vacation & ear infections.......

a couple weeks back, we spent a week in the cayman islands to celebrate steve's cousin mike's wedding to ilana......it was a beautiful ceremony overlooking the ocean.......casey had a great time walking around looking and smiling at everyone.......after a stressful morning getting to the airport with 2 suitcases, 2 carryons, a diaper bag, a stroller, and a carseat, the flight down to the cayman's was relatively uneventful......casey was fantastic and hardly made a peep......she only napped for about a 1/2 hour but wasn't cranky so all was good......the crib they had for her at the hotel was about 3" longer than her and maybe 6" wider, so small in other words......after the first night (which went horribly) she seemed ok sleeping in it......naps were spent in her stroller, one of the three items we couldn't have vacationed without (the other two items were casey's toy aquarium and casey's sunscreen)......speaking of sunscreen......casey got a pretty bad burn around her eyes the first day we were there.......didn't think to put it so close to her eyes.......so she looked like the tough baby that got into a fight and had two "red" eyes........we learned our lesson and kept her bathed in sunscreen the rest of the trip........casey developed a bit of a cold about 1/2 way through our trip - runny nose and a cough......the day before we left to go home, we were running low on formula and decided it might be a good time to introduce milk.......as soon as we started giving her the milk casey turned SUPER cranky (to the point of being inconsolable), didn't want to finish her bottles, refused to eat solid foods, got lethargic and wanted to sleep all the time, and had VERY runny poopy diapers.......made for a delightful flight home......actually she slept about 2 hours on the flight, but the rest of the time was pretty whiny......i assumed a milk allergy or lactose intolerance......we switched back to all formula but when that didn't really help, we knew something was wrong......took her to the doctors and found out she had a double ear infection.......lovely.......so we started her on amoxicilian which helped almost immediately, and now with only one more day of medicine to go, she's pretty much back to her normal happy smiley self......thank god!.......