Our first cold

Well it is official, Elizabeth has her first tried and true cold. I should have been on to the fact that something was up as she was just not herself yesterday. She was extremely fussy, crying non stop for most of the afternoon and the only time she stopped was with extreme distraction from either Patrick or myself. She didn't nap well yesterday, only 30 minutes in the morning and again 30 minutes in the afternoon. Around 4 pm I had enough of the screaming and crying and honestly, pure misery at that point and told Patrick she was all his for an hour or two. Well, I think they walked around the back yard like 500 times and then sat in our big swing and checked out the trees, birds, squirrels, our dog, etc. This kept her happy until she came inside and meltdown started all over. She did go to bed fairly easy but was restless, tossing and turning, that we could hear through the baby monitor. Well, this morning the answer was apparent what her problem was yesterday. She was getting sick. She had watery eyes, was sneezing like crazy, runny nose and was poking fingers in her ears. Poor baby, has a cold. I now feel guilty for losing my patience yesterday but after 4 staight hours of screaming, not crying, I mean screaming, I was over the limit.

Then to top that off we had to go to the lab today for our infamous "international adoption" blood work (remember we tried to go on Monday but there was a 2 hour wait!) and the receptionist ask me right away "how much does she weigh?" I answered honestly and said 13.5 to 14 lbs. Then she says "well, we can not do all of this bloodwork today because we are only able to draw 5 ml per stick based on her weight and to do all of these labs it will take at least 4, maybe 5 different visits to get them all in." I swear to God I almost decked that woman. I can not friggin believe I have to take my baby daughter back to the lab for 4 to 5 DIFFERENT sticks and blood draws. This is insane. First all the nonsense with her immunizations in China and then again having to start all over here. Now this crap!!!! This child is going to have a fear of all medical personnel and I mean soon. This does not bode well for me particularly because I frequently wear scrubs to work (and she will see me in them before I leave) and I also wear a lab coat everyday(which all of the "mean" people have been wearing). How much can this child go through? So now we have booked 4 different appointments with the lab to have these bloody tests done and I am not happy about it one bit. However, I do want to know that she is healthy and that she has no infectious diseases so there is no way around this one.

Let's hope our ladybug is feeling better tomorrow and the next few days afterwards. Her nose is like a faucet but she does not seem to have fever, and her appetite is definitely not affected. That girl can eat, I swear it you were to feed her what I had on my plate at each meal I do think she could eat all of it. On that note, I did try her on stage 3 baby food today to get her used to increasing food textures and she gagged with the first few bites but was then eating like a champ. She did have a bit of a small problem drinking her milk due to her nasal congestion but she did manage to get every last drop out of it.

Until next time..............................................