Week Two

We had our ups and downs this week. Nathan must have seen something on one of his cartoons about gingerbread men because for several days he had been trying to get me to make gingerbread men. He finally talked me into it. We don't have a gingerbread cookie cutter so we took some various shapes from his play dough bin and washed them to use on our gingerbread. We made special gingerbread so Nathan could eat it. It took lots longer to make than he had expected. But in the end he got to "decorate" his cookie. He didn't end up liking gingerbread but had fun with the candy he had picked out at the store.

Here is my complaint about that shopping trip. I had gone to buy ribbon two days before Natalie was born to make bows. Once I was home I realized I had been charged for 54.4 yards of ribbon instead of 5.44 yards. The difference was something like $16 but was a pain right to have to return to fix the problem not to mention I couldn't use that ribbon until I got it sorted out. Well, because Natalie came early I wasn't able to get to the store to return it until a week and a half later and this time with two kids in tow. I went to customer service and waited in the long line to be told I had to go back to the cutting table and have the ribbon measured. I tried to explain what had happened but was told there was nothing they could do until I had it measured. So we went and stood in that long line. Longer than usual with Halloween being so close. Finally we got it all measured and checked out with our other items before returning to wait in the customer service line once again. This time I was told the person at the cutting table had not provided the right information and they tried to send me back there again but I refused telling them the problem once again and that it was their mistake and I had already spent too much of my time trying to fix their mistake. She finally saw the light and refunded my $16. What a pain!

Friday Nathan complained that his stomach hurt and that afternoon proved it really did my throwing up. Not a little throw up may I add I used a cup and scooped cup fulls into a bowl. He had been sitting on our new couch so three of our cushion covers had to be dry cleaned. He continued throwing up for about 24 hours always making it in the bowl he carried with him. he was really a good sport about it. The next afternoon he had a soccer game. He really wanted to go and since he had missed his game the week before I decided to take him. Ryan went to the football game so I took Natalie with us. She stayed in her car seat the whole time. Nathan played off and on but not too hard since he was feeling a bit under the weather. He never had a fever or any other symptoms. I ended up checking the reactions from the vaccines he had gotten that Monday and it said that one in fifty children vomit 4-6 days later. So I think that is what it was from.

We had the Wagstaffs over to celebrate Terri's birthday that Sunday. Her birthday is exactly one week after Nathan and Natalie's.

Natalie is still such a great sleeper and we found out on her two week checkup that she was 7 pounds 5 ounces and 19 and a half inches long. So she is getting enough to eat. I asked if we should be worried about how much she sleeps and I was reassured it was just fine as long as she was eating well. So we will just be grateful for a good sleeper for now.