Have you noticed how I've just been short, sweet, and to the point in the last few posts?? That is because I have been running around here like a chicken with her head cut off. Ick.

D has the "rockin' pneumonia." Last Friday she started coughing, so I gave her some Claritan before she went to school. When I picked her up that afternoon she was feeling worse and by that night started running a temp. The cough was a yucky seal barking sound. Hubby can't detect a difference in the sound, but as the mommy I can. So, I gave her OTC cold and cough stuff and alternated Motrin and Tylenol to keep her temp down. The highest it got was 102* and that was in the middle of the night Saturday night and she woke up and started acting loopy, and talking real loud like a drunk. So, we had a middle of the night dose then too. Sunday her temp went down to nearly normal and by Sunday night was completely normal. No fever, but still a cough, but not the seal bark cough. She started playing again and acting fine, except for the cough. So, I went ahead and sent her to school Monday morning, but I thought they may call me to come get her. Nope, her teacher said she did fine, just had the cough. Tuesday she woke up with a yucky nose, so I decided to call the doctor. I went ahead and sent her to school since she had no fever, but the cough and yucky nose now. We got in to see the doctor Tuesday afternoon at 4. Guess what, my baby has walking pneumonia! D asked the doctor, "what's rockin' pneumonia?" So we've been singing the song and saying she's got the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu! The doctor didn't seem too overly concerned and said the cough will just linger for a while and as long as she is feeling fine, playing etc. and having no fever, she may as well go to school. She is on a strong antibiotic. Apparantly there are two kinds of pneumonia. One that is formed by a bacteria (the one D's got) and another different kind that must be scarier.

On the adoption front, our medicals have expired yet again (they expire every 3 months) and so I spent Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday getting those updated and ready to send to Austin. Thursday I sent the Fed-Ex with a request for 28 fresh apostilles. We also had to get an updated Power of Attorney. I am so thankful that Texas has a $100 limit per adoption for apostilles. We would have spent $280 right there! We even have to have the medicals for D done each time and her doctor is in the "city" about 45 minutes from here in po-dunk. So that's a two day job right there. I did take hers with me on Tuesday when we went to her appointment and she was so good as we did all this paperwork, she got an extra tattoo from the goodie drawer. Hubby and my doctor is here in town, so we were able to do that all on Thursday.

We are so thankful that our agency has received their NGO and are praying so fervently for good news on the #268 front! It was good to read a smidge of good news on this subject on Steve and Stef's blog. This is the first good news I've heard on that topic so I'm hanging on to hope.

I'm just waiting on two more questionnaires back from two blog friends so we can divvy up the names and assign blog pals! Debbie and I are excited to see this take form! I'm glad many of you are participating and excited too. We had a bit of a snag when the questionnaires I sent out ended up in several people's spam folder. I think we've gotten it all straightened out now!

Ok, just heard D cough in her sleep, so I'd better head in there and check her just in case.

Nitey nite.