What do you get when you hear a little “gurgle gurgle gurgle” at 1:30 in the am? A bucket load of puke all over the place. <\/p>\n
This poor girl is a pukey little thing. I remember Erik having the stomach flu a couple of times, but nothing like this. I’ve got the sound of the puke down pat, and can have her lifted up and held over the floor in about .4 seconds. Usually that’s enough to make most of it land on the floor instead of in my bed. Isn’t that charming?<\/p>\n
I was starting to think she has some kind of food allergy, but then she spiked a fever, so maybe not. I hope not. One of my good friends has a little boy with a crazy amount of food allergies–eggs, soy, dairy, nuts, sesame. Poor kid can hardly eat anything. You don’t even realize how many social events revolve around food until you are planning them with a 3 year old boy in mind and realize that he’s going to be a sad panda if you don’t think of some alternative ways to have fun.<\/p>\n
Speaking of food. Ugh. I need a way to quit craving sugar. I was looking up ways to stop sugar cravings, and found a lot of herbs. Unfortunately every website lists a different set of herbs as the answer to the sugar problem. This tells me that NONE of them are the answer. Bah humbug.<\/p>\n
I was talking to a friend last night and she said that Dr. Oz says the body needs three things: sleep, sex and food. If you miss out on one, the body compensates by craving another. She was specifically talking about sleep at this point, but I don’t get any sleep or regular sex, so my mind latched onto the sex. Gimme sex and I’ll be skinny! That’s how it works, right? <\/p>\n
One of these days we won’t have a baby in the house that wakes up at unfortunate times. I guess this is why you want to live near the grandparents and let them take the kids on overnights.<\/p>\n
I know one way to stop the sugar cravings is to just stop eating sugar and white flour. After about five days the cravings will be gone. I KNOW this. I NEED to do this. I can’t seem to do it though. I start with good intentions and can hold out until after Elsa’s nap, but then I’m like an addict with an urge. I gotta have a little something sweet. Then it’s all downhill the rest of the day. <\/p>\n