I won’t go into it all here since I’ve been updating about the daycare saga on Facebook throughout the week.  What I don’t think I’ve said yet is that yesterday went better for Anna.  That makes me feel a bit better, but I’m still not thrilled with the situation.  At this point I don’t think it’s the daycare’s fault.  I think for them it may have just been a matter of figuring out my somewhat atypical baby.  I know the owner (who is the primary caregiver for the infants) really wanted to hold and rock Anna to try to soothe her, but as I had tried to gently tell her, Anna’s not a big cuddler.  Especially if you aren’t Daddy or Mama.  I think them trying to cuddle her like when she was upset just made things worse.  She wanted to get down and explore and be a bit more independent.  That’s just what makes her happy right now.  So, maybe we have made a breakthrough after Friday.  I don’t know.  I’m still not 100% sold.  I think I just have some hangups of my own about daycare, and that’s not helping.

Yesterday Anna was a bit fussy when I picked her up from daycare.  She had actually done better every other day this week, so I thought maybe she was just extra tired.  I got her all buckled in, gave her a sippy cup of juice and a Baby Mum-Mum (she seems like she’s always ready for a snack after daycare) and off we went back to Martin.  Mark had some dinner ready for Anna when we got home.  She ate a TON last night.  Like she just could NOT get enough food.  After dinner, we all took our nightly walk down to the garden, Anna played a bit in her Johnny Jump-up, and then we got ready for Anna’s bath.  She was super-tired.  We got her bathed and dressed, I read her bedtime stories and put her to bed.  She went right to sleep at around 7:30.  Around 10:00 she woke up crying, so I went in and nursed her like I usually do and put her back down.  Usually she goes right back to sleep, but last night that just wasn’t happened.  She cried and cried and cried.  I got her back up and gave her some Tylenol (she has a tooth coming in) and let her hang out with Mark and I on the couch for awhile.  She drank an ENTIRE sippy cup of milk and layed there on Mark kind of listless and sleepy.  Finally Mark got her back to bed without a fuss around 11 or so.  I went to bed and heard Anna again around 12:30, Mark took her sippy cup to her and she drank a bit more then went back to sleep.  From there she slept until 9:30 am!  I heard her cooing and talking a little before that, but she went right back to sleep.  I finally went and got her up at 9:30.  She had her usual scrambled egg breakfast with a side of banana.  She ate as well as usual. I cleaned her up and put her on the living room floor to play.  She played quietly and babbled to herself while I checked my email, message boards, facebook, etc.  The next thing I knew she had thrown up…and I mean PROJECTILE vomit.  It was awful!  She threw up twice…back to back.  Then I noticed her diaper…I won’t even go into it, but it was VERY full and VERY disgusting!  Poor baby was NOT feeling well.  After consulting with my mom, I think we decided she probably has a little stomach bug…I SOOOO hope I don’t get it.  I just got over the nausea!  She’s taken 2 extra-long naps today, but otherwise seems fine, minus the diaper issues.  I made some chicken noodle soup for her (with spiral noodles) for lunch, but she didn’t eat a whole lot.  She drank a TON though.  She’s played pretty well.  She doesn’t seem quite as peppy as usual though.  I’m hoping she’s all better tomorrow.  Tomorrow is her 11 month birthday!

I felt great this morning.  I think it’s the first day I’ve felt good in a few weeks.  The 9 hours of (relatively) uninterrupted sleep  I’m sure helped!  I just felt noticeably normal!  No nausea, no overwhelming fatigue.  Ahhhh…so nice!  So, after getting Anna down a nap and talking to my mom on the phone I went outside and wandered around for a bit.  Our mulberry tree is full of berries, so I decided to pick some.  I think I picked about 2 quarts.  We don’t usually pick the berries, ever.  Last year was the first time anyone ever really ate them…We had my entire family visit the first weekend of June last year (just before Anna was born) and the kids went crazy eating the mulberries off the tree!  They had purple hands and purple mouths, but they really seemed to enjoy them!  Anyway…one of Mark’s online friends has since mentioned making mulberry wine.  So Mark has decided he wants to give this a shot.  He also made dandelion wine this year.  I think it’s more of a science project to him than anything else.  He has drank a very small amount of the dandelion wine and he says it’s pretty decent…a little sweet though.  So I guess he’ll taste the mulberry wine too, but I wouldn’t say he’s making it so he has it to drink…more just for the fun of it.

This coming week is going to be another busy one.  Thank goodness next weekend is 3 days long!  Another week of daycare for Anna.  Another week of wiring a house for Mark.  Another week of work for me.  I am taking the afternoon off on Tuesday for another OB appointment, so Anna will get rescued early that day.  I think my mother-in-law is going to keep her while I’m at the doctor’s office.  I get to have blood drawn and fun stuff like that.  Woohoo!

I want to mention this here, because I just can’t help it.  I had such a rough week and this was the one thing this week that made me happy and excited.  One of my online friends is expecting baby #2, she found out Tuesday…just as I was trying not to cry my eyes out about leaving Anna a daycare.  I got the priviledge of obsessing over her pregnancy tests with her and being one of the very first people to know.  I have lots of online friends, but this is one of my oldest online friends.  I think we’ve been in our online group together since late 2006 or so (is that right?).  There are 4 of us in the group and out of all the groups that I’m a part of, I feel closest to these girls.  We went through the ups and downs of trying to conceive, surgeries, fertility drugs, etc.  And as luck would have it, we all ended up with 2008 babies!  It’s a great group of girls.  The phenomenon of online friends is so interesting.  None of us have ever met, but they’ve been there for some of the toughest times…and the happiest too.  So, when I saw this post on our group on Tuesday, I was so excited!  Just as excited, if not MORE excited than if she had been a friend that I see every day.  We were pregnant together last time and had our babies pretty close together…and here we are again.  I know she’s not telling anyone in real life for awhile, so I won’t mention her name…just in case.  I’m just so excited that we’re pregnant at the same time again that I couldn’t keep my mouth shut!  So, congratulations!  You know who you are!   :)