And With Fall Comes. . .

The coming of fall brings lots of lovely things, but also: more colds. And Fans, wouldn't you know it? The Dynamic Duo already have their first! Clara has been hit hard. She was coughing last night, and woke in the early morning hours, and had to be whisked up to the Big Bed for the rest of the night. She can still sleep on to of Julie. She spills over like a glass that's too full, but it works (and Julie missed the Bird so much, she didn't mind).

By the morning, when Bird was a bit off her feed, we were worried that her ear may have become infected again. She got a clean bill of health this past Monday at the end of the second round of antibiotics, but we were reminded that fluid remains behind for a while. So we skipped what would have been our first music class, and took her and Our Hero in to see the doctor. The good news is that her ears are still infection free. The bad news is that there is now fluid behind both her eyes, and she's got a cold. In other words, conditions are ripe for infection. All things considered, her spirits aren't so awful, but she runs out of steam pretty fast.

Our Hero has just a touch of the same cold, or something similar. His right eye was pink so we were worried about pink eye. It wasn't pink eye. The doctor had a fancy name for it that seems to mean the-pink-and-watery-eyes-you-get-when-you-have-a-cold.

So we are sort of watching and waiting, and hoping that Clara's ears remain puppy and infection free, and Our Hero continues to keep the germs mostly at bay.