six months, departure of the guests, sick babies

[same_sky]

Can you believe my baby turns six months old tomorrow? That is unreal. M and I were telling people she was five months old for a couple of weeks before she actually was, but now that she is six months minus one day, we're still hanging desperately onto five months. Six months sounds so.. BIG! Before I quit my job, we had lots of discussions about life and the future and our work goals and all of that, and we said once that we would like for me to be home at least for the first two years. I am a quarter of the way through that now! That particular goal doesn't really mean anything, of course, but it does remind me that life is slipping by faster than I could ever have imagined. You'd think that time would move slowly, now that I am home all day every day with a little one demanding all of my time, but it's almost like I go to bed at night and then wake up a week later. It's incredible.

So the Possum family headed off to their next destination, and I believe their plan is to start traveling home tomorrow morning. They said they were going to leave at 9:30 on Friday morning. At 8:00, I was sitting in my kitchen having cereal with Carrie. Neither of them had even started getting ready to go, and I thought.. yeah, right. Sure. 9:30, no way. But then they started getting their stuff together and themselves ready to go, and suddenly they were leaving almost on time, and that "almost" was my fault because I came up with a last-minute plan to swap pictures before they left. I was impressed with how quickly they gathered all of their stuff and their baby (who is even cuter in real life, by the way) and headed out. It takes me almost that long to get my baby ready to go to WalMart. Okay, not really, but I was heartened to see that it really is easier to take a two-year-old places than a six-month-old. Duh.

Poor Evelyn did not have long to rest, though, as she was struck by a cold that evening, and we have spent the weekend fussing over our sick baby. She kept us up pretty much all night on Friday. She's completely miserable, and M is now coming down with it. She has her six month checkup on Tuesday morning so that's convenient--hopefully she'll be well by then, but if not, they can check her out. She's supposed to get some vaccines, though--will they give those if she's sick? I guess I should call tomorrow and find out. I don't want to go twice. Dr. Google said they probably would.

Anyway, I think it's time to fall into bed and sleep for just as long as my tiny sick baby will allow. Hopefully my two sick babies will be feeling better tomorrow. And also, that those little noises I hear over the monitor are NOT tiny sick baby A waking up already. Argh.

Comments

[e11en.livejournal.com]

My experience is that unless they are feverish, they want to give the shots anyway. But you can always say no and that you'd feel more comfortable coming back on another day when she's better. It takes them less than a minute to do them so if you're worried, ask them.

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

Heh. Mike is like some kind of freaky work-horse kind of guy. He just keeps gathering things up and working and suddenly they are done and we are gone. I would never get anywhere without him.

And yes, it does get a whole lot easier. And the more you do it, the easier it gets. It can also be harder, though, when the 2 year old decides he is not going to wear clothes and lays down in the parking lot screaming bloody murder.

Poor little E! Our E has a cold too. I hope he didn't give it to her. I would call and re-schedule the shots. I just think it is a really bad idea to give shots to an already weakened system.

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, snotsville! I hope it clears up soon...