February has not been kind to us Porters. Oh it started out fine but quickly descended into absent husbands and snotty noses. First Della caught a cold. We're blaming it on her second swimming lesson where the pool was just a tad too cool. For a solid week Della was miserable with a constant low grade fever, sad little cough, and snot running everywhere. Of course this coincided with Daddy's busy season at work so he was gone every day until late in the night. Nana and mommy had to step up their game!After a week of no visible improvement we took Della to the doctor who patiently informed us that we were doing everything right and simply needed to wait out the storm. And wouldn't you know it, she improved the very next day! Figures. It also figures that I caught the cold the following day! I pushed to crank out some work assignments then headed home early on Friday hoping to ward off the incoming cold with some sleep ... it didn't work. I spent the entire week of our planned staycation sick, sick, sick. So did poor Nana although miraculously Daddy managed to avoid the worst of it.
Anyway ... somewhere in the midst of all this coughing and snot Della and I managed a short visit to our neighborhood park. She'd been such a good girl while I was super sick so a little play time was well deserved. Man was she pissed when we had to head home cause mommy had run out of tissue and her nose was leaking everywhere ... but she had fun while it lasted.
