Back Over the River and Through the Woods

She's fallen asleep in the middle seat next to me. We are sitting in the last row of the plane; Pyper's second choice after picking an exit row, which she cannot legally sit in. We are headed West. 

She still has a lingering cough that started four days ago. At least the fever is gone. 

It's been exactly one and a half hours since I wrote the above. I took a break because two minutes into her sleep, she woke up. She's a combination of things right now. First off she's tired. It's 12:10am Eastern Time, and the only nap she had maybe lasted 10 minutes right before we landed from our first flight. The second part of the equation is that four days ago she got a cough that is still with us. The third, I'm pretty sure she's not liking the way her ears feel as every now and then she produces a very uncharacteristic shrilly shriek that makes everyone wince around her. I know it's not comfortable. 

She's asleep at my side once more. 

The same day Pyper's cough presented itself, I woke up with a scratchy throat. It manifested into full chills and body aches during the last quarter of the Championship Game for the Seahawks. I was completely useless for the rest of the night. I know I needed my rest, but I couldn't get warm enough or it was too hot. And between the thrashing, Pyper was belting out songs from the Sound of Music. After waking up early and Pyper playing with Gramma, I fell back asleep and my fever finally hit high enough to break. I started to feel much better after that. So we'll call mine a 24 hour bug.  It's been a long time since I've been hit that hard so fast. I have a lingering sore throat, but it's more of an annoyance than anything. 

So we might have that same bug, or not, but have completely different symptoms. Very strange in my book. 

So the main phrases of the flight have been, "I can't do this," "I want Daddy," "help me calm down," and "Mama." 

So our visits with friends in Greenville were cut short or out completely, but I guess that just gives us another reason to return.

While we were healthy, we played with our cousin and romped around town a little as the weather warmed up nicely for us. 

Visit with walking cousin Ronin. 

Auntie Grace serving us at our favorite restaurant with Pyper trying the spiff cake. 

Beautiful day for a play in the park. 

Happy with the grandparents. 

Headed home as a happy Seahawks fan, she's chanting "go hawks" at the terminal. Also she's singing without actually listening to anything on her headphones.