Sixteen months

Felicity is 16 months old, can you believe it?  Little baby Felicity, 16 months old.  She is great, although right now she has an ear infection and what is probably Fifth's Disease.  Today is Day 21 of the work on our house, and Felicity and I are SICK OF IT!  She is the most affected, the poor thing, she can't take a nap at all, ugh, it's awful.  Today we came home after dropping off the girls and we hung out for a while while they tore up the floor and then they starting using this saw and Oh My LORD, she was like, WHAT IS THAT? So we bugged out of here, we went to Target to buy Valentine's for the kids and then we went to Mike's office and got him and went to IHOP for pancakes for Fat Tuesday.  She ate so well, sausage, eggs, pancakes, she went to TOWN on that food.  She is a good eater, although she won't drink milk anymore.  I try to make it up with cheese and yogurt, we'll see.  I haven't taken her for her fifteen month appointment yet, I have been busy and then she was sick, so we'll go soon.  I'm not worried, she seems fine.  She is pretty clingy lately, but who can tell why?  She is pretty much always tired because she can never take a damned nap.

Why are contractors such jerks, I'd like to know?  Why must they torture me and take so much longer than they say they will?  I guess if they could have a real job, where they had to show up every day and work for EIGHT HOURS in a row, they would.  But they can't, so instead they come to my house and make a mess and a lot of noise for four or five hours and then call it a day.  BIG JERKS.  Felicity and I DON'T LIKE THEM.