First Day of Daycare

I snapped the "first day of daycare" photo as we were headed out the door this morning at 6:30. Emerson looks surprisingly chipper for having been up from 8:30 pm until 2:00 am crying and screaming on the two previous nights. Monday night she developed a stuffy nose out of nowhere that still continues. She has since screamed herself nearly hoarse and sounds terrible. She is okay for most of the day until evening hits and then she is completely inconsolable. Considering we are new at parenting, we guessed that Emerson may be teething because the drooling has dramatically increased and she always needs to be chewing on something and gave her infant Tylenol when she needed it (as well as a drive around town last night at 1:30 am). So, given the situation, we inquired with Karie (our daycare lady) as to whether we should bring her or not, and she thought it would be fine. So, this is my first real day away from Emerson for an extended period of time and I have to leave her not feeling well, so it was actually harder than I thought to leave her today...I spoke with Karie three times about Emerson and she assured me that she was doing well and napping, however, she didn't take her 10:00 bottle because she couldn't breathe through her nose. Great. So, we made an appointment with our pediatrician for this afternoon only to find out that she has a bit of redness in each one of her ears - her first ear infection. She seems to be doing better this evening with the help of the anitbiotic and numbing drops, she just sounds so pitiful. So, hopefully she is on the track to a speedy recovery and will soon be the high pitched cheerful baby we love so much. And hopefully, Ryan & I will be able to get more than three hours of sleep.

So tired, she cannot even play.

She's enjoyed the four days of squash; tomorrow we're on to sweet peas. Yum!