Love At First Bite. Literally.

I'm officially stumped as to how to handle Miss S. She is biting the shit out of me. I have more hickeys on my neck now than I did in high school. The sad thing is that most folks think I'm getting hot action from DH! Miss S. runs up to me, gives me a hug and...CHOMP! Sometimes she licks, but most of the time, she bites. I've concluded that this is her way of giving me a "kiss", but it hurts like hell. I'm having a problem disciplining her when it happens because all I want to do in the heat of the moment is get her the HELL off of me. The other day I pulled her hair in order to break her vice-like grip on my skin. When I try to explain to her that its an "ouch" or a "boo boo" she just cries, she thinks I'm yelling at her. I have no idea how to get past this stage, except to hope that its exactly that...a stage. In the meantime, maybe I will give DH credit for the hickeys...maybe my friends will get all jealous, thinking I'm getting laid all the time.

The girls finally have left the icky, nasty virus behind. In exchange for several days on the BRAT diet (scroll down a couple posts if you need to know what that acronym means), the girls got...um...backed up? This means I made a trip to the local market for prunes, pears, peaches...and glycerin suppositories...just in case. Miss S. had a really hard time - she would stand there, "assume the position" and just cry. Poor baby. But finally the prunes kicked in and now everything is nice and regular.

...Is that too much info for you? Sorry. But that's my world, and therefore, its in my blog.

While we're on the topic of food, things have been a little dicey around here at mealtime these days. Since they're recovering from the virus, I've been trying to get them back on track with their meals. Breakfast and lunch have been OK (although I should note that my daughters would eat PB&J three times a day if I'd let them). It's dinner that's causing me stress. All I've been able to get them to eat is french fries and chicken nuggets. And yes, those of you who have kids are laughing and saying, "well HELLO! That's the toddler diet right there!" I know that. But I'm trying to incorporate some variety - sue me. I tried mac & cheese, I tried hamburgers..no luck. And would you believe that Miss S. even turned away my chicken cutlets? She'll eat that crappy Weaver pressed chicken nugget crap, but not MY yummy cutlets? Little witch. Of course, I don't want to push the food or turn it into a fight, but it drives me BATTY to put out several things and wind up throwing almost all of it into the garbage. Again, I know this is a stage, I just don't know if I'm going to make it to the other side.

Of course to make things even more fun, I caught the nasty icky virus too. Luckily I only had it for 24 hours. But it was a shitty 24 hours. Fever, chills...it just kicked my ass. Thank goodness Spring is here.

Speaking of, I actually got the girls out TWICE this week. Poor things hadn't seen the light of day in nearly three weeks. We went to the park one day and we went to the zoo today. The girls had a good time - the zoo was PACKED - of course - the weather was beautiful, so of course every mom and her brother is out with the kiddies.

Finally. Here's a little something that gave me a giggle. I was food shopping this afternoon, and saw the funniest thing. First a lttle background: I have this ongoing beef with a dude who works at the food store. Don't ask me how it started. One day this dude caught me putting something back in the wrong place (nothing perishable, I'm not that careless); I'd just changed my mind and I was too lazy to put it back where it belonged (ten aisles back)...*hanging my head in shame here*. Anyway, the dude immediately picked up the left item, sucked his teeth and stomped off to return the item to its proper place. Now, whenever he sees me, he gives me the fish-eye. Its real nice that he takes his job seriously and all, but jeez! Lighten up, buddy. Today, the store is having a big "Seafood Extravaganza", and there's my buddy, outside the store...

In a full-on bright red lobster suit.

To add to the fun, it was like 70 degrees today, so he was all sweaty, and his face was as red as the lobster suit.

He saw me coming. Its almost like I knew what would happen. I passed him, looked him straight in the eye and...."BWAAAHA HA HA HA!!!" I about near peed myself. I'm laughing right now thinking about it.

OK. Here's this week's Friday Fiver
1. Name one of your flaws: - I have flaws? OK. I'm a procrastinator.
2. Have you ever won first place? - Um...I'm a second place kinda gal. Always so close.
3. Who is the last person to make you smile? - DH. No really.
4. Describe a time when you should have tried harder: - Should have tried harder in high school. Spent the last two years slacking.
5. What are you good at? - Anything I really put my mind to.