Festival Festivities

How is it that my days are *so busy* but then I can't seem to figure out why or how they are so busy?  Must be the life with a toddler.  Just constantly moving and going but really, going no where.

Last Friday, my bestie and I spent the day together.  We went to the gym, ate at Chipotle, watched When In Rome and napped a little.  Then after Kage woke up, we went shopping for some fun things.  Finally, at about 10:00 we headed out for our girls night.  Almost missed the band!  But we had a good time anyway.  Those monthly girls nights are so worth the wait.

The shirts and bracelet (you can see mine, but not hers) were some of our finds while out shopping earlier that afternoon.  We also got matching blingy watches.

Saturday, R and I celebrated our anniversary (even though it isn't until Tuesday).  We went to eat at a really swank restaurant in the downtown area of our town.  Then we did a little shopping and ended up going to see Bad Teacher.  That was awesome.  Laughed through the whole movie.  Oh, and you can see my date outfit to the left.  Shirt is from Old Navy and the skirt is stolen from my BFF about three years ago.  Shoes....had them for like 5 years.  No joke.

We also received our new iPhones in the mail on Saturday morning.  We're moving away from my beloved Verizon and going to AT&T.  I've been with Verizon since like.....forever?  So this move is big.  Huge.  And I know that I'll eventually love my new phone, but right now I'm in that whole new phone transition phase and I feel all disoriented.  Hate that feeling.

On Sunday, I got in my workout early so that we could have the rest of our day as a family.  We were taking Kage to see the parade in town.  This weekend was a big annual festival and it ends with the "grand parade."  This parade was no joke.  It was about an hour and 40 minutes long.  Kage lasted an hour.  Had they been throwing candy....she may have tolerated it a bit longer.  But this is the first parade that I have watched where they weren't belting the crowd with tasty snacks.  They handed out American flags instead.  I thought it was fun though. 

We then walked through the carnival area to be harassed by the carnie rats get cotton candy and a corn dog.
And then walked home.  I thank God that Kage isn't old enough to bug us to ride the rides and play the games.  I am appreciating these years until that whole fit starts.  I know that I'll be amongst the other poor parents out there forking over a whole paycheck so that the kids can ride every rickety ride offered.  Ugh.

After the festivities, we came back and had lunch and then I went to the pool while Kage napped and R played with his new phone.  I think that I slept through the whole pool time though....or most of it.  Oops.  And now, I'm slightly burned.  Ever so slightly.  Oh well.

Oh no, she's talking about poop again...

I have one of those mom gut feelings going on that something is not right with my baby girl.  It's the worst feeling in the world.  But it's something that you can't really describe and something that no one else feels but you.  So no one else understands the deep drive to fix whatever it is that is wrong...even if you're not quite sure what it is.

Kage has had strange diarrhea since, like, Saturday.  She only gets one cup of juice each morning, and even then it's the Motts for Tots Apple.  And if you've never tasted that, it's the most watered down juice ever.  And I water it down some more.  So I'm pretty sure it's not that....as we've been giving it to her for months now.  I did add the Motts for Tots mixed berry juice into rotation just to give her a change of taste.  But she's only had one cup of that in the last couple of days.  Aside from her juice, it's all water that she drinks.  (She refuses to drink milk.)

So yesterday the diarrhea seemed to be worse.  At day care it was out of her pants twice.  And now she's got a raw butt.  I'm kind of mad at day care lady because she didn't catch the poop soon enough and now my poor baby is raw.  This isn't the first time that this happened at her house.  And when I got her home, she had dried diarrhea in her diaper.  On top of the already rashed butt.  She must have done it before/during nap and wasn't checked.

When she's at home, she is changed immediately after the #2 deed.  She doesn't sit more than 5 minutes in it.  Her butt is just too sensitive, and well, that's just gross.  I catch it immediately.  And I don't expect day care lady to be able to catch it as quickly as I do...she's got her own two kids to watch there too.  But for it be in her diaper long enough to cause that bad of a rash is crazy. 

And, she skipped her morning nap yesterday to give them a longer outside time.  I sort of get that, but she's a baby.  She needs her naps.  And she got up super early yesterday (6 a.m.) and then had to be up until 2:30 when she wanted to put her down.  That's just too long for a baby toddler.  I get that she wants all three kids on the same schedule and therefore kept them up so that her boys could have more time outside, but we made it clear that we want her to have two naps.

Maybe I'm being too picky.

But back to the poop problem.  So last night after I picked her up, I took her home and bathed her to get all poop off of her little bum.  She was acting okay so we continued with our plan to go out for dinner.  She ate terrifically: a corn dog, fries, broccoli and a pickle.   So her appetite isn't affected.  Then we went for a drive around our sweet little town and found another river front park that we'd not been to before.

This place has a real Dutch windmill that you can tour on the weekends.  I can't wait to check it out!

Kage is in love with 'quack quacks' so we walked her along the river and over the bridge (to grandmother's house we go!--sorry) to see the geese.  This group wasn't as rude at the last that we encountered. But they were surely looking for bread to be given to them!  She loved being able to "talk" to them.

But then as we were walking back over the bridge, we smelled another bout of the diarrhea.  I got her straight back to the car to get it changed.  Forgive the details here, but this is a poop post--it was a diaper full of peas.  Whole peas.  Lots of them.  She had peas for lunch that day.  So is she not digesting?  She eats peas all of the time, like twice a week.  So why is she not digesting?

I'm scared that something is wrong.  Something with her intestines or something.  She's playing, running, laughing, having fun, eating, drinking, acting otherwise normal.  I don't know what to do.  My mom says to give it today to see if it gets better. I know that if I call her pediatrician they'll say to "bring her in" because they say that about everything.  And then when I get there, they tell me to wait a few days and call if it continues.  So why waste the $50 co-pay?

I'm so worried about my baby.