Day 18

Since G ran a call early this morning, I had a hr and half this morning of wake time with just Josie and Mama. Kinda a trial run. It went ok, with the exception of the meltdown of wanting more cereal and then deciding that she wasn't going to eat it. Mama thought otherwise. Mean oh mean I am. 

We vacuumed the house... Double nasty and folded a basket of laundry. These two things made me feel like super woman. We went on a stroller ride to Martin's to get bananas. Because it may be life threatening if you don't have a banana for the morning. 

Then we laid around like dead men while she played around and/on top of us. We are so tired. 

Lunch of grilled hamburgers.. Yeah for G grilling. Josie didn't want a thing to do with the good food. She stuck with her boring rice, and hard boiled eggs. I tried to trick her into eating two Lima beans for in return for a cookie. It wasn't happening. So no lima, no cookie. 

We don't wear shoes in the house.. It just keeps the dirt out better so with J thinking she has to wear shoes, we made a plan and she is working with us. We gave shoes that go on outside the door and shoes that go on inside the door. 

We watered flowers this afternoon and even got in the pool for 20 mins :). It was burr cold water but she loved it. 

These weeks was the first time in my life that I have had NO appetite. And it's still not back. So it seems as if I am ALWAYS getting food ready. I have never prepared three meals a day for anyone. It's crazy!!  And trying to keep baby fed, you have no time or desire to eat.  I will never doubt what moms do. They cook, they wash clothes, and hold whining babies. That is 24 hrs a day. I honestly have no clue how this happened to me. Yeah, and I how I dressed today, well, it didn't match. And I don't care. Frumpy.  But I still win, my kid may have been covered with yogurt, but I 

still win.. Because we are all still alive. 

This evening we called my sister, but they weren't home so we drove by the fire station to take a picture of their front sign that was congratulated us on being parents. 

Then headed to the local school playground again. It is right behind my brothers and so the kiddos came out to play with Josie. 

My favorite highlight of the day was we stopped at McDonald's to get a ice cream cone for Josie... We laughed till we cried sitting out on our picnic table feeding it to her. We were kinda (well not kinda) sticking it her face smearing her all up and then she would turn to me and get all blabbering about me cleaning her face. I would act like I wasn't looking at her and she would pat me and make all these funny sounds. (Poor girl, Chinese mixed with English). We did this again and again and was giggling uncontrollably. ;). She is starting to like me more. Even on the playground she was running to me more. She is starting  to mend my broken heart.