Mother's Little Helper

Marcy is a saint ... let's just say many bonus MOM points were earned this past week. If you were around here last week you would understand what I was talking about. Let's recap what happened since last blog post:

Monday A.M. - Lily is kicked out of school early for thermostat problems. For some reason she is registering at 102 degrees or so ...

Monday P.M. - Lily is exhausted goes to bed, blog post is made.

Tuesday A.M. - Lily wakes up with a higher temperature ... Marcy goes to work in the morning, Grandpa Tom comes over to baby-sit ... Let's just say that he encountered a child that he probably did not recognize from previous meetings. Mild mannered Lily has decided that her favorite thing to do is scream at the top of her lungs directly into your ear. If her ears hurt, everyone's ears will hurt ...

Tuesday P.M. - Marcy comes home from work early to take over and Lily screams at regular intervals most of the afternoon. I come home and she is her usual cheery self ... conspiracy ...

Wednesday - Fever continues ... Lily goes back to the doctor and we start a run of antibiotics. Regular screaming continues and is accompanied by, "I will scream even louder if you put me down and don't hold me syndrome." So Marcy spends the entire day holding Lily. Oh, did I mention about this time that Lil's sidekick, Gypsy, has decided that she is jealous of all the attention the screaming gets and decides that her back legs are going to go limp and that she will cry out it in pain for no apparent reason. So, with child that won't be put down, Marcy coaxes Gypsy into the car to go to the vet where x-rays are performed and pain killers are prescribed. Gypsy, who can't stand to be separated from human conduct will not come upstairs and elects to spend the night in her crate in the basement.

Thursday - Lily does not like to take her medicine. Clothes are ruined, antibiotic and Motrin are spit out ... and Gypsy won't get out of her crate. She will eat but can't walk ... back to the vet for more testing. Gypsy comes home in the afternoon looking a little better. Lily is starting to feel better and has stopped screaming ... order is almost restored.

Friday - Gypsy is moving a little bit better. Lil is miraculously recovered and swears that nothing out of the ordinary happened this past week. Okay maybe not, but her punishment the first time she says something untoward towards her mother will be to read this post and apologize.

Like I said, Marcy earned some major MOM points this week.

Saturday we went to visit Marcy's college friends in far away Virginia. Lily had a chance to play with Brooke, another baby friend with a blog and was on her best behavior. She refused to take a nap so she went to bed early on Saturday night and was kind enough to wake up at 6:30 on Sunday morning. As luck would have it, we had errands to run so we managed to visit Target, CVS and the grocery store, and return home by nine ... at which point Marcy and I wanted a nap but Lily did not. She crawled around on our bed and kicked us in the head while we slept. Eventually (I think), she passed out and I awoke to find her sleeping across the bed, using Marcy as a pillow and my ribs as a foot rest. The day finished up with Grandpa Tom (he was willing to come back for more) and Grandma Gail coming over for dinner last night.

Lil went back to school this week ... a one week absence duly noted on her record (they did not even ask for a doctor's note) and the new week was off with a whimper.

Our technological problems have been fixed and our little Casio EXILIM 750 (which now serves as both our video and still cameras) has been replaced ourtesy of Costco's willingness to take back anything. Photographic evidence of an unforgettable week is below.

We are off to Florida on Thursday to celebrate the remarkable achievement of Poppa Syd and Grandma Essie's 65th Wedding Anniversary. 65 is not on the list ... for special gifts but really, once you've been married that long what material gift can be left to exchange. By the way, if you check out this list, notice that 100th anniversary is 10 carat diamond ... something for Sydney and Essie to shoot for!

Until next Monday, when we will be posting with a tan, enjoy the shots ...


Lil with her favorite book ... Goodnight Gorilla


Under the weather.


Playing with Brooke.


Kicking back, enjoying a Ritz cracker.


Feeding Brooke some Ritz.


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Playing a little soccer.


Eating again ... notice the crossed legs.


Spilling some Goldfish to share with Gypsy.


The race to the last one.


Having some milk and brownie with Grandma and Grandpa. Check out Tom's one of a kind sweatshirt ...


And a little movie to tide you over.

Update: Some say they can't see the video ... not sure what is going since it is working on all the machines that I have access to ... make sure that you have installed Macromedia flash player 7 . If that doesn't work, you can try and watch here. It is probably a problem with the free video posting site but I am not really sure. I am republishing the entry again so maybe that will work.

Update II: User error, it should work now.