Almost Fully Recovered

Alisa has almost fully recovered from her illness. She still has a cough and occasional runny nose but she's back to being playful and smiling. She tickled me a lot today, which is the cutest. She was a bit whiny today though and wanted to eat most foods in the living room. We generally let her eat some snacks in the living room if they are not messy but meals are for her highchair since she always ditches the silverware after a few bites and gets her hands really messy. Since she was sick all last week and not wanting to eat much, she hardly sat in her high chair. I was afraid she'd never want to sit there again but today she surprised me by running over to it and pulling on the tray because she wanted to sit up there and eat a hot cheese dog.

I am celebrating the fact that I finally got her into the bathtub tonight for a quick bath. Her hair really needed to be washed. She was concerned about poop in the tub as she has been ever since her last pooping incident just over 2 weeks ago. But, she didn't cry hard or try to get out. She let me quickly wash her and then pull her safely out of the tub. Thank God! She hadn't pooped yet today so I was praying it wouldn't come out in the tub because then she would have REALLY feared poop in the tub and we'd be back to square one.

Here she is playing in the fountain on our porch this afternoon (she managed to keep her clothes dry until the very end, which was like an hour later!):