*shakes head*

<---Mama, I think we need bigger pants...

I'll warn you in advance, this is going to be a long post.

Last night was an adventure, and not in the tralala zipadeedoodah kind of way with little birds tweeting cheerfully in the background. About the only thing you heard in my background - oh, who am I kidding - you couldn't hear anything in my background last night; Riley was screaming her head off again. I really don't know what I ate yesterday that would have set her off so badly - I had oatmeal (no allergens that I know of, at least non of the top 8), tomato soup (possibly tomato?), an everything bagel (there is some soy, but it was the last ingredient), wheat thins (again, some soy, and obviously wheat) and caffeine free Coke (my guilty pleasure). She was already reacting long before dinnertime, so the chicken I ate is out, thank goodness!

The only other thing I can think of is that she is not as reactive as I thought, in that it might take her 24 hours to react to something, in which case, it could have been the BLT or the granola that she was reacting to today. I have a gut feeling that it was tomato related though, as she reacted the night of the BLT, and yesterday morning I think she was reacting to the whey in the granola.

Her schedule yesterday ended up with her waking up at 8 - sleeping from 1-4 and then was up until 10 with a couple of 15 minute naps thrown in when she couldn't fight them any longer. That's a whole heck of a lot of wake time for a not even 2 month old baby (though she DOES think that she is 4 months, I swear, but she still needs more sleep than that).

We finally found out a new thing that works to get her to sleep - running water! I was going to give Riley a bath to calm her down (it's amazing how fast it works for her, plus she needed one) and as soon as I turned on the bath, she calmed. So I took advantage of it and bounced/jiggled her to sleep. She woke up as soon as I sat down - so she got her bath after all. After the bath, she immediately started all out crying again (she hates getting out!) and so I nursed her and then took her into the bathroom with the lights off and the tub running. In about 2 minutes, she was out like a light and so we both went to bed, as there was no way I was going to risk her waking up again. She just now woke up at 2:45 am, and dreamfed (which I think is so cute), so we got a good 4.5 hours out of it!

On another note - Joe's car is in the shop (he got tired of chasing oil leaks around the block, so he took it in) and so I'm out a car. I'd use the Scirocco, but it's a 2 door and the tags are out of date anyway (bad me). There are some really good sales this week though! Albertson's is having a sale on Ken's Salad Spritzers until tomorrow at 2/$4 and I have 10 - $2 off any Ken's coupons making them free. Their other good sale starting Wed. has Scott's Extra Soft TP 10/$10 and I have a ton (35+) of $1/1 coupons and some .50/1 coupons. We are just now finishing up the free TP I got in October/November with the same deal, so I would love to stock up.

Plus, I haven't been grocery shopping in over a week and with my new and improved diet (heh) there isn't much left in the house to eat. I do have a lot of chicken though (thank you Costco!) so I suppose I could eat that all week, but really, who wants chicken for breakfast? I honestly think I am going to get deli meats and veggies for this week for me, minus tomatoes. Oatmeal for breakfast, which has the added benefit of upping my milk supply (not that I needed it!).

I am really hoping to get this somewhat under control before we leave for FL on the 16th. I just don't want to even think about trying to calm Riley down on a 4+ hour flight as she is screaming like she did last night. It's stressful enough when she does it here, I can't imagine it on a flight. The good thing is that our flights to FL leave at 5:40 in the morning, and she seems to be at her best in the morning, most likely because I'm not poisoning her with my milk all night.

*crosses fingers today will be better*