This update has taken awhile, 'cause I don't have enough energy left to do anything lately. The short story is - Ally has been sick and draining my energy. For the long story read on. But those of you who don't care for the sickness details might want to skip it. More interesting - fun stuff:

Ally will stop whatever she's doing to yell at any puppies or horses that happen to come on the tv screen

Everytime she takes her socks off, the first thing she does is too stick them in my face, so I can tell her how stinky they are. When I started that game, she never wore shoes, so they never actually stank. Now, occasionally, they aren't exactly rosy smelling. Rob is not thrilled with the game.

Ally knows where all her snacks are stored and will go to the correct spot in the kitchen and beg for food. If you give her what she doesn't want, she either ignores it, or knocks it onto the floor.

We never know exactly where to look for our condiments in the fridge now. Ally likes to sort and rearrange the bottom 2 shelves in the door. She gets them all out and stands them up, then moves them around the kitchen and back on and off the shelves.

Stop now if you're satisfied with the short story. This website kinda serves as a journal for me, since I'm too lazy to really keep one up for myself. I can't imagine I'll forget this crappy week, but you never know. Now I can reference it to embarrass her later.

Ally has been sick a couple times this year already. The first time was after just new years. It wasn't too bad, but she puked a little and mainly had diarrhea and got better soon after. The second was not so easy. She threw up Tuesday evening (1/12) but acted like she felt fine, so we went to daycare the next morning. While eating breakfast there, she threw up again. I had to go home with her. No fever or any other signs, and she played all day with me. Then, it seemed like everytime she'd eat, she'd puke. So we took her off milk and barely gave her anything but water. Well, then she started to get very clingy. She was hungry but couldn't eat, so she wouldn't leave my side. Rob stayed home with her Friday so I could go back to work. He dealt with the crankiness by loading her in the car everytime she woke up and taking her shopping somewhere. She didn't wake up that much though. She slept better while she was sick than she ever does normally. Too make a long story a little less long, she's finally feeling better and we're ready to introduce milk again tonight. Cross your fingers.

In the midst of all this, Wednesday night, I dropped some change on the floor. I think there was a missing dime. Ally looked like she might have had something in her mouth - I told her no - she jumped and screamed for the next 5 minutes. I thought she found the dime and swallowed it. Either I was wrong, or I missed it in her diaper. Sunday morning, we got x-rays, cause she was screaming everytime she pooped. Must have just been gas, because there was no dime on the x-ray.

Poor kid is also teething - looks like.