Ear Infections and No Juice and Knocking Over Towers, OH MY!

Dear Riley,
About halfway through the week this week you decided to boycott formula. For a day and a half, you stuck pretty hard with apple juice and that was enough for us. Then on Thursday you straight up denied any sort of fluids. By Friday, I was ready to commit you to the hospital simply for my own sanity, so we called the dr and made an appt. She was super perplexed by your symptoms, because you weren't spiking a fever and for the most part seemed to be in a relatively good mood. She checked you out, and said everything looked good until she got a peek into your left ear. Ta da! Your first ear infection. Problem solved. She said you were probably boycotting fluids because it hurt you to suck on anything, sippy cups especially. So she wrote us a prescription for antibiotics and told us to keep you up on a tylenol-motrin rotation every 3 hours to help with the pain control and that should help fix the no fluid issue. Grandma Sharon's exact words, I think were "you have this coming" to Momma. Momma had recurrent ear infections as a kid, and Grandma Sharon seems to think this is a bit of karma coming back to bite me in the butt. Ah well. You have been relatively peaceful and happy except when we try and give you a sippy- but you are more inclined to go after juice than formula, so that's what we've done.
It is so funny to see you lately- you are developing so much of your own little personality. You are stubborn, and love to climb on things. Just this morning you were climbing all over the couch and me and Daddy, and cracking up while doing it. This week you took steps on your own for the first time- but won't do it again. You are a stubborn kid. Have I mentioned that? You continue to crack us up on a daily basis with your faces and new things you love to do. Daddy was building towers for you this morning out of blocks and you were cracking up when you were knocking them down. What an 8.5 months this has been.
Love you as big as Daddy's leopard print snuggie,
Momma