in the past 24 hours, allie has vomited four times and had three bouts of diarrhea.  the last one exploded out of her diaper, got all over her pants, leaked onto my hands (since i was holding her at the time as i had been for most of her waking hours), dripped through my hands and onto my shirt.  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! and phil is on call tonight. returning to normal life with a THUD.  i’m pooped.  heh heh, literally. 

so it was my birthday yesterday.  i turned 30.  how i can be that old?! phil is currently finishing up his rotation in surgery working over 80 hours every week.  add to that trying to get our house up for sale, two sick children, and me trying to finish up my observation work (work from home i do with my former employer), and you get the idea– it’s been stressful around here.  i wasn’t sure we’d be able to do anything special for this birthday with everything else going on. but phil managed to pull through once again.  he had requested the day off and had planned a wonderful day full of surprises for…

allie had her one-year well baby visit last week.  as the doctor put it, she’s apparently following her genetic line and is quite a petite little girl.  for the first six months of her life, she was in the 25-50th percentile for height and 75th percentile for weight.  she’s now evened out and has settled in the 10th percentile for both– 27 inches in height and 18 pounds 4 ounces in weight.  i was just glad to hear she’s a healthy little girl overall.  the best news was that both of her ears were clear and had no lingering signs of fluid or infection.  yahoo! no sooner did the doctor say,…

  apparently someone is not a fan of apple skins…  

it warmed up to the 40s and 50s over the weekend and spring is indeed just around the corner.  i can’t tell you how nice it is to feel warm again!  yesterday was the first time in many months that i was able to take the kids out for a walk and we didn’t need to wear coats.  it was lovely.  when phil came home, we went out again to walk around calhoun lake and discovered that everyone else was out enjoying the warm sun, too.  people were out walking their dogs, jogging, biking, rollerblading, you name it.  it was a bit odd though, to see people running in t-shirts and…