Still sick. Seriously?! Plus, Scarlet's first tooth!

Weird things about this illness:

• I blew my nose and apparently my sinuses are so full that...some came out of the corner of my eye. Ahh! Too much information, I know, but...wow. We've decided it must be some new deadly disease. There's no other explanation.
• I blew my nose and lost all hearing in my left ear for 2 hours and kept falling sideways. Luckily Scarlet was napping during this time.
• Jeremy's all better. Scarlet and I are still coughing and sniffling like crazy. He's like Teflon Man.

My dog, Kati, is staying with us this month. My mom is in Utah with my grandparents because my grandma just had her hip replaced (ouch), and my dad is home, but he travels a lot and Kati would've been in and out of the doggy day care place. She's older and she doesn't like to be alone, so Jeremy suggested that she just stay with us until I go to Minnesota to visit my mom for her birthday at the beginning of February. Since I'm home during the day she'll be happier this way. I took the Christmas tree down yesterday, much to Kati's dismay. She loved curling up under there.

It's been amazing outside for the last two days, so we've taken walks around the block with Scarlet in her Moby wrap and Kati trotting along sniffing all the trees as we go. Unfortunately, the nasty winter weather is finally going to show up tomorrow. So the walks are going to be put on hold.

Mike came to visit this past weekend. Just passing through, so he stayed with us on Friday night and on Sunday night. While he was here we visited a couple of cool stores. American Science and Surplus and Greenfield News and Hobby. The hobby store has a watercolor class that I'm going to take. I'm good with pretty much every medium but watercolors. I can paint a lettuce field with a mountain in the background, but that's it. And that's only because my grandpa taught me how to paint that exact scene. The American Science and Surplus store was really cool--full of stuff you didn't know existed and didn't know you needed. They had the hex bugs that I like so much, and they were cheaper there than everywhere else. I got one for my birthday last year, but I didn't have a "habitat" for it, or another bug for it to...run around with? So I picked up a second bug and a "habitat" (which I totally want to expand). Scarlet loves watching them:

The bugs freak Kati out, though.

Scarlet loves to be bounced, and likes to try and bounce herself while you're holding her, so we got her one of the doorway bouncers. And she has no idea what to do with it once you put her in it. But she's happy to be in it.

Scarlet got her first tooth this past weekend!! Since she's been sick and kind of sad from that (stuffy nose, cough, sore throat) we didn't even notice that she was teething because it's kind of hard to distinguish "sick" fussiness and "teething" fussiness. But it's really cute. It's her bottom left tooth. The same day she got her first tooth, she also learned to sit herself up (with the help of the boppy pillow to push up on)! It was a big big day for her!