Brooklyn's first visit to the ER );

We felt like this picture summed it all up:

Last Friday afternoon, Brooklyn started to come down with a fever. We were in Ila, Georgia visiting D-Daddy and Nana for winter break. I called our doctor and my good friend Leah who has two little girls. I was nearly in tears when I got a hold of her and luckily her husband who is a doctor was home and he gave me some great advice that helped us nurse her through the night, but in the morning there was more mucus in her lungs and her fever was at 102 degrees, so we decided to take her into the clinic to make sure she didn't have RSV or any other dangerous bug. The clinic sent us straight to the ER when they saw her condition though and we ended up having to stay the night. it was basically 24 hours that felt like the picture above: a blur full of tears (both baby and Mommy), worry and confusion.

As you can tell, Brooklyn was pretty miserable. They couldn't find any veins in her arms or lets to put the IV and draw blood, so they had to put it in her head! It was so sad! She wasn't our usual smiley, happy baby girl and it was scary! Since she had a 104.9 degree fever when we came in and cold barely breath when she tried to cry, they took a lot of tests and kept her overnight, but after her fever broke at about 8:30pm Saturday, she was fine except for a mucussy cough that continues still.

We stayed at D-Daddy and Nana's one more night after we got home from the hospital and got home last night. She was still recuperating as you can tell! Nana was a great help, so it was really a blessing we were with them through this trauma!
When we got home, Judy had set up a brand new humidifier in Brooklyn's room and she loved it! She has happier than I had seen her in days so that made me happy. It hurt my heart to see our baby so miserable!
Today she is feeling a lot better and smiles when I go in to find her awake in her crib and as she plays in her exer-saucer and when we look at her.