Laid back Sunday

Today was my MILs birthday so my SIL was in town and the tio y tia came over and we had Olive Garden for lunch. It was good and we have had so few dinners out since Elena was born it was kind of a treat instead of 'the usual'.

We also tensly sat through the Bears game. It was amazingly painful but at least they pulled it off. I'm also glad the Colts and Saints won last night. That'll make for some great festivities in the next couple of weeks. I'm just glad that the Bears or Saints will be going to the Super Bowl. So long as Peyton doesn't choke again next week we'll be having a bigol party on the 4th!!!!

And after Gould's 48 yarder JoPa should be singing and toasting in Collegetown Pa. for dinner.

And, any of you looking for a good drinking game for the next couple of weeks every time a Chevy commercial with Mellancamp's song comes on take a shot of your favorite hard liquor. Anyone still able to walk after the first quarter has my kudos.

Go BEARS!!!!!!




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Weighty situation

So I'm back on weight watchers as I got my calculator fixed this week. Stupid dead batteries. Hopefully the weight will finally begin to come off but that, unfortunately, isn't the biggest weight issue in the house.

Elena is still losing weight. We had a ton of blood and other excretory tests run last week and come to find out she's got a UTI/Bladder infection on top of the weight loss.

So after finding out the results of the test and our doctor doing a consult with a peditrician in SB, we are basically feeding the beast every hour.

Here's what she has to have in the course of a day:

Minimum 25 oz of breastmilk
PLUS
4-6 Tbs. of rice cereal
PLUS
a minimum of 8 oz of solid (ok it's pureed but it started off solid) food

She's also been downing about 8 oz of H2O mixed with pedialyte (the only way she's willing to take water anymore) and the doctor said nothing about that so I'll ask if she wants us to continue that practice tomorrow when we go in for another weight check.

I'll let you know how it goes, but she already feels like she's gaining weight but that could just be the constipation from the change in diet.

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Garcia Invasion begins

Coming in March to a Paraguay near you!!!! Elena!!!!

She's being baptized in Tobati (for more info on Tobati go to www.teamtobati.org) toward the end of the month so we just got the tickets booked this weekend. Elena's got her own seat from Chi town down to the end, but they were appearantly going to charge us 400 extra for her to have her own seat from SB to Chigaco (total of an hour in the air!) so guess who's going lap style for those flights.

I'm not sure Elena will be happy once we get to Asuncion as there will probably be about 50 people there ready to love all over her and after 24 hours of traveling who knows what kind of mood she'll be in.

I'm not taking the big camera as it would be a theft target so I'm taking the little camera we have but I don't think I'll have the Mac, but, thankfully, my BIL will be down there with his school kids and uploads photos and info to the Team Tobati website while they're there so I'll try and post some photos from the trip while I'm down there for your enjoyment.

Sunshine, here we come!!!!!!

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Tomorrow's a holiday for us and I think I'm going to try and get all our laundry done. Elena's stuff is clean, but not put away and I've got a couple of weeks for the two of us and I haven't been able to do much house work lately. I hope I can make the most of my day off after taking 3 hours out of the day to go to the doctor.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

La. Sra.