so what is croupe anyway?

So Miss Sadie has been battling (and winning!) with a fever the last day and a half, so last night we took her to the ER and after lots of tests and prodding in various orafices (she was NOT happy!) they came to the conclusion that it must be something viral - which has apparently been going around - and/or the early stage of croupe (is there an "e"? I don't know...). Yuck! So the poor kid got tylenol, motrin, and decadron and today is feeling TONS better. Outside of her schedule being a little out of whack, she seems to be back to her old self - praise God!

Now, I feel like I'm some kind of bad mom for "letting" her get sick and am now in the process of sterilizing all of her toys as well as our entire apartment. :-)

My gross feat of the day was cleaning out our garbage tote that sits outside on our porch. It was growing things in it... nasty buggy-type things. I went through three cleaning rags (I threw them away - I'm not cleaning those things!) and LOTS of disinfectant and made all kinds of oogey faces in the process, but I think we are sufficiently de-bugged.

Side-note on something funny that happened last week... Sadie got bit by some little boy in the nursery at church (NOT funny - but she didn't get hurt and I don't think it phased her) and of course, the ladies working there felt terrible but he managed to bite two kids in about 15 seconds. The funny part was what instantly popped into my head - I need to teach my daughter how to fight. If I teach my sweet little princess to give a mean right hook to the chin, we no longer have an issue. Is that wrong? I found myself telling her as she smiled at me, "that's okay honey, you don't ever start stuff with anybody, but you're not gonna get in trouble for finishing them". Aaron definitely agreed, but had a few choice words he wanted to share with the little boy's dad. And so it begins....