Sniffles

Madison has been ill the last few days, although nothing drastic. She's had a bit of a runny nose, which is something you wouldn't normally associate with the middle of summer - but there you go. Of note is the time frame these medicines say they work - if it says on the bottle "four hours," it seems to be dead on accurate. She'll be all excited and smiling and just fine for four hours - and then all the sudden the symptoms return. We've got enough children's cough medicine going right now, and we'll see how she is tomorrow before taking bigger steps. It's largely been the sniffles and a little bit of a slowdown. We'll keep an eye on her for sure.

She had a GREAT time with a game tonight with Daddy that I just have to write about: about a year ago, I picked up a copy of "Kung Fu Panda" for the Xbox 360, just thinking she might like it someday, and of course, knowing it has a China theme to it. I figured it'd be a while until she could actually grasp the concept of how to play, but for giggles, I plugged it in tonight.

OMG. We didn't do much - just a few little multi-player matches, over and over again! But she was laughing so hard that Mommy started laughing too. We're talking belly laughs, loud and full. She was having such a great time beating Daddy up and watching him fly everywhere. I'm so glad I picked that up! We haven't heard Madison laugh this hard in a long time - and it was contagious!

Quite the opposite reaction came with the lawn care people. They visited today and gave us disturbing news: we have a seven foot long "pet" outside. Yikes! Hopefully the next time I post about that, it'll have a more "past tense" sort of feel. Like, "We got rid of the snake today."

Honestly, I don't have a problem with snakes. But I don't want it to interfere with Madison's quality of life. As in, hey let's look for Easter Eggs outside and AAAAAHHHH!!!! A SNAKE!!!! So therefore, I imagine we'll have to hire some sort of Crocodile Hunter sort of character to come in and transplant the poor bugger to some sort of natural snake habitat. Like New Jersey.