Year: 2008

After 3 days on antibiotics, Edda feels much, much better.

Here are a few of the many, many photos of Edda mouthing. She’s mouthing up a storm this morning, which means she’s back to her perky old self. For a long time after we got the Rett Syndrome diagnosis, everytime the mouthing decreased, I’d get all excited that the mouthing would be ending and she could do the hand clapping or wringing instead, which is much less slobbery than the mouthing, but it always meant that she was on the verge of being sick for days. (You can also observe Jeremy’s bad haircut.)

Sheila, Scott and Josh were in town this weekend. We went to the Air and Space Museum.

We posed with sculptures at the National Gallery and ate Bomb Pops.

We hung out at the mall and ate a giant ice cream sandwich and something called a “two-ball screw ball” – italian ice with 2 gum balls at the bottom.

And we saw a stuffed elephant.

Yesterday, we told B, our sitter, to sleep in and feel better and Jeremy was going to send the kids off to school. He got both kids on the bus and then he called to let me know that he was headed off to work when he got another call from Edda’s school to come pick her up because she was ill.

Turns out she has strep throat. Apparently her tonsils were as big as cherries. The doctor was amazed that she wasn’t protesting more about how sore her throat was. She’s still been eating like a champ, including acidic foods like oranges, just a little hoarseness when going to sleep. I guess someone has a high pain threshold.

Jeremy, since he’s been at a conference all week, hadn’t been at the office Monday-Wednesday and yesterday, he had work from home – three teleconferences/meetings while fielding other calls and emails to catch up at work and he took Edda to the doctor. Thank goodness B came to help out in the afternoon.

So today I’m home with the kids. We thought Vince was getting sick too, but I think it’s more a sympathy illness, he’s fine, it’s just that he wanted to be sick too, so he’s home as well.

And we are slowly canceling our weekend plans.

Things that are happening:

1. I am furiously trying to cram as much work as I can into these next few weeks. I’m skipping lunch, skipping the office chit chat, skipping unnecessary trips to the vending machine and the potty. My hours are defined by my child care so I can’t dally at the end of the day just to finish something up. The end of the quarter nears and I am up for a promotion, but I have to do well the next few weeks in order to qualify. The faster I’m promoted, the faster I get to work from home!

2. Jeremy is stressed out (in a good way). I hate that I can’t go into anymore detail, but he’s busy with important stuff this weekend and things will resolve themselves out in the next few months, but he’s a little antsy in the pants.

3. B., our sitter, has a pretty bad stomach bug. She did not sound good when I stepped into the house today.

4. Edda seems to have a hoarse throat.

5. Vince has the sniffles.

6. We have friends coming in from out-of-town this weekend, so we have a full weekend schedule planned.

7. My parents are coming into town again this weekend and they are hosting the DC Martins dinner at our house, so the house has to somehow miraculously clean itself.

We are in such deep doo-doo.

With our neighbors Debbie and Magic.

It is still cold, but someone is ready for spring!

My little boy turned 6 today – my 6th anniversary of being a mom!

Nothing better than some false teeth and Star Wars legos.