The Daily Hailey

In case any of you live under a rock and haven’t heard, today is not only Friday the 13th, but also a full moon. I’m not a superstitious person at all, but I do notice that full moons change things like sleep patterns. Anyway, I don’t think anything else is really dependent on these things, but of course I could resist heckling Brady a little bit. Of all days to have his wisdom teeth extracted, it had to be today.

I had my wisdom teeth yanked fairly quickly after Brady and I got engaged. Two of the four had just recently surfaced and I knew they’d need to come out one day, but since I was under 25 and living at home, I was covered by my parents insurance. Therefore, I basically had them pulled recreationally, haha, to avoid having to pay that ugly $1600 later in life.

Don’t I look sooo pretty here?!

Willa showed up this morning around 10:00. Our plan was to leave around 11:00, so that would give Dekker some time to get reacquainted. Incredibly enough, Dekker either remembered Willa (its probably been since Christmas) or just sensed how much she loves him, but they got along like pb and j right off the hop. We ended up leaving a half hour early, and Dekker didn’t even flinch. Awesome sauce! It was a good thing we had that extra time, because we were met with construction everywhere!! Even on the highway. It was insane. We had about fifteen minutes to spare, which we used to stuff Brady full of some fast food. Soft, mushy food can only fill a person so much, and we didn’t know how he’d feel afterwards.

He was in the back office for less than 45 minutes before he surfaced. We paid a measly $250 for his extraction, and headed over to a nearby Superstore for some Tylenol. Apparently we’re completely lost without our diaper bag and hadn’t planned to bring any pain relief. It was fine though. Just a quick stop. Brady was happy. He even smiled for a picture!

Hahaha! I love that smiling frozen face 😀 No, I promise I’m not being a jerk, he told me I could put this up! We laughed hysterically and he drooled and laughed and drooled. It was sooo funny!

We came home to super happy and incredibly tired children. Everyone had played hard since we left, so they both went down for naps right away. We lay low while they slept, and watched some tv. Brady started burping up blood, which is disgusting, so we got him some orange juice to mask it. Its always nice not to throw up, right?

Something that I actually really enjoyed about today was supper. I’m not a very adventurous cook (or really a cook at all) but we had to make soft foods that Brady could eat. I know my husband, and he would starve on soup alone. So I dug around in our freezer and found some thin fish fillets we bought a while back to try but hadn’t gotten there. We made mashed potatoes with cheese, and I lightly fried up the fillets in butter and salt, and myyyyy goodness, they were delicious! Even Dekker, who boycotts supper daily, liked the fish! Brady ate it without any real discomfort. I was so relieved that I tried a new thing and it worked out for the picky boy and the injured one too! Success all around 🙂

The kids are all tucked and in bed, and a bath is run. I think I’m gonna go whip up a quick treat of some instant pudding for Brady and I, and then some episodes of House before bed. I LOVE our evening routine. Today really worked out, considering.

I’ll leave you with a super cute picture of Laela. Sweet dreams!

Love her.