Response to Gina

Maybe I shouldn't mention that last week alone, all three of our children fell off of a bed and hit their heads. All three. In one week.

Ouch!

She fell off of the picnic table bench at the park.

This is what the outside looks like.

Here's the inside. Her tooth pretty much went through to the other side. That's what the outside wound was. Ouch!

Can't Get Enough

Here is my new eat-it-at-every-meal, wish-they-sold-it-by-the-gallons, I-just-might-clean-Costco-out favorite food.

Millie Sits Up

Pears Update

Apparently, Millie got a virus that lead to congestion that lead to a double ear infection.
The virus caused the rash a few days later, not the pears.

And the diaper rash is a separate issue. Something in Huggies reacts with her skin. So we have to use a different brand of diapers.

Now, hopefully she's on the mend.

5 months

14 lbs 6 oz
26 inches

• Eats some solid foods - rice cereal and applesauce mainly.
• Her hair is growing up top so it doesn't stick straight up as much anymore - much to her father's dismay. He says that was her trademark.
• It also doesn't appear to be curly anymore.
• Gets up on her hands and knees and rocks back and forth (belly completely off of the floor).
• Can scoot but is still not completely controlled about it.
• Has started to sit up on her own.
• Will now voice her displeasure over things - usually when the baby food is all gone.
• Has the tiniest bit of stranger anxiety when things are moving too fast or too loudly.
  
• Can sit easily on my hip.
• Can ride in a shopping cart.
• Still doesn't have her ears pierced.
  
• Thinks kids are SO funny.
• LOVES when I sing to her - even right in her face.
  

Pears?

It all started with a well check-up. We found out Millie had a double ear infection that was pretty advanced, so she was prescribed some antibiotics. Then she got two vaccinations. Then, a few days later, I gave her some pears. Shortly after I noticed a rash covering her entire upper body from head to waist, including her arms. After about 30 minutes it went away.

I was a bit confused because she had so many "new" things happen to her recently, it was difficult to isolate the rash to an obvious cause. Still, it happened shortly after giving her the pears, so I deemed her sensitive to pears at this point in her life. Pears? I've never heard of that.

Thing is, I gave her sweet potatoes at night (which she has had previously with no reaction) and she got the same darned rash all up her body. Which also disappeared after 30 minutes. And now the diarrhea has started. And a pretty rockin' diaper rash. *sigh* Wish me luck with this one. I hate the guessing games that go along with food sensitivities.

A Good Calendar

I'm a little bummed. I found a good calendar last year called the "Thinkbin Family Calendar." Unfortunately, they aren't making a 2009 edition. It was set up like this:I liked that it gave enough room on each day to write the schedule for multiple people, but not SO much room as to always look empty. Afterall, Millie and Katie don't have much that needs to be written down. Does anyone have any good recommendations?

How Do You Put YOUR Family at Risk?

My husband keeps telling me that something HAS to change. He's right.
I have this disease where I have to light the burners on the stove at the highest possible temperature when I am heating up water. I want it to boil as fast as it can. Unfortunately, this has become a hazard to my family because I also have another disease. It's the I-get-so-easily-distracted disease. Combining the two can be lethal. It causes me to put water on the stovetop, turn the burner on it's maximum setting, and then while I'm waiting for it to boil, I'll start a different project and forget that I put water on the stove at all. Then, a while later I'll remember and jump up to find that there is no longer water in my pot. And my pot no longer has the copper bottom attached to it anymore. And it is burnt black beyond possible future use. And then I sigh a sigh of relief that I dodged the "burn-our-house-down" bullet yet again.

My current count is 4 pots that have suffered this fate.

But, I have discovered a way to help me combat this terrible habit. All I have to do is turn on the timer whenever I am cooking anything. That way, even if I walk away, I have something that will re-focus me before it becomes too late.

How have you dodged a bullet?

Why I Love Living in California

Because it's January and the high today was 85 degrees.
So we went swimming.
And we weren't cold doing it.