12/29/06

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it turns out sawyer has an ear infection. i suspected that’s what it was when he threw up again last night. *sighs* poor guy. he’s got some medication now. we made it through one year without having to put him on any antibiotics, which is pretty good.

mom and i did some shopping (sawyer slept for most of it in one of those carts with the handy baby carrier on top.) i had to return my boots to wal-mart. those people will take anything back. i didn’t have a receipt. i’ve had them for quite some time and i didn’t clean them perfectly. i found them to be terribly uncomfortable, though, and i still had the box, so i thought i’d try it. i found a pair i liked for half the price and bought some other stuff instead. i finally found TTO so my diapers will be bacteria free. i like the idea of that. if anyone is looking for it, it’s near the band-aids.

tomorrow is sawyer’s ONE YEAR birthday and his one year birthday party. besides opening presents and getting cake, there will be nothing he has to do so he should have fun playing with his cousins. expect many-a-picture. he’ll be getting lots of presents from my mom. i bought him a big bird DVD to add to his present. he has looked at it and was quite happy about the thought of it; he recognized the characters featured on the case.

at the party, we’ll be serving chicken on a bun, macaroni salad, potato salad, jello, possibly rice crispie treats ( i think i went wrong with them somewhere and they might not be served) pop, and snacks (including these neat cookies that the kids can "paint" with icing.)

we met up with so many people that we knew today while shopping. we stopped every once in a while to chat with someone. very strange. usually, we don’t see anyone we know…or we rarely do.

two more of my mom’s siblings have cancer. she’s lost 3 already. where will it end? one is in intensive care and the other is out of the hospital but on the cusp of getting chemo treatments. it makes me worry about my mom. she has had a hysterectomy because of fibroids and i want it to end at that. i wish all of it would end, actually, but that does not seem to be the luck her family was given.

back to the doctor in another week to see about sawyer’s ears and then, if he’s healthy, he gets to try MILK in his sippy. i hope he likes it, can handle it, and throws that bottle out!

possibly, for NYE, we will be going to k & u.v.’s house. that’ll be nice. a simple evening. we’ll take the playpen for sawyer and maybe stay overnight or something. that way, dennis can get drunk and we don’t have to wake sawyer up…if dennis feels better. he now has our cold and feels pretty crappy.

i have a few more things to take care of for sawyer’s party. since i got home from the doctor and shopping, i’ve put in laundry (needed a shirt), fed sawyer, tidied his room, put him to bed, cleaned up his toy mess, put diapers in to soak, packed some colouring books and crayons for the kids invited, made jello, made rice crispie squares, done dishes, put together his picture board (dennis drew a BIG thomas for me to put them on), ate, talked to SIL (the angel bought sawyer a booster chair for his birthday so we don’t have to take the high chair!), read some faves, and now i need to put together a tea basket (might as well–i have tons) and make formula…

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