Fans, Glorious Fans

Next time you are in a room with a moving ceiling fan, just stare at it. It's quit soothing. And interesting to watch. Lilly loves ceiling fans, especially moving ones. Not so much for the air they bring, but for the shadows and movements they create. Her eyes gravitate towards the swirling blades. I had her in our room this morning, as I got dressed, and she was on our bed. And the first place her eyes went was towards our silver fan. And she loved it. She just stared and stared, and stared until she started leaning towards the right, into the intersection of two pillows. Not one to enjoy being off balanced (really, who does?) She took her eyes off the fan and started to get upset, thus breaking the harmony and beauty of the appliance. But try it sometime, you'll feel soothed, and cool off, at the same time.

We've had a good day so far. We went for a walk in the morning, got about twenty minutes in, before she started crying and wouldn't stop. Normally she's soothed by the bumps. But nope. Only made her feel worse and become angrier. Found out why when we got home. Not only did she let out a good size daddy burp, but about ten minutes after got home, she let out three poops. So she was feeling good and regular! She had about an hour nap, ate some more, and then we went to Pier 1, where she hated being in the car seat, hated the ride over, and I, to combat any crying, took her out of the car seat (normally, I would carry it around in the store) and held her while shopping for some picture frames. Quickly found some, and got out of there. She started crying once we were in the car, but I told her only one more stop. Whole Foods. She was pretty good once we got the store. I kept her in the car seat, and put her at the front of the shopping cart.

We've had a slow cooker for almost a year now, and just yesterday I took it out of the box. It came with 10 recipes (BBQ ribs, pulled pork, spaghetti, etc), and I felt inspired to use it. So Mark and I decided on pulled pork, I brought the recipe with me to the store and went shopping for the meal (also got a rotissere chicken should the pork not taste good, always have a back up plan) and got some stuff for dinner tomorrow night (lemon herbed chicken, also going in the crock pot. She took it all in at Whole Foods, before finding the Peace Pipe ( I put it in her mouth) and falling asleep. She stayed asleep until we got home from the store.

We use Similac formula at night, and we found out last night that the powder, well majority of the powder is being recalled due to larva eggs found in some of the powder. Totally gross, and after typing in the numbers found on the bottom of the plastic container, we found out that her two are part of the recall. It said that babies might experience gastrointestinal disorders due to the contamination. Which might explain her bad bad gas. But it's just a gross though. Beetle eggs found in her formula powder. Yuck. We've got some travel liquid bottles, which are not part of the recall, so that can be given to her before she sleeps. But now our question is, do we go buy more Similac powder, as the stuff on the shelf should be ok now, or do we wait? It's just gross to think about. Poor Lilly's stomach, potentially being contaminated by insect parts. Eww.

But at least she's still got the fans to look and wonder at.