She’s back!
Yeay! She’s doing better! Since this video I have given her a bath and clipped her nails so she no longer looks like Howard Hughes. 
This video was taken last night just as she was starting to get some of that rambunctious energy back. I love to watch my kid play!
The plasma ball was a gift from Aunt Linda and Uncle Bud to get Lali to use her arms more. I thought it might be scary for her, but I was wrong. She LOVES it! The first thing she did was to whack it with the back of her hands. Then she tried to lift her hands on top of it but it was just a little too high. By the time I thought to get out a camera, she was slowing down, but still having a blast. And she gave it kisses.
Also you know how she loves to rip paper off the table at the doctor’s office? Well today she tried to rip a metal bar and couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t ripping! It was so cute. I kept trying to tell her that metal doesn’t rip, and she just gave me this stubborn look and kept going at it. :) I moved her hand off the bar, but she just worked her fingers back on there. Willful thing! :)
Her temperature is back to normal and her nose isn’t quite so runny. Maybe what they say about AMC kids is true. That they get subjected to a lot of “stuff” like hospitals (germ central) and different things being put in their mouths (since when they’re little, they can’t learn with their hands), so they build a tolerance to illness. My number one reason for taking Lalikins to the beach was to expose her to the bacteria in the sand. I definitely don’t want her to be a shut-in!
Charley and I were talking and he agreed that having a child with a cold (and nothing else wrong!) is a very normal feeling. We’d much rather be the parents who drive in the middle of the night to get cold medicine than the parents who are up in the middle of the night soaking a cast off and rubbing legs so blood can go back into purple toes. Or calming the child you just stretched too hard. Or taking off the bandaid over some boo-boo caused from some test. Or putting ointment on some pinch or rash caused by splints or braces.
I’ll take the cold.
