All three of us are starting to feel better. It’s been almost two weeks and it’s about time!

Rylee’s cold dropped from her head down into her chest late last week. As a result the pediatrician instructed us to take her to the ER on Saturday because she wasn’t eating and sounded really bad. That was a fun three hours! They did a breathing treatment and also did a chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia. Everything checked out great and we headed home. Rylee spend the next five nights sleeping with her vaporizer on and with some Vicks in the water. It seems to have helped to break up the stuff in her chest and she’s breathing easier these days. She still has times when she coughs really hard. Those are the times I feel so badly for her. But these times are coming to an end. Whew!

Rylee and I have been dealing with our first colds of the season. We both started over the weekend and are now fully in the throws of it.

I have to say that I’m amazed at how Rylee has managed to keep her normal happy demeanor through it all. She is still constantly smiling and giggling. Me, not so much.

The only time she gets upset is when she coughs a lot at once. This is the only time she cries, and I can’t blame her at all. That’s got to be rough on such a little body. So we hooked up the vaporizer and she slept with that on last night. I do think it helped.

Today is picture day at day care. From what I’ve heard the photographer is really great so we’re looking forward to seeing some great photos of our little sick one in a few weeks.

Last night we gave Rylee some cereal about two hours before she had her final bottle of the night. She then proceeded to sleep from 11:15pm until I woke her at about 6:15am. I was thrilled to be able to sleep straight through the night. I’m not sure if this was due to the cereal or the fact that she’s not feeling well. But I will say that we’ll be giving her cereal tonight in hopes that it will happen again!

Stay tuned….