The attached picture is from a week before Halloween.
This weekend we are headed to my Grandma's house in Lansing. We are celebrating Thanksgiving early this year because several people are unable to make it on Tgiving weekend. Should be fun - we'll do the usual...stuff ourselves and then play cards.
From a letter recently written to Forest's sister, Heather:
Things are going pretty good for us here. Busy as always…… Forest’s classes are really difficult this semester - by far the hardest semester he has ever had. He literally comes home from class at about 11pm and then stays us reading and studying until like 1 or 2am almost every night! I don’t know how he is surviving on so little sleep! I certainly couldn’t keep this schedule up for very long! He did have a break for almost 2 weeks recently – so that really helped a lot. He got caught up on some sleep and we got caught up on things around the house that were being neglected.
Nothing new to say about my work, really. It has been pretty status quo. I recently went to Germany for CogState – the Aussie company I consult to. I was only gone for a total of 45 hours – and only in Germany for 21 hours total. I did do a bus tour of the city though -so got to see quite a bit of Berlin – more than I expected given that I only had a total of 3 hours off work while I was in Germany!
Not too much new with Sienna these days. She is getting better at standing herself up more carefully (without bonking her head on things as much) – as well as sitting herself back down without just kind of falling down. She now says Buh and Da and Ga. She just started saying Muh about 10 days ago or so. Last Sunday, at my sister Cheryl's house, she looked right at me and said “ma ma” for the first time. I know that she has no idea what she was saying – but it still was really sweet to hear her say it! I called my Aunt, Mary and Cousin, Kelsea (who were watching Sienna for us) while we were away in Baltimore for Chris Orth's wedding and she said that Sienna has been running around saying “ma ma” to everyone!
Sienna has had a cold the last couple of weeks. We had her 9 month doctor appointment this week (can you believe it has been almost 9 months already?) . She got her 2nd Hep-B and her flu shot. I was a little worried about the fact that she has had a cold for so long, but the Dr. says that's just how it goes with daycare. I sure hope that all this immune system boostin pays off!
Nothing new to say about my work, really. It has been pretty status quo. I recently went to Germany for CogState – the Aussie company I consult to. I was only gone for a total of 45 hours – and only in Germany for 21 hours total. I did do a bus tour of the city though -so got to see quite a bit of Berlin – more than I expected given that I only had a total of 3 hours off work while I was in Germany!
Not too much new with Sienna these days. She is getting better at standing herself up more carefully (without bonking her head on things as much) – as well as sitting herself back down without just kind of falling down. She now says Buh and Da and Ga. She just started saying Muh about 10 days ago or so. Last Sunday, at my sister Cheryl's house, she looked right at me and said “ma ma” for the first time. I know that she has no idea what she was saying – but it still was really sweet to hear her say it! I called my Aunt, Mary and Cousin, Kelsea (who were watching Sienna for us) while we were away in Baltimore for Chris Orth's wedding and she said that Sienna has been running around saying “ma ma” to everyone!
Sienna has had a cold the last couple of weeks. We had her 9 month doctor appointment this week (can you believe it has been almost 9 months already?) . She got her 2nd Hep-B and her flu shot. I was a little worried about the fact that she has had a cold for so long, but the Dr. says that's just how it goes with daycare. I sure hope that all this immune system boostin pays off!
Anyway – she doesn’t seem too bothered by the cold this time. She doesn’t complain – just keeps going! The worst of it (other than her nose is getting a little bit raw) is that she coughs a little bit at night so she has been waking herself up some nights – and we don’t feel comfortable with just letting her cry herself back to sleep because she is sick – and when she cries she coughs harder etc…. I now see why they say that kids’ schedules get “off” when they are sick!
Anyway – before this cold, she had a low grade fever for a week (so we are actually going on 3 weeks straight now with some kind of illness. About 4 days into the fever, she woke up with little red spots all over the side of her face. The next day, the spots had spread to the other side of her face, the next day they were all over her body – and…after listening to the news and getting totally freaked out about the MRSA staff infection that is killing kids, we took her in to the doctor. The first person we saw was a nurse practitioner who didn’t know what to make of the rash – so she went to get a doctor. They were gone a long time so I decided to go get some water. When I walked out of the room, I found the NP and the doctor standing outside the door whispering. When they saw me, the looked up and said “we’ll be right there” – sort of like they were startled and didn’t want me hearing what they were talking about. So…of course this freaked me out. A few minutes later, the np and the doctor came in and examined her again. They then left without saying anything to us and later came in with another doctor. By now I was getting pretty mad by the secrecy and lack of information about what they were so obviously freaked out about…. Anyway – so another doctor comes in and looks her over and says, “no, that’s not measles” – so that’s what they were worried about!! MEASLES!!! We actually had an outbreak of measles in Ann Arbor (Darn hippies who won’t vaccinate their kids and then spread it to those of us whose kids are too young to vaccinate for measles – you get that shot at 1 year) – so hence, the concern. The reason for all the whispering and so many doctors was that almost no one in the office had ever actually SEEN measles before! So anyway – it seems like it was just some rashy virus – and nothing else. Her fever finally broke the next day and she had like 1 good day before the cold really took hold!
I suppose that's enough for now - more than enough probably! ...more later.
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