12 X 12 - March

Megan and Jackson work up early, and turned on the cartoons, as per usual. I was still in bed when I heard Sadie wake up. Wonderfully I have a daughter who is 8 that went and picked her up and gave her some milk. After she was finished with her bottle, Sadie wandered into my room, crying. She cried and cried until I finally asked her if her tummy hurt. She says Ah (which means yes) and stopped crying. However, she didn't stop for long and soon she was whimpering and fussing almost continually. Finally she laid on the floor and immediately fell asleep. She has never done that before, so I knew she must have felt terrible.

Here she is on the floor.

She then threw-up (a-lot), fussed a bit more, and then fell asleep again! I had to wake her up to take Megan to school, and ever since then she has been fine. Apparently instead of the 24 hour flu, she had the 1 hour flu. I can't complain.

Before school Megan was getting her water bottle ready, and when I saw her doing this, my heart broke just a little (in the best possible way). For some reason seeing her cleaning up some water she spilled, made me realize what a responsible and great girl she is. I love her to pieces.

As I said, Sadie made a full recovery, so since I was out of Dr. Pepper, Jackson, Sadie, and I went to get a fountain drink.

Sadie now walks from the car to the front door which I adore. However, she is quite and independent thinker, doesn't particularly like to hold someones hand, and is prone to take off for the street, so I do have to keep a close eye on her.

Does anyone else out there hate making themselves lunch? I never know what to have. So today I was super excited that I had leftover chicken salad and croissants from Costco.

After lunch, and after I put Sadie down for her nap, instead of cleaning, I watched T.V.

However, soon I got to thinking that if I didn't start cleaning I would never get everything done before Sadie woke up, so I resumed my usual afternoon cleaning duties.

After school the kids and I headed over to Costco. I had been there the day before and noticed just as I was checking out that Sadie was only wearing one shoe. I searched the store, but to no avail. I went back today to see if anyone turned it in, but unfortunately no one had. This is the kids and I looking sad because we didn't find her shoe. From the picture you can tell that Sadie does not seem that upset about it.

We also went to Target to get some things, and also to let Jackson use some coupons he has been saving for free HotWheels cars. The coupons came on the back of Apple Jacks and Froot Loops boxes, and since those are the 2 cereals of choice at my house, he has been getting quite a few free cars from Target.

Here is another picture of Sadie walking to the car from Target. Look at that stride! She looks like a grown up kid walker in this picture. Not toddling around at all. My heart is breaking once again.

You may be wondering why Eric has yet to make an appearance in this post. Well it is because he has literally been working all night and most of the day trying to complete a project. So the little time he has been home he has been sleeping. Here he is saying goodbye on his way out the door tonight. Here is to all those hard-working husbands out there!