Pink Eye ... yeah right ...

Thankfully, Kara has been an absolute darling of late. Lance is currently in Seattle for 5 days, and looking after 2 kids is "different" now than when Sophie wasn't crawling. The mornings aren't too bad since Sophie wakes about 1 hour earlier than Kara, so I have time to play with her, get her ready, organize her food for the day, etc. Night time is harder as they normally go to bed roughly at the same time, with Lance dealing with one and me the other. For these few days, one of them has just had to sit (ha, ha) and wait 15 or so minutes until I deal with the other. Since Kara makes a LOT more noise than Sophie, and can change to a cranky monkey when really tired, it is Sophie that has had her routine disrupted.

Anyway ...... all was OK ……until this morning. I had dropped off the 2 girls at daycare and was on my way to give evidence in a court case. Daycare called and told me that Kara HAD pink eye, WAS highly contagious, and that I HAD to pick her up immediately. What??? She had been rubbing one eye in the morning but I figured it was because her mop of hair had gotten in her eyes or something. But daycare was adamant. The court case had already been delayed once because of my schedule so I could not tell them I couldn't appear again. So I spent the next 10 minutes literally arguing with them over the phone that I could not pick her up (mostly because I didn’t believe she had pink-eye) and that Lance was out of town. I was going to desperately call Ellen or Vickie, and drop Kara off until I could get back … but just in case she actually did have pink-eye I thought it best to just tell daycare to “quarantine” Kara in a separate room until my return.

I picked Kara up during her naptime – she was lying right next to all the other kids (so much for her being highly contagious) – then spent the next 3 hours waiting at the Doctors. When we finally got to see the Doc at 4pm, he didn’t even have to look at Kara before stating “she hasn’t got pink-eye, she has allergies”. Kara has a history of allergies (which daycare is aware of), so the whole day was just a waste of time, money and just overall very annoying.

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A week or so ago, Lance and I finally decided to stop making Kara’s lunch and snacks each day – instead she has whatever they serve to the other kids at daycare. We had held off for so long because the food they serve is pretty bad (in our minds). Well, it must be even crappier than I thought because Kara now comes home every day literally craving vegetables. Plain, steamed, no-need-to-disguise vegetables. In fact, all Kara wanted yesterday morning for breakfast was an entire bowl of sweet potatoes!! And for dinner that night she had a third of a whole cauliflower and another whole sweet potato.

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No photos, as Lance has the camera in Seattle.

Oh, and I think Lance may have found us a house!