What a week!

It's been a bit of a crazy week in the Baadsgaard house. First of all Jed left for a business trip a week ago Monday (May 12th). I knew he was going to be gone for 10 days so I was trying to be tough about it. Well, Wednesday night Cash wakes up bawling at about 2:00am (remember my last post where I was bragging about the 8-9 hours of sleeping a night---gone are those days!) So I changed his bum and fed him a bottle and put him to bed only to have him wake up about every 30 minutes for the rest of the night. Needless to say I was pretty tired. So the next day he's all congested. So the next night he sleeps in his swing so he's elevated.....once again not sleeping. So by the third night of this new sleeping pattern I'm delirously tired and cranky and Jed calls to tell me that he's going to be gone another 4 days!!! So obviously at this point I tell him "that's ok---whatever you need to do".... RIGHT!!!! I did what any sleep deprived mother would do----I start bawling hysterically!!!! So finally I calm down enough to go to sleep reminding myself that I've done everything that the nurse told me to do for Cash. So as I'm laying in bed feeling sorry for myself I try to give myself a pep talk telling myself it could be worse......I could be a single mom without any help ever or I could be one of those mom's who has a husband in Iraq for a year! Eventually my self talk of "suck it up" worked----but not without a little retail therapy! Above is a picture of Cash before we went to the doctor finally---yip, he had an ear infection to boot! Don't you just love the rolls on his legs!

By Saturday night I couldn't stay in my house one more minute so I went to my niece Kylee's princess birthday party! Is that pathetic that the absolute highlight of my week was going to a 7 year olds party and making pizza---it rocked!! Below is a picture of her modeling the new dress I got her. She's so cute!

So seeing as it had been a few days since Cash has thrown up I decided to head to the Nordstrom sale today with Amy. Well, as I was using my birthday gift cards (thanks girls) to purchase TWO new pairs of shoes (pictured above) Amy decides to pick up Cash out of his stroller. Well, about two seconds after picking him up he pukes all over her-----I'm talking projectile puke right in the middle of the Nordstrom shoe section!!!! Clearly Cash hasn't learned the proper respect for such a place yet or he would have held it until we were in a more appropriate place like Vanity to throw up----oh wait I would NEVER go in the store! So after a quick change of Cash...and Amy we continued our shopping. Well, then he decided to puke again upstairs in Nordstrom---but only the shirt/jeans section so at that point I was all "ok, fine---we'll go home and I'll clean you up!" As you can see from the picture below I think he's feeling much better now.