Today was for....

....a doctor appointment....

 

....a new piano.....

.....and fresh raspberry pie....

Ari has been grabbing at her diaper and crying sporadically for a few weeks. I tried switching diapers, used powder and desitin and checked for yeast. Couldn't figure it out so I took her to see Dr. Sarah. She said Ari is probably sensitive to something in her bubble bath and recommended not using any for a while. Random, but ok. She recommended using J&J baby shampoo as a bubble bath liquid but I'd rather find something else. 

Rod Troyer bought a new piano so he had to get rid of his old one. He said The Lord laid it on his heart to give it to one of the Folsom kids and Mary told him I would want it. We were set to get a piano  in payment for Isaac working for a day on the home of a piano repair man in town, but this one was free and exactly what we wanted. It also happens to be exactly like the Folsom's....but in better condition. Thanks, Rod!

I prepped a breakfast casserole for tomorrow, made a fresh raspberry pie, and made hamburgers for dinner. I really am a gourmet. 

Isaac is working a prevailing wage job (yay!) so he's trying to get as many hours in as possible before we go to Central Oregon tomorrow for Laura's funeral. 

Bed time

I've been waiting for this day for a long time, but now that it's here, I kind of want to cry. Bedtime used to involve rocking, singing, laying down, picking up, back-patting, more rocking, running up the stairs when we heard her cries come over the monitor and then trying to avoid the creaking boards when we snuck out of her room. 

Now it's a couple books and her water bottle, maybe some rocking if she's not tired, and then this: 

 

Wide awake. Just laying there. No!!!! That's what big kids do! She's my baby! She's supposed to need us! She can't just lay down by herself and go to sleep on her own! 

And yet....she does. Isaac lays on the floor next to her crib for a few minutes but she's always awake when he leaves. 

And then my tiny baby girl just falls asleep in her big room, all by herself. 

She's growing up. It makes half my heart happy....and the other half is breaking.