5

5.  That's the number of days since I've taken a picture.  I'm pretty sure that's a record for me.  It's been a long 5 days around these parts, but I wanted to let our grandmas who read this blog faithfully know that we are still alive!  Our little gal has been pretty darn sick and it's been nasty.  After 5 days of fevers (a couple of days in the 103-104 degree range), the chills, throwing up, crying, lethargy, and frustration we've hopefully pinpointed the problem.  A urinary tract infection.  *(Edited)The doctor just called and she has pyelonephritis (a kidney infection)...hopefully the worst is over the antibiotics do the trick!*  It's been horrible to watch our little Missy Mae hurt so bad and not know what to do about it.

After a couple of doses of antibiotics she is a new person today.  She's been playing some, talking a lot and has started being naughty again.  I didn't realize how happy all the little things she does all the time made me until they started coming back again...things such as her saying "thank-you" by blowing a kiss, saying "bleechh" to all things nasty and as a greeting, talking on the phone, smacking her lips when she talks, giving hugs and kisses, saying "please" by rubbing her belly, and how she thinks she hot stuff when she steals my body spray and puts it on herself or fluffs one of my flowers up to her hair just to have a reason to say "woo-u-woo-u".  I think our little princess is on her way back to life again and I am so excited.

I'm appreciating her taking a real nap today so I have a chance to update our blog!  I'll have to say that the absolute ONLY benefit of her being sick was that I got lots of snuggle time.  I'm already missing that, but I'll take a healthy kid over snuggles any day.

Here are some pictures from last week until we have some new ones to post. :)

Thank you for all your prayers.  I know they helped a ton!