High on Life

Many of you know how excited I get over a good deal . . . there is almost nothing that makes me feel such a rush as watching the savings tick away at the cash register!! Well, today has been one of those incredibly high days. My neighbor called yesterday to tell me that it was triple coupons at Lowe's Food Wed.-Fri. this week. Normally I would not shop at Lowe's as they don't carry lots of what we normally buy, but knowing that they were basically giving away groceries made me go there twice already today. The first trip I bought 21 items (the coupon limit is 20 per transaction) for a whopping 19 cents total!! So excited, I decided to try my luck again and headed back with another 20 coupons after lunch. All in all I ended up saving $99.23 and only spent $7.62!! I called Dave and now he wants in on the action (it's very contagious) so I'm gathering him another 20 coupons to use tonight after work!

We've also had a grand day around the house. Savannah has been doing wonderfully with managing the teething so we've been able to play outside and enjoy the awesome cooler weather. Welcome Fall!!

A Day of Crying

Savannah had quite a rough day yesterday. Since Saturday she's been waking up at 5:30am and also several times throughout the night just wailing and yesterday was no exception. However, she also woke up with a very high fever and was completely inconsolable! She cried ALL DAY and nothing, I mean nothing, would calm her. She didn't want to eat, go outside, play, take a nap, take medicine, nothing! There has only been one other day like that where she cried all day and it was quite a few months ago as she was still into Praise Baby and the exersaucer at the time. I know it's all from teething as I can see one tooth that has broken though and at least three other places where her gums are swollen and the tooth is getting ready to break though.

Have I mentioned that I HATE TEETHING???!!!!!!

Anyway, we survived the day and she woke this morning all better. Or mostly better. No fever and not screaming at least. She still woke up over an hour earlier than normal, but hey, that just meant I got a early start on the day! :) She's back to eating and is her normal fussy self . . .or was it the hour wait to get the oil changed that made her fussy?!

Welcome Home Fred!

Yesterday afternoon we welcomed our newest addition to the family, our beta fish Fred. Although there was lots of discussion on his name, we ended up with Fred because he's red and because Dave wanted to stick with Jamen's plan of an old man's name. We almost lost him already as I accidentally punctured his bag in the pet store and we quickly had to have him rebagged before leaving. Dave has already started trying to train him . . .

Race for the Cure

This morning bright and early we all piled in the car and headed uptown for the annual Susan Komen 5K Race for the Cure. God is so good. I was worried all night that it would be difficult to get Savannah up early and fed before we had to leave, but He knew just what our schedule was and she was up at 5:30am. We met our friend Laura and then headed uptown. Although both Dave and I were a little disappointed with our times, I think we still did fairly well especially considering I had to push a 32 pound child in a 15 pound stroller the entire race! I finished right at 31 minutes . . . so I still have some training to do. We've already decided that next year we're running together WITHOUT the child. By the way, yes, my face was really that red!! :)

Here's a funny picture of Savannah wearing Dave's foot braces when we got home. She's big into trying on our shoes and seeing how far she can walk in them. I'm not sure how she figured out how to put them on her feet, but she did it all by herself. Very cute.

Milk Be Gone!!

I called the doctor's office yesterday to try to get some advice on Savannah's continuing milk situation. The soy milk seems to cause diarrhea and the regular whole milk causes spitting up. So, not wanting either of those two results, I tried mixing 1/2 soy with 1/2 whole and you guessed it . . . diarrhea AND spitting up. AAAHH!! I left a message early yesterday for Dr. Baker and of course I missed his call as he called right back and we were out for a walk. Thankfully he tried us again late last night to make sure I wasn't panicked over this issue (he said he could tell by the nurse's note that I was quite concerned). Our solution is to put her back on soy for a few days and see if the diarrhea comes back. If it does, Savannah is DONE with milk for awhile. Dr. Baker suggested just putting her on a multivitamin with added calcium and giving her lots of yogurt, cheese, and other dairy products in her diet. Whew. Finally an answer that may solve all of our current feeding issues.

Farewell to George

Dave woke me early this morning to tell me the sad news that our beloved fish died last night. Now normally it wouldn't be that big of a deal for a fish to die, but we've had George for over 3 years and we adopted him from Jamen when he was over a year old . . . that calculates to a long, 4+ year life for our beta fish, George.

I think the loss will be hardest for Dave as he always counted George as part of our family. He even insisted that we put George's picture along with the family pictures on our return address labels last year for Christmas. Silly I know, but this is also the man that also would let George kiss his finger. It drove me crazy and I would always say "Dave, get your fingers out of the fish bowl!!!", but he just enjoyed watching the fish practically jump out of the bowl to nip his finger.

George had a long, healthy life filled with love from our family. He will definitely be missed.

Craziness

This week has been very crazy. I got the brilliant idea before vacation to put all of my tutoring students on two days at the beginning of the week and just knock it all out at once so that I could relax for the rest of the week. Well here I am having just finished my last student for the week and I'm completely exhausted. Whew.

I was going to update things yesterday saying that Savannah had improved tremendously, but then she screamed for 2.5 of my 3 hours of tutoring yesterday so that quickly changed my mind. She does seem better today, but still has diarrhea. I'm still struggling with the milk decision (whole vs. soy, due to the spitting up) and with trying to figure out this nap thing. Some days she takes 2 good naps and some days she just refuses, but seems to need it. AAAHHH!! Could someone please buy me a mommy manual??