We got home from our Spring Break road trip on Tuesday. So and I decided to give the car a really good cleaning...you know wash all the car seat covers, vacuum, a really thorough job. It was long over due and I still hadn't switched Elijah from his baby carrier car seat. As I was washing Emma's car seat cover and soon to be Elijah's car seat cover the washing machine went a little crazy. I felt like I was on some TV show where the washing machine overflows. Only my machine just stopped since it is a front loader. I have never seen so many suds...this is even with the "High Efficiency" detergent that isn't supposed to get as many suds.
It took me two days to unpack the car and get it sparkling on the inside. The car smelled like
pine sol and fabric softener when I was done and the
car seats looked almost new. It just felt nice to stand there and look at my clean car.
I avoided going anywhere so as not to get my clean car contaminated with kids and such, but on
Friday we really, really needed milk and other supplies so off we went to
Costco. "Kids lets try to keep this car clean for a few days, no food and stuff like that
OK." So I am admiring my clean steering wheel and clean dashboard, and there is no more dried milk from who knows when in the cup holder in the console. We are just about to pull into the parking lot of Costco when I hear a
vomiting noise and Emma starts yelling that Elijah just threw up. The car no longer smelled like
pine sol and Fabric softener...
I thought we were in the clear as far as sickness went. Nobody had been sick in our family since Monday. Well I guess
that's life. Elijah was sick until the next Tuesday. Sunday was the worst He threw up 4 or 5 times. But at least we were at home and since it was General Conference no one had to miss church.
Elijah has been going to bed with a bottle for as long as he was on a bottle. Which was at about 7 months. I know, I know...I should know better. But it was just so easy he goes down at 6-6:30 in the evening and usually sleeps until almost 7. It was really nice and he loves going to bed. Just before he got sick we attempted one night of laying him down with no bottle. it didn't turn out so well. We finally caved and gave him 1/2 a bottle. Then when he was sick if we gave him a bottle he would just throw it up so we eventually gave up on the bottle and even though Elijah loves his bottle he didn't mind going with out, since he knew it was just going to come right back up...poor guy. So one positive side effect of him being sick is he doesn't do bottles any more. And he still likes going to bed. We kind of lucked out. It worked out nicely to have him be done with a bottle before the new baby comes. I am quite relieved.
