Sick...EWWW

Piper is 9 months old and has thus far been healthy. Piper is a rare child (I'm her mom, I get to think grandeur things about my baby)....she never spit up as a baby, Piper seldom cried as an infant and as she gets older she uses her crying merely as a form of communication....Mom I'm hungry, I pooped, HELLO people I'm sleepy! Those are the three things she has learned to say with said crying, other than that she's just happy little Piper. In the last month (after I took her to the doctor in month 8 worried that super happy baby may in fact need dentures due to having ZERO teeth) she has cut 5 teeth and still....NOTHING! See a trend here, perfect baby, I know right!

So, last week Piper got sick for the first time. We had sheltered her as much as we could while the Hantavirus made it's rounds through our house, TWICE! We thought she had been spared....not so much. :(

Sweet perfect Pippee had a temperature and the green stuff coming out well...everywhere green stuff can come out of a baby. Five hours into her first sickness, she THREW UP! Having not been a baby that even spit up; she had until this moment never thrown up, she must have thought an alien was trying to come up her throat. The act was so scary (to us both) that she clung on like a spider monkey for the next two hours for fear of being attacked by the throw up ghost if she was not permanently attached to me. Luckily that was the only incident and by night fall Pippee was on the mend. The fever was down, she was back to her happy self and all was right in perfect baby land.

The next morning begins the every day routine, I get the two middle children up, get ready for work, drive the carpool to Seminary where I deposit the 14 year old, then I drop the young one at school and off to make the donuts I go. My hubby, the love of my life, the dad all dads hope to be when they grow up, gets himself and her Highness up and ready before the nanny arrives and he heads off to save the world (or off to work).
It was the moment my phone buzzed with the arrival of a new text that I realized due to Piper being the most awesome and amazing baby ever that the most awesome and amazing husband ever is SPOILED! Daddy has not been raising a "real" baby he has been raising Piper, the I don't cry, I don't poop, I don't get sick, I just play and make everyone laugh baby....at 7:25 Thursday morning, Matt became the papa of a real life baby girl named Piper Poopy Pants HA!

Below is the picture I received with the attached message...I think somethings wrong! Piper exploded!

As you can tell from Pipers face she was as worried about dad being able to handle this situation as he was. There was another picture of the bed covered in the poop and another bout of throw up (that I won't share), all of which Piper slept through, meaning she also slept all night in it! EWWWWW

Dad and baby survived, he got her and the bed all cleaned up but, swears I fed her spinach (I didn't) and cannot quit telling people about how the baby had poopy from her armpits to her toes!

However, this story proves my point that I am in fact the mother of the most amazing baby ever.....she did explode and never made a peep. I'm not sure about later in life but as for now this girl is calm as a cucumber (she most definitely gets that from her dad).

Other than explosion days this is my Piper! Yay happy Pippee!

The 6 Things I Learned Today

Today while living in the windy city, i.e Sahuarita, I learned a few things......

 

First its extremely hard to photograph wind.

 

 

Second as I was cyber stalking my favorite cooking websites;

Welcome Home https://www.facebook.com/pages/Welcome-Home/130807550406694

Is AWESOME!

I learned that I spend far more time in researching a meal, than in actual preparation of said meal.

I'm not sure if I can count it as number three, since I already "knew" it but.....while following any given recipe to a "T".....I have an approximate 43% chance of it coming out correctly. I'm beyond my spaghetti and hamburger helper days but, Rachel Ray I am not!

 

Which leads me to lesson number four, not everything can substitute for everything......to those not cooking impaired that may seem like a rambling string of words....to those of us that think baking soda and baking powder gotta be the same thing and sometimes it might be okay to use water in the place of milk; that statement made perfect sense! SO, just in case it ever comes up.....chili powder and cayenne pepper not exactly the same thing. Both spices, both spicy...who knew?!

 

 

After some meat washing and seasoning repair work, some kind of roasted dinner is done. (I mis-made and then misplaced the recipe; there are way too many sites online!)

Scout says dinner is awesome, actually she said "Mom this steak is Great!" I'm taking that as a compliment even though I made chicken :(

 

My fifth learning of today:

Although Pinterest has expanded my cooking/crafting/money saving abilities, I'm beginning to think it may have taken over a large portion of my life. I can say the "lost time" is an investment in the betterment of Jodi, that line of thinking allows me to sleep well at night. The decision had to be made today (while the baby was napping) to wash off the funk and attempt to regain a non-foot kinda smell or......continue on the Jodi self improvement plan (which closely resembles Pinning). Today I learned smelling like boiled cabbage...it's not that bad :)

Anyone not familiar with the art of pinning....don't google it!

 

Lastly I learned the kids love me no matter what! Overlooking the before mentioned scent issue, with hair looking like who-dun-it, no make up on, still sporting last nights pajamas at 5 pm....basically I'm a hot mess! Everyone of my children welcomed my "I'm so happy you're home" kiss without any eye rolling and kissed me back! Oh the joys of unconditional love.