"...things are getting a little better with Elizabeth."

Sat., Oct. 12, 1991

     I think we're all over our colds. I'm surprised Guy had it the worst. And that mine didn't move down in my chest.

     Elizabeth got another tooth Thu. The lower left-next to center. It feels like the next top one will come in on the right. I've been using bubble gum flavored toothpaste on a gauze pad to clean her teeth at bedtime. Most nights at least. Guy still thinks she needs a bottle to go to sleep. At least he gives her a little water to rinse her mouth out. At least he's supposed to. He brought her up asleep tonight & let me go ahead & use the toothpaste

     Tues. morning Eliz. & I went to a Discovery Toys party at Cathy Rudolph's. It was so funny - Deborah Cuthrell was there (from church). I knew she lived kinda near Cathy from when I went with Gayle to Mary Ruiz's shower at Deborah's last month. She said it was only a few blocks away. They're in a food co-op together. She was looking for xmas presents for nieces & nephews.

     Anyway, they had some really neat stuff. I was looking for something with a crinkly noise but she didn't have anything. They are the ones who make those links I see everyone with. I'd been looking in stores for them. They look like chain links & the opening is on the side. It's a set of 24 in all the primary colors. I also got two rattles. One has an hourglass shape with lots of tiny multicolored beads inside and a sort of framework for holding onto. The other one is an outline of an elephant. His head swivels & his ears flop. His tail swivels & in his middle is a little ball that's half clear with little peanut shapes inside for the rattle. I let Eliz. try several things before deciding what to get. I'd planned on keeping it to $15-20 and Guy told me to keep it to $30 or less. I spent $27.17.

     I went & got my hair permed yesterday. I guess it's ok. I wish I hadn't had to pay $45 for it. I'd been saving up money for it. I wish it was a little bit curlier. I told her I didn't want it real curly though. She said she'd put in enough so it would look good to just let it air dry but occasionally use hot rollers. It didn't look so great after I slept on it over night. I'm not supposed to wash it for 48 hrs. but she said I could wet it down. I think I'll have to do that for it to look good tomorrow.

     Guy has duty weekend. He thought he'd get off at lunch but had to stay til 2:00. He doesn't have to be there til 11:30 tomorrow. He has the 12-4 watch. Last weekend was the first weekend he had off in a long time. He has Mon. off because it's Columbus Day. Every time there's a 3-day weekend this year he's got duty weekend or duty that Mon. He put in his leave for Thanksgiving but hasn't got it approved yet. I called one of the kennels (next to where we took Chief for obedience lessons). It costs $8.50 a day. That would be $127.60 for our trip. No way can we afford that. I think Guy's going to ask Mike & Carole if they'll keep him. We found out at the area-wide fellowship at Granby last week that they're trying to get pregnant again. Martha's only 10 mo. old!

     There's still a lot I need to catch up on but I'm getting tired.

     I just want to say things are getting a little better with Eliz. A couple of times this week she took longer naps. I'd decided to just go ahead & let her take more shorter naps. Seems like once we get used to a routine she changes. I'm still amazed at how fast she's growing. She's not a little baby any more, she's becoming a little person. She's so much more aware of everything around her. And she wants to be in the middle of whatever we're doing. We got her a walker yesterday. She doesn't move around yet but it has little toys hanging down in front over the tray that she can play with. It only lasts about 15 min. at a time so far. I was able to vacuum & get started dusting while she was in it this aft. Hopefully I can finish tomorrow.