Kids are so up and down. After another nice, long nap this afternoon Monkey was apparently rejuvenated. At least for about 2 hours anyway. If tomorrow is equally strange, we're calling the doctor.
It's so hard to tell sometimes what's going on with kids. Especially when they're as young as my Monk here, who will have her first birthday in under 2 weeks! (So hard to believe.) She's got an ear infection, she's teething, she's had a cough/cold, and I betcha she's probably having a growth spurt on top of it all. So does she have a fever? Sure, sometimes. She's drooling a storm too. She gets crabby. She's just a ball of baby/toddler stuff. She's got her well-child visit in a few weeks. Hopefully our doctor will check her over and declare her all well and fit for duty.
So far, we've been super blessed to have kids that are generally healthy as oxen. They still get the average cough/cold. Especially when it's "that season" and everyone and their dog is catching stuff. But all in all, oxen.
So many aspects of what we have to do as parents is complete chance. We haven't had to deal with any major or even minor health issues. But I've had so much stuff happen to nieces and nephews, all at very young ages. My precious niece passed away at 3 1/2, due to complications stemming from a genetic disease she was born with, but on a slightly less tragic scale, they've had hearing issues, autism, impacted teeth, severe food allergies, broken bones, and all sorts of stuff. The worst we've had so far is the stomach flu. So blessed, but I really can't take any of the credit.
But no matter what hand you're dealt, you deal with it, you love your kids with more love than you can possibly imagine you're capable of and you take it one day at a time. So, here's to tomorrow.
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