Current mood: busy
ACHOO!!!!COUGH COUGH!!! That has been the theme of this week. Yep, this week the Cardoso family all got sick with the same nasty cold. It was definately no fun.
The week didn't started off completely bad though. Mia started to officially feed herself with her fork and spoon. She can now feed herself egg with a fork, her fruit, and feed herself her Mac and Cheese with her spoon. I am so proud of her, my little one is growing up so fast. Now that I have let her feed herself and she some what has the hang of it, mealtime has been getting a bit better. She doesn't fuss or throw food like she used to and actually has fun trying to get her food onto her fork. If you try to hand her food or put it in her mouth, she will automatically take it out of her mouth or hand, put it back in the bowl then try to stab it with her fork herself. If the food falls off the fork she will put it back in the plate and try again. She is so cute! Actually I just realized something.... she started doing this last week!! I guess I didn't include it in last weeks weekly update. Ah well.. it still deserves to be mentioned.
Well thats about the only good "fun" thing that happened this week. The rest of the week was surrounded by all of us sneezing, blowing our noses, and coughing. She is still slightly congestion, has a runny nose, and coughs ALOT during the night. She now sleeps with the plug in VICKS, a warm mist humidifer, and warm jammies (I put on VICKS vapor rub on her as well) That seems to settle her night time cough but she still has it. She has a hard time sleeping since her congestion is at its worst at night too. Poor baby, I can't wait until we can finally put all of this behind us.
Adrian and I have recovered alot better from our colds as well. We pretty much just have slight congetion and the annoying cough. We are hoping that by next week we all will be better and we can put this awful cold behind us.
This was also a pretty big week. We celebrated New Years!!! Though 2010 didn't start off to well health wise for us, we have some pretty big hopes for the upcoming year. I have a good feeling about this year and so far (other than the carried over 2009 cold) we are doing really good. I even recieved some unexpected checks from Unemployment!!! YAY! so I can help pay off some bills.
Overall this week, we haven't done much as a family.. as in going out. Infact since I came down with my cold I haven't left the house. Adrian and Mia caught their colds at the same time about 3 days before I did so they were getting better, faster than me. With that being said, Adrian has really helped out with taking care of Mia. They even went to Frys together just the two of them. That was no picinic for Daddy!!! She was EVERYWHERE and even threw her first big scene at the store! Poor Adrian when they finally got home he was so tired from chasing her and getting her out of trouble. Sigh.. little Mia.. she is definately an active little trouble making toddler now haha!
We also got 1 visitor this week. No it wasn't a friend or family member.. but a Praying Mantis!! haha I thought it was neat, especially after learning that they are a symbol of patience and that was the one thing I really needed this week... being sick and taking care of a sick family. Things are on the up and up now and we all are feeling better.. YAY!
Thats pretty much how the week went. Hopefully I will have more exciting stories to share next week. I hope we will all be 100% over this germ invasion soon. Till then I am going to get some much needed rest while the little one is napping.
