Faker

Today was a hard day.  Most of the night we had this crazy loud storm that kept me up most of the night.  We woke up somewhat late that I missed going to church.  I could have gone to the 11 am service but it seemed rushed.  We woke up with Caitlin chatting and giggling.  I cooked some oatmeal and had breakfast.  The odd thing about this morning was that I fed Caitlin first and at the very end she threw up a little.  I didn't think it was a big deal and she didn't act like she was really bothered by it so I started eating the rest of the oatmeal i had cooked.  Almost towards the end I started feeling like I was going to throw up so I stopped eating.  I didn't throw up like Caitlin but I didn't feel well either.  We went to Target and Best Buy and we were fine so I forgot about the morning.  We had lunch and a snack during the day but Caitlin didn't drink too much milk.  During dinner she didn't want any food so I just gave her some milk while she was sitting in her chair.  She was almost done when she started coughing but it was one of those coughes that she does to get some attention so I started teasing her.  I told her, "don't be a faker, faker, faker"  and she threw up again.  Now, I really felt bad for calling her a faker but it sure seemed like she was coughing just to cough.  Anyway, she showed me.  I won't call her a faker any time soon.  After dinner and the cleaning up of Caitlin I wasn't feeling well so I decided to take a little nap and didn't get to tell Caitlin goodnight since she fell asleep by the time I woke up.  David said she drank some milk and did well and just fell asleep on him.  She didn't sleep much during the day so she must have been really tired and probably not feeling very well from her tummy.  I hope tomorrow is a good day.

Fear

Today was a very interesting day.  We woke up somewhat early and did the usual like breakfast and a Walmart run but we also got to do something a little different.  After the usual routine we got dressed to go out to lunch with Ali (David's friend).  Unfortunetly, Ali called and cancelled but we still went out to eat.  We went on a search for a sushi restaurant not too far from the house but it was closed for this week so we ended up eating a hamburger at Babe's.  Caitlin was not interested in eating but I think she enjoyed herself since it was her usual naptime and didn't act like she was tired.  After lunch, we stopped at Bev's house to a quick visit since I had a Hills of Shaenfield comittee meeting scheduled.  When we got there Caitlin was observing her surroundings and didn't seem tired at all.  Mandy was outside so I tried to get Caitlin to come to the window to look for her but she didn't seem too interested in doing that.  Bev let Mandy in and for the very, very first time Caitlin showed fear.  I never in my wildest dreams thought Caitlin would ever express fear when it came to a doggie.  That was the interesting part of my day.  Once Caitlin and Mandy warmed up to each other it was great.  Mandy loved to kiss on Caitlin and Caitlin seemed to love to pet Mandy.  I hope I don't see too many days were Caitlin shows fear.  That was the oddest reaction from Caitlin and it made me feel sad and odd.  I felt bad that she actually felt fear when there was no need for it.  Mandy didn't growl at her.  She was just trying to smell and kiss her.  I will always protect her and I hope I proved that today.  I held Caitlin and showed her that Mandy was ok by letting Mandy kiss on me and by me patting Mandy in approval.  It didn't take Caitlin long to get over her fear but I don't think I will forget any time soon how that made me feel.  Our visit at Bev's was nice. 

Once we left Bev's house I went to my meeting and then went to JcPenny.  I called David to let him know that I was done and he said Caitlin was sleeping.  So I took some "me" time.  I got her the cutest little outfits and can't wait to take pictures to post on the blog.  All the outfits are 24 months which might be a little big but don't seem to be extremely out of line.  Hopefully she will get alot of wear out of them.  I wish today would have been a longer day and I'm saddened that it's time to go to sleep.  David has been asleep for a couple of hours now so i should probably do the same since I'm sure tomorrow will start pretty early too.