Month: July 2006

Good Job Jeremy!

Jeremy took me out on our first date ten years ago today! Woo hoo!

Dad doing the dishes:

Dad has also been rocking Edda to sleep at night. She usually gets up 2/3 times a night and either Jeremy or I get up. Last night, she slept though the night or so I thought. Dad had actually gotten up at midnight when Edda stirred and rocked her back to sleep.. Amazing. So sweet.

Vince this morning was on a nail polish kick. His friend Samantha has blue fingernails and he wanted to replicate it. We used dry erase marker which was driving me crazy because it kept coming off and Vince wanted me to reapply it. I had to pull out the old gender card and tell him that boys don’t wear nail polish, and he wiped his nails clean and went to school. Now I have to say, I don’t really care if he wants to paint his nails bright red, it’s just that I know something is brewing on at his school about boys vs girls and I’m not sure what his teachers think about nail polish on boys..

Edda had a therapy session today and these ladies were interning for the summer with our physical therapist. This is their last week! They took a shine to Edda. It’ll be another 2 years before they get their therapist degrees… (OK, not the best picture of Edda..)

Well, I normally don’t look forward to calling tech support, but today I had to because of some failure in some hardware we had. The support woman connected me to an engineer and he put us both on hold while he was running around checking things out, so we were chit chatting abit. Found out that she was in Newark and likes to go to Miyake’s on University and down the sake bombs. Funny.

One of my co workers, who was listening in on my call since we all have cubes, was making fun of me over IM during the phone call. He wanted me to get her phone number. laff.

Dad has been sitting in on Edda’s class. We’ve been talking about the different kids in her class and their various “issues”. Most of the kids in Edda’s class are older than her, most of them are at least 3 years old and autistic. Edda is probably the most disabled kid in her class this week. She’s the only one who can’t feed herself snack, someone needs to be there and help her eat.

I went to the prata shop today, and the guy who works the register said to me, “You are always so happy and lively when you come in, what’s your secret?” This came as such a surprise to me because I consider myself a grouchy-grouch. I told him that the prata shop was the only time that I really had to myself and I felt just a little bit removed and relieved from my responsibilities, I’m happy to sit for a few minutes and eat a prata and have a glass of fresh lime juice. Such simple things make me happy these days.

I’m babysitting tonight. It’s weird taking care of a kid who isn’t yours. I just mean that every baby has their own quirks, their own way of eating/sleeping/pooping that you have to get used. Also, I’m not a natural babysitter. It’s a bit nervewracking for me, but tonight, the baby and I did great! Went to sleep right on time with only a little bit of fuss and muss.

Dad made it to Singapore. He got in at midnight last night and at 5 am, he managed to pat Edda back to sleep! Pretty impressive. He was a trooper today, went to Edda’s school and stayed up almost all afternoon. It’s going to be nice having him at home. We don’t often spend this much time together.

We went to the zoo today with Chris, Kate and Abby. I was worried that it was going to be too hot, but it was OK! I mean, it was really hot, and I sweated buckets, but the park is well designed with lots of shade and we saw the most amazing monkeys. I think this is my 4th time at the zoo and this time we saw the most monkey activity – swinging over the branches and hanging out. Also saw many baby monkeys hanging onto their mother’s fur. I’m so sympathetic to the moms. Ugh, what a pain to have your kid gripping your hair while you try to swing from branch to branch.

We all had a great time, especially Edda who spent the day laughing and enjoying herself, even though there wasn’t any air conditioning. She ate well and walked a lot through the zoo. Vince also was great, even though he didn’t have a playmate his own age around, he enjoyed all the adult and baby company.

Jeremy loved figuring out how to fit 2 babies, 1 preschooler, 2 strollers and 4 adults (3 of which are taller than 5’10”) into our minivan. He loves to pack things, minivans, tupperware, vacation schedules. It’s all good.

Here’s a photo of Edda which I have to post even though it is blurry and generally a terrible picture (look at that flash! ugh!) simply because she is looking straight into the camera and smiling. Because she doesn’t really answer to her name or commands like, “Hey! Look over here!” gettting her to look in any particular direction is particularly challenging. Vince took the photo, he might have better luck than the rest of us at getting Edda’s attention.

Can’t wait to hug Edda! Of course, Vince too. But, I am going to miss Mom 🙂

Dear Donald,

It was very very nice to see you after all these years. Sorry that Chris is
taking your place now.

I do not know how to say to Doris. Please send my best regards to them when
you visit them next month. My heart is always with the little girl. I
never thought that it will happen to my family, but it does.

Good luck to you and wish you a happy boy always!!

Robert

Mt. Tamalpais, CA & Tiburon, CA