the first part of our bedtime routine is a walk around the block. on nice days, we let bailey fully recline with the top down which she loves. she takes in the breeze, ogles the leaves in the trees and kicks her legs with glee. this firestarting leg action is a sign that she is really happy. she also does it in the bathtub, creating loads of splashes which makes her even happier!
after bragging about how Bailey has never been sick all this time, i must have forgotten to knock on wood sometime recently because she got sick for the first time this week. while we didn't know at first, turns out it was roseola, a non-itchy, non-dangerous relative of chicken pox common for babies. for the first two days it was awful because you couldn't tell she was sick, but she got super duper fussy, really had a hard time falling asleep at night and during the day and just didn't seem like her old self. we finally took her temperature and it was a couple degrees above average. Vina took B to the doctor on Thursday who couldn't see that anything was wrong and that if her temperature went up another above 100 or 101. She didn't seem quite as fussy Thursday night and lo and behold, red dots on Friday morning. By mid-morning they were all over her body (and still are now). Back to the doctor and he promptly diagnosed Roseola between seeing two other patients. Bailey is a lot happier today but didn't sleep the best last night either. Hopefully she can get over this virus and get back to a better sleeping routine soon.