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Ugh! I can’t believe how behind I am in posting! So I will try to do a quickie update. If you have been reading Yves’ blog, you know we bought a car! I actually don’t have any of my own pictures of the car but Yves has plenty! He did take this one of me before leaving my old spaceship…

I’ve had that car for almost 14 years!! Anyway, I won’t really go into detail about our experience at the car dealership. All I’ll say is that sales people suck and they want to wear you down until you can’t take it anymore. But we do have a nice new car and Sienna likes it too! So we bought the car on the 15th and it took longer than we anticipated so Sienna was totally off. She was really good at the dealership and after awhile, all she wanted to do was run around. I let her but kept an eye on her. Her lunch was late and she fell asleep on the way home. I tried to get her to nap in her bed but that didn’t last. We had to go back to the dealership later that afternoon so the plan was to take her to the playground and have my parents stay with her while we dealt with all the paperwork. Which of course took longer than they said it would. UGH. So when all was said and done, we drove away with our new car and went out to the Chinese restaurant in our hood for dinner.

The next day, Yves took the car back in to get LoJack installed, which we also got fanagled (sp?) into getting. At the time, I thought it was a good idea but it ended up being that they told us things about LoJack that weren’t true. UGH! So now we got them on blatant lies and probably should report them. UGH. It ended up being a rainy day so me and Sienna stayed home. She woke up that morning with red rashes all over her body. It didn’t seem to bother her so we figured we’d play it by ear and see how it goes. They seemed to be fading later that morning so I was relieved. So of course, the installation of the LoJack took longer than they said so Yves was gone all morning. Sienna’s rash seemed to be coming back after lunch so we decided to take her into the Urgent Care at her doctor’s office. I was expecting a really stressful waiting area and wait but it wasn’t so bad, thankfully. We might have waited about 20 minutes to get into the doctor. The doctor took one look at the rashes and said it was an allergic reaction to something. Could be anything, most likely something she ate and could be from something she has been eating. Ugh! Not very helpful doctor! So she prescribed some medication to give her twice a day and it will make her drowsy.

On Sunday, there was no sign of the rash but the doctor said to continue giving her the meds for the full five days. I don’t know if it was the medication or the bit of a wacky schedule the past few days and not having proper naps but she was like super psycho dwarf on Sunday! She actually threw a bit of a tantrum! The biggest one she has ever thrown (and she does not do tantrums at all!) She wanted one of her cookies (biter biscuit) and I said no because it was close to lunchtime. Man, she started crying and screaming at me! I continued to read my Sunday paper. She even started yelling at me “Come on mommy!!” I calmly told her no cookies and that screaming and crying was not going to help. Thankfully she stopped the tantrum when she realized it wasn’t working. She had a proper nap that day and now she was been her normal, happy, fun loving self. WHEW!!!

She really is a great little girl and has been wonderful so when these little tidbits of strangeness happens, I try to take them in stride and ride the wave until it ends. Sometimes it’s not so easy because she really has spoiled me with her relatively easy going manner. I just have to remember, it will pass!

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