Taking the Scenic Route

but relatively peaceful around here.  Thankfully, Grandma is doing well, which eases my mind. 

Both kids seem to be teetering on the edge of sickness.  Zora is a mess with teething and I ended up pulling out the big guns for her.  The tylenol and motrin seem to be helping, but not completely solving the problems.  The oragel, frozen washcloths, teething rings/biscuits and teething tablets weren’t touching it though.  She also has a runny nose, but I think it is related to the teething.  The dr. checked her ears yesterday and they are finally fine.

Zane did great at the drs yesterday.  He stood on the scale and let his height be measure, let 2 different people look in his ear, let his temperature be taken (that is the first time EVER he has let somebody do that without us ending up restraining him), did most of the eye chart across the room (that had shapes he had to name…but, most importantly, he had the joint attention to accomplish it), and answered “what color is this…” as the nurse pointed at different things around the room, let the dr look at his throat, and was fine with the physical exam.  I am so proud of him. 

He is a bit feverish and grumpy and not interacting today, which makes it pretty clear he feels like crap.  Hopefully it will pass soon though. 

Tonight we made chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and cream gravy from the pan crumbs.  It was really tasty.  I don’t think it is possible to buy as good of chicken fried steak as you can make at home.  Such a treat!  Wish the kids liked it better, but I think it was because they weren’t feeling terrific.