I got a stomach flu last week. I had to stay home for a couple days. Ugh. It’s better than the real flu though. Eden and Elisa didn’t pick it up, thankfully. It’s always nice to have Chad home, even if he is sick.

Eden discovered that her favorite food is egg nog. She drank my entire glass on Friday night. She was practically hyperventilating she was so excited. We discovered we need to limit her intake. A half hour later we were at IHOP to celebrate my birthday. (We’re IHOP fans, OK?) All of a sudden Eden lost all her egg nog. 4 times. Good thing we weren’t at a posh restaurant, right? Or at home! It turns out that Eden wasn’t sick though. She had just lost her first gallon challenge. Surprisingly, the next night she still hyperventilated the same way when she was in the same room with egg nog. The second time we cut her off after half a glass.

My birthday was on Friday. Elisa made me a treasure hunt through the apartment. I didn’t have to keep asking for hints like last year, which is good. I was still pretty beat from being sick, so it was nice to have a laid-back night.

Elisa and I went to Park City on Saturday. Thanks JB and Hillary for watching Eden all morning! Elisa did great on her skis. She learned to turn again and went pretty fast all morning. The biggest success was that it wasn’t scary or freezing. That will make it easy to return to the mountain another day. It was scary, but I didn’t think I was going to die. 🙂

Eden is always trying to run back and forth across the church pews. She keeps playing with the families that sit behind us. Sometimes she asks them for a hug, so they pull her over onto their bench and play with her for awhile. For us it ends up being a pretty low maintenance meeting, because someone else is always entertaining her.

Two weeks ago a lady handed Eden a vial of hand sanitizer. About three quarters of a second later I saw her snatch it back away. Later she whispered to me, “As soon as I gave her the hand sanitizer, she went for the cap and started twisting it off. How did she even know what a cap was?” Yep, Eden likes caps.

Later on in the meeting she went to play with a man on the opposite end of the bench. He saw her staring at his smartphone. So he put it in its case and snapped it shut, and handed it to her. Eden didn’t hesitate. She undid the snap, flipped open the bifold, grabbed the phone, and started pressing buttons. Later he said, “She went right for those buttons, didn’t she?” Yep, Eden likes buttons.