No Bite Elmo

Contrary to the fact that Amelia seems to be completely confused when we put her in Timeout, today, it became obvious she knows exactly what is going on at all times.

Here is the scene from earlier today...

Amelia put her Elmo doll in Timeout (for apparently "biting Mimi's finger") and then proceeded to get down in his face and scold him -

"Listen. Listen. No biting. Sorry, Elmo"

Pics

Here are a few pictures from our new camera. While I still don't know what I am doing, I am happy that I finally actually got it to take a picture. So, its only going to get better from here.

Bubble

I am now taking donations in order to buy Amelia a bubble in which to live. Clearly, simply washing hands several times a day, taking a nightly bath, running a humidifier, and taking vitamins, nightly allergy medicine, and multi-dose steroids just isn't doing the trick. If croup were a person, I'd charge it half the mortgage because it is here so often. I may have only gotten 2-3 hours sleep last night, but I did get 4 different opportunities to clean up barf. So, I suppose I have that going for me. Also, on a side note, I'd like to let everyone in the neighborhood know that car slowly driving around at 3am was not a group of thugs looking for houses to rob. It was just us praying the brisk night air would help extend the time between coughs from 30 seconds to 1 minute. Sorry.

What a gift

Amelia had her birthday party pt. 3 tonight and I can't really say it went exactly as planned. I mean, there were gifts, family, a cake, etc. However, I suppose the one thing I naively didn't plan on was racing into Urgent Care to treat Amelia's 3rd bout of Croup in 2 months. Apparently, when you only have 8 minutes to get to Urgent Care before they lock the doors for the night, it is okay to speed, honk your horn, look homeless (me), and have icing on your forehead (Meggan). The good news is this time there was no mention of going to the Emergency Room. The bad news is now we are back on 'roid rage alert, which I'm pretty sure is either going to stunt her growth or give her a 5 o'clock shadow.

Birthday pt.3

As I type this, Amelia's grandmother and aunt are en route to our house. Tomorrow night, we will have her 3rd birthday celebration of the year. I have often talked about the negative side of living far away from family. However, having multiple parties is apparently one of the unsung positives. While you technically don't get any more presents this way, your dad gets to eat much more cake and ice cream. So, that is always a good thing.

DIY? Maybe we shouldn't

Meggan and I embarked on a fun little painting project tonight. We started painting our downstairs and had only intentions of finishing the foyer this evening. This comes on the heels of weeks of shopping for the perfect color. Well, after many sample purchases and trial and error exercises, we settled on a soft color with tan and gray undertones. However, somehow, on our wall this has turned into gun metal gray. So, we have given up after 2 hours of painting and praying it was going to dry lighter. We have achieved massive failure.

New Camera

Today, I bought this new camera ...



Tonight, here are all the great pictures I took with it...



Oh wait, that's right, I can barely figure out how to take off the lens cap. I'll try to get some actual photos on here after I read the 320 page instruction manual.

Wish me luck.