She's A Wreck

Now that Matilda is able to skip a morning nap I'm able to run errands with her while Sam is in school. It is so much easier to just have a kid in the cart!

Matilda had a pretty high fever on Sunday, Monday, and into Tuesday morning. Yesterday she woke up from her nap with a terrifying red rash all over her body. I called the doctor's office and confirmed that it was most likely roseola. She's been okay but is obviously uncomfortable.

This morning after we dropped Sam at school we went to the store. Looking back, I should have guessed she'd need a nap this morning. She hung on for a while but then started falling apart. Sitting in the front of the cart, she gazed around with bleary, puffy eyes. Her face was blotchy and red and her hair was alternately matted down and standing on end.

I put a box of Kashi Honey Sunshine cereal (free after coupon!) in the cart. Matilda perked right up. She wrenched herself around until she managed to grip the box and pull it up into the seat next to her. Honey Sunshine was her favorite cereal six months ago and we haven't had it since. The kid has a memory like a steel trap. She clung to the box through the rest of the store and screamed when I put it on the belt. The kind woman checking my groceries tried to find the treat so she could scan it and hand it back to her. She didn't believe me when I said it was the box of Kashi.

Matilda cried again when I had to take it away from her to put her in her carseat. She hung on to it the whole way home and managed to drag it upstairs with her. I thought she'd have to sleep with it but I managed to wrench it away from her. Fever, rash, and the only thing she wants is whole grains.

I've always thought Sam was a bizarre little kid and now Matilda is obsessed with boxes of healthy cereal. I'm going to have to start looking at myself.