Andrea’s Weblog

They say to take it one day at a time. The other day, I felt like I was taking it hour by hour. I started out the day vacuuming out the gas fireplace. It was filled with a bunch of fake coals that Elizabeth took a liking to. We got tired of saying “Elizabeth, get out of the fireplace.”

After our morning playtime, it was shower/bath time. I plug the drain on the tub and she plays with her rubber duckies while I shower. It wasn’t long before I looked down and rubber duckies weren’t the only thing floating in the water. It seems that she decided to have her morning poo a little early. Luckily, the toilet is right next to the tub so I just scooped it up and flushed it, but then our shower had to start over from the beginning.

Elizabeth also started crawling forward last week, so she can get into a lot of things in a short amount of time. By lunchtime, I was ready to get out of the house and decided to take Elizabeth out to lunch. She loves being out of the house people watching. We headed out and Elizabeth immediately fell asleep in the car. When we arrived at Chile’s she was still asleep, so I turned off the engine but kept the radio on and sat in the car till she woke up. After lunch, we got back in the car and turned the key. Nothing. I realized that it was possible that I had drained the battery sitting there for 25 mins. When I noticed that the seat heater button was still on, I realized that had to be the case.

I haven’t described what kind of day it was outside; it was cold, damp, and overcast-definitely a seat heater kind of day. (Mid-thirties may not be that cold to you northerners reading this, but the previous weekend it was in the seventies here.) Anyhow, luckily, Frank was at work and immediately set out to our rescue. I had already decided it was too cold to walk around shopping, but ended up bundling Elizabeth up and heading down to Target to buy jumper cables. It didn’t take long for our knight in shining armor to arrive bearing hot coffee beverages. He jump started the car and we were all on our way.