May

I have to say, I never thought I would see the day that I would pick another human being’s nose. Much less did I ever think I would see the day that I would do it, and then say something like “Wow, that was a good one!”. I guess it’s one of those things that goes on a “You know you’re a Mom when…” lists.

As you might’ve guessed from what I just wrote, Sami has a cold. Since babies can’t blow there noses (something that never really occured to me until recently), we have to “irrigate her” (Craig’s way of describing using the plastic bulb to suction mucous out of her nose). But now that she’s starting to get over the cold, the mucous is drying up, so the bulb doesn’t get them as effectively. We can use the medicine dropper to put water in her nose and then irrigate her, but she *really* hates that. So, sometimes we have to just pull them out. This job usually falls to me, since I have long fingernails. Lucky me! I’ve discovered that all the things people tell you about how it’s different when it’s your kid (which, by the way, I used to think was b.s.) are actually true. I really don’t find it disgusting to pick her nose, since I am very glad to do anything I can to make her able to breathe more easily.

In other news, we’re slowly settling into our new house. We are *very* excited to be back in Nashville. But we’re not too excited about unpacking, which would explain why we’ve been here a week for two weeks as of tomorrow and there are still boxes *everywhere*. In our defense, we both have *a lot* of work to do this month, before we get to slow down a little for the rest of the summer. Still, it is a little pathetic that today is the first day we were able to take a shower in our own bathroom, because I finally got around to buying a shower curtain yesterday – before, we had been using the guest room, which has those sliding shower doors and doesn’t need a curtain.

Speaking of work, I should probably go do some more. Just thought I would share the story about the boogers. Aren’t you glad?!! %-)