On the Mend....Again!

Well, since our last post we celebrated Valentine's Day, had a lazy weekend at home, and started a new work week. Unfortunately, we also started Ella on another antibiotic. Last Wednesday, in the middle of her 14 day course of Omnicef for a double ear infection, she spiked another fever. This went on until Friday til I could finally get her into see the doctor. Luckily, she saw Dr. Krenning, the doctor I work for who is an ENT, so I was glad to have her see Ella since she deals with ear infections all the time. Ella had fluid on both ears again, one of them was "bubbling over" with fluid the doctor said. My poor girl. So, we started her on another antibiotic for 10 days. The good news is, this particular medication, Biaxin, is in a class of antibiotics that Ella has not yet been on, so it increases our chances that it'll get rid of the ear infection. The bad news is that it is such a strong antibiotic, and Ella has been on so many lately, that we have to keep a close eye out for opportunistic infections to take over since all the "good bacteria" in her system has been knocked out too. We are making sure she eats yogurt every day with lots of probiotics in it, and so far, thank goodness, she seems to be tolerating it fine. We are hoping this is the last antibiotic, if not forever (far fetched, I know), than for awhile. She acts fine at this point, no fever and no tugging at her ears, so that is a good thing.
Even though all of this came up last Thursday on Valentine's Day, we still made sure we got a picture of her opening her card from her Mommy and Daddy.

Here she is with Daddy, her favorite Valentine :)

Here are a few more pics of the last week at our house. This first one is of Ella before we were headed out. She loves going places. She is the happiest girl in the car and especially when she gets to visit somewhere new! She is definitley my girl.....loves to be out and about!

Here are some pics of bathtime at our house. I made a mohawk out of Ella's hair. She has so much of it. As you can see, she loves bathtime!

Who, me?

I absolutely love this picture. It just looks so angelic, doesn't it? Those big blues staring right up at you. There's nothing better :)

Just doing a little light reading....or eating? Unfortunately most of her books have little teeth marks all over them.

Hmmm....which one should I pick? OLIVIA is her favorite.

This is something new she's doing. She is "giving loves" to her bear. She'll pretty much do this to anything she has in her hand, whether it be a ball, a stuffed animal, whatever. What a little snuggler :)

This is the sweet smile I see when I sneak into her room while she is playing. She's a happy girl!!

Anyway, hope you all enjoy the pictures! Have a great week!