Better or Worse?

It's hard to say if Easton is improving or not. On the one hand, he hasn't thrown up for 2 days now. But he's had diarrhea instead. He was fairly lethargic again this morning, it was J's day off and we spent most of the morning laying around watching TV on a pile of pillows on the floor. Easton wasn't interested in eating anything...he had maybe 6 Cheerios and some apple juice.

E did take a 3+ hour nap, though!!! He woke up refreshed and more energetic. He even ate some grapes and gobbled up Goldfish this afternoon. Yay! It's also worth mentioning that he drank about 12 ounces of apple juice today. He normally doesn't get to have juice but we wanted him to stay hydrated and he went to town on the juice. I don't think all the sugar is really going to help stop his diarrhea but we'll worry about that tomorrow I guess. If he's still being a juice-head I'll water it down a bit and hope that's enough.

Speaking of Easton and eating, it's also worth mentioning that I might be using this lack of appetite as an excuse to wean. He has refused to nurse 3 of the last 4 times he normaly would have. So, since I'm okay with him weaning now if he's ready, I think I'm going to stop offering breastmilk and see how it goes. Tonight as part of the bedtime routine I was trying to give him his sippy of chocolate soy milk and instead he pulled up my shirt so I gave in but then he really wasn't that interested after all. We'll see how it goes, with him not eating too well right now I reserve the right to continue nursing him if I feel like it :) hee hee!

And oh, duh...I realized that the powder we put in his milk to make it chocolatey is dairy based...um, durrrr! So, we still gave him small amounts of dairy today. Oops! Tonight after he went to bed I ran to the grocery store to buy chocolate flavored soy milk. Then we'll start at least 2 more days of being completely off dairy. I had to buy an entire half gallon, I sure hope we'll use it...I might have to make myself a bunch of milkshakes to use it up later. Oh well, if I have to...I just don't like to waste food you know.

So, it was nice having Jason home today like it always is. He probably won't be able to do his 4 tens once he moves to Microsoft which is a big bummer if you ask me, but I guess we'll deal. It's just been really nice to be able to do family things on weekdays when places aren't as busy or for me to run to a doctors appointment or something while he's available to hang with The E. I guess it'll be nice to have him home a little earlier in the evenings, though. But, I will miss the day off and I think he will too.

Tomorrow is Field Day at my mom's school (she's a P.E. teacher) Easton and I are planning on making an appearance because she loves to show off her only grandbaby. Because of our outing tomorrow I felt like I "needed" to use some self-tanner on my legs. Mistake. The tanner I used was leftover from the Susan days (she's Jason's ex-wife for those of you who don't know). Needless to say, it was old. I realized it was a bad move about halfway through one leg...I couldn't stop then! So, I did the best I could then had to use lemon juice to wipe a bunch of it off once the color started showing. I did throw the rest of it away...I won't be using it again. Why oh why did I do that? More trouble than it was worth, that's for sure.

And in final news today, I made another scrapbook page from our park outing last week (the same one I made the Sunshine Day movie of). It is a fairly blatant scraplift of my good buddy Kirsty. I just really admired the way she could get so many pictures on a page and still keep it looking sharp. So, I copied her like I often do. Hope you like my version too!