San Diego and Hospital visits

    Tilly broke our streak. Last Friday night she was sick all night long, super congested, so all night she was panting and snuffling trying to nurse and breathe at the same time. (Francesca didn't really sleep) and breathing rapidly the next day. So Saturday Francesca took her to the weekend clinic and they said to take her to the emergency room. I was starting to get worried as I drove to meet them there (I had been home getting the boys ready to go to a picnic in Oakland, left the boys with Aunt Gillian). But when I arrived Tilly looked fine and was happy so I relaxed. The nurse didn't believe the thermometer and wanted to use a rectal one but we declined. The Doctor was good, relaxed and and actually listened to us. Poor Tilly was so floppy, she was just laying on Francesca while he listened to her lungs. He gave us a prescription for antibiotics, our girl has pnemonia :(  He suggested a chest xray but we declined and he didn't make a deal of it. Then we just had to wait to get discharged. I tried to give her some liquid tylonol but she resisted, so I went outside to call back home and let the adults know everything was okay (no cell reception inside.) While I was out the nurse came back and tried to give Rose the medicine, I think they got it all in, but Rose was so upset by the whole ordeal that she immediately threw it up along with all the milk she had nursed all day. I came back in and when we were ready to leave the nurse was offering to intubate her nose so she could suck the mucus out of her throat, because she was retracting and looking floppy(using extra muscles to breathe). We also declined that. The nurse recommended we give her suppository tylonol, but when I tried to buy it, it was labeled for 4 year olds and older. So the nurse got us feeling worried again, but after some time we relaxed because the Dr. hadn't been worried.
    We REALLY hate giving Tilly Rose the medicine. Twice a day a teaspoon full of pink antibiotics. It feels like water boarding her. I hold her and try and hold her hands and tip her back. As soon as we start she purses her lips and starts blowing raspberries. But once we start poking the tube into her mouth she starts crying and it gets easier to get it in. But then it comes right back out, it's like an upside down pink shower. And we keep scooping it back off her cheeks into her mouth. It's pretty traumatic for all of us and we feel really bad about it, but it has to be done.
   In other news, Tilly Rose is working on standing. She's able to totally unsupported stand for maybe 20 seconds, then she plops down on her butt. She's also gaining finer control, she's able to stack blocks now, and is pretty pleased with herself. She's clever, she watches what other people do then tries to do it also. She loves the sand box, we eat dinner outside and she wants to get over and play the whole time. I built a new swing set and she also likes swinging a lot. She thinks it's fun to watch the chickens. She likes to be read to, so we're getting more use out of the board books. And she likes to try on hats, she thinks it's lots of fun.
  We did do our trip to San Diego. The drive was okay, she slept for most of it, but when she would get upset she would be upset for a while, wants to get out and hard to get back to sleep. She thought the animals at the zoo were pretty interesting, and at the aquarium. Staring into the faces of the orangutans she thought was very intriguing. I often call her my little primate because sometimes she throws her arms down while I hold her while making an "ooh ooh" sound. She liked the ferry ride across the bay. Her favorite thing though was going up and down the step into GraMelody's house. She also liked playing with GraMelody's fridge magnets and her big kitchen floor. Also her conga drums. She did have a fever while we were down but came out of it pretty quick. And of course Tilly had to sample the grass in GraMelody's patio to compare it's flavor to ours.