Recovering

Olivia is feeling much better today from the weekend's virus.  She drank all four bottles at daycare!  Yesterday she only had about 7 ozs of milk, today it was closer to 16, so clearly her appetite is recovering.  :)  Makes mom happy. :)

I have certainly contracted something, so while Olivia is better, I'm something of a walking zombie during the day when the oral decongestants don't do much.  At night, I cave and use Afrin, just one spray on each side, and the transformation is astounding!  The main advantage is that I can sleep when my sinuses are clear.  No idea what I'd do without the stuff.

So much for working a full 40 hours this week. Monday I left at lunchtime to come home and take Olivia to the doctor again.  Yesterday I only got in 8 hours before the congestion was really hitting, and today was a half-day before I came home sick and slept all afternoon.  There are several people out sick.  On the plus side, I was in the office for the important meetings today.  Tomorrow I plan to keep my germs to myself and work from home.  Maybe I'll sneak in some resume work as well.  The real bonus is that I'll let Olivia sleep in until she naturally wakes up around 7.

I'm excited to restart Olivia's adventure into solid foods tomorrow.  Since she ate most of her cereal today, I think we can start with veggies again.  She hasn't really tried anything new since late last week.

I'm looking forward to the weekend.  Friday night Charlie & Delores will come over early enough to play with Olivia, then will babysit while I go out with my lactation circle mom-friends for a quick drink.  Saturday we should be getting more rain, we have our little Saturday morning music class, then will head to Jessica's for lunch (Jessica and friends/family are doing a 10k/5k... but I was too late to register and as it turns out, the weather will be poor, so we'll just join for lunch :) )

Sunday, Aunt Kathy will come to babysit and play with a healthy, awake Olivia!  Fantastic!  Monday, Kevin comes home!  Also fantastic!