Another "ugh" day for both of us. Abby has started cultivating a very nasty sounding cough over the past couple days, and this morning it was a bit worse. Being cautious parents who have twice had to tangle with pneumonia, we decided to haul the Abster to urgent care. I actually went, Jen hung out with Lils at home. Abby was a trooper, and apparently does not have strep, flu, or pneumonia, but just a cold/brachial infection.
This was all it took for Grandma Marj to pack up and come down to stay with us for a couple days. That sort of reaction should speak for itself as to what kind of family we have. Because of her, I will get to go to work tomorrow instead of staying home with Abby, which would probably send me clear over the edge of insanity. I spent almost the entire weekend in the house; one more day would have seen me snap like a twig.
I'm tired. I'm tired of the girls - night night time could not come soon enough tonight - and yet I still want to go upstairs and see them right now. Parenting is weird like that. Here are some high points from the day, bullet style because that's easy and I'm tuckered, gall darnit.
- The very end of the story "Three Singing Pigs" goes like this: "'Quack' says the duck, the horse says 'neigh'; it's quiet now...what do YOU say?" I read this tonight to Lily, and she answered, "Please!" Which I thought was really smart of her.
- Abby loves to knock things over when I stack them, like cups. Every time she does it I yell, "Noooo! WHY?!?" Today she knocked over a column of blocks, and for some reason I didn't say anything. After a second she yelled, "Whyyyy?" That was hilarious.
- Abby kept running around in circles tonight, which was slightly out of character for her, but she was enjoying it. I joined in. Before long I realized she was saying something every few seconds. Then I noted that she kept stopping and starting every few seconds. When I put this all together, I realized that she was playing "stop/go" by herself. She would run around, then say "Stop!" and stop, then "Go!" and go. Might be the cutest thing I've seen her do to date.
- Abby was in her high chair, Lily was not in hers. Abby started crying, like a really huge cry (likely because she was exhausted from not taking a nap and being sick and all the sweatshop work we make her do); Lily ran over and started patting her side, then started saying, "Sshhhhhh....shhhhhh....shhhhhh." They were big long shushes, the same kind I do for Abby when I'm trying to get her to calm down.
- I was in the kids room getting jammies and I sneezed. From downstairs I heard a tiny little Lily say, "bleeesss you."
Day three hundred. Whoo hoo, three hundred!!
Very clever title! Can't wait to see those two! (and you and Jen, of course)
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