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For those of you you’ve lived through a baby with the stomach flu, you know this is a VERY good thing! The Babe is getting back to her usual perky self–although she’s eating smaller, more frequent meals and is silly-clingly right now–she’s better.

I did learn a lot throughout this ordeal, such as:

1. Orange pedialyte stays Orange, regardless of what it been through, or how it is expelled by the humam body.

2. Ants dig, um, “used”, pedialyte, regardless of how it was deposited on the carpet.

3. While it is bright, apparently the dye used isn’t horribly penetrating–Stain Stick and carpet cleaning takes care of most of those stains caused by expelled or spilled pedialyte.

4. Wishful thinking is a strong force–while out to dinner the Babe had a stain on the front of her pants. I said, “oh, she must have spilled her juice!”. Her godfather held her, Baby A’s dad held her, both laughing at the spilled juice. It wasn’t until Daddy held her that he noticed that perhaps it wasn’t juice at all.

5. Turns out, Margaritas play a strong roll in determining whether something is juice or not.

6. It was in fact not juice. Or maybe at one time it was juice, but it wasn’t at that point.

7. The exictement of going out in public can make you do stupid things, like not pack a complete diaper bag.

8. When a quasi-blow out happens and your mom has failed the diaper bag packing class, you get to do the WHITE TRASH BABY WALK OF SHAME through the crowded restuarant, clad only in your new diaper.

9. Much like the walk of shame that is endured on college campuses across the country every weekend morning, the Babe went home wearing a boy’s shirt…thanks Baby A!

10. Teething doesn’t stop for the stomach flu–the Babe now has two new top teeth!

Unfortunately, the Babe’s sleep marathon wasn’t a recovery from the weekend–it was the “coming down with something” sleep that happens when your body is invaded by a virus!

It’s very pathetic and sad, although I’ve learned a little from this experience. I’ve learned that Walgreen’s was most definitely designed by a parent of a sick child.

I was home with M all day yesterday, until it was time for Parent/Teacher conferences. On my way home from there, I needed to pick up a few things–milk, something for dinner, pedialyte, and diapers. I live in Suburbia with a capital S, so I could have gone to any number of big box stores, but the thought of getting there, finding parking, trekking to the back of the store for milk..it was all too much.

So I went to my neighborhood Walgreens and got everything I needed, and was home in the time it would have taken me to schlep through the parking lot and located the milk at a bigger store. I LOVE that.

As for the Babe, she’s perkier than yesterday, but still perking up and out of her diapers. The fever is gone for the moment. I’ve gotten lots of cuddle time, but it’s because she’s too wiped out to play. She’s sleeping a lot, and has done well at night, but it’s still SOO sad!

I just talked to the doc again–we are on High Alert for dehydration, but so far, so good–she’s still truely drooly!

Random thought while I wait for the Babe to get up….

I’d like to add links to my side bar of some of the fabulous blogs I read on a daily basis (yes, I’m addicted). But don’t want to add them w/o permission. So if you want to be linked, just leave a comment saying as much, and I’ll add you to my sidebar. Thanks!!