"Campout" Wordless Wednesday

Gracie wanted to have a campout in her sleeping bag in her room...this is how I found her 20 minutes after tucking her in.

Time Out

Gracie is going through a phase where she feels the need to test her boundaries. I knew it was coming but I wasn't really prepared as well as I had hoped to be. She is finally fully potty trained during the day and only in a pull-up at night.

Well, Joe put her in a time out the other day and here's how the conversation went:

Joe: Time out!

Gracie: I.DON'T.WANT.TO.

Joe: (picks her up to put her in the timeout chair) Grace, daddy said 'time out'.

Gracie: and I said NO.TIME.OUT.

Joe: Grace, what happens when you don't listen to daddy?

Gracie: I POOP!

Joe: You what????

Gracie: I POOP

Joe: No Grace, you get a time out when you don't listen to daddy

Gracie, Five minutes later (from the timeout chair): DADDDDDDDY I POOOOOOOOPED!!!

Yes...she decided that she was mad that she was in time out so she pooped in her underwear in the timeout chair. Two is a lovely age isn't it? It honestly took everything I had not to bust out laughing...but I didn't want him mad a me too so I just kept it to myself!

Now that takes gall

I may have mentioned that two weeks ago I took a trip to the doctor when I suddenly was vomiting, had excrutiating pain up under my rib cage and had a fever of 102. Well, turns out that I had gall stones (or at least that was their guess at the time). They told me the earliest they could do the ultrasound was the following Friday. Well, I made it to Wednesday and the pain got even worse, fever spiked up again, and I headed back to the office to get checked out again. To my surprise, they were able to squeeze me in for an emergency ultrasound which showed that I no longer had gall stones. They had passed and were visible traveling out of my gall bladder. The doctor told me I wouldn't need surgery and that the stones would break down on their own. Of course, I was psyched because this meant no surgery.

What's the catch you ask? I have been placed on a fat-free, taste-free diet. I am not to have more than 4 grams of fat per meal or 15-20 grams of fat per day. I cannot eat any dairy products, red meat, or eggs. I've been trying to lose weight for a long time now just by eat less and exercising more but I've been stuck at a standstill for quite some time. Apparently this crazy diet is just what I needed. Since TWO weeks ago when I first got diagnosed with the stones and asked to follow this diet, I've lost 12 pounds! I'm totally amazed (and craving a cheeseburger like you wouldn't believe).

I'm hoping this diet isn't a permanent thing though, because this no dairy, eggs, meat thing is starting to get old already. I feel like I eat the same things over and over again. If anybody has some good recipes that leave out meat, eggs, and other dairy please let me know!