I'm going to have to start calling Ella "Nanny." Samantha has been going around smacking her lips, and I realized that once again she is mimicking Ella when she eats something. Ella has dewflaps and they make a very distinctive noise that Samantha has down exactly. I wonder what they say to each other?

Samantha threw up again this morning. I went in around 5 to discover the situation and had to wake Matt. He changed the sheets while I tried to wash Sam's hair in the pre-dawn light. I got her mostly cleaned up and changed her nightclothes. I held her until she went back to sleep, which took an hour. She slept until 9am. Her sleep schedule is now totally messed up, and we are going to have to work hard to get her back to a reasonable wake up time when she feels better. I did give her a little bit of solids today, mostly because she seemed to want some. She nibbled on a Zweibach toast and had a few bites of rice cereal, and that was it for the whole day. Just before bedtime she drank the whole 4 ounces of water and grape juice that the nurse recommended. Sam seemed to like it cold, which surprised me. I guess it was soothing to her stomach.

Her face has been flushed all day, and the twinkle just isn't the same in her pretty blue eyes. I would hold her, and she'd snuggle in, not trying to dash off somewhere. I know she is really not feeling well then. A lot of fretting noises today, sort of half yells, and then she was too tired even to do that, but too miserable to sleep. I gave her a little bit to eat, as much as she wanted, then a bath, which seemed to soothe her. She just conked out after her bottle and we haven't heard a peep out of her since. I am going to bed soon myself, since I feel awful with a sore tummy and a head cold too.