Beca, with all her sickness, had a busy week. Saturday morning we went to Target to get a new seat for my car so we could take the van for its regular service/oil change. It's a high-back booster seat so she gets to use the big girl seat belt. And she loves it. Right now it's only for the occasional trip in mommy's car. Her high fever started Saturday after already being on antibiotics for a double ear infection. She stayed home since Saturday afternoon to try to recuperate which really meant a lot of wallowing on her choice of parents, yelling at Zoe and watching TV, mostly Little Einsteins. I think we actually know some of the words to the episodes now (there are like 62 or 63 of them and most of them are on our DVR currently). There's this "lovely" feature that if you hit "play" at the top of the list, it will start from it's last point and just keep playing all the episodes. Would be cool for a marathon of an adult show but not so much on the kids show. Except that it kept Beca quiet. High fever persisted until Tuesday night but she still couldn't go to school on Wednesday - had to wait out the 24 hour fever free period.
On Wednesday, she finally got to leave the house. To go to the ENT. We were thinking it might be tubes again but the doc wanted to wait this out and see if her next growth spurt helped. Except that she has negative pressure in her ear and is developing some minor, temporary hearing loss. Which could explain a lot except that she's 3 and I think all 3-year-olds (and men in general) have selective hearing. The solution: a device that helps Beca blow up a balloon with her nostril. It's kind of funny to watch but she's already frustrated with it because I can do it and Daddy can do it and she'll sob at us "But I'm just a little girl". Which breaks my heart and makes me laugh all at the same time. So, Daddy had picked to go to that appointment.
And that left me with the dentist. Last time, it was sheer torture for all of us. She cried and kicked and had to be held down. This time, I started talking about it last week and I think she got excited about it - new princess toothbrush and all. She did really good, though she did keep trying to get up after every little thing but I think it was only because she had some sniffles in her nose and laying on your back with crud in your nose is no fun. But we made it through and her teeth were pronounced "gorgeous" by Dr. Dan. She picked out a Snow White toothbrush that is pink and white-ish with glitter in it and a Tinkerbell sticker, and a prize at the end! I don't think it hurt that I let her wear her princess skirt and top with pink tights today. It was very cute so everyone felt it necessary to comment on her. And now, Mommy knows just what to do to brush Beca's teeth! The cutest part about today, though, was dropping Beca off at her class. Her friend Flora immediately ran up and when the other kids realized that it was Beca, she suddenly had about 6 others running up and trying to give her hugs. They all stopped their individual work to come see her! It was so sweet! And Caroline and Erin were both trying really hard to wait their turn to give her hugs, which was even sweeter! Since I don't do it very often, drop off is very interesting for me, especially in the middle of the day. Beca didn't realaly worry that I left but I heard her tell her teacher Dee "that's my mom". She had a good day, but no nap. Hopefully, we're all done being sick for a while...
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