Day +204: Recovering from the flu

Mina Brigitta has just about recovered from her little bout with the flu. She hasn't had any more fevers, has been fairly energetic, and has even been eating some. The biggest thing we've noticed is that she wants to go to bed at 7:00 PM. We're trying to figure out how to get that to carry over to when she's fully recovered. She does have a bit of a cough and some diahrrea, but all in all it looks like she's going to get off very lightly. We can probably thank the antiviral medications she's on.

Isaac, who doesn't have that advantage, is quite a bit worse off. He's definitely better than he was a few days ago, but he's still kind of wandering around in a daze half the day, and he's producing incredible volumes of mucous. His poor little head looks like it's about to explode. He does have some up moments, but most of the time he pretty much wants to sleep. Unfortunately, he has a hard time doing that because he's so stuffed up. It's not suprising, but still kind of amazing to think that this is his first illness, at nearly 14 months.

I know people like to hear the funny things that kids say, so I've been trying to remember them when I post. But the problem is that I'm usually too tired by this time of night to remember anything but the basics. Anyway, I've been saving some up:

• A week ago we visited Robert and Patty, who have three dogs in their house. That must have made an impression, because Mina told her mom she wanted to have a dog "in sissy's house".
• Sometimes I'll ask Mina Brigitta how she's doing, hoping that she might be able to tell me if something was really wrong. A couple of weeks ago I was away for a few days on business travel. A few days later I was asking her how she was doing, and she said she was "Happy! Happy dadda's there!".
• One of her new words is "friend". She's been talking lately about who is a friend of whom. We were looking at some family pictures, and when she saw Grandpa, she said "Grandpa friend!"
• Keri has some nice glass candlesticks on the dining room table, and the shortest one broke when the candle burned too low. So Keri threw it away and took the garbage downstairs to the garbage. Later that day, Mina Brigitta noticed that the "baby candle" was missing and became distraught when she couldn't see where it had gone.