Twinspeak

Jeff, Sissy, Alaina and I were watching "Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs" and Sissy was looking up the voices of the characters on her laptop, because we had a few character voices that we couldn't place.

The mayor of Chew and Swallow was voiced by Bruce Campbell, and my sister couldn't think who he was. I always recognize his name, let alone his voice, so I tried to think up a movie or show that he had been on. And the first reference that popped into my mind had me giggling.

*giggle* You're going to love this . . .

What was he in?

*Giggle*

C'mon!

You are going to LOVE this reference. Kevin Sorbo. Hercules series. Character named "The Green" something.

*now giggling, too* I soooo know who you are talking about! I can't believe you remember that! I can't believe I remember that!

And then Jeff walks in to find us giggling like high schoolers and slugging each other in the arm.

I love my sister, because instead of going for the obvious choice of the Burn Notice series that is currently airing on USA or the Evil Dead movie series that practically made Bruce Campbell's career, the only reference I can think of that she would understand is one of the cheasiest television series created to show eye candy in the guise of barely clothed gods and goddesses.

hee hee.

Update #2

Jeff and I juggled parenting responsibilities last week because Kayla was home sick Wednesday through Friday with a fever. I'm personally very happy that she wasn't throwing up like Alaina was the week before, so I tried not to mind the sleepless nights.

Friday, Jeff's cousin's came down from Minneapolis and brought their one year old son to stay with us for the weekend. The little man's birthday was in February and I had a present that I never mailed waiting for him. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of him in his snazzy new Husker jacket, but needless to say his daddy was thrilled, and his mommy, the gopher fan, was a little less thrilled



Jeff's family gave in to impulse a couple of times this weekend and would just stop in at random which is usually okay, but since Kayla had been sick and I didn't get much sleep, I pretty much disappeared into the depths of the house whenever the doorbell rang.

My brother and his family from Denver stopped by for a quick birthday celebration since they won't be back until after my daughter's birthdays so we had a quick meal and gift exchange. I'm always happy to see my niece because she is so funny and makes me giggle. She reminds me of Alaina when she was just figuring out that everyone but mommy would laugh at her when she was being ornery. And then give her hugs, kisses, and treats. (Ahem, Papa!)

And after we ate . . ..Cake!

Alaina was very excited to blow out the candles all by herself.

The candles are supposed to have flames the color of the candle base, but unless you get close enough to singe your eyebrows, its hard to tell.

Kayla was a little unsure about the cake so first she took a little bite.

And that tasted pretty good, so she had a little more . . .
And ohhhhh! It was soooo delicious!

Update #1.

Now that the shadow of sickiness has passed over our house, we are just about ready to get back to our regularly scheduled lives. . . .but I'll put a few updates up on what has happened. This even predates my last post, but I wanted to get the pics up.



Jeff and I had the bright idea to take the 30th off to go to the zoo with Alaina and my sister, but fate decided to step in at 1 am that morning and I spent the next 5 hours comforting Alaina as she continued to vomit every half hour.



Not a pretty picture.



After she went 6 hours without a follow up incident, we decided to take our chances and headed to the Zoo for the afternoon. Alaina was really tired the entire trip, but she did enjoy seeing all the animals.



The trip was complete with orangatangs that were obsessed with their anatomy, pacing tigers, feeding the fish, and diving pengiuns. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough time to go to he jungle which is mommy's favorite, but we bought an annual pass just so we had excuses to go whenever we wanted.



I got some great pictures in the Garden of the Senses.

Poor baby

Kayla was officially off of breast milk as of Monday . . .meaning I'm no longer grouchy and moaning about pains in my chest and already enjoying the feeling of waking up without sore spots on my ribcage from wearing a bra all night.

But yesterday Kayla got sick. And when I say sick, I mean sick.

She's running temps of 103 and won't eat anything but yogurt because her throat hurts. As soon as I picked her up from daycare I phoned the doctor because she felt hot enough to cook an egg on her forehead. So for now its just a virus.

But knowing that its just a virus doesn't make me feel any better when she can't sleep because she's so miserable. It doesn't make me feel an better when I have to hold her all night because she just wants someone to make everything all better. It doesn't make me feel any better when the ibuprofen I had to drive to 2 stores to find isn't helping bring the fever down.

And so here I sit ready to start my day at the office and all I can think about is going home and holding my baby so that she knows that mommy loves her.

That and the possibility that stopping breastfeeding led to her getting a virus.

Either way I'm probably the droopiest looking girl in the office today.