Germfest 2009

What a fun filled 2 weeks it's been! First there was the stomach bug, then teething, next a fabulous cold, and last but not least double ear infections. The stomach bug was just punishment I think for Edgar and I going out on a date w/o Abby. My Mom was watching Abby, all was well. We came home and were informed Abby had been sick twice...weird. I fed her and put her into bed, that was my first mistake, then I heard it on the monitor. Puking! poor baby girl! I ran into her and she was covered, luckily she didn't eat dinner and had pretty much just threw up the breast milk from earlier. This continued until she had nothing left in her little tummy and she went to sleep. I have to say now that being puked on by my child does not phase me in the least, I think I had a pukey shirt on for a few hours before I realized I should probably change it. The remnants of this was a week of diarrhea (aren't you glad I'm telling you all this Internet?) which could last for 2 weeks per the doctor! Things were going well and then a cold, w/ a nasty chesty cough to go w/ it. Once the cold started to go away Abby got really upset one night and couldn't stop crying and hitting her ears. uh oh. I took her in a voila!-double ear infections. So we are on 10 days of antibiotics, which are giving her diarrhea AGAIN, all in all Abby is being such a good little patient and loves her bright pink medicine. I hope when she is older she will forgive me for taking pictures of her when she is sick but she just looked so darn cute I couldn't resist. I'm hoping this week we make it to Little Gym, since the last 2 classes we have missed. I have asked friends of mine who have older kids if this is how it is every winter, I was informed, yep. sigh...

Snow!

Well Internet, it's that time of year again, it snowed. For me snow is great while it's snowing and then for the rest of the day or next day but then when it gets dirty I want no more to do with it. Abby got to experience her first snow and as you can see by the photo she wasn't all that impressed. We invited Kelly and her son and Abby's buddy Nicholas over to enjoy the snow with us. The babies were out in the snow for about 5 minutes, which is less time than it took me to get Abby's snow suit on, and they sat there and looked annoyed at why they could barely move. Then Abby wiped snow in Nicholas's face and it was time to go in. I'm sure next year will be so much more fun, I can't wait to make a snow man with her! Little Gym started up again last week and I'm so glad! I really missed having somewhere to go once a week to socialize, is that pathetic? All of our old friends were there and some new ones as well, Abby crawled all over the gym-last time we were there she hadn't quite mastered crawling yet so she has lots of freedom there to roam around. Abby has added a new trick to her repertoire this week, "So Big!" is when I ask her, "How big is Abby?" and then she and I hold our arms out very wide and I say, "sooooo biiiiiiig!" then you just change "Abby" to "Max" or "Daddy" etc...it's a very fun game!
The other day I was holding Abby and she started to scratch my chest, I told her, "no" and then she laughed at me, I told her no again but in a firmer voice and she cracked up! At this point Edgar and I had to laugh because it was funny and at this point wasn't hurting too bad, then she kept on doing it and I kept saying no, I pretended to cry and made sad faces well that was hilarious to her! After all was said and done my chest looked like I had been attacked by a kitten and I was perplexed by what to do in the future when this happens. Any suggestions will be appreciated! I'm just going to keep on saying no and stopping her from doing whatever she is doing and hopefully once she understands what the word means she will get it and not think it's so funny. I will not slap her hand away or spank her, I've decided that I really don't want to do that. I would like to use time outs instead, I know I'm naive since Abby is my only child right now so we will see if I feel differently in a year or so once the "terrible twos" hit. I have to go now and finish watching "Thelma and Louise", I love that movie.