When it rains, it pours

The day after Christmas, MacKenzie woke up with her first cold. It is truly the saddest thing ever when a baby is sick. Amazingly, she remains quite a trooper and even as we are into day 4, she keeps smiling.  Inspiring.

This morning however, Mommy & Daddy were not smiling.  MIS and I were going through our normal morning routine and Daddy was showering. I heard a dripping noise and saw that we had a small puddle in our living room directly under our shower.  We have been attempting to fix this shower of ours since we purchased the house in May.  At some point, one of the prior owners tiled over tile.  Not a good idea.  We arranged for a contractor to do several projects including fixing the tile.  Sadly, doing work for us was not a priority and thus most of the work was never completed. This morning:  the tile started failing.  Good times.

So, sick baby and shower water in our living room.  Ugh. 

I started calling people to come to fix our bathroom.  Double ugh.  I'm not sure why it is so difficult to find someone who needs/wants to fix this tile.  It is much more difficult than I would imagine.  If you know someone who does such work in our area, please send me their contact information!!  Scott is going to try to re-caulk tonight.  Hopefully that will stop it temporarily.

On the baby front, MIS & I headed to the doctor early this afternoon.  It was a useful visit as the doctor gave me several good tips.  Tip #1: an alternative to the "booger sucker" that I find to be nearly useless.  She suggested a saline nasal spray instead.  Tip #2:  I don't need to worry about taking her temperature rectally.  The doctor that was there today is also a mom and she said she hasn't ever taken her little one's temp that way. Her words:  "he wouldn't like it and I wouldn't like it.  I don't do it!"  She assured me that the armpit works. 

Diagnosis: bad cold.  Hope that it doesn't turn into something worse.  Triple ugh.

A view of our sick little one:

On the good news front:  we have power.  After the blizzard caused the tree across the street to fall down, we were without power for several hours on Monday.  Not at all fun in very cold temps with a sick baby.  Power is definitely a great thing.
 
An adventurous last week before my leave is over.  Can't wait to see what Thursday brings...