.m. She was very restless and couldn't get comfortable. Once we gave her some Motrin she was able relax and fall asleep. She slept for 2.5 hours on top of me as her human pillow.

Gracie was not interested in food today and it was all I could do to get her to drink fluids. Tonight she finally started eating a little bit and did ask for a piece of bread. That was huge. Gracie has been in a very good mood this evening since she has eaten a little bit. I can hear her little tummy growling. She has to be hungry.

Gracie is becoming more and more verbal. Tonight she took a small stuffed Eeyore off of her dresser and said "Eeyore". She is coming to love Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and Eeyore. She gives them lots of kisses. She also had fun pushing her baby around the house in her toy stroller. She used to need us to help her position the stroller when it ran into a wall or needed to turn a corner. She is now starting to do that all by herself.

We're hoping for a good night. With Gracie's nose acting like a faucet it is a little hard to breathe when we are laying down. While using her mouth to breathe would be wonderful, except my little thumbsucker wants to suck her thumb. That hinders the breathing a bit.

We're hopeful that Gracie is on the way to feeling better very very soon.

Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie