Rough Weekend

This weekend was...not the greatest...

First, last Thursday I went in to "fix" my hair.  She did a good job, but the color and cut just weren't gelling; if I just washed and dried it, put a little product, the ends would flip all weird and just didn't lay right.  So my stylist softened the ends and put a brown gloss over it, and voila!

Much better!

Saturday, May 16

Glad he's still smiling!

Our daycare lady let us know she was going to watch another baby that night and that if we wanted to bring Leif he'd have a friend there.  So we took advantage and ran over to IKEA to grab a new dresser.  It's definitely much easier navigating that zoo of a store without a toddler in tow.  We also wouldn't have been able to fit the dresser in the car with Leif in, as we had to fold everything down AND tie the trunk down.  We were a little anxious driving on the freeway, but we made it back without anything falling out!

That evening my stomach hurt-we had eaten at a place called Snapper Jack's Taco Shack close to my work for lunch, and ever since I wasn't feeling good.  Ugh...


Sunday, May 17

Leif was doing a "smooshy" face with his spoon.  This was the best shot Hubs could take since he always stops what he's doing when he knows he's getting a picture taken.

I woke up feeling a little better, so after hanging out at home in the morning we decided to get out and explore the Glendale Galleria/Americana.  What a mistake...it was crowded with rude people.  Seriously-from the customer service (we were about to eat at Red Robin, and the hostess was talking to hubs, but then these girls walked up and the hostess started talking to them all friendly, ignoring hubs-so he said some rude comments and we walked off), to the people overcrowding the elevator when they didn't need to take it, to people walking right at us.  It didn't help that we were "hangry".  The mall/Galleria was terrible and noticed the Americana/Cheesecake Factory was right across the street, so we rushed over and waited patiently for a table.  My stomach felt like it had something stuck in the middle of it, so I couldn't eat much, but as for Leif...

Leif really enjoyed his mac n' cheese

 We walked around the Americana after lunch and just noticed...more rude people.  There was this huge area in the middle with nice, green grass but it was all roped off and big signs that said, "Do not walk on the grass".  What do we see?  Families and kids running all over it.

I walked into Sephora to grab something/get my free birthday gift, and all I saw were girls standing in the middle of the aisles, blocking all pathways.  It was ridiculous.  I tried to hurry through and made my way out.  Sigh.  Before we left everything, we took Leif to this toddler area to burn off some energy.  Kids there were just as bad as the people/parents-running around all crazy, being just as rude-one little girl even kicked Leif in the head making her way up the slide-but at least the dad was there and made her apologize.  Finally, someone with some decency.  We didn't stay too long.

At least Leif was in a good mood that day.

Sunday evening my stomach still felt "full", so I didn't eat much.  And then I woke up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat with nausea...and proceeded to throw up everything I ate that day and then some (sorry, TMI).

 Monday, May 18

Yesterday was rough.  I alternated from waves of nausea, to being super hot, to being freezing cold-I couldn't eat anything, my stomach was doing somersaults.  And I absolutely HATE throwing up, so I fought that off all day.  Thankfully hubs had the day off and he was able to take Leif to daycare and grab me food/meds/drinks.  I didn't start feeling good until right before Leif came home, and even then I could barely move.  I at least felt good enough to eat soup for dinner.  Then of course Leif woke up at 3am...he'll do that time to time, but this time he kept tossing and turning and crying for half an hour.  I finally decided to get him up, give him some baby tylenol and let him sleep with us.

Tuesday, May 19

Leif didn't wake up until it was time to leave for daycare

And here I am at work.  I thought I was feeling better, but I'm still pretty weak and out of it.  I tried eating an apple with almond butter, but I've only managed to get a few pieces down.  Not feeling it.  Wish me luck as I try to make it through the day...it's pretty quiet around here now that students are gone, but my boss is here and well, the day might still go pretty slowly.