Daily Life

I'm so glad we're home, and able to get back into a routine, but unfortunately, we haven't been able to do that, yet! Sunday was a good day, with church, and Leiden went to Primary for the very first time! Her teacher said she did great, and of course commented that she is very quiet. Yep.

Then on Monday, Leiden started acting funny. Like she was uncomfortable, not feeling well, that sort of thing. She kept telling me that she wanted to go lay down, so I figured we were starting in on the flu. (Our family had it in Utah, really it was only a matter of time.) Of course, Brad left on Monday morning to work in Atlanta for 2-3 days, so I didn't go to bed until about midnight, just waiting for Leiden to get up and be sick, or start crying because she had already been sick in her bed! Everyone was fine, but yesterday, Leiden was still not quite right. She has hardly been eating, and we ventured out to Target, as we have no food, and she turned quite green a couple times, but no symptoms. She was a bit sick last night at about 11, so again, I laid there awake, waiting for her to get up sick. She didn't, but when the girls woke up at about 6:45, I wasn't feeling well. And so it goes. Maybe tomorrow will be better. Mac appears unscathed, so far. Lucky duck.

Yesterday evening, while I was giving Mac her bath, I said, "Mac, we're taking a bath!" Trying to emphasize 'bath', I said it a couple more times, and then she looks at me and says, "Ba!" That's the first time she's recognizably tried to say something. If it was a fluke, it was one heck of a coincidence!

Last night, Leiden seemed a little more stable, so we went to the grocery store. On the way home, Leiden said she wanted to read a Christmas book for bedtime, and this was the following conversation:

"Oh, sweetie, we already put all the Christmas books away for next year!"
"We can't read them?"
"Well, not until next Christmastime when we get out our boxes again."
"Will it be Christmastime on this day?" (That's how she says 'today')
"No, it won't be Christmastime for MANY days."
"Like, 10?!" (From her tone of voice she thought 10 days was a lifetime.)
"No, lots more than that."
She practically yells in disbelief, "TWENTY?!"

I suppose to a 3 year old, twenty days is unfathomable.