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Friday Photos: Last week of January

Tim rides bike to work almost ever morning despite fridgid temperatures. The real bonus to this, aside from saving boat loads of money, and leaving me the the car, is that his company started to include “particulate matter” in declaring “action air days.” It used to be based more on heat and sweltering factors…but now….now we have chances for him to earn free lunches for me! So far he has earned two this month.

Cullen came over for a little play date. Morella thought about being embarassed at the state of the house, but then figured that they could actually do worse. Guess what? They did! However it was the perfect prod I needed to be able to clean the crap off the floor and vacuum later on. It’s amazing what a vacuum job does to the living room. Makes it look clean and livable.

Baby Boy — yet unnamed. This is now the fourth baby I have known/met that hasn’t had a name when I met it. It just baffles me how folks have nearly 9 months to make a decision on the kids name … and then don’t do it. If anything, it makes the name they DO get in the end half hapzard and sloppy with barely any time given to it at all.

The new family. Congratulations to Stephanie and Bill!

13 Weeks 5 Days

I would like to point out that I usually am wearing baggy stuff, and covered in fleece or hoodies, so it’s not like you could *really* see anything yet anyway. I did take a bare belly shot or two, but no one needs to see those Morella is doing great today…well better than the rest of this week has gone. I was able to entertain her this morning by having her help me peel beets. She didn’t eat much lunch and had really heavy eyelids by the end of it. I put her down for her nap and she didn’t make a fuss. She was tired!

This afternoon we are going to the Sun Prairie library — an adventure for us — to hang with Noah and Ann. I think Morella has a little cabin fever so she will probably enjoy this trip. I am also not feeling as terrible today — so hopefully it won’t be a huge chore. It’s amazing what a difference having a day without a headache makes.

That said, I should hustle to bed and see if I need a nap. It’s my single parenting day, so I really have to take corners where I can.

I had to fix it. For one, it was a test — I can send pictures to my blog via my phone! Hurray…but I also need to remember to get the orientation right. Or at least figure out how. Hm.

Anyway. She is pouting in this picture because I took the phone away from her for a second. This is her “My phone! It was my lifeline…my only hope…my only joy…..my…” Yeah you get the picture. I let her play with it again with supervision (aka making sure she didn’t log online or something where I would actually have to pay a bundle for that mistake). Anything to buy me a few minutes of sitting down and not carrying her around the house. A little break if you will.

Tim bought me a cherry pie tonight and baked it. He also got some pretty awesome ice cream “Everything but the …” for splurging and lactose free ice cream (for the pie). He was vigilant about Morella’s temperature and cold not going away which led to the diagnosis of a double ear infection and hopefully the prevention of another case of mastoiditis and her feeling better soon. He has gotten up every morning to get her out of her crib, change her diaper, give her milk and feed her breakfast. When he has come home from work, he enthusiastically gets down on the ground and plays with Morella — lighting her face up like a million bulbs while I slump the couch with fatigue. Sadly, I think we have both reached a point now where we anxiously wait for Tim to return home. For her it’s because he’s excited to play games with her and is full of energy and is physical. For me, it’s because I need a break to rest and get dinner started or finished. Mostly I need a break.

Tim has been wonderful these past few weeks. He’s like a completely different darling from a couple months ago and I am reminded of how when I am really beaten down he always steps up to plate. Ha … he even started doing laundry. It’s that bad around here folks.

Anyway. Thank goodness for my Darling. I don’t know what I would do without him right now. There haven’t been that many times in my life where I felt this … wiped out and helpless but thankfully he was there.

Oh yeah … and LAST DAY OF THE FIRST TRIMESTER! SEE YA!

This week has kind of sucked so far. I’m a little overwhelmed and got a touch of Morella’s cold. I guess I just didn’t notice right away because I get bad rhinitis with pregnancy and winter. Anyway. So Morella has been exceptionally needy, clingy and whiney the last few days. Dr. Tim insisted I take her temperature more and in fact did it himself. I’ll admit I sort of lost interest in doing it after I failed the first time. We switched to rectal temping and there is just something about that ….I know I need to get over it.

Anyway. She wasn’t getting better and yesterday afternoon was me holding and carrying her for close to three hours. It really put a strain on me and caused me to have … not stomach cramps but … I don’t know. Like uterus ache. Like every thing below my belly button just … ached. When Tim got home from work and took her temp it was 102.1. Not super high but still a fever after three days.

This morning I took her into urgent care because the next best appointment would have been smack dab in her nap. At a time like now, naptime is NOT something I screw around with, so I opted for earlier. Turns out that she has a double ear infection and is now a 10 day round of antibiotics. I hope she starts feeling better soon. It’s really dampening … well any time I have during the day. There is only so much one can do while holding a baby who doesn’t want you to sit.

Her nap today kind of sucked. Only two hours. I needed three hours. My headache is lurking again. My nose is cracked, stuffy, dry and bleeding — yes all at once. Gah. I just want to stay in bed and read. Or watch TV or …. I don’t know SOMETHING. I wish Morella would entertain herself for 10 minutes.

Okay. I guess she did while I typed this…except se s is on my lap and has been helping to type this entry while playing a with a phone, a wet wash cloth and anything else she will reach. Oh here starts the whine.

Aww nutz. It happened. I don’t know of it was the little bit of clam chowder I had, the sweet potato biscuit, three chocolate/butter scotch chip cookies, or the tuna casserole … but really I suspect it was the cherry limeade soda — but I finally barfed. There have been a few close calls but I was always victorious in the end. Except, this time my defenses must have been down since it’s been a couple days since I’ve gagged on anything.

Morella is slightly better today. She still has a mild fever. Tim thinks I should call to the doctor if she still has it tomorrow morning. I suppose that is a good idea because that would make her having the fever for 48 hours. She has taken two long naps today and woke up congested from the most recent one. That’s good I think, because whenever I get a cold and it turns to the really thick snotty stage that means the end is in sight. Of course she also stayed up until 10 last night…she just won’t go to sleep right away! She stays in there talking, crying, talking, banging her crib. At least she wasn’t up last night after we put her down though.

So I guess the great return to book baby is cancelled for tomorrow.

The down comforter was awesome last night! It was like sleeping under a super soft warm dream. Ahh. I am also onto the last Twilight series book and a part of me just wants to jump to the end to see if she becomes a vampire or not. But I will resist. I must!

My residual cyst is really hurty today. I wonder when it’s going to start shrinking. At the last ultrasound it was measuring on par with Crouton. The same thing happened with Morella and I think it started to get smaller/feel better after week 15. At least that was when I noticed it.

I can’t believe I threw up.

Aww, my friend Hilary made a nice little post about me on her blog today. Check it out. And check out Hilary while you are at. She’s writes good.

Today has been pretty good. Morella was up five times in the course of last night, but Tim got her every time. She awoke with a face encrusted in snot and has been pretty crabby and sick all day. Poor kid. Despite that, I’ve had a pretty good day. We tried to trick her into sleeping in her room by making her floor into a giant slumber party bed and laid around for a good hour and half in there waiting…she never did fall asleep. I eventually put her down two hours after her orginal naptime and after howling for 10 minutes she crashed out for 2.5 hours. Nice.

Meanwhile I took a nap. I also went out for breakfast with my friend Amy at Avenue Bar and Grill. It was okay food and a small menu…it was really nice to at least still go out and get away a little bit. We thought if Morella wasn’t that bad that we would all go out, but that didn’t happen.

Tim got me my Learn to Juggle kit, a DOWN COMFORTER! and duvet, and a root beer float. Ahh. He also fried some onions this evening which was pretty good. I don’t have a headache today which is so awesome that I can’t even begin to describe that feeling. I had some time to just … relax and man… it was nice. I guess I needed that. I can’t wait to try out the new blanket tonight.

Watch, I’ll bet Morella’s gift to me is her cold. See, that’s what I get for getting out there and being social. Sigh. I guess. She can’t live in a bubble her whole life. That said, we did watch some TV today with her because she just kind of wanted to sit around. I had a special moment where I realized my daughter and I were snuggled up on the couch together watching a chick flick (You’ve Got Mail) under my new down comforter.

A little slice of heaven.

Laima — are you using the rss or the atom feed? I have no problems with the atom on my gmail reader — everything always comes up within seconds of publishing. And also thanks for the heads up on the header line from the phone post. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal…but I’ll only save it for super special occasions.

You know for being a hermit, I’ve been pretty darn social this past week. Maybe my hermitage is over? There was the wedding, then the new member social for the Mom’s East side club, then scrabble at Laima’s Wednesday night, followed by a play group outing to the Children’s Musuem with two other moms/tots on Thursday. Today I went to Trader Joes to splurge on fun snacks. I got some freeze dried blueberries for Morella that taste awesome as well as some other great snacks and fully cooked sushi for tonight’s Battlestar. Woo! The best part was that I bought a bouquet of flowers for myself for only 10$ — I mean, really exquisite — and ended up getting them for free because of the sample lady! What a really nice gesture! I was pretty happy about it. It’s such a nice set of flower too…yellow/red roses, irises…some other stuff…

The sucky thing about today is that I woke up with a headache. I don’t think it’s going to go away anytime soon either. Bummer. Oh wait, I have a face mask in the freezer that is ready for use. I should use that on my head while I take my afternoon nap…which by the way is already in progress. So without further ado, let me post some pictures and then get my booty to bed.

Congratulations to the newlyweds – Chad and Laura! What a beautiful pair.

Look at those cheeks! She looks like a mini AlfredHitchcock here. Morella and Pink Kitty take this wedding business very seriously for about …. uh 10 minutes.

Taking a break to admire herself in the window. Her dress came off so that she could crawl around better. Consider that a fair number of the attendees were or are former goths, the outfit was entirely appropriate.

Tim, Chuck, Lowen, Sigrid and Matt all came over last Wednesay to eat some snacks, drink some booze and chat. It was a nice evening. Oh yeah, and Pluto got lots of pets. You can see here that he was going to follow willing hands as far as he could.

Testing….texting from my phone. Putting Morella to bed.

I was getting water ready for washing some dishes this morning and saw that Morella was standing next to the elevated dog dishes. Meaning, Pluto’s water and food are at the perfect height for her to play with. I told her not to play with his food…of course she was playing with the water…but I needed to do start the dishes.

A few minutes later I walk over to assess the damage. Not to bad really. She just dumped a bunch of his dry dog food into the water bowl, and everything was still relatively dry. Regardless, I said “What is going on here?”

She looks at me with panic, and then to the dog dishes and then back at me before falling to the ground in tears. Then she started to really bawl and crawl in little uncertain circles. I had a really hard time biting back my laughther. She’s so darn cute when she knows she’s been naughty! I imagine one day it won’t be cute…but for now it is. I picked her up and took her into the kitchen to play with dish suds and take her mind of it.

Of course 20 minutes later she rifled through my purse and found a sucker, which made it to the bathroom before it was discarded amidst a bunch of unrolled toliet paper. After that she went into the hallway and got “stuck” lying on her back. I laid down next to her and cuddled for a few minutes before she got “unstuck” and went back to see what else was left in my purse.

This is just one of the things that desperately needs to be done around here. I didn’t even show you the table or the counter. Morella dumped a bunch of macaroni everywhere … soon it will be ground into the floor. Sometimes I wish Pluto was a normal dog and would eat it.

I also desperately need to take a shower. I could deep fry fish with this hair! I need to pay bills…in fact I think I might have to have Tim take the electric bill to work because I am so close to the deadline. The wedding, the holiday yesterday and well crouton has thrown me off. And then I need to do some serious thinking about an olive branch I received in the mail today. To say I was stunned is an understatement. To forgive is divine, I know. But sometimes you get so stuck into a rut that it’s hard to find the way out.

So am I going to do any of this right now? No. Morella just started her nap and I need to be energetic for her, so she trumps everything and therefore I am going to go take a nap as well. I just hope her nap is longer than mine.