Sarah has her first stomach flu. She woke up vomiting at 5:15 am, she vomited throughout the day and all over me, and then she stopped as soon as we got home from the doctor's office and slept. When she woke up she wanted to eat and drink everything in sight. I didn't let her--I gave her a little Pedialite and some plain rice and cleaned her up and ( Read more... )

So we all went out to dinner tonight, and we had one of those evenings where I expect to see our family featured on cf_hardcore. Sarah wasn't bad, she was just *loud*. I'm looking at the other people in the restaurant (which, granted, was Amici's; it's a pizza place, so not fancy) and but I was sure everyone else was thinking I'm a moo out with my ( Read more... )

This evening, after her bath, Sarah pooped in her potty. She stood up and was all "Voila!" and gesturing like one of Bob Barker's lovely assistants, as if the teeny little poop was going to be grand prize in the Showcase Showdown ( Read more... )

because my daughter looked in the mirror today, smiled at her reflection, and said "Yaya boo-ful."

I'll put my own eyes out with a fork before I let the world take that away from her.

I was at the mall today and there's a new threading kiosk there, and there was a rather matronly older Indian woman busily threading Random Guy's eyebrows. Random Guy has his five or six year old son with him, and Random Kid is saying, quite loudly, "Daddy? Is this like makeup? I think it's like makeup. Daddies don't *usually* wear makeup, do they ( Read more... )

Two things I learned from a board book today:

"Xigua" is Chinese for "watermelon", and "vegetable marrow" refers to zucchini and other long, white-fleshed squash.

So, day before yesterday (or yesterday, I'm not sure at this point and I'm kinda wacky tired) Sarah and I saw a bird on our way to the sitter's. Sarah calls all birds "owl", because she has a book about baby animals and she is quite taken with the baby owls. She says "OW-uh ( Read more... )

Christmas kicked my ass today. I dropped off Sarah early and then went to work and snuck out to get a haircut and then came back to work (I'm the only one covering this week) and worked some more and then left and tried to run by the grocery store *real quick* and it ended up taking forever and I picked up Sarah late. And then I burst into choking ( Read more... )

The thing that no one told me about being a mom is that it's like wearing your heart on the outside. I can't hear about bad things happening to children without feeling awful ( Read more... )

I had a crap day today. I spent far more time than I really wanted to going to the doctor and being tested for things I'd really rather not be tested for. (My doctor apparently doesn't watch House, is all I'm saying). But I went to work and I did all the things I needed to do, and then I picked up Sarah from the sitter's, and we went to the store ( Read more... )