why can't we just have a regular cold?

Avery had an ear infection with every little sniffle. I suppose Nora didn't want her to win. Nora started with a cold Friday. Sunday she woke up weazing. By the time we got to the dr it was worse. Luckily, our dr was the On-Call dr and she knows we don't call for nothing. Well, hoping we were there for no reason, we discovered Little Miss Nora had a small pneumonia. Happy Thanksgiving! Maybe I should have breastfed longer. oops. Good news is, she got some drugs and is much better today!

our confused pets

Avery keeps re-naming all our pets. Addie is either Molly, Cassidy or Kobe, but very rarely Addie. Our cats are Sammy and Cappi.

Oh, and now she likes to make her stuffed dog Kobe and she becomes Amy. Don't worry Loni and Jackson, you're still one of her favorite games. And believe me, she doesn't forget "NO MOM I'M LONI, REMEMBER?"

And yesterday we went to GB's house but we had to stop at Walmart on the way to buy 2 big TVs (thanks for the tv idea dad!). Oh, and we started a fire...we piled up the sticksand then blew on them (also thanks to dad for the blowing...how else do you start a fire?!)

I love that imagination!

old friends

I haven't been missing many people even though I haven't stayed in touch with anyone over the years. My niece (is only 4 yrs younger) worked with one of my greatest friends. She got us back in contact (finally I suppose!) and she just came up to visit Monday. It was so weird and so nice. We literally spent most of our lives together for several years and haven't really talked since we lived in NC. It was strangely comforting to see she was really the same person. And actually disappointing that I wasn't around for so many things. Not that she needed me but just to be around.

Even though that was great I find myself having a hard time convincing myself that I want to move closer to all those people I knew once. I don't want anything to do with most of them. And it's not like I look very different and could not even be recognized. Darn it.

Well, thank you Sarah for the reunite! I needed that. Now, how do you deal with the rest? Just pretend you don't know them? Punch them? Hide under the racks? Hash out the old crap, fists included? Never enter Concord? Hope we don't buy a house in Concord!

what is wrong with my child?

Sunday night Avery went to bed absolutely fine. Monday morning Marc woke her up and when she stood up, she fell over. She started crying that her knee hurt. Marc brought her downstairs and we decided it was actually her ankle. We gave her motrin and still she cried every time we looked at it. We thought she was making it up but that kid likes to move way to much to do this so long. And she had a small fever.

So, I wheeled her to the doc's. Of course ours wasn't there. Random dr was obviously worried that maybe the joint was infected. So, we headed down to have an x-ray taken, rather than bloodwork, just to rule that out. (Avery gets very anxious at dr, I think that's why we were waiting on bloodwork)

So, after we about traumatized her, we came home, had lunch, went up for nap. I went to get her around 3. She got up. Walked downstairs. She limped a little for like an hour but that was it. She went to gymnastics. She's absolutely fine. I called dr for answer. They actually said, it's a mystery. WHAT THE HELL KIND OF ANSWER IS THAT?? At least give me growing pains or some stock answer like that.

So, what can I even do? I trust my dr and I'm sure she looked at it but...mystery??? What if she's missing something? How could she go from not being able to walk to fine in hours? Have you heard of anything like this?

nostalgia attack

It just hit me this weekend and about 10 photo albums later, I realized I'm pretty darn happy! I've been getting completely overwhelmed by the routine of every moment. It's been getting me a bit down. But looking at us BK (before kids) was such a great reminder of all that we've done together. It's sort of crazy to think that we've been together for about 1/3 of our lives. Even that seems overwhelming at times (Marc still hasn't learned how to get those clothes in the laundry basket...i'll never give up) but to actually look at our memories, wow, it's been a really good ten years.

Not that this is very interesting to anyone else but, too bad, it's my blog! Marc, wow. Pretty great.

Acadia Pictures!

Sand Beach was the best way to begin and end our trip

The top of Cadillac Mountain

Sand Beach, first stop after long car ride, just as gorgeous through the clouds

Nora's super-fun game

It starts each and every time you open the fridge. She comes running and stands so you can't close the door. Then she pulls out as many things as she can and runs away. Last night, she got the grey poupon. she brought it to her dad and said "bite bite bite" as she did her little 'i'm so excited dance'. So, of course, Dad opened it, dipped in a finger and ler her lick it. She made the worst face! She came to me for water, a lot of water. Then she went back and asked for more! Aaaaaaahhhhhh, crazy!