August 2010

I am finally feeling better after starting to eat food last Sunday, this being Wed.  Because of the ulcer on my esophagus I couldn't really eat anything besides chicken soup, jello and kisiel.  On the upside I lost 5 lbs but fear before I go back to Poland I will gain it back since I am constantly hungry now after starving for a week and a half.

Emma is turning into a little comedian maybe without even knowing it.  She found a dead caterpillar on the sidewalk at daycare and said "Oh..it's a caterpillar- well he is not going anywhere!"  I think that's quite funny for a 3 years old.

We have been picking tomatoes every day and there seems to be an endless supply of it.  I am running out of things to do with tomotoes and it doesn't help Emma can't really eat them since she gets red blotches on her face when she does.  Last weekend I actually weekend all the flower beds and did most of the garden before I ran out of steam.  I am still a bit weak I guess.  Emma is enjoying helping to water the planters and she loves coloring with chalk on our new patio so it was a smart decision to convert that rocky area into a patio.

Adam went to a Heavy Metal concert on Monday night, the 16th of August.  I  had Emma and while I was cleaning up after dinner, she went to the bathroom.  She is getting to the point where she wants her privacy and frequently closes the door after she enters the bathroom.  She was in there for a while and I didn't think nothing of it when I heard she turned on the faucet a few times.  Then she comes out smelling like and outhouse and I notice she has poop on her shorts - her white shorts.  So at first I think she had an accident and somehow spread it on her shorts.  Boy was I wrong.  As I enter the bathroom to wash her hands and quickly get her out of the shorts, the bathroom smell hits me.  Apparently she played with her poop in the toilet and splashed it on the walls, floor, and the carpet.  In addition she smeared it all over the toilet seat, the sink and faucet.  I can only pray it was because she was trying to get the poop off!  I hope she wasn't doing it on purpose.  Needles to say, I did quite a bit of yelling (my bad but that was the last straw that day) and I had  a half hour of scrubbing everything in the bathroom and gave her a 45 minute bath before I felt sanitary again.  I still can't understand why she did this!  She is such a clean freak - this is the same kid who insists on changing her underwear if there is speck of dirt on it, who won't sit in a wet t-shirt is she spill something on it.  I can't image ....she better not do this again!