April Showers Bring May...Showers.

Did you ever see the movie "birds?" I think the bird with the starring role is living in my yard. Now that Woody the Woodpecker finally took a hike I am dealing with this fellow: He seems to like to run into the window. Repeatedly. And of course this had to happen during nap time. (Nobody wants me to actually be well-rested, including the birds!)

The weather here in the Pacific Northwest is a bit of a bummer. It's supposed to be nice again tomorrow but of course I'll be sleeping- it's back to work tomorrow night for me. Maybe husband will get some of the concreting done- the fence for the garden is coming along, he's put in 14 of the 28 poles for it. I'm pretty excited to get that thing up, especially after I found deer prints in my garden bed and nibbles off my lettuce and cabbages.

Labor's having a potato potluck tonight which was pretty yummy, and then someone patted my tummy and asked how baby was doing. Huh. Maybe I should lay off the carbs...? Right after that she followed with how small I looked for having a young baby (laughing here- she claimed she knew I wasn't pregnant but STILL!). Oh well.

The picture above is kind of an old one of my lovies, taken in California during our last trip. I just love how proud Aili is to be a big sister. She loves miss Andie Lucie so much. Today Andie fell over and hit her head on a toy and started crying and Aili was so upset. Andie was fine, but Aili was bawling and had big fat tears rolling down her face. When I asked her what was wrong she just kept saying "She's hurt! She fell on her toy!" What a sweetheart. Another funny thing Miss Aili does is to bring her to me when she is crying and tell me "She's crying, she wants to nurse." Apparently mama nursing the baby will fix everything. More funny Aili-isms? I told her today she didn't need to put on her jammies to take a nap, she could just wear her tinkerbell undies and call it good, it would be like a panty party (really, I just was trying to get her in bed as fast as possible, I had a very limited amount of time left to lay down before I had to leave for work). She throws her hands up and says, "But there is no cake! No balloons!" She was NOT pleased that this "party" did not include any of these fun things. One of my top mama lessons, which I always seem to forget, is to always THINK about things before you say them out loud to your three and a half year old! Many a regret here...

I really should get back to work. It's 0240 am and I have done no charting. Zilch, nada, none. Not in the mood. It really feels like we spend just as much time charting as we do doing actual patient care. It's so depressing, how litigious the medical field has become. My job would be so much easier if there was no charting involved and all I had to do was take care of people. Wouldn't that be nice!