Not The Day Off I Had Planned

So today I had taken a scheduled day off; the plan was to have my friend Katie come over in the morning and help me wrap Christmas presents (I HATE wrapping Christmas presents while she apparently likes it, and also she tells me, it helps assuage her guilt over the copious bags of hand me down clothes she has received from Amelia over the past few years). In the afternoon I was supposed to go over to my friend Valerie's house, where we were going to assemble the dollhouse that is one of Amelia's Christmas presents and that Valerie tells me takes 3 hours to put together (she has one for her daughter.)

Instead of the above Christmas wrapping/assembling extravaganza, Amelia woke up at midnight with a fever and complaining that her ear hurt. She was then up all night in our bed, a miserable feverish wreck.

So this morning after I got Charlie on the bus I cancelled all my plans and took Amelia in to the pediatrician where they confirmed that she has a nasty ear infection. Since Amelia is the world's WORST medicine taker the prospect of trying to get amoxicillin into her 2 times a day for the next ten days is pretty much abysmal. The pediatrician suggested mixing it with all sorts of concoctions, which I tried with her motrin this afternoon (pudding, dr pepper, extremely strong strawberry lemonade) with Amelia taking not one sip/bite of anything because she is totally on to the whole mix-the-medicine-in-something-routine.

Finally, with her fever back up and clutching her ear, Valerie came over and me, her and Charlie held Amelia down and got a dose of motrin in her after first desperately trying to bribe her with Oreos, ring pops and M&Ms.

Wish us luck that Amelia gets considerably better at taking medicine over the next few days :) And that I somehow get the Christmas wrapping done... Valerie took the dollhouse with her this afternoon and said she'd just do it (OMG thank you Valerie!!) and Katie is going to attempt to come over Monday and wrap some presents on the sly while I distract Amelia and Kyla.