Colds

Andrina has had a cold since last Sunday. She's been pretty miserable for most of this week. Most of our time has been spent trying to keep her as cranky-free as possible. Which is really difficult to do for a toddler who's got a bad cold and cough. Luckily, her fever finally went away yesterday so she's feeling about 75% better I'd say.

As far as the week has gone with Andrina having a bad cold, I've been puked on (because she didn't like the baby benedryl the pediatrician said to give her), sneezed on, coughed on, gotten drool and snot rubbed on me, heard a lot of her whining because she's just been miserable and endured many, many temper-tantrums that have come about quite easily this week. Overall, Andrina has been almost a 180 from her usual happy self.

However, even this terrible week has had its upside (well, for me, not for my poor cold-stricken baby). Me being there for Andrina has brought us even closer together. She knows that Mommy really is there for her and has kept right on loving her even though she's been such a handful. Even when she's refused to eat anything for 16 hours and refuses to drink milk too, only water or juice. Which I really don't understand. She likes milk and she had to be hungry and thirsty, how could she refuse milk? Maybe her cold made it taste bad?

So how have I coped with all of this. In addition to zoning out in front of the TV or my computer when she goes to sleep, a lot of Elmo! Andrina loves Elmo and we usually only let her watch 1 hour of Elmo/Sesame Street a day. Well, seeing how miserable she's been and how her mood improves greatly when she does watch Elmo & the gang, we've been letting her watch about 4 hours worth a day! Now before you go calling the parenting police on me, we have been under extreme circumstances! It's the one thing that reliably makes her feel better and I'm not going to deny her that when she's feeling so awful.