Author: Doris

Edda is still running a pretty high fever today – I’m hoping it breaks tonight, but it’s been a struggle to keep her happy all day. I’m typing this in the dark, listening to Edda breathe, Ruby snore and hoping that Vince falls asleep before 8:30, which is not happening.

Six hours before she became feverish, we were at dim sum with the rolling carts! I know that this isn’t particularly exciting for those living in NYC, SF or LA, but I consider finding the rolling cart dim sum in DC to be a super exciting event! My friend, V. has been on the lookout for the carts for months now and I hadn’t been able to find any dim sum carts anywhere in the DC area. But I finally located the elusive dim sum and we ended up gorging ourselves silly.

And it was fabulous, I haven’t had it in years. It was fabulous except for the dessert, which generally is awful. Chinese people are good at preparing meat, not so good at preparing sweets. We tried this rather patriotic jello type dish. We decided it tasted like suntan lotion.

Edda became feverish last night and she still doesn’t feel well today. I’ve spent the afternoon by her side, feeding her syringe-fuls of water to keep her hydrated and watching old episodes of Gray’s Anatomy which before this week, I had never seen a single episode.

2010 was over. However, 2010 was a most-traveled year for us , distance-wise. We were in Shanghai for over a month, in Hong Kong for less than 40 days and in Egypt for 10 days. While in Shanghai and Hong Kong, we took numerous side trips. It was fun. We also climbed the famous Huang Shan (Yellow Mountains) together.

I’m beginning to understand why there are so many mommy blogs of kids who are pre-school age and not so many once the kids get older. Things that are happening in the house are complicated to explain and stretch out for days/weeks at a time and pretty much just involves us talking/arguing/discussing things that need to be addressed/done in the next 5 minutes/scheduled (or we are just yelling at Maxi, the puppy). It’s not very photogenic, nor is it really interesting to anyone else outside the family unit. Trust me, I’ve explained some of the things to friends at work and sometimes I get a shrug, sometimes I get a yawn, and sometimes I get the response, “I have no idea what you are talking about.” Hmmm…

I’m not sure where this blog is going, but I’m still trying…

We got an energy audit done on the house because we were concerned about our high heating bills. It’s sponsored by Pepco and was only $100 (and is probably going to reveal thousands of dollars of possible improvements to the house to recoup probably less than 10% of our heating bill for 3 months out of the year…)

They come and put this thing on your door, make sure all the windows are closed and suck air out of the house to see how leaky your house is. Pretty cool.

Jeremy and I also went out on a date to learn Adult, Child and Infant CPR. It was a 6 hour class taught by the Red Cross and I really had a nice time relearning CPR. I think the last time I was certified was in 1992 when I was training to be and actually passed the test to become an EMT.

We failed at actually putting together Valentines for Vince’s class. I didn’t realize when I help Vince choose the Mr. Potato(e) Head ones that each one required a whole mess of stickers on them…

They did not get done.

I told Vince to just bring a bag of lollipops. “How will they know the lollipops are from me?”, he asked. I told him that he was out of time and that he would just have to announce it to the whole class. He said OK.

Maybe next year.

Edda’s horse experience has shifted from hippotherapy to therapeutic riding simply because a certified OT is not overseeing her session anymore. Which is mainly a plus for us as the session is cheaper and seems not a lot different from before. I prefer make it even lower key by calling them Edda’s horseback riding lessons. It’s something we do for fun (or at least Edda and Jeremy do for fun, as I rarely go to the lessons).

I asked Jeremy if he remembered the name of the horse, and alas, he did not, so I might have to name this horse in the photo myself. Hmmm. It might help if I could figure out if the horse was a boy or girl.

Here’s Edda taking full advantage of the rocking motion of the horse by falling asleep sitting up. Woo hoo!

It has been a veritable comedy of errors all week. No need to go into everything, but at least the car didn’t end up in a ditch or anything. Ha ha 😉

Ruby and Maxi have a doggie pal, Boba, who lives in the neighborhood. Boba used to be an only child until 4 months ago, Boba got a human little brother. Ever since then, Boba has had to learn to make do with fewer walks and not as much cuddle time. Sigh. The life of a big brother is hard.

Anyways last weekend, I got to babysit Boba (and his 4 month old baby brother) and I have to say that it was the easiest babysitting gig ever. I just put the baby in the crib at 6:30 and he slept peacefully for hours! Hours! So young and already so well behaved.

I spent the time untangling yarn that Maxi had gotten into.

And I relished the peace and absolute quiet in the house.

And I got these amazing Georgetown cupcakes in return! Oh, so good, especially the Oreo mint one. Just amazing.

Vince has an ear infection – I think one of the first ones ever. Our doctor’s appointment was yesterday at 11 and we drive by a KFC on the way there and he asked if we could eat at KFC for lunch on the way back. He has a fondness for KFC which stems from his formative years in Singapore where KFC is the dominate fast food restaurant because Asians prefer chicken over beef (aka McDonald’s).

I would not have known that Vince had an ear infection if he didn’t moan and complain about how much his ear hurt. I wonder how many of Edda’s ear infections I have missed because I couldn’t tell what was wrong. Probably a handful. 🙁

Jeremy needed a head shot for something or other, so I snapped some photos of him. He pulled out all his weird glasses and suits and ties. I like the photos of him looking down and away – but those aren’t the ones that he’s going to use.

I don’t know when he decided to get these glasses – I think they are lab glasses and explosion proof.

It’s been a quiet weekend here, most everyone has a version of the cold Edda had last week – and so we are trying to go to sleep early and drink lots of fluids. Jeremy turned the heat up in the house so we are all toasty and hopefully we’ll all be asleep before the end of the third quarter for the Super Bowl.

Of course, even though we are all a little sick, we still need to get food, so here we are at Trader Joe’s picking up supplies for the week –

I always think I need another plant, but I resist and tell myself that I don’t need an extra thing to take care of in the house:

Although I am curious about this jasmine plant: