The Curry Family: Happy Halloween- a week late!

Well little Miss Amelia was sick for her first Halloween and didn't get to go trick or treating. She got a bad cough that started on Friday night October 30th. She was up several times that night and it was very obvious that she wasn't feeling well. We took her to the sick clinic that our pediatric clinic has on Saturday mornings from 9-12. She was given the diagnosis of croup which basically means that she had a runny nose and a really bad cough- the books all say the cough souns like a "barking seal" I just thought she sounded more like an old lady that had smoked all her life! Poor little thing couldn't cry and had such a sad sounding cough. Needless to say we had a really LONG weekend. The only thing you can really do for croup is use a humidifier, turn on the shower for the hot steam, or go outside where the air is colder. We did all of the above and one especially long night I stood in the shower holding Amelia so she could breathe. Luckily, she is feeling much better now and is back to her happy self.

We decided we couldn't let the adorable fairy princess costume go to waste so we got her dressed up to go and visit her great-grandmothers and her grandparents. Getting her costume on her proved to be quite the ordeal though so hopefully these pictures will work for everyone else we weren't able to visit. We had grand plans to take her to some neighbors and friends too but the simple task of 3 stops proved to be more than enough for us!