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Wee Baby celebrates her first St Patrick’s day!  She enjoyed some green milk…  a couple few too many!  lol aww sha, she is such an adorable wee leprechaun!

She took a some cute pictures despite the fact she felt a little cranky…  she needs to poop again!  :

Pat and I spent the evening watching It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.  We didn’t drink any Guinness, Green Beer, or any type of alcohol.  We just snuggled up on the couch with Wee Baby.  She didn’t stay up late though… all that green milk wore her out and she was in bed by 8.  heheeee

Wee Leprechaun Baby Pictures!

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We all went for a ride to bring Uncle Gordon to the airport.  We had a nice trip out and Wee Baby and I were playing in the back seat.  She was totally cute like always!  There is a video clip at the bottom of this post of her sucking her fingers!   She was sleepy but happy.  I love the picture on the left of her blowing the spit bubbles!  It is so darn cute!  She is drooling like crazy now.

Slobber here slobber there every where slobber slobber!  :-)  Gotta love the slobber though!  Pat is like GOOD GAWD GIRL, where is all that drool coming from.  I tried to warn him that he has not seen nothing yet.  Wait till she starts teething!   LOL  he is going to freak out!

After the day out…  well ok, more like an hour.  hahhaaaa After the hour out and about, we got to our apartment and it was time to wind down.   Pat and Wee Baby often play on the laptop together, play PS3 or xbot, and of course watch the big screen.    I didn’t think I had to worry about Mariella getting hooked to the television……    but……      just look at her wanting to change the station!  LOL  Oh my goodness, they are already fighting for the remote!

video ~ Mariella must be hungry ~

pictures ~ Cutie in stripes!

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video ~ for the true Mariella fan!

7 minutes of her being her…  she was supposed to be going to sleep.  But she decided to stay awake and play.  She probably would have fallen asleep, but I couldn’t resist those squeaky squealy noises she was making.  It went on for several minutes before I started the video.  Then it just continued on.  I actually cut the video in half!  LOL  yeah, I love my baby and she is just so sweet all the damn time I just have to share!

and yes I know these movies files are huge!  no time to fix…  just enjoy! LOL

Well…  scared to use the mist too..   I let a couple days go by since it wasn’t affecting her, I just thought she would sneeze it out or something.  (which she did once before)

mistake, yeah I know

It is morning… 9ish…  I am holding Wee Baby in the kitchen heating up a bottle.   It is quiet and we just woke up.  The bottle is almost done, I open the kitchen drawer to get a towel so I can wipe the steam off the bottle.  I grab the towel as I was talking to Mariella, “good morning sugar poo!” ” did you have a good nap?”   She went to talk and make some morning ohhs and ahhhs and as she did, some snotty stuff must have went in her throat.   She did an eyes closed – noses scrunched – mouth open – gaggy thing – and she didn’t take a breath.    My immediate response was to reach for the saline mist to squirt up there to loosen the snot so she could swallow it or cough it up..   ?  As I reached for the saline mist, I closed the kitchen drawer with my hip, I caught her little foot it the drawer.  So now she can’t breath and she is flailing her arms and legs all over the place because her mommy hurt her foot and she still needs to swallow or cough up a lump of snot.

I have the mist, pop off the clear top and do you see that little white top??  I tried to remove it too.  I pulled… I pinched…  I grabbed a steak knife and tried to slice it off..  Mariella is still jerking and flailing all over the place…  “damn this plastic is thick” one handed, trying to use a knife, too risky, I got halfway through the cap..  it is now jagged and sliced up.   “this is f**king ridiculous!”  I throw the knife across the counter…  back to the towel drawer to get the scissors… I chopped the tip off with the scissors.

Finally I got the damn cap off!!!

Freaked out, scared, using saline for the first time ever (for myself or baby) I give the bottle a test squirt.   I pressed the trigger and saline shot up and hit the ceiling! “OH MY GOD What the hell?  this is not right! Saline mist MY ASS!” arghhhhhhhhhh  helppppppppppppppp    meeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

I have some saline drops in her bedroom….   so I run down the hallway to her room…  laid her on her changing table…  and successfully put a few drops in each nostril.  By this time, I think all the flailing and jerking movements from me running down the hallway knocked the snot down and out of the way.   She was happy and content laying there, and I was in tears from all the terror and chaos of the last 60 seconds.

You probably already know that there is no “white cap” on the saline mist bottle.  The way you see it is the way it is supposed to be.   In my panic, I thought I had to cut the top off to release the saline solution.  You know, like cutting the tip off of a tube of super glue, or a rubber silicon tube.   My brain just thought, get the white cap off so the spray will come out!

I can laugh now!  So can Pat, he nearly busted a gut when he came home and pressed the trigger on the saline mist bottle and saw the saline shoot up 6 feet.