swine flu and other misadventures

By way of keeping track of things for Cora’s as-yet-nonexistent baby book, the following things have happened over the last 2 weeks:

1. She finally started crawling…

2….and immediately thereafter pulling up to standing and getting into everything.

3. She also has begun to intentionally shake her head “no,” which is hilarious by itself, but just this morning has begun to add the Cuban Finger to her head shaking.  (for those that haven’t lived in Miami, this is the slow back and forth waving of your index finger that is oddly more shaming than flipping the bird, especially in traffic.)

4. She got swine flu.  Yes, really.  My mom and sister picked it up in Tahoe last week, and Maggie promptly got on a plane and came here to infect the Portland Peeps.  The sickest ones have been Cora and her cousin Grey, and Grey’s parents Ben and Carrie.  Maggie recovered after about 5 days, my mom was deathly ill for about a week, and Henry and I have both had very mild symptoms that resolved with a good night’s sleep and were probably not really the flu.  Cora and Grey were both promptly put on Tamiflu by their pediatricians and have bounced nicely.  She ran a fever for about 3 days and has not had a great appetite, but otherwise has more or less been herself.  I would not have thought this was a big deal at all had I not known it was the Dreaded Swine Flu, also known as the H1N1 virus.  The above picture was taken on day 2 of the fever.  More or less business as usual as far as she is concerned.

5. Cora got her own iPhone to play with after drowning mine in the toilet (long story) and I had to get a new one.  Actually what happened is that Henry got the new one he’s been pining for and I got his old one and Cora got my old (drowned) one.  So everyone’s happy.  Except Cora can’t figure out why the cool fish bowl app doesn’t work on her iPhone.