Sick Baby and Such

Alaina has been a little sick this week with an eye infection (see sore eyes below) and ongoing diarrhea. Yuck. I have spent most of my week coaxing rice cereal and Pedialyte down her throat, doing laundry, and slathering eye cream and Destitin on her.Usually we have looked like this, though through necessity Lainey's pajamas/outfits change more frequently than mine do.Alaina didn't mind the eye ointment which surprised me (because I think I would mind it). She did, however, mind the Pedialyte and usually refused to drink it:

I wasn't planning to start solids for another month. Last week I actually thought about how I only had four more weeks of bliss before I had to begin the drudgery of spoon feeding. But the doctor told me to start rice cereal right away (to combat the diarrhea). This is how Liz reacted to her first few bites of rice cereal:Lots of gagging and turning her head away. I expected the same from Alaina, but was pleasantly surprised. She happily accepted the food, though I had to let her "nurse the spoon" (she still has that reflexive tongue thrust).

The feeding took over an hour not including clean up (I forgot how long it can take, I also forgot the bib) so we took breaks to play:

And after eating we needed a bath--both of us though naturally only Alaina is featured here:

Also, this week Alaina officially hit her five month mark. Where has the time gone?As the week ends Lainey seems to be getting better. Just in time too. Andrew leaves for a ski trip to Utah early Saturday morning (by early I mean we have to leave the house at 3 a.m.). This next week I will probably have cold cereal for multiple dinners, post lots of pictures of the girls, reorganize something, and replace Andrew's DVRed shows with my own.