Piper’s been sleeping for 3 1/2 hours. This would be an amazing, wonderful miracle of The Lord if she wasn’t sick and I hadn’t given her Tylenol. The Tylenol and fever explains this sleepy Piper. It’s sad that she’s sick. Although, I must say she’s quite a trooper. When she’s awake she’s pretty happy for having a fever. Last night I spent the night at my mom’s house because Jason is on a business trip and I don’t like to be lonely. Piper’s fever started last night and the every-4-hour regimen of Tylenol began. The first time she woke up it was about midnight and I gave her Tylenol and then she was a happy little girl. My mom gave her the t.v. remote and let her press the buttons. By her reaction, I think this was the highlight of her week. I told my mom, “only at Grandma’s house does she get to be up and 1:00 a.m. watching t.v. and controlling the remote.” My mom said, “She’s got a fever”.
We’ve been pretty lucky that this is the first fever Piper’s had in her young life (besides from jaundice when she was 2 days old.). However, it makes me want to quit all of my jobs. I decided not to go to rehearsal tonight (luckily it was one that I wasn’t scheduled to do too much at) and I’m thinking about what I’m going to do for the creative movement class that I teach tomorrow. Reschedule a make-up, I guess. It would be a lot easier to stay home with a sick kid if I didn’t have responsibilities besides her, but I’m not ready to quit my jobs yet. I only work about 8 hours a week, so it’s not much, but sometimes it feels like it. I don’t know how working moms do it.
Some cute things that Piper has done lately:
1. Met my mom’s cat and started saying “Kitty” and then every time she crawled into my mom’s room where the cat hangs out she’d point to where the cat was and say “Kitty? Kitty?”. The cat was hiding under the bed.
2. Grabbed a napkin off of the coffee table and dabbed her mouth and blew her nose.
3. Dances like a freak. Seriously, she goes nuts. It looks like a still-legged ska dance. Especially to the music of the toy horse at my mom’s house.
4. Tickles my belly and puts her mouth on my belly as if to blow raspberries. Mind you, I do not offer her my belly, she lifts up my shirt for this game.
5. Puts the clean diapers in the Diaper Champ (like she sees us do with the dirty ones). Sometimes she hits it. I think she’s trying to make the diapers disappear.
6. When you hand her something interesting she says “Ooh!”
7. This was cute for a while, but now it’s just annoying. She drops stuff on the floor (mostly food from her high chair) so that she has a reason to say “uh-oh”.
8. She said “uh-oh” when I set a frying pan on fire. So, she knows that flames in the kitchen are a bad thing. Smart girl.
9. We have a video of her giving herself a titty-twister and screaming (she was getting all hyper and she screamed in delight, not pain, believe it or not.)
10. The list could really go on and on – answering her pretend telephone, pointing to her mouth, saying “thank you” (okay, it’s more like “Tane Ooo) when you give her something or when she gives you something. She’s really just so amazing.
Oh, yeah, and she walks now. The longest she’s ever done is 10 steps before biting it. But, she’s getting better. Okay, enough bragging about how awesome my kid is. But really, isn’t that what this website is all about? Okay, thanks for reading this. It must mean that you love The Sperskes. Chances are, we love you too. So, Happy Valentines day (on Thurs.)