A Puny Valentine's Day

 

TerraDactyl spent her second Valentine's Day feeling pretty under the weather.  (clearly I'm still working through those couple months I took off...)  She had a very low fever (99.1 degrees) and a whole lot of snot.  We lost a lot of our weaning progress because I was worried about dehydration.  I pretty much nursed her whenever she asked for it.  


I think I was probably more upset about TerraDactyl's cold than she was.  We found out that regardless of how much TerraDactyl likes emptying out Kleenex boxes, she really doesn't like blowing her nose.  Well, can you call it "blowing her nose" if she never blows?  


This is what happens when you feel bad for the sick baby and let her play just about anything she asks for...


Clearly, the sick baby is tired of house arrest and ready to go somewhere.  She showed me just how ready to leave the house she was by strapping her baby into the car seat and then telling me to put the car seat into the car.  


DH and I got an interesting view into TerraDactyl's interpretation of the world the other day.  She was pulling all her headbands down around her neck and calling them all "collar".  I don't wear much jewelry, so we haven't really talked about necklaces.  But Riley does have a collar and we have definitely talked about not pulling on his collar.  

Here's a video of TerraDactyl taking her own temperature.  She really liked that thermometer.  

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