Call Day #112, 7/27/12

Since Claire had a fever during the night, we decided to cancel our scheduled play date for the morning.  Puzzles kept us occupied for a little while.

Claire fed her baby.

The girls played "tree house."  See the legs?

What they were really doing behind the easel was creating colorful artwork of which they were very proud.

We played a game from High Five magazine that used coins (and taught how much a nickel and a dime were worth!).  Eleanor really enjoyed it.  The grape juice was a hit too.  We don't usually have juice at home so it was a treat.  I was actually just trying to get Claire to drink something since it was obvious she wasn't well.

If Daddy's not home to give his expert opinion on sick kids, you can always go to Daddy!  Thankfully, Erik wasn't busy this particular night so we visited him at BMC.  He confirmed croup.

A stop at CVS to get medicine.  While we waited for the prescription to be filled, the girls were happy to look at cards, especially the musical kind or any with princesses.

Poor sick Claire.  She did NOT like the liquid medicine she was supposed to drink.  Unfortunately, there was a lot of it.  After holding her down and squirting it in her mouth, she finally realized she would have to take it one way or another and drank it without fighting.  After about 95% of it was in her, she threw up.  Bummer.

After a bath to clean up Claire, the girls got to watch a Curious George even though it was super late.  Claire had cooperated so well in taking the majority of her medicine and I couldn't put her to bed without her promised reward.  It was kind of a crazy end to the day, BUT she did not have to go to the ER in the middle of the night!  That was the goal since taking two kids in the middle of the night would've been a bit much.