Mischief and Mayhem Always Follow Trouble

Not being able to hold or play with Adia is much worse than any pain. It's been really tough on Adia too. Last night I went to bed pretty early so it wasn't much of a struggle for Scott to get Adia to sleep. Once I'm not in the same room, she forgets I'm around or doesn't realize I'm not holding her. She was asleep by 8:30 and slept straight through the night, waking up around 8am. I also slept through the night, which was a very very bad thing. I woke up a little after 9:30am, almost 11 hours after my last dose of pain meds. That's VERY VERY bad. Scott had to help me out of bed which was excruciatingly painful. I made sure I took more meds before getting up, but it still takes some time for them to kick in.

Adia was excited to see me. I got lots of big smiles and babbling. I carefully made my way to the couch and Adia was quickly sidetracked with toys. I spent most of the day on the couch, but Adia got to run errands with Scott. They went to the post office first and then Walmart. She fell asleep in the car seat on the way to Walmart so Scott had to carry around a sleeping baby. He called me while in Walmart to tell me she had lost a shoe. I was a little upset because she was wearing my favorite pair of shoes, but what can you do? He looked in all the places he had been and asked customer service if it had been turned in. Luckily, when he got out to the car, it was sitting in her car seat. She normally loses a shoe when you pull her out of the car so it makes sense it was there.

When they got back, Adia was bouncing off the walls. She played for a really long time before getting sleepy. Scott gave her a bottle, which she guzzled and fell asleep. She woke up right before dinnertime and started fussing. Since I was feeling up to it, I fed Adia dinner. She ate an entire yogurt and 3/4 of a graham cracker. Most of the puffs and cheerios she dropped in her lap. I didn't make it through dinner though. I started to get tired and a little dizzy so I headed back to the couch.


smiling at Scott because he burped
Scott got her ready for her bath. It was cute to see her standing at the edge of the tub while he leaning over to test the temperature. She was watching every move he made, eager to get in. Her bath lasted quite awhile and she was happy when she got out. She tried to crawl away, but finally let Scott dress her. Then it was back to terrorizing the living room. I think she's finally realized that she has control over her surroundings. She nearly flipped her toy basket on herself and then headed to the dvds. She started pulling those out when Scott stopped her. Then she went the other direction, towards the front door and under a table. She's really going to keep Scott, or anyone else that will be watching her, very busy.

She soon started rubbing her face against the futon mattress, signalling how tired she was. Scott made her a bottle and everything was fine until she saw me. She started crying and reaching for me. I'm still in way too much pain to even think about holding her so I had to hide in the bedroom. She quickly stopped crying and I haven't heard anything for at least 20 minutes. I'm still hiding, but I think she's sleeping. It's so sad. All I want to do is cuddle my baby girl and I can't. Hopefully the pain will go away soon and I can at least hold her at bedtime.