As is completely normal with young kids, ours have been sick off and on through the winter. As I wrote before, Audrey has had a cough for about two months now. It sounds bad to us, but a few weeks ago she had a chest X-ray and it was clear. Yesterday the nurse practitioner checked Audrey's lungs while Carol was having Charlotte looked at and Audrey's lungs sounded clear. So it's apparently just post-nasal drip from ongoing low-grade sinus congestion.
Carol took Charlotte to the doctor because she had had a cold and fever and seemed to be getting over it, but over the weekend she ran a fever again. Monday morning she started pulling at her ear. Carol called and they said to bring her in for a look. Sure enough, Charlotte has ear infections in both ears. Poor thing! Given the stories we've heard from other parents, we feel pretty fortunate that our very first ear infection (that we know about :)) didn't happen until 14 months into our second child.
Charlotte was prescribed an antibiotic that she'll take for 10 days. Hopefully in a few days she'll start to feel better. I picked her up from her crib this morning and she started just writhing and screaming in agony in my arms. That has to be the most useless feeling one can have - a child in pain and nothing you can do about it.
The reason I chose to write is that Charlotte was screaming some more in the car all the way home from Audrey's preschool today. Carol reports that Audrey's response was to put a towel over her (own) head, plug her ears and say "la la la la la." We have no idea where she learned that.
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