+ Mysteries +
I don't know what's up with you. Friday afternoon, I got called to come home because you had a fever. I cuddled you all evening and by bedtime you seemed better. Other than not sleeping particularly well all weekend, I thought whatever was ailing you was pretty much dissipating. Yesterday your eyes started getting "goopy" again, with both eyes looking like clogged tear ducts. I started using the medicine in your eyes that we still have from the first time you got this (you were five days old). It already looks much better this morning in the discharge department. But your eyes still look very red and puffy. Poor baby. You went to school this morning but admittedly didn't look very good. Your eyes were all red and puffy, and the bottom of your nose is all red and raw from me wiping your snot (which there really ISN'T much of anymore). You come by that honestly, though. That's the first clue that I'm sick - my nose turns red as Rudolph's.

Anyway... I don't know. I worry about you. I keep telling myself that's the trade-off for daycare and you'll have a healthier preschool and Kindergarten because you've been sick now. But I can't help but feel guilty for sending you back and letting you just keep getting sick. In-home daycare is always an option but I just haven't found one I like. I might be looking into this more soon. Our plan was to keep you here for a year and re-evaluate. I know you have a bond with Maria already so it may not be that easy. Who knows?

Putting more pics in her 9-12 month album tonight if I can. Otherwise it will be Wednesday. We got some REALLY cute Christmas pictures, and some nearly professional-looking ones of you and Daddy playing the piano. So sweet! Tomorrow night we're going to a mothers' group at BestFed in Mesa. You'll get to meet some new friends I hope. If we like it, we'll keep going about every other Tuesday. Fun!