sick, cranky baby

well, we've had a sick baby on our hands for the past week. it's been aitch-ee-double-hockey-sticks around here. cadence has been unusually cranky with this bout of the cold. i know it's normal for there to be some crankiness accompanying an illness, but cadence has been usually pretty good-natured through out all her few sicknesses. maybe this one has been more painful than her past ones. for a few nights there, i thought i was going to go crazy because i was having such a hard time calming her down, and she'd just keep waking up throughout the night. ted has been the fortunate one, sleeping on the air mattress in the living room, since cadence won't have anything to do with him after 9pm.

i don't know where she picked up this particularly nasty bug. she was doing so well last weekend. we had a good time at my aunt's 60th birthday party at a korean restaurant. she sat through a 2 1/2 hour dinner like a real trooper.

she was so friendly with everyone at the dinner and probably enjoyed the attention of being the only one in the room to have been born in the 21st century. it was also nice that my brother and cousins sherline and debbie were there to dote on her.

on monday, it was such a beautiful day out, and cadence felt well enough to break in her new pink chuck taylors at the park. her feet look so huge in them, and they make her look older for some reason. i guess they just look like grown up shoes, even in pink.

we had a good time at the park, which was totally crowded since it was the first day of spring that actually felt like spring. cadence just stared at all the kids running around. i don't think she's ever seen so many kids at once before.

well, it was all downhill after that...her nose turned into a fountain of snot, and she was running a fever and coughing too...she probably had some other aches and pains that we couldn't discern due to the language barrier, and she's been pretty difficult to deal with. but you know, it's all part of parenthood. i'm sure she's not enjoying this sickness any more than we are...