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Something that makes me happy: Visiting with my parents and watching the kids interact with Nana and Papa.

Something I’m thinking: To borrow a line from Maddie, “my runny nose is running.”

Something I’m hoping: Once again, I’ve had a bad day for allergies and hope that I’m not getting sick. This happened a few weeks ago, and it turned out to either be a very short illness or just a bad afternoon of allergies. I wasn’t able to get much of a nap this afternoon since Maddie boycotted her nap today, so it’s hard to tell.

Something happening around the house: Gabe did some yardwork on Friday which we believe might have brought a tick into the house.

Something I’m reading: Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella for this month’s book club.

Something I’m watching: Hopefully, we’ll finally watch the Chuck finale tonight. We haven’t had the time for a 2 hour finale since it aired.

Something tasty: Potato wedges seasoned with olive oil and french onion soup mix and baked in the oven. Also, I made blueberry cobbler and it was fantastic!!!

Something Maddie is doing (27 months old): This is the second weekend in a row that she has refused to take an afternoon nap (on one day). I still feel like it is our fault since we were a little off schedule today. She was also excited about visiting with Nana and Papa. Her favorite thing from this weekend was probably playing with Nana’s iPad and a paint program. It was funny watching her “paint” with her fingers for the first time. She kept looking at her fingers, expecting to see a mess on her fingertips. Too funny. She had her first of 6 swimming lessons on Saturday and seemed to love it.

Something Cullen is doing (19 weeks old): Cullen seems to be more aware of toys and is more interested in grabbing them (and putting them straight into his mouth). He drools quite a bit. We are wondering if he might have reflux as he has been spitting up more often and seems to be in pain when eating sometimes. We’re taking him to the doctor in the morning to see what they think.

Something I am struggling with: I was bit by a tick yesterday!!! Despite the fact that I spent a lot of time in the woods growing up, this was the first time that I have been bitten by one. I’ve been terrified of it happening my whole life. I was about to take a shower, and noticed a spot on my thigh and then realized it was a tick sucking my blood. I called for Gabe who tried to get him off of me. He was very firmly attached. We then spent probably 45 minutes trying to extract bits of tick from me involving tweezers, a needle, and a bottle of rubbing alcohol. I ended up going to the Urgent Care where their approach was similar to no avail. Apparently, the best tick picker in the south couldn’t even dislodge his mandible parts. I’m not too thrilled about having tick bits in my thigh. Now, I just hope that he wasn’t carrying some dreadful disease. It’s an understatement to say that the whole thing freaked me out a bit. I screamed like a girl, and phrases such as “get it out!” and “he’s trying to kill me!” and “I’m going to die” might have exited my mouth.

Something I’m doing towards my goals: I’m trying to eat a little healthier (though not largely succeeding) since it is becoming clear to me that this extra 25 pounds from the pregnancy isn’t going to lose itself.

Something I learned: Cabbage really isn’t so bad. We had some shredded cabbage sauteed with squash and seasonings. It was tasty! We had that other beef and cabbage dish that we’ve been making, so it was nice to find that it’s tasty in other forms as well.

Something I’m looking forward to: We have a lot on our calendar this week, but not too much that is exciting.

Something random: Mobile, Alabama is apparently the wettest city in the US, according to Wits and Wagers. We played last night with my parents and sister. Fun!

Something captured: Maddie painting on the iPad.

Others writing The Sunday Somethings: Audrey

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Posted by kerry on Sunday, June 6th, 2010 at 5:44pm.
Categories: life.