A Sick Day that Ended Pretty Sweet

Makenna got up during the night last night with a horrible cough! Then she got up this morning with a horrible runny nose! I said, "Oh boy, not another sick day!" The poor baby is honestly sick more than any other child I know of! Well not only did she have her runny nose, but she had runny eyes and a cough. She also just really acted like she didn't feel well--she wouldn't eat anything and in the middle of playing she would just start crying! Well we thought she was just whiney and we took her to Babytime anyway (Austin didn't have class until 1:00 so he got to go with us--yipee!). We brought her home and put her down for a nap and she just was so fussy and wouldn't sleep. So I called the doctor and we made her an appointment for this afternoon. The verdict? Fever, upper respiratory infection, and an ear infection! No wonder she acted like she didn't feel well! Well I went to get her meds and I also picked myself up some clearance Valentine's Day candy. I felt like I deserved it after dealing with a very sick, very destructive, very unhappy almost-one year old! Makenna found the candy and dove in before we could stop her:

Can you see the chocolate candy in her little fist? When she saw us coming to take the candy away, she grabbed some up and stuffed it in her mouth! She has already learned! She looked like that chubby kid on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! Lol. I think the candy made her feel better because right afterwards she was running around and being her usual silly self! No wonder people bring sick people candy! The new saying is, "A chocolate a day keeps the baby at play!" [I made that up--pretty clever, huh?]