Forecast: Sickness With a Chance of Locusts

Quoting from Tuesday's post:

"Luckily we have turned the corner and hopefully she will be back to 100% here soon!"

Unfortunately, I spoke too soon.

Audrey spent 2 hours at daycare on Monday because both Kelly and I had commitments at work that we couldn't get out of. It turns out all the kids at daycare on Monday became sick on Wednesday, this time with some sort of stomach bug. For Audrey, that meant a good half-day of throwing up while Kelly was home with her.

We assumed a baby throwing up for half a day wasn't good, and a quick call to the doctor's office confirmed that fact. We were told to get her on Pediolyte with a warning that if she couldn't keep it down, we would have to take her to the children's hospital. That freaked us out enough that we did everything we could to keep her hydrated. Why exactly do they put food coloring in something you are supposed to feed babies?

Six or so hours, and two or three orange stained outfits later, she was holding liquids down and we figured we were through the worst. And we were...for her, at least.

Thursday was fairly uneventful but come Friday morning when Audrey woke us up at about 1:30am, the first words out of my mouth were: "I think I'm going to throw up." About 20 seconds later, my prediction came true in a most unpleasant way. What followed was an 8 hour tag-team parenting adventure, the details of which I will spare the readers. Let's just say that for 8 straight hours, Kelly and I wished our apartment had more than one bathroom and Audrey wished her room wasn't next to the only one we have. Today, my chest muscles hurt so bad that it is painful when I breathe.

Thankfully this truly was short lived and while we are both still trying to rehydrate today, we felt good enough to go for a family outing to Audrey's favorite store: Babies R' Us. She poured on the guilt pretty strong, reminding us of how we basically ignored her for 24 hours, and she managed to talk us into getting her a new toy. Here she sits, in her new big-girl Bumbo chair:

Hopefully I don't jinx us, but I will say it again: Luckily we have turned the corner and we should be back to 100% here soon!