of potties and baby toys

Oh dear potty bear, make room for us, we all have sore tummies and need that spot rather often (okay, us big folks use the larger version. And the baby who was nearly potty trained before this, now rarely makes it to this spot. But you should keep it clear just in case.) Our lab results will be back in a few days, but the doctor says water borne illness. We are not particularly surprised given that our water comes straight from a nearby creek but we are mad at ourselves for not taking better care with what passes our lips- especially the baby's lips. When we told the doctor how we had been treating our water- by bringing it to a boil- he said "oh, you were just warming up the bugs." Hmm.

We had been hauling our water from town, but started getting freaked out about it sitting in plastic for so long, and so we started boiling our creek water. We are back to hauling it, but found glass water jugs at the local U-Brew, and a ceramic dispenser and now our water is plastic and bacteria free. Our guts are mostly bacteria free too by now after a few days of natural remedies prescribed by our naturopath. We are hoping to avoid the antibiotics if we can, but getting the nasty tasting grapefruit seed extract into Ari is a little challenging. Today's attempt was mixing it with honey and cinnamon on toast which went down pretty well. He's got to wonder why his parents have got from hard-core sweet avoiders to cheering on the eating of honey and drinking of juice, but he's not arguing.

And he's doing some cooking of his own, these wooden eggs from my hardware store find are a great hit. They cook up nicely and roll well across the kitchen floor.
The gnomes, whose wooden forms came from the same store, are also played with a bunch. I got the idea for dressing them from Amanda, and they turned out super cute. We've got tons on the go right now- finishing up our porch, the ongoing sorting and unpacking and lots of crafty projects for the newest crop of new babies and their older siblings. But this computer is still in the big house and the camera has been neglected, so blogging isn't top priority right now. But once the computer is settled over at the "new" house- oh what a good blogger I will be then!