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Heidi was sick the past two days. She caught a stomach virus from Tru. She began vomiting Saturday night, and didn't hold anything down from then until Sunday. Eventually, she started refusing her bottle out-right. When 24 hours had passed and she'd only had 2 ounces to drink, I took her to the pediatric ER at Huntsville Hospital. I caught it on Sunday, so we were both sick while we were at the hospital. They gave her some Zofran for nausea, and she was drinking again in about 20 minutes. Hooray for modern medicine! She had about 6 ounces of pedialyte yesterday, and that's all she had to eat. Today, she's eating mostly normally. She's been taking 3-4 ounces of formula in a sitting. She's eating less than her usual 6 ounces, but it's probably just because her stomach shrank from being empty for 2 days.

Anyway, they had the cutest little baby gown for her to wear while she was there! I just had to take a picture of it. There are a couple more here.

Somebody broke into our car again! About 2 years ago, someone broke into our Accord and stole our portable DVD player out of it. The stupid culprits forgot to steal the screens, so I'm sure they just had to throw the DVD player out. A couple of days ago, my next-door neighbor mentioned her car door was open when she woke up that morning and that she thought someone had been in the car. I went outside, and sure enough, our car door was open, too. Our $350 portable GPS unit was gone. I hate this neighborhood and I can't wait to get out of here!

Tru, Heidi, and I drove around today hunting for examples of the gorgeous landscape that is the Tennessee Valley in the fall. We found red and gold leaves and also stopped by a local man-made lake to take some pictures. Here are the best from today's photoshoot. They start about halfway down the page, and the first ones are named "tru-with-leaves."

Tru got ahold of some scissors today and hacked her hair up. She cut it in about 4 different places, but didn't cut it to the scalp, at least. I had to cut 3-6 inches off in different spots, and I may have to do some more shaping tomorrow, depending on how I feel about it in the morning. The pictures are here.