Exploring and amazing difference with new diet

On Monday I took the kids to a strip mall.  Megan walked from the car to the shopping carts of the first store and then walked along the sidewalk past another store to the pet store.  I walked both kids into the pet store and we walked around looking at the animals.  She wasn't impressed with the cats (thank goodness, I don't like cats) but she liked the fish.  We looked at several tanks that had just a few fish in them and then got to the goldfish tanks which were full of fish.  She looked at them for a little bit and then went to the next tanks and then went right back to the goldfish.  She did amazing walking around the store, she didn't try to pull things off of the shelf and just really enjoyed getting to walk around.

When we left the pet store we went into the store we had previously walked past.  We ended up walking in and just walking back out after a few seconds due to the smells in the store.  She had so much fun walking around everywhere that she didn't want to get back in the car to leave.

Yesterday when I picked Megan up from school she seemed "off" to me.  She had been fighting a runny nose since Saturday morning but otherwise she has been doing great.  Her eyes were glazed over and she kept banging her head in her carseat even when she was otherwise happy.  (we are still having carseat issues).  When we got home she wouldn't even take a bite of her lunch so I put her in bed thinking that her runny nose was wearing her out.  She slammed her head a few times in bed (not something she has done in a while) and then was asleep in a few minutes.  After nap she was acting a lot better and even ate her lunch.  She was playing well but when she was by herself, or with Sam, she was throwing toys more often than not - which is something else she hasn't done in weeks.

I noticed that her left eye had a slight discharge from it, but it was fine otherwise and it didn't seem to be bothering her; but my gut told me to get her looked at.  Will took her to the doctor as soon as he got home and she has an URI, ear infection and conjunctivitis.  And man her eye looked 50 times worse by the time he got home with her an hour and a half later.  What's amazing (and sad) is that the doctor said her ear infection was pretty bad so it had been there for a few days and the only way it showed was her banging her head in her carseat and then again at nap yesterday.  She is doing so much better with the new diet that even a bad ear infection didn't affect her behavior.

Unfortunately there are not medication options to treat her current issues that are dye and flavor free.  We are praying for the meds to only help her and for her to be protected from any negative side effects from the dyes and flavorings.