lots of random stuff

Dear person who invented Infant Motrin: Thank you.

Poor Abby woke up this morning still not feeling well. She has all the signs of a viral infection, which means we just have to wait it out and try to keep her as comfortable as we can. When she does not have her medicine, her fever comes back and it makes her lethargic and limp and pretty pathetic. But, once that medicine kicks in - she is back to her normal self in no time. In fact, I think she's even sillier than usual. Which is kinda funny.

After her nap today, however, she refused to drink the pedialyte I picked up for her and she refused to drink water and she refused to eat. Luckily, after the medicine kicked in I was able to offer her some tortilla with some hummus on it that she really enjoyed. You know those big tortillas that you're supposed to use for burritos? Yeah, she ate two of those with hummus on each bite. She managed to then down a whole cup of water and most of a cup of pedialyte. The girl loved hummus. loved.

drinking her grape pedialyte

All that to say - that other than being sick, she's fine. ;-) We just have to keep her fever down so that she feels well enough to keep hydrated and hopefully we'll have our healthy Abby back by next week.

Usually while I cook dinner - Abby is standing at my feet tugging on my pants or sitting by herself whining that I'm not giving her enough attention. On rare occasions, she'll play alone while I cook - but most of the time, if I'm in the kitchen, she wants to be there too. She's fine the rest of the day, but there's something about cooking that apparently just bugs her. Not today. I noticed I had finished prepping most of our meal and hadn't heard Abby - this is what I find when I peek into the living room. She was almost asleep.

When Kyle came home, he took his turn hugging our little space heater.

Abby wouldn't eat much (anything) for dinner, but she got a second wind right at bed time and wanted to laugh and dance and giggle and play (sorry I don't have any pictures of that - I was too busy watching & basking in her momentary happiness) We eventually finished her bath and put her down for the night - and then it was time for me to go grocery shopping. I'm not really a fan of leaving the house after 7pm, but we've needed groceries for 4 days and we were running out of - everything. So off I went.

Something they don't have in Arkansas are bi-level grocery stores. Many of the stores here have services where you send your groceries in bins down a conveyor belt and then you drive your car through a garage where a bag boy finds your bin and puts everything in your car for you. It's kinda neat. Well, we have a new grocery store near our house that finally put in cart escalators. I'm constantly entertained by these types of things. So as you go up and down the escalators - you can watch your cart do the same thing. Now I only go to this grocery store - just so I can watch the carts....like a 5 year old.

I tried to take a picture without looking like the dork taking a picture of her grocery cart on an escalator - but I failed, so it's not a very good picture. But, it's just one of those things that has been in the part of my brain labeled "things to tell people who don't live in Boston" Grocery escalators.

oh, and for the first time ever, I actually remembered to bring my reusable grocery bags with me! I'm hoping by acknowledging that fact, that I will be able to remember next time too. Yay me!

Ok, what else. Oh yeah, the gym. Long story short - I can use the gym at BC for much cheaper than my current gym and am in the process of getting mine and Kyle's memberships squared away. Once we get a parking permit - my plan is to go as often as I can on the weekends, and at least twice during the week after Abby goes to bed. This means I'm going to have to get over that whole - not wanting to leave the house after 7 - thing. But I think I can do it. I'm feeling re-motivated. I'm actually excited about a lot of the classes they offer - I'm thinking about taking up tennis again even. We'll see. :)

Oh - and today marks the first day that Abby started stepping up the stairs with her whole foot instead of climbing them with her knee first. Does that make sense? Just wanted to document.

Ok. That's a lot of random info for one blog. Now it's time to sit back and put my feet up and watch Modern Family with the hubby. And if you haven't started watching that show yet - you need to. So funny.