It's really just because it's pretty

Well, I shouldn't stay up too late, so I won't dally long here. Let's see... Ari was sick last night. Shortly after I went to bed, she suddenly started stirring, wouldn't take the boob, and then threw up all over the bed and promptly plopped straight back down (in the middle of the throw-up: eeewwwww) and passed out. She slept through me changing the sheets out from under her, and she slept through the whole night. She didn't wake up until after 8 AM.

Awesome, you say? Well, only if you share this country's obsession with getting babies to sleep all night†. For us, it's a problem. Ari won't take a bottle when I'm gone, so she doesn't eat for 8 or 9 hours during the day. She compensates by eating all night long, every couple of hours. So, you can imagine how concerned I was that she wouldn't eat all night, especially since I had to work today, and she had thrown up her last meal.

Fortunately, when she woke up in the morning, she was hungry as anything. I fed her all I could in the morning (it even made me late to class). After lunch, I told my group mates that I would come back to work in the afternoon, but wanted to go home early for my baby. They said to just go home, so I did. Ari is just fine now- and has been all day- it was only complicated by my being gone for work and her refusal to eat if I'm not there.

We got our mechanics to look over another car- a '93 four-door Ford Escort. This one looks like it might be a keeper. It'd need a fair quantity of work, but the price of that plus what they're asking is still reasonable. It's a four-door hatchback. I just look forward to possibly having a car again.

Anyway, I'm off to try to clean the house again- mom and my little sisters arrive tomorrow morning.
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†Sidebar: this is the number two thing I get asked about when strangers want to talk to me about my child. Number one: how old is s/he? Number two: is she sleeping through the night? It seems an awfully personal question, if you ask me. I usually respond that she isn't, but since we co-sleep and breastfeed, I don't care.