Happy Birthday Great Grandpa!

Happy Birthday Great Grandpa Steve Osgood! We wish we could be down to help celebrate Grandpa's birthday, but we will hopefully be down in Hastings this coming weekend, so we can give him a birthday hug and kiss then. Until then, Abby taped a special birthday message for him.

Abby doesn't get to take her morning naps anymore, at least for a day or two while we try to figure out why she keeps waking up at 4 in the morning. We are hoping she is just sleeping too much during the day and not taking the morning nap will solve that problem. She is getting bigger, so we bet she can make it all morning just playing. I, on the other hand, may not be able to make it all morning after being up around 4 a.m. for the last 4 mornings. That is just too early!

Abby has survived one wicked bout of diaper rash. Something she ate yesterday morning must have been a bad idea because it make her little insides sick and she got the worst diaper rash in her short history. It went from nothing at noon to broken skin by 1:30. Luckily our great doctor's office was super helpful and got Abby some prescription diaper rash cream ("Magic Butt Paste"). She is now feeling good again after a whiny afternoon and evening. We are guessing that the yogurt covered cranberries were the culprit, since everything else she ate yesterday was previously eaten and successfully digested. I guess we'll have a whole bag of yogurt covered cranberries up for claims when we come to visit on Friday night.

Life Lessons

Prunes do work, very well in fact. I would highly recommend you think twice before giving them to a baby three days in a row. Very highly recommend it. Diaper explosion up to her shoulders recommend it, if you know what I am saying. That was one big mess!

And... for Grandma Jennie... Abby doesn't have any water in her ears or ear infection. Apparently the ears and mouth share the same nerves, so pulling ears is a sign of teething and helps distract her from the mouth pain. And I know this is true because I had a slight dislocation of my jaw last fall and it made my ears hurt like crazy and I thought I had an ear infection, but when Steve reset my jaw the ear pain went away fast. Crazy how the body works.

I don't know if I can eat dinner after that diaper disaster, but I guess it's that time so I better give it a try.

Why So Crabby Abby?

She was happy for about 3 hours total today. A bit this morning for photos in her cute Sunday outfit (thanks to Great Grandma Joyce Obreiter for the dress and hat). Then she didn't take her morning nap at church like usual. It was all downhill from there...

Abby and I took a nap together this afternoon while Steve mowed our lawn. I had every intention of not taking a nap, but she kept waking up with big cries every 15 or 20 minutes. She was just way too tired. At least she was super cute today when she was happy.

We wore the ruffle bottom tights today and had to take a picture just for Auntie Meg. We always loved our ruffle bottom tights as kids :-)

If you have a weak stomach quit reading this paragraph now. We had another big blowout in her diapers today. I think it is about time to move up to size 3's before we need to bleach every outfit she owns. That's 3 blowouts in 3 days - 100% deadly accurate. Every dirty diaper has been a blowout.

The weather was cooler today, but terribly humid, so it was miserable and we had to go to Goodwill and K-Mart to get into some air conditioning. Tonight will be early bedtime.