Cameron Frye's Day Off

yesterday osita and i were both home sick. sicks days certainly take on a different tone when you have to take care of a little one and yourself.

where in another life i might have flopped on the couch, watched movies (ferris beuller's day off?), and sipped gatorade cocktails yesterday morning found me out and about at 8 am with the baby girl making doctor's appointments...planning our day. like ferris beuller calling me up out of my sick bed, it was clear that alexandra, smoker's cough and all, had bigger plans for us than lying around in the house.

9:40
daddy/baby nap? nope, dr's appointment in brooklyn heights. turns out she's got the croup cough.

10:30
nap time? nope. text message from lori to come by cobble hill high for some visiting. one way too pleasant of a walk through brooklyn heights (how does that neighborhood do it?) and we arrived at school. we had such a good time with the kids and seeing the little learning room lori has made for her kids that we stayed for over an hour! lori said it made her week and it was one of the better points of mine too. apparently the kids think the baby is a cute and that i'm hot. awesome.

12:30
nap time? nope. cheesy organic hot dogs for lunch (would see them later).

1:00
a bottle later and it's, at long last, nap time. down she goes and i barely make it to the bed before i crash too.

1:15
lori calls and inadvertantly wakes me.

1:20
baby wakes...please go back to sleep.

1:30
not going back to sleep

1:40
i call lori and explain that she's not sleeping but is throwing a tantrum trying to get to sleep...head in blankets, etc. lori suggest rocking.

2:00-4:00
and rock we did. normally i'm more of a shush pat in the crib guy but today the rock was what alexandra had cooking for us. together we would nap. sweet babe in my arms and be snoring with my neck snapped back over the back of the rocking chair. these are the moments i know i'll recall a long long time from now. 2 hours later and lori home from work i had to tap out - my neck was so sore from being stuck in that rocking chair.

4:01
alexandra is crowned snuggle champ by outlasting me. she rubs it in by continuing to snuggle with lori.

5:00
off to ikea. you know you've got a little ferris bueller magic working on you when, your sickness cured, you muster the strength to take the ikea bus to red hook. by the way that's the subject for another post.

5:30
sunset at ikea waterfront. kudos to lee weintraub landscape architects.

5:40
$5 meatballs. see also organic hot dogs for results. what was i thinking?

8:00
back in the apartment arms heavy with ikea booty. baby to bed.

9:45
daddy to bed.

what a day! probably not exactly what the doctor ordered. today i'm totally wasted. but amazing how a little girl's spirit can move you. i don't know if you remember the part where ferris rolls back his sick day chart as principal rooney's assistant watches in disbelief. but i could definitely use a hand from him now. zero sick days left in the bank! at least i went out with a bang. love you osita!