This week has been the week of Natalie's first true flu bug - and we're not talking the common cold. We started off on Monday with a tiny bit of sickness and thought it was a fluke, but it escalated yesterday into full-blown stomach flu. We will kindly spare you the details.
It was awful to see our little one in such dire straits! She had two full days of TLC with mommy (involving spoon-feeding pedialyte for several hours yesterday - let's just say she was not thrilled to spend so long in her high chair, and mommy's workplace was probably not pleased with her last-minute absence), two mornings & nights of daddy providing good humor and helping hands, and one doctor visit today in which Natalie was pronounced both "on the mend" and "well-nourished". So that's good news, especially considering that she is already 1 oz under her last documented weight from a few weeks ago. We hope her stomach calms down and her appetite revs up soon.
On a different note, it's been an interesting week here in San Francisco in other ways as well. We live in such a damp, foggy area, and earthquakes are so often on our minds (hello, tsunami evacuation route right outside our door) that I forget that fire is one of the biggest dangers here in California. This week has seen fires all around us, even as close as Brisbane, eight miles away. Each morning the air has smelled of smoke, and the sunsets and sunrises have been a deep red because of all the gunk in the air. It's been a really interesting, if frightening, reminder of the dry years we've had lately. Luckily I don't think we're in much danger of a fire here near the ocean. It's more likely that our house will rust away than burn away. But we feel for all of the people around us who have had to evacuate!
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