Snow Removal

Here we are a month and a half past the first blizzard, and the city is outside right now with 3 Caterpillar things and dump trucks clearing up the snow. They brought in 3 different size heavy equipment pieces, and of course I don’t know what they are called. I think 1 large front end loader, 1 smaller front end loader and the other thing has a blade in the middle of the machine that they can put down and scrap the street or sidewalk. They broke it all up, got it in a pile at the end of the street and are loading it into dump trucks. They have filled 2 dump trucks so far that I have seen. Who knows what they are going to do with it. Dump it somewhere to melt? And of course its right in front of the house and the baby’s room is right up front as well and she is trying to nap. I can hear the machines through the monitor, they are so loud. But it looks like they are almost done. The baby is restlessly sleeping right now.

Speaking of the baby she MAY be fighting her first cold. She has sounded unusually congested the last 2 days and this morning she was coughing a bit. I wouldn’t be surprised as there were a few other infants at day care who were really sick, and I couldn’t believe they let those kids be there! But I guess what can you do? I hope that as a daycare that if a kid really is too sick that they will send them home. However, the kids were there sick so I won’t be surprised if ours gets it. We have been running the humidifiers non-stop and I am going to bring our large one up from the basement. We had a whole house humidifier put on our heating system a few years ago, so we put our large humidifier away at that time. But I just want to boost the humidity a little bit more to help keep her sinuses moist to help fight off anything possible. I use saline in her nose twice a day as well.

She is really changing fast now! She is starting to be okay with her oatmeal, she will open her mouth for it, but she still doesn’t like the taste. I think soon we will need to try baby food. She is also laughing a lot more now. She used to only laugh when we were interacting with her. Now she is starting to laugh without us interacting with her. Two nights ago she was watching the dogs play. Maggie stopped and looked at her and she laughed! Last night we had her in her command center while we ate dinner and she was laughing to herself, it was so cute! Hubby said yesterday she was squealing when he was playing with her on the floor.

She turned 5 months old yesterday! We made it through the 4^th month! The 4^th month had me worried. Reflux is supposed to peak during that time, as is the risk of SIDS. I know we are not out of the woods with either things, but I feel better being into the 5^th month now. We are napping her in her crib, even though her room gets warm during the day, we can keep it to mid 70’s. And at night she is still in our room. My goal is to move her within the month to her room. She is ready and would be fine, but I am not sure I am ready.

I worked this weekend and it was CRAZY! We broke our record of number of washes in one day. Our old record was 107, and on Saturday we did 109! WHEW, I was TIRED and SORE when I got home that night. And then yesterday (Sunday) we did 108! We are open from 9am-7pm on Saturday and on Sunday we are open 10am-5pm. So, Saturday we averaged 10.9 washes an hour, Sunday it was 15.43 washes an hour! No wonder I slept like a log last night.

Well the baby needs attention, so off I go!