Good News

Ankle

Good news! I am able to get around fairly well today with the walking cast. It hurts to walk a bit, but nothing compared to yesterday when I couldn't bear any weight at all on my left leg. I can get up the stairs just fine. Going down is challenging only because of the bulkiness of the walking cast, so I am Baby Bjorning Avery so I can hold onto the railing. Obviously I'm going slowly! And my ankle isn't tender in a way that makes me think I will step wrong, feel immense pain and react in a such as way as to make myself unbalanced. So all is well. I would think I'll be out of the walking cast by Wednesday at the latest.

I'm annoyed that we ended up at the ER, which I assume to be more expensive than an Urgent Care clinic. I don't know this for sure, but I always hear the ER is the most expensive way to get medical care. However, we dumped a bit too much money into our FSA this year, so I think this will probably just all fall into there and it'll all work out.

Recycling

I'm very excited to get my new recycling plan in place. RG pointed me to the EnviroMom blog. This post, inspired by a comment made on the blog by RG herself, gives me a good idea on how to set up a more inclusive recycling plan than we've had thus far. Right now, we only recycle things that are picked up curbside. I want to move towards recycling everything we can, so this puts me well on my way. And, now that we've decided not to move, I can invest in shelving and storage options for the garage to make things clean and tidy. Two of my favorite things: organization and recycling. Whee!

Scrabulous

I am concentrating on getting my score up in Scrabulous. It took a huge hit when I was playing 30 simultaneous games. I can clearly not handle playing that many games at one time because I just go to go and then my score plummets! Why I care about my score, I do not know. But I do. And right now, it's pitiful considering how long I've been playing Scrabble.

Avery Napping & Sleeping

Hmmm. She has been a terrific napper for the past couple of weeks, but yesterday she barely napped at all. Today, she went down easily for nap #1, but that was 45 minutes ago and I hear her stirring, though not awake. Hopefully she'll just go back to sleep. Edit: She's now been down for 1 hour 45 minutes, so I think we're back on track. I think she was awake for 15 minutes of that in the middle, but she never cried or made any babbling noises - just changed her breathing to make me think that she was awake.

We are four nights in a row of one wake-up only! And after she woke up around 6:15 the first two mornings, the next two she's slept until 7:15 or later. I love that when she wakes up, she doesn't cry. She just lies in her crib babbling and thumping (she has become a serious crib thumper). I don't think this is uncommon that she doesn't cry since I've read of other moms leaving babies to babble in their cribs while they get ready in the morning, but it's such a nice change from a month or two ago when wake ups were loud and sad.