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My Littlest Camper

Caroline Update

Caroline came home from camp Monday complaining of a bad stomach ache, spiked a low fever, and fell asleep on the couch without eating dinner. She slept okay Monday night and went back to camp yesterday, where she seemed better but still complained of a stomach ache and had some Motrin and "down time" when she came home. This morning she seemed to be doing well so I sent her to camp again. Hoping today the tummy troubles will all be behind her!

Riding a Bike!

Finally had a breakthrough with Rebecca and the bike riding last night :) The bike was out of commission for a while with a flat tire, so we took it to get it fixed this week and then gave the bike-riding another try. It looks like she is getting the hang of it! A long way to go before she is riding independently (needs help getting started, and hasn't quite got the steering / breaking down too well yet) but definitely is getting the hang of it! Yes next time she rides I will make her wear her helmet (I wasn't actually expecting to be able to let go of her).

Monday Update

We had a nice weekend which included Caroline's first movie , a trip to the pool, and a barbecue with friends. Then last night Caroline spiked a fever and woke up around midnight complaining of chills. She was very fussy and finally I had to curl up on the chair in her room since she was fine when I was in the room with her but every time I would leave she would start crying again. I fell asleep for about an hour and then was able to go back to bed (at about 3 am). Caroline seemed mostly better this morning, a tiny bit warm maybe, and tired/not eating much. I sent her to camp anyway and haven't heard anything so assume she is doing okay. Joel thinks the unexplained fevers (she has had a couple of them recently) are immune responses to having ingested gluten (like, the bagel last week). It seems plausible.

I schlepped Clara to Waxhaw today to see the vet who did her ACL surgery. He says he thinks she tore her meniscus and although it should not need a surgical intervention, it will need some physical therapy and more time spent restricted from off-leash activity. I now have a referral to see a doggy physical therapy group. I didn't even know there was such a thing :) Clara every time I look at you all I see is dollar signs.... ;)

And we Have a Movie Goer!

With the help of Coke Zero and fruit snacks. For the record , the movie was How to Train Your Dragon 2. She started to get fidgety about halfway through but wasn't too bad. Proud of her! Excited that we can all go to the movies together now :)

The Bagel Incident

Camp Katan got off to a bit of a rocky start for Caroline. Yesterday, day 2 of camp, somehow a bagel with cream cheese was introduced into her lunch box. The counselor who unpacked her lunch box thought that it must be a gluten free bagel, and let her eat half of it, before the other counselor thought better of it and took it away from her. I'll stop right now and say that at the moment at least, Caroline seems fine and hasn't gotten sick yet. (At least as of the update from the camp director I received three hours ago).

We have thought and thought (and interrogated every person in the house) about where this bagel might have come from, but we cannot trace it back to our house or car. My kids don't like cream cheese, and Abby's kids eat it only for breakfast on toasted bagels. Not on un-toasted "bagel sandwiches". Rebecca will bring those for lunch but with butter on them, because she hates cream cheese. And we didn't even have cream cheese in the house for the past week until Monday night, and it was not opened until Tuesday morning well after Caroline's lunch had been packed the night before. Anyway, the point is try as we might we cannot come up with any scenario where the bagel originated at our house. The only other plausible theory , since the camp counselor swears it was in the lunch box when she opened it up, is that it fell out of another child's lunch box at some point perhaps during transport up to the walk-in fridge or something , and someone who didn't know better stuck it back into the wrong lunch box.

Going forward we are including an "inventory" in her lunch box that lists the items that were packed for that day's lunch, as well as marking the outside of her lunch box with the words FOOD ALLERGIES so in case if someone did accidentally stick the bagel into her lunch box by mistake, maybe next time there is loose food floating around it won't be MY kid's lunch box it gets put back into!

Keeping fingers crossed that Caroline avoids getting too sick from this little accident!