When it rains, it pours -- out of the ceiling!

Gotta love toddler curiosity. On Wednesday, I was pretty stressed with a meeting at work and needless to say was a little preoccupied. I wasn't the best Mommy I could be and neither was Allison! Apparently she had put a lot of paper and wipes down the upstairs toilet. I wasn't aware of this event happening -- and when she got up from her nap, we went to the potty. I told Allison to flush and the toilet made this awful gurgle sound and whoosh, out comes the water, and it kept coming and coming....
I quickly turned the water off, and looked at Allison and told her to go to Mommy and Daddy's room and sit on the bed. I told her not to touch a thing, just to sit on the bed. She didn't miss a beat and sat there for me. I ran down the stairs to get the mop. Got the mop and then realized it wasn't going to work. I then made a mad dash back outside to the garage to get the wet / vac. When I returned, my sweet baby girl had gotten towels ((I think at some point I did grab some and throw them down -- no way she thought of that on her own)) and laid them on the floor. She was back on the bed and was sucking on a washcloth. She does this a lot with her teething, I noticed, in my deer-in-the-headlight panic that the washcloth was wet. I asked her how the washcloth got wet, she told me from the floor. I flipped out because now my daughter was sucking on toilet water! I vacuumed up the water and then went downstairs just in time to hear drip, drip out of the ceiling. Unbelievable. The water had seeped in around the vanity and was now flooding our family room. I had had it and just took Allison and Bailey to the basement. Brent came home and put a hole in the ceiling only to fill a BUCKET full of water. When it was happening, Allison pointed to the ceiling and told me it was going potty. Not funny at the time, but funny and adorable now!
To make this story more complicated and funny, really, our realtor called to tell us we were having a home inspection the next morning. That's right, the next morning. We got a handyman to at least patch the damage for the inspection and then we got the leak fixed this weekend. All day today Allison kept telling us that Victor was going to fix the ceiling. Lots of money later, the ceiling is fixed and we passed the home inspection. There goes my Christmas!

Ode to the Pink Cupcake

A patient of mine brought me in some cupcakes this week. (I actually need to discharge this patient because he brings me baked goods every week!) He brought in some of those mini cupcakes too. I knew the minute I saw them that I would soon become the coolest Mom ever! We held off on giving the cupcake to her before bedtime and then I opted to give it to her today after her lunch. After she had eaten her lunch (please note the half eaten carrots in the photo -- I do try to feed her properly!), she did her usual push away from the table. That's when I knew it was time. I went over and gave it to her. You would have thought she'd won the lottery. As she looked at me and what I was holding, I felt this beam of light surround my every movement and she looked lovingly at me. It was priceless. And it was pink! There isn't a day that goes by, especially on walks that Allison tells me she wants black (chocolate) cupcakes with pink icing for her birthday. Truly, I thought she was going to break out in Happy Birthday Allison!! It's moments like this that I am also reminded she's my child -- she only ate the icing! That's my girl. I think we will have a cupcake themed birthday party!

Diggin' her birthday suit

Allison just wants to be in her birthday suit! If we put her bed, she gets naked. When she wakes up in the morning, she gets naked. Fortunately with this new phase, there have only been two accidents. It is a little disturbing to walk into her bedroom and she hands her diaper to me!

Anniversary Weekend -- I'm a Wahoo, and you?

Brent and I celebrated our 7th Wedding Anniversary this past weekend. How our lives have changed in seven years! We decided to head out of town and go to Charlottesville. Nothing makes Brent happier than reliving his old haunts from UVa. He was a little shocked when one of the frat houses that he hung out at was nothing but a pile of rubble. Then I added insult to injury when I reminded him that he started college 15 years ago. He had the deer in the headlight look for awhile! We got a suite since Allison goes to bed at 8 pm. What a joke thinking that she would sleep in her pack n play. She ended up sleeping with us and I of course wasn't able to sleep, convinced the covers would suffocate her! She enjoyed the spacious nature of our suite and ran around saying okay, okay, okay. That's all Brent! Maybe for year #8, we can start the tour of Katie's education! It will take awhile.

Cox Farms

This was our first time going to Cox Farms. Apparently in this area, it's a rite of passage in the fall. Allison had a lot of fun. My mom or Nana also went with us. Allison had NO fear on the slides and wanted to go and go and go!! There were a couple of times that I was holding my breath, but she did well. We attempted to go on a pony ride. She said over and over that she wanted to ride the horsey, but when the time came, absolutely not! She also went on the hay ride. She was quite reserved on the hayride and didn't really say much. She kept saying she was having fun, but when we asked her if she wanted to go again, she said no. That told us that she was really scared but was trying to get through it. We ran into one of Allison's favorite people, Dr. Ben!! She wouldn't talk to him but did take to his little girl. We were headed into the "goat town" and Dr. Ben warned us that last year they treated a lot of bites. I immediately looked at Brent and said should we do this?? He just said, she will be fine and she was. I did feel like I was letting the pediatrician down!