Since K got sick over the weekend we still haven’t settled back into a routine *sigh* I really hope we’re coming to the end of this cycle of lurgification…
B went out to the farm for the weekend for a sleepover with Caitlin, and K decided Saturday evening was the perfect time to come down with a fever. After a restless night, she spent Sunday zonked out on the beanbag watching Play School and sleeping. Sunday night she slept better, and seemed well enough in the morning that we went out to pick up B from pottery (Mum had offered to drop her home if necessary), but then she got worse and worse from that point. It got to the stage where she wasn’t willing to let me leave her for a minute, wasn’t going to sleep, refusing to take any Panadol, and grizzling to the point of inducing maternal desperation. I called my wonderful mother, who was still in town, and she offered to take B out to the farm again. K finally went to sleep after that was organised, so I got to cuddle B a little bit before Nannie arrived. She was feeling very grumpy that I hadn’t had a minute to spare for her, and I was a bit short with her lack of sympathy with her sister – especially after our doctor’s appointment later that day revealed K had an ear infection instead of just having the flu as we’d assumed…
B will now be out at the farm until Wednesday after horse riding, as usual. Mum said that this morning they’d done some of the maths at Smartkiddies which I had planned for the week, as well as some reading and language work. They’ll basically just do something similar tomorrow, and maybe some sewing or other stuff. When I called at lunchtime, B was cooking pasta sauce, and had also been walking the dogs (no wonder Nannie likes having her out there these days *g*). Last night E and I finally signed up to WizardsSpell, so I’m just waiting for B to come back so we can set up her log-in, then she can have fun with that.
K and I had a battle over whether or not she was going to take her antibiotics this morning, during which I lost my temper and yelled at her *blush* I apologised for that a bit later on and tried to explain why it is important for her to take her full course of medicine, which she seemed to accept. When the next dose came she was still a bit reluctant, but I explained again about the big strong bugs in her ear getting stronger and making her even sicker if she didn’t finish the medicine, and this time she actually let me give her her dose without a fuss! Success! It’s so lovely when they get to the age where they can be reasoned with *g* Apart from medical wrangling, she has been happily playing shopkeeper (this morning she was keeping a cafe instead), her button board, playing with the dog while I did the outside animals, and helping me cook cupcakes. Now she is desperate to ice and decorate them, so I had better leave it here and go and do that!