hammer gave me a laugh today. i'm not sure which i am, but i will not be sharing pictures of my child's poop. i've seen it done before on other blogs and it's not pretty.
did i mention it hurts to laugh? i don't think i have a sinus infection, but my sinuses are just pounding. when i laugh, when i cough, when i sneeze (double ow!), when i bend over to pick something up, my head feels like it's caught in a vise.
however, life doesn't stop just because i'm sick. rob is in georgia, preparing for his next tour of sea duty. i've been playing the role of single mom (with a generous paycheck in the bank) for the last 2 1/2 weeks. we've had all sorts of germs visiting while rob has been gone...reese had a viral respiratory thing (a fancy name the doctor gave her persistent cough), cade had pinkeye, and now i have this head thing. elisha has her own thing going on...she's not sick but she's teething for real now. she's not sleeping well at all and she's biting. not what a breastfeeding 4 month old should be doing to a tired mommy! but she is cute. so i'll let it slide for a while longer.
i'm supposed to be getting this house ready to rent out so then we can move down to a rented house in georgia. we have a few superficial things to fix before i call the property manager to have her list it as available. however, with all these germs waging warfare on us, i really don't feel like leaving the house to get any of the supplies i need to do the work. i'm going to call her on monday and see if she has a handyman and a paint crew at the ready so i can just hand it all off to them. i surrender.
1.20.2007
in the year...
| thanks for the idea, hammer :) In 1976 (the year you were born) |
 Gerald Ford is president of the US The US celebrates its bicentennial, marking the 200th anniversary of its independence The Viking II sets down on Mars' Utopia Plains Promising, "I will never lie to you," Jimmy Carter is elected president of the United States Israeli commandos rescue hostages from Entebbe, Uganda The Concorde begins flights from New York to Europe George W. Bush is arrested and fined for driving under the influence of alcohol Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is invented by Seymour Cray Freddie Prinze Jr., Reese Witherspoon, Colin Farrell, 50 Cent, Fred Savage, and Shannon Elizabeth are born Cincinnati Reds win the World Series Pittsburgh Steelers win Superbowl X Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup Rocky is the top grossing film Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins is published The Eagles Their Greatest Hits compilation becomes the first album in history to be certified platinum "Tonight's The Night" by Rod Stewart spends the most time at the top of the US chart Charlie's Angels and The Muppet Show premiere |
1.06.2007
happy new year...bleh.
once again, i've fallen into my poor blogging habits. i made dedicated entries for about a week but suddenly my free time is no longer my own.
elisha has decided that it's too entertaining to watch the world around her. this leads to catnapping, and just poor napping in general. getting her to sleep for an hour when the other 2 are awake is a major achievement. even getting her to sleep for an hour while the other 2 are already asleep is an achievement. maybe she's just busy growing synapses or something, because she is amazing me.
while we were in iowa, she discovered she could roll over and over and over and actually get somewhere. so if you put her on a blanket in the middle of the room and give her 5 minutes, you'll find her in a corner or up against the baseboard heater (which isn't even being used lately, it feels springier than spring outside!). she's also started using her voice more, just kind of blabbing to herself. and the last few days she has started blowing big juicy raspberries. it's so adorable, even if she leaves my shoulder wet all the time. she's really amazing me, i don't remember all this rolling over for at least another month with the other 2. (elisha just turned 4 months.) oh, and baby girl is also trying to sit up. when she's reclining in her carseat, it looks like she's doing little crunches because she's lifting her head up off the seat.
so christmas in iowa was a time of exploration for elisha. for the rest of us, it was a time of sickness. ugh. the 22nd i came down with the stomach flu (although i never threw up, i have such a strong gag reflex...or is that a weak gag reflex?? hmmm) but i felt any second like i could have thrown up. i made frequent trips to the toilet anyway, being struck with the diarrhea bug too. i stayed in bed for a whole day, something i haven't done since before i had kids. i was so weak, i couldn't have walked anyway.
rob had the diarrhea side of the sickness so he was in charge of the kids while i was sick. he brought me elisha every 2 or 3 hours to nurse and thankfully she did not get it. it was a short illness and i felt better around 10pm that night, but then who came into our room around midnight saying that she threw up in her bed? reese. :/
she had the bug the 23rd but was better in time for christmas. we thought we were all healthy so we left iowa on the 26th and who threw up in the hotel the morning of the 27th? cade :/ his first tummy bug :( i snagged the hotel's ice bucket and managed to catch most of it. the rest of the trip was a blur, between him throwing up AND having the nastiest diapers i've ever seen. i guess he really got screwed over.
we also had my initiation into the 'my child's just thrown up on your floor' club. cade nailed the floor in a mcdonald's in NY state. i added it to his baby book. :)
but we're all healthy again, just in time to hear of the meningitis scares in nearby rhode island. i hope all the decontamination they're doing in the schools there does the job. children shouldn't die from germs picked up in school.
elisha has decided that it's too entertaining to watch the world around her. this leads to catnapping, and just poor napping in general. getting her to sleep for an hour when the other 2 are awake is a major achievement. even getting her to sleep for an hour while the other 2 are already asleep is an achievement. maybe she's just busy growing synapses or something, because she is amazing me.
while we were in iowa, she discovered she could roll over and over and over and actually get somewhere. so if you put her on a blanket in the middle of the room and give her 5 minutes, you'll find her in a corner or up against the baseboard heater (which isn't even being used lately, it feels springier than spring outside!). she's also started using her voice more, just kind of blabbing to herself. and the last few days she has started blowing big juicy raspberries. it's so adorable, even if she leaves my shoulder wet all the time. she's really amazing me, i don't remember all this rolling over for at least another month with the other 2. (elisha just turned 4 months.) oh, and baby girl is also trying to sit up. when she's reclining in her carseat, it looks like she's doing little crunches because she's lifting her head up off the seat.
so christmas in iowa was a time of exploration for elisha. for the rest of us, it was a time of sickness. ugh. the 22nd i came down with the stomach flu (although i never threw up, i have such a strong gag reflex...or is that a weak gag reflex?? hmmm) but i felt any second like i could have thrown up. i made frequent trips to the toilet anyway, being struck with the diarrhea bug too. i stayed in bed for a whole day, something i haven't done since before i had kids. i was so weak, i couldn't have walked anyway.
rob had the diarrhea side of the sickness so he was in charge of the kids while i was sick. he brought me elisha every 2 or 3 hours to nurse and thankfully she did not get it. it was a short illness and i felt better around 10pm that night, but then who came into our room around midnight saying that she threw up in her bed? reese. :/
she had the bug the 23rd but was better in time for christmas. we thought we were all healthy so we left iowa on the 26th and who threw up in the hotel the morning of the 27th? cade :/ his first tummy bug :( i snagged the hotel's ice bucket and managed to catch most of it. the rest of the trip was a blur, between him throwing up AND having the nastiest diapers i've ever seen. i guess he really got screwed over.
we also had my initiation into the 'my child's just thrown up on your floor' club. cade nailed the floor in a mcdonald's in NY state. i added it to his baby book. :)
but we're all healthy again, just in time to hear of the meningitis scares in nearby rhode island. i hope all the decontamination they're doing in the schools there does the job. children shouldn't die from germs picked up in school.
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