Family Update
Happy March!
The family is well, or close to it, though all I have to report are illnesses.
Aria attends daycare from 8 to 11a.m.; we've found one that allows us to observe or act as helper, so she gets to learn social skills while we get to ensure that no-one harms our child. Recently, she came home with Influenza. The bad news: our baby girl was sick for a few days. The good news: the antibiotic functioned as a knock-out drop. "May cause drowsiness" should've been changed to "sit down before taking...that means NOW." I think Jesse secretly hopes for similarly non-threatening illnesses at least once a month from here on...
Caoimhe ("KEE-va") came down with RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) just as Aria was recovering from her cold. While just a common cold for adults, it causes breathing problems for little ones. Consequently, our Lillibet is undergoing breathing treatments every 4 hours; she's already showing marked improvement.
Now Jesse has a sore throat...we'll see where that leads. My poor angel-man. It seems like he comes down with something every one of his weekends.
On the up-side, Aria said "potty" today, and then used the seat properly for a change! Woot! Prior to this, she'd let us know it was time by stripping her bottom bare and running, (walking is never an option to a toddler on a mission,) to the bathroom, where she would painstakingly:
- lift the lid of her toilet seat,
- sit down,
- hold out her hand for paper and use it properly,
- put the lid down on the seat,
- climb up and turn the water on in the sink,
- reach for the soap and clean up beautifully
...and then actually void her bladder.
Every time. Never failed. Except for those times when she decided that bathrooms were for the birds and she should continue playing where she was after stripping herself.
Ah, the joys of young children. I can almost hear my friends without children chuckling maliciously as they gloat over not having to clean up such messes. I have to agree with them, but I want to point out that there's at least less to clean with a baby, and you might even have slightly more control over said baby than you do with your partner. (You can put a baby in a play pen with a board book and the baby is blissfully happy. Too, while infants may chew on your credit cards, they can't buy new TVs and video game systems with them.)
I wanted to share a little joy. Check out the following link--it's clean, I promise:
http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1769611
The family is well, or close to it, though all I have to report are illnesses.
Aria attends daycare from 8 to 11a.m.; we've found one that allows us to observe or act as helper, so she gets to learn social skills while we get to ensure that no-one harms our child. Recently, she came home with Influenza. The bad news: our baby girl was sick for a few days. The good news: the antibiotic functioned as a knock-out drop. "May cause drowsiness" should've been changed to "sit down before taking...that means NOW." I think Jesse secretly hopes for similarly non-threatening illnesses at least once a month from here on...
Caoimhe ("KEE-va") came down with RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) just as Aria was recovering from her cold. While just a common cold for adults, it causes breathing problems for little ones. Consequently, our Lillibet is undergoing breathing treatments every 4 hours; she's already showing marked improvement.
Now Jesse has a sore throat...we'll see where that leads. My poor angel-man. It seems like he comes down with something every one of his weekends.
On the up-side, Aria said "potty" today, and then used the seat properly for a change! Woot! Prior to this, she'd let us know it was time by stripping her bottom bare and running, (walking is never an option to a toddler on a mission,) to the bathroom, where she would painstakingly:
- lift the lid of her toilet seat,
- sit down,
- hold out her hand for paper and use it properly,
- put the lid down on the seat,
- climb up and turn the water on in the sink,
- reach for the soap and clean up beautifully
...and then actually void her bladder.
Every time. Never failed. Except for those times when she decided that bathrooms were for the birds and she should continue playing where she was after stripping herself.
Ah, the joys of young children. I can almost hear my friends without children chuckling maliciously as they gloat over not having to clean up such messes. I have to agree with them, but I want to point out that there's at least less to clean with a baby, and you might even have slightly more control over said baby than you do with your partner. (You can put a baby in a play pen with a board book and the baby is blissfully happy. Too, while infants may chew on your credit cards, they can't buy new TVs and video game systems with them.)
I wanted to share a little joy. Check out the following link--it's clean, I promise:
http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1769611
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