Butt Bug

January certainly has been a difficult month and it is only the 9th! Anyway, Mara has a terrible butt bug, going on the 8th day. It is called the norovirus (meaning notorious?) and lasts 7-10 days. We do a load a day of her clothes since she goes through 3 outfits and 1-2 PJ's a day. She has been sent home twice this week from daycare, been to the Dr. on Monday and had another Dr. appointment (at Children's) cancelled because of the liklihood she wouldn't make it there (45 minute drive) without dirtying her car seat (she couldn't even make it home from daycare yesterday, a 15 minute drive, without everything going up her back and down her leg!). Today we have another Dr. appointment at Children's (can't cancel) and are praying that, through the snow, the car seat will stay clean. Not to mention the projectile vomit at 11pm all over our bed on Wednesday! WHEW! But she is still a happy baby and sleeps through the night. We have to get up to change her twice a night to make sure things don't leak through the covers. Oh, the joys of parenthood!!! Thankfully many have given me varying ideas of what to do about certain problems (bad diaper rash: let her play in the tub on old towels, naked), so we are trying those. I just long for the day when my hands aren't cracked from washing them 20 times a day!!