Oh the THREES!

In the Blister News, it lanced itself today and now looks more like a burn, which just makes it that much more pitiful. She yelled for me this morning before preschool and holds up the finger and says, "What's that?" It was weeping fluid so we put a band aid over it.

Today is the first time she threw a cattywompus about going into her preschool classroom. She did it twice for the PT as I wrote earlier, but NEVER for preschool. She howled for a good 20 minutes at least, stuck to me like a koala with gorilla glue. We sat in the library rocking chair where I asked questions:
"Do you hurt?" "No."
"Does your finger hurt?" "No."
"Are you scared?" "No."
"Are you afraid of leaving Mommy?" (nods head "yes")
Once I figured out what was bothering her, I told her that I'd stay with her and we'd do art together and play on the playground, but she had to use her own body and I had to use mine. That worked for about two steps before she was attached again. We sat down at the art table, Mia in my lap, where they were making very cool tile paint prints. She stayed in my lap until I used washing the tile as an excuse to get up. I moved her to a seat in front of a clean tile board. That was the beginning of her normal preschool day. Everyone was so very kind about the wailing! No one suggested that she go home, they just let her get it out and tried to divert her attention. Tomorrow we're parent helping, and I'm expecting another fit (just so I'm not as surprised and thrown off as I was today!)

Now for a dose of irony! We were behind in tuition payments while searching for renters and waiting for the credit card machine installation to be completed at the school. The very day the credit card machine went up, I paid in cash. I must have bugged the daylights out of them asking when the machine would be up so we wouldn't get further behind. Last week we finally got the rent deposit. It sounds like the rent will be a week after our mortgage is actually due for some reason. So instead of the end of the month being tight like everyone else, the first of the month is our crunch!

No pictures for today because she is laying down for a very long nap. I'm not entirely sure she's feeling 100% yet, after getting off of the steroids. Now that she's on antibiotics it's just further messing with her lower GI. The nap will be good for her. It made time for me to FINALLY test this banana muffin recipe that was passed around the local allergy group email ring. I had to modify it for both Mia's restrictions and high altitude cooking, but so far so good! They look and smell good....I just tasted one and WOW! My FIRST allergy recipe that requires mixing and baking and MIA CAN EAT IT!!! It's actually very yummy, so I won't feel like I'm torturing kids when I bring them for snack tomorrow. I'm glad I mixed the flours up, I don't think it would have turned out as well with just rice or just quinoa. I also added in some oats. I used organic apple juice instead of water for more flavor, which was another good idea. Neat. I think the only tweak I'll make for next time is less quinoa flour and more rice flour so it isn't so grainy.