7 months 1 week 2 days

In the last week, I've introduced Oatmeal and Pears. He accepted the oatmeal, but it wasn't his favorite food. However, he LOVED the pears, of course! Last night for dinner, I mixed rice cereal with pears and he loved that. Today for lunch, I mixed rice cereal with some sweet potatoes. He doesn't really like sweet potatoes by themselves, but he really liked them mixed with cereal. I think we'll try that again for dinner tonight...if Shad will ever get home from work.

For the past 2 weeks now, he's been working a lot of overtime. It sucks not being able to see him much and not knowing when he'll get home for dinner, but the bigger paychecks are nice! Starting in August, he's going to have to work some Saturdays, too. Apparently, working more than 40 hours a week on Monday through Friday just isn't cutting it!

I had another crappy weekend. Last weekend it was Christopher who was sick. This weekend, it was me. I started getting a sore throat on Wednesday evening and it's only progressively gotten worse. Finally, Saturday morning I couldn't stand it anymore and went to the local walk-in clinic. Of all things, I have strep throat!!! Just where that came from, I have no idea!!! I haven't had that since I was a kid...probably 15-20 years ago! To top it off, I've got a mouthful of canker sores that make swallowing/eating that much worse. I started taking an antibiotic on Saturday and was told that I'd start feeling better in 24-48 hours. Sure enough, I woke this morning feeling slightly better. It still hurts to swallow/eat but it's getting a little better. I'm hoping to be completely over this in a couple of days.

I'm going down to stay with the dogs at my mom's while she and my aunt go to a funeral in Georgia. I'll be going down on Wednesday and returning on Friday. I just hope Christopher doesn't catch this strep throat! I guess we can both suffer down there as well as we can up here, but down there we'll have 6 indoor dogs (5 of theirs and 1 of mine) to deal with.

Well, Shad's finally on his way home from work and it looks like we'll be having Subway for dinner. I've got a show on tv that I want to watch and it starts soon, so don't want to be cooking in the middle of it. I'll leave you with a few words from Christopher:

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