Monday, September 29, 2008

I'm Baaaaack....!

So, wondering where I have been? Well, here's a little story to answer that........About 2 weeks ago, I picked up Natalie from Shaya's and got home. I had a few more calls to make before the work day was up so I put Natalie in her room, put on The Wiggles, gave her some crackers and juice. She always hangs out in her room and watches her movies and plays with her toys. Well, at one point she yelled upstairs that she wanted some milk. I told her in a minute and she was quite after that...silly me, I assumed she went back in her room to wait for me. Well, I came downstairs after being up there about 10 minutes. She was standing in her doorway eating a strawberry, but suprisingly there was not a drip on her or on the floor and the strawberry was almost gone. Instantly I knew....she got in the fridge. The half gallon of milk, and Dan's coffee creamer when on the floor by her. There was a teeny tiny bit of creamer on the wall, but ther than that....nothing open, nothing spilled (even though I am sure she tried like hell to get that milk open as that was the reason she got into the fridge to begin with). I went and looked around in her room and found one of her yogurt with every little bite scraped out of it. She got a toy spoon from her sink set and ate every bit...but not a drip on her or on the floor. I went to the fridge completely dreading what I would find and was suprised tosee that the strawberry box was shut (which means she opened it to get the strawberry out and then shut the box) and for some reason took an egg out of the carton and set it on the top shelf, but it wasn't broke. So, of course she got in trouble from getting into the fridge but all in all, I will pleasently suprised to see how neat and tidy she was about it. About 45 minutes later I started boiling water for dinner and while I waited I was going to sit down on the laptop to check on a few things. I opened up our 3 month old $1000 laptop and that's when I found it........she set an egg on the keyboard AND SHUT THE LAPTOP!!! A whole egg had been sitting in there smashed for 45 mins!! I sat there stairing at the computer for about 20 seconds in shock. At the time, it was still working so I tried like hell to clean it off. I wiped it all down but there was still egg oozing between the buttons when you press on them so I got Natalie's baby buger sucker out and was trying to suck it out. Finally I figured out how to pop the keys out and wipe it all down. After that....it was dead. It came on, loaded all the applications, but none of the keys worked and when you click on any of the applications to open them, it would just open the properties and not the program (even though my bro-on-law later told me where is a control setting for that and when I was wiping it down I probably did that) and egg wascoming out the bottom of the computer. Thank GOD we got the warranty!! We weren't going to because it was a lot to spend, but they talked us into it. I didn't have to pay a dime but we were computer less for 2 weeks. I have my company laptop and we can pull up Ebay, celebritybabyblog.com (my favorite site) minus the pictures, and people.com but no hotmail, no blogspot, no myspace, etc because I work for a bank and most of those site are secured. I am kicking myself for not taking a picture of it. How perfect of a baby book picture would that be?! But the last thing from my mind when I found that was...Oooooh, I HAVE to take a picture of that!

Anyway...not much is new with us. Dan got a job working with his friend Bram. He is a laborer at an excavation company. I feel bad because he works outside now...in the cold and rain. He's such a great guy. Natalie is sick right now. I finally took her to the doctor today only because it's been a week of coughing and it hasn't gotten any better plus she always gets ear infections when she's sick, but ears are great, chest sounds great...it's just a cold. Yeah! She needs to stop waking up at 5am every morning though! I hope to god this is not a long term thing again. I might snap and kill someone! When we moved here she started waking up at 5am and did that for about 2 months. Now she is doing it again. It has been a week so far and today....I have the shortest fuse! Anyway...that's about it!