Wednesday, January 25, 2012

The common cold

Hi all,
I've finally figured out how to upload from my phone, which will make it much easier to post videos. However, there does not seem to be a way to make the video bigger on the blog.  I figured it out by right clicking on the video and selecting "watch on You Tube".  From there, you can watch it on your full screen.

In other Simone news, this has been one of our more challenging weeks.  She developed a cold (probably from daycare) and had a fever of 102 all day Sunday.  She slept probably 20 hours that day!  Since then, she has been basically fine, but has yucky runny congestion which makes it hard to eat.  Combined with a loss of appetite from a cold, she has been eating about half of what she normally takes in, so I have been feeding her when she wakes up in the middle of the night.  I haven't had to do this for a while, so it's a bit of a drag, but a small price to pay to get her healthy again.  On top of that, she woke up with what seemed to be pain from teething.  I'm writing this at 2AM after a feeding - not much sleep this week!

With all of that, you wouldn't believe that the video below was taken today.  As you can see, she's just fine!

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Monday, December 5, 2011

First real food!

Simone ate her first food today, and it was as if she has been eating all along - she was clearly ready!  It was very fun to watch her eat, and hopefully this is the beginning of a very healthy relationship with food.  The new recommendation is to start with veggies rather than cereal.  I like this idea, as it goes with the new food recommendations for more fruits and veggies and less starchy carbs (did I get that right??).  Anyway, she doesn't seem any worse for wear for starting with avocado rather than rice cereal.  Enjoy the video!