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01/19/2006 Archived Entry: "steeer-rike!"

The baby is on a sleep and food strike. Oh goody. She's barely drinking water either. Not sure if she's running a mild virus, teething or something else entirely. I think we've been running around too much and her routine has been completely disrupted. I think I'm going to risk the wrath of the big one and not go to park day tomorrow. Then I'll leave Daisy home for hula on Saturday, which means not much yard work will get done as Chris will have to watch her. Hopefully those two days will get her back on track. Of course, we'll probably just screw her up again and go to Disneyland on Sunday.

We drove to the mall where Daisy had her 11 month pics taken to pick them up. Since I really didn't want to drive out there, that made the decision for me to not make her 1 year appt there but rather at a closer mall. I really liked the guy, and goodness knows he was willing to do anything to work with my kid, but I'll just take my chances and not make that drive two more times.

Since it is a bit of a drive, we decided to stay and walk the mall a bit. It's a pretty good one, boasting The Disney Store, Children's Place, KB Toys, Limited Too and Gap Kids/Baby Gap. I wasn't there to shop though, just look. Other than Baby Gap. I have 2 gift cards for Daisy from Christmas, a check for Daisy's birthday and a Baby Gap coupon so I really wanted to get some pieces from their sailor suit line. However, two things I really wanted they didn't have in her size and I got pretty frustrated, which was not helped by Daisy doing her typical screeching and Tabitha playing on the hop scotch so we left without buying anything. I came home, ordred all I wanted, plus two more pieces, used my discount, cards and got free shipping. Yay! I have two more stores to hit with some Christmas cash I got specifically to buy clothes for Daisy and then she is set with boutique clothes. I'll round out her summer wear with onesies and shorts from less expensive places and she'll be good til the fall.

Tabitha, on the other hand, is not set for summer. She's definitely going to need shorts and probably some tops, though she has a decent selection of tanks. I'm not fond of the current trend of big appliques on the front of t-shirts, even if she is. I did get her one of that style at Children's Place today, but it was the least obnoxious of the bunch. She saw another shirt there she'd like and we saw two at Limited Too that she liked and I don't object to. I'll get past the birthdays and then see about buying those shirts for her. Shorts I'm going to wait on until May just to be sure she doesn't hit another growth spurt.

Speaking of the birthdays, the invitations have gone out for Tabitha's party. Here's what the front looked like. invitation That graphic is pretty much the theme of the party being used in many different ways. We're waiting on three things I won on ebay to be delivered and we still need to order balloons. Our big gift to Tabitha looks like it's not going to work out so I've been trying to supplement with lots of smaller things. Usually she gets a big item and maybe a couple small things, not so much this year I guess. She'll be happy either way so I'm not too worried, but I'm cheesed I can't get her exactly what I want.

Well, the babe finally decided to submit to sleep and the big one wants to use my computer to go online so I'll sign off.