Recovering

My baby girl is slowly, but surely recovering from this nasty H1N1 flu.  It's been the pits for her...but this morning, in spite of some coughing, she seemed VERY much herself!  She was bouncing all over the place and I knew that it would be tough to keep her down on this, the first sunshiny day in WEEKS!  It's nice and brisk and cool outside today...not cold...just refreshing.  And the sky is so so blue and most importantly, overflowing with sunshine!  And so, after I exercised, she and I headed out for an adventure...the first time she's left the house in a week!  We headed over to Bear Creek Park in Keller where we found an AWESOME playground and a huge park with all sorts of wonderful walking trails and a creek and there is a huge pasture with long horn cattle along the trail.  It was really neat.  We took some pictures, Clara got to swing for a few minutes....but it was apparent that her energy level was a fleeting phenomenon.  The child has pretty not moved too much except from her bed to the couch and the couch to her bed for a whole week.  She was tuckered and coughing a good bit by the time we made it back to the car.  At that point, we proceeded to find some lunch.  I asked her what sounded good and pretty much told her she could have ANYTHING she wanted.  She's eaten practically nothing this week.  She decided she wanted some steak.  And so we headed into the Sawgrass Steakhouse.  We ordered her up a little steak and when it came....she dug right in.  And NEARLY finished it.  She ate steak and steak fries, and part of my salad.  I think she ate more food today, in that one meal, than she has eaten all week combined!  It was a bit pricey as far as lunch goes....but it was worth every penny to see her eat with such gusto and enjoy her food...for once!  After we finished up our lunch, we drove into Grapevine.  It's on the way home.  I wanted to check out just a few more things there.  We jumped out by the railroad tracks where there are some really cool, metal buildings.  I got some great shots of my princess.  She was SO exhausted by the time we headed home.  Total time out...just over two hours.  But it was more than enough for her.  She was barely able to stay awake on the way home and has been VERY quiet since we got home.  She realizes now why she was not allowed to go back to school today.  SHE may be ready....but her body is still recovering.  Next week....she'll be right back in the thick of things!  Here are some shots of my recovering angel!