All three of us are sick. Riley being the sickest:( Poor girl has lost her voice, so that when she cries no sound comes out. All you see is her face scrunch up and her open her mouth as if she is going to scream. Its partly funny but partly really sad. Leif has had the sore throat, headache and runny nose. Poor guy has been working everyday this week, although he feels so out of it. And I have been fighting it. Because well, I'm mommy and wife and if I get sick who will take care of daddy and baby? I think being sick while the rest of the family is sick just sucks. Its the worst thing in the world. You want to rest and not get out of bed but you have to. Dishes have to be washed, clothes have to be folded, babies need to get fed. All three of us have been sleeping together with the humidifier on. Its like when Riley was a newborn:) Baby has to go back to her own crib though as soon as she's better!
Thankfully my husband is such a great man. He has every other Friday off (I love that!) and instead of sleeping himself, he made sure I rested. I had been up the last two nights with Riley. I love him. And thankfully Riley has been handling being sick like a champ. She only fussed the first day, and after that has been her happy self. Sure she has no voice, has a runny nose and a gross cough but she doesn't care. Maybe its because of the extra attention? But really God has given Leif and I such a good girl. She's so calm about everything. It makes going out really easy on Leif and I. And makes being a parent super easy, haha. Unless its feeding time. Riley gets pissed if she's not fed when and where she wants. :) I'm so happy that night time feedings are almost non existent now!
So while we're all under the weather, things aren't really so bad. We're doing well and all of us are getting the rest we need. Just pray that Riley gets her little voice back because mommy and daddy miss it! And I'm sure she does too:) And pray that Leif and I are 101% better soon!
Even though she was sick she let mommy take a million pictures:)
Our little baby is sick. I'm pretty sure its a cold. She got sick yesterday, right before Leif got back from Chicago. Her nose had been runny and she was a bit cranky. Then, she wouldn't stop crying, and nothing I did could make her feel better. I felt like I was failing her as a mother. All she wanted to do was sleep. She wanted her pacifier because it helps her sleep, but because of her runny nose, she wasn't able to breath. So a pacifier wasn't an option. Then there was the coughing. That stopped her from sleeping as well. You could hear that it hurt her each time. She would cough really hard and then just start crying. We sat on the bed together, and I cried with her. It was so hard watching Riley suffer and not being able to take it away.
Thankfully Leif came home and took over for a bit. Riley was so excited to see him that for a few minutes, the crying stopped and there were smiles. Last night went a lot better than I thought it would. We had some leftover medicine from the last time she had a cold so before bed she took some. This made sleeping much easier for her and we actually made it through the night.
Today hasn't been too bad. Riley's been sleeping on and off mostly. And of course, anytime Leif and I were eating, she was more than ready for food. We're trying to get her to drink juice but she hates drinking anything other than formula. Tonight we'll try a bath with some vapor and we're going to use the humidifier. I'm hoping tonight will go well for Riley. Its hard watching her be sick like this. I miss my happy little baby.
