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From February 13th:

We got to Houston last night at 9:30 – our plane arrived a half hour early, which meant Lorelai and I were standing at the airport waiting for Mayo to show up. No biggie, but Lore was beyond tired and was acting like a little monster. She cried when Mayo picked her up and kissed her, which was pretty funny.

The plane ride… I really don’t even want to talk about that, except to say that I’ll never, for as long as I live, travel alone awith a toddler again. Those poor people seated around us. *shakes head*

Lorelai didn’t end up falling asleep until 2:30 this morning – she was overtired and inconsolable. She slept a whole four hours, her shortest time slept since she was like 6 months old.

It’s 1:30 over here now and I’ve barely gotten anything done, on account that I’m dead tired from the stressful plane ride, the late night and early morning. Lou’s had two doses of Tylenol today (the mini bottle that I paid nearly 10 bucks for at the airport; crazy.) but it’s not helping the teething. WHY must my child get all over her teeth in at once? She’s got 3 molars coming through and 2 bottom eye teeth. Fun, fun.

Anyway, I was supposed to be picking up the apartment today by unpacking all of the bags and boxes. I’ve gotten the big suitcase done and I unpacked all of the book boxes. There’s crumpled Goldfish (blackmail for silence) in nearly every room and the bathroom floor is soaked from Lorelai’s hour-long bath – another blackmail for silence. She loves the bath, and it helps take away the pain of teething. It worked… she’s been happy since.

She’s in her room screaming “De” now. =(

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From Today

She's doing good now, though she slept like crap last night. We were up at 1:30 watching Aladdin and she didn't end up falling back asleep until 3:45 am, and that was only because she was in bed with us. She's teething horrible, poor thing. We have everything unpacked and the apartment looks fine, now. Lorelai snuck into the bathroom today and got her open tylenol bottle off of the counter. (I was half-asleep last night when I gave it to her, hence not closing it and leaving it within her reach.) Anyway, I was scrubbing red baby tylenol off of the carpet today.. she had a nice little trail going. :)