open the pod bay doors, hal

hi! we've had a somewhat schizophrenic day here.

8am-10:30am--everything is good.
10:30am-1:00pm--everything is bad.
1:00pm-3:15pm--we are gone on an errand, and then rest time. neutral.
3:15pm-now (6:04pm)--everything is good.

what's up with that? this is why i have a somewhat positive feeling about the day, even though that span of time when things were bad was very bad.

abby tried spaghetti-os today. verdict? she said she liked them, but ate very little. i'm not too brokenhearted...it's not like i'd be feeding them to her very often. however, i am somewhat stumped for things to feed her. her meals consist of:

breakfast: whole-grain pancake or waffle and fruit. sometimes a bowl of cheerios with milk. one time oatmeal, but that was not a good experiment.
lunch: peanut butter and jelly sandwich, cheese sandwich. fruit.
supper: macaroni and cheese, quesadilla, spaghetti, tortellini, chicken nuggets, fish sticks, sloppy joes. fruit or veggie. veggie choices are pretty much corn or maybe salad, but probably not salad.

so, yeah. not a very varied diet there. and with brian's schedule having him working until 6 or 7 or 8, we tend to not eat supper together. if we were all eating together, she'd be eating what we eat, but i wait and eat with brian. sigh. stupid borders. see, i knew i'd find a way to blame them for this!

abby went out on the patio/deck this afternoon to play for a while in the snow, since we are getting much snow tonight and into tomorrow, and after that the temperatures will be lower than abby's age. she had fun until her mitten came off, and then it was all over.

so, on sunday night, abby had a bath and then we were going to cut her fingernails because they were out of control. somehow, though, she's decided that fingernail-cutting is somewhere on a level with chinese water torture, because she would not let it happen. i reasoned with her for almost 45 minutes, and not wanting to give up since we'd have to do the same thing again the next day, i ended up pretty much sitting on her and forcibly doing it. have you ever tried to forcibly cut someone else's fingernails? it's a tricky business. so, we decided to save the toenails for the next day, and when it was time, i had a brainstorm.

me: "after we cut your toenails, we can paint them!"
abby: "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

total success. live and learn. :)