poor baby

I thought during the summer you were supposed to get a break from sickness? Ha, ha! Well, I don't think I posted during all of this because it wasn't that important, but about 3 weeks ago I came down with strep, was put on antibiotics etc ... Sadly, on top of all he was dealing with Tim came down with it the day after his brothers accident.

Well, last night Hailey decided it was her turn. She has been cranky and drooling the last couple of days, and she really does have 4 teeth coming in so I passed it off, but when she came down with 103.5 fever I decided it was time to get her checked out. The strange thing is she doesn't really have other symptoms. We took her to the ER and they did a strep test, looked at her ears etc ... nothing other than her throat does look red ... they think its the coxsackie virus (a form of hand, foot, mouth) that is going around. The symptoms can be so wide ranged so they have no way to positively diagnose it. So we wait it out.

While we were at the ER Hailey of course was not happy. She even screamed about the bracelet they put on you with your hospital id. This is the first real sickness she has had since she has really blossomed in her vocabulary so it was interesting to see what she thinks about everything. Well, the nurse came in and out taking throat cultures, giving her tylenol, taking her temp. After the throat culture Hailey lost it crying hysterically, once composed (the nurse had left), she looks at the door with tears in her eyes and in her meanest voice she says "I GET YOU" - "I GET YOU". I nearly fell over laughing! Does this child take after Tim or is it just me?

And drumroll please, finally a weight update ... (I don't know how accurate this is as she was moving around and screaming over the scale), but her weight at 25 months is 24.5lbs! Not bad for starting out at 2lbs!