Miscellaneous pictures

To skip over the really gory parts, let's just say that Lilly got sick, very sick, one afternoon during nap time.  I mean, she got sick all over herself and all over her crib and all over everything.  And we had a showing scheduled for that afternoon.  And I hadn't cleaned the house yet.  And our realtor arrived just as Lilly was getting sick again.  And then they called to see if they could move the showing up by an hour (which meant they'd arrive in 30 minutes).  Then Lilly threw up again.  It was a crazy afternoon.  Thank goodness Tory was here to help me.  When I finally got Lilly in the tub and cleaned up and dressed, she was crying again, so I told her that I'd make a little bed for her on the couch and that she could watch TV.  I took her downstairs and she laid down on the rug in the center of our living room and immediately fell asleep.  I've never seen anything like it.  I tried to move her to the couch and she ran back to the rug and fell asleep again.  We had to take her out to the car when it was time for our showing and she laid down in the grass next to the car :(  So sad.  She was still sleeping on the rug the next day so I took her to the doctor, where she promptly fell asleep on the exam table.  Turns out she had strep and it can cause vomiting in children.  I did not know that.  She was so sick, but it was so good to see her get better (and to be in awe at the power of penicillin).

Slowly recovering the next day

All better and ready for some Cubs baseball!  Go Cubbies!  We had a baseball-themed dinner with sausage and peppers, peanuts, chips and guac and root beer floats for dessert.

A few days later Lilly and I went to check out a new park.  We were the only ones at the park and she loved that the two of us could do whatever we wanted (including driving the "cars" for a long time).  It was fun.

What a kook!

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon we went to pick apples and pumpkins in Glastonbury with our friends the Layows.  I think Lilly was shocked that fruit actually grows on trees.  She kept picking up the rotting apples from the ground (we didn't take those home with us).

Mike, Lilly, Ethan, Melissa, Isaac and Luke on the hayride to the orchards

Tory and Lil and me

She truly did have bushels of fun

Telling Dada something incredibly important

Look what I found in the pumpkin patch :)

It was "SO heavy"

A pretty day for pumpkins (or as Mike, a grown, 30 year old man calls them, "punkins")

Searching for just the right ones

Yet another rotting apple from the ground, given to us in love

Tory and I headed down to NYC on a Saturday to look at lots of apartments.  We walked around the city with different brokers for about five hours.  Never again will I choose my "cute" shoes over my nerdy sneakers.  I am still dealing with the blisters weeks later.  But we had a really fun and busy day.  We were so busy that I didn't get to take any pictures until we were driving home at about midnight.  Tory was so happy that I was capturing the occasion!