Eight things

Jen R. tagged me, so here goes:

1) I don't like my kids pretending guns, but have pretty much given up banning them altogether. They make them out of legos and sticks and then they aren't supposed to point them at people. I mention this because I had to get them to change their game to target practice just now.

2) I don't particularly like making phone calls. To friends and family, it's fine, but to make hair or doctor appointments, etc, I just don't get around to it.

3) I am one of six kids, all but me and my brother were adopted at varying ages. If you count all the foster kids who went through and only stayed for a while and all the kids my mom babysat while their parents worked, I don't even know how many kids there were.

4) I like making quilts, but they aren't very exciting ones and it takes me months to finish one. A lot of the time, I'd rather zoom up a quick sweatshirt that takes an hour total, since that's about all the time I have to work. Impatient? Me?

5) I read a lot - like a book every couple of days. I don't keep track of them, though, so don't really know how many I've read. A lot of them are romance novels (the 400 page ones, not the 200 page Harlequins because there's just not enough time for character development or to make me believe in their happily ever after in 200 pages, IMO)

6) Considering my affection for drinking coffee while using the computer, it is remarkable that I have only fried one keyboard due to spills - and it was tea that I spilled.

7) I miss thunderstorms and snow. There are occasional storms here, but they are very rare. I don't miss snow enough to move somewhere that it snows. My children may never learn those two magic words: snow day.

8) I have now breastfed all of my kids far longer than the national average. I'll probably keep nursing the baby until she's far older than I want to admit it to other people. Which is how long the boys were BF-ed ;)

And now I'm supposed to tag other people.... Liza Lee, Kirsty, Jennifer Mc, Mom (though she doesn't have a blog...), ah... My audience isn't that big ;)

the doctor said "yep"

It looks like DS2 has some sort of virus and then strep on top of that. Yay! Multiple infections!

And he's not terribly sickly. He was bouncing around, playing with toys in the waiting room, then went trotting merrily off with the nurse to be weighed, etc. He's starting to get bored at home, already. Well, he had his first dose of anti-b's at about 11, think I can fudge and send him to school tomorrow, even though it's not quite 24 hours? I guess I'll see how sickly he is tonight and in the morning.

Anyway, he's watching Wallace and Gromit and I'm about to head out to get DS1 from school.

Oh, and I need to call Best Buddy's mom and tell her that BB might have been exposed. Sigh.

winter diseases

OK, I know you can get them at any time, but, well, it's that time again.

Not the flu. We seem to have strep. DS2 has had a sore throat and stayed home from school yesterday, but it wasn't until last night that he had white spots on his throat. So off to the doctor.

The baby's been coughing and grumping, too and I'm really hoping she doesn't have it. DS1 isn't feeling great, but it's not his throat so maybe he'll be fine. My throat feels scratchy and I'm really hoping I'm not getting it. DH is taking a nap on the couch so I'm hoping HE isn't coming down with something.

Right time to get DS2 dressed and get the baby to stop crying and go to the doctor's.

"Hey Daddy! Whatcha doing in there?"

DH is in the bathroom and DD is outside the door of it calling to him. "Ah-da-da-da-bababa! Ay-yay-yay!" I'm just providing the translation.

Huh. You know what?

I didn't report here on our doctor visit. thought I did, but i guess i didn't. wait. I just found it in my draft folder. See? I'm just absent-minded, not completely insane!

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We're just home from a well-baby checkup.

She's 19 lbs 6 oz (40th %) when buck naked (give or take because she kept trying to play with the scale)
Her head is 17 5/8ths inches (50%)
And she's 30 3/4 inches tall when lying down (100 %) (give or take due to excessive wriggling)

She got prevnar and one other shot (the, um, ah. well, one she's had before. DTaP? HiB? I need to write these things down, don't I?). These were only her 2nd set of shots, so we're plenty behind schedule. I'm not overly worried, we're just going to make them up bit by bit.

Yikes

I took the baby to the doctor the other day, as reported here. I went to pay the copay with my debit card and it was refused, so I paid on a credit card. When I got home, I checked my balance and I was down to $10 in my checking account. I had some in savings that I transferred over, but the hefty car repairs and then Christmas presents obviously did some damage. So far, no one has told me that I bounced anything. Phew!

Nooooooo!

I've been reading the C.S. Harris mystery novels with Sebastian St. Cyr as the protagonist. I really liked the first two.

And how can you go wrong with a name like St. Cyr? Especially if you consider that the Brits (and the books are set in England) often say "Saint" as "sin" so his name is Sincere?

But the third seemed rushed (according the the acknowledgements, she was writing it while trying to rebuild her house after Hurricane Katrina) and I am Not Happy with the ending. This guy is supposed to be so smart and there are big, enormous clues that it's OK if he.... because he isn't... and she isn't really.... anyway. It just cheesed me off that the mean sister won, you know?

Apparently book 4 doesn't resolve this particular problem, so i have to wait for book 5 for him to find out the big secret that everyone who reads the books figured out in book 1. ARG!

Well, I've requested book 4 from the library and the whole system own 6 copies, but only one is in circulation and the rest are in processing, even though the book came out over 2 months ago. I like the series, but not enough to buy it in hard back as soon as it comes out....

Still waiting for Silent on the Moor by Deanna Raybourn, too. Out in March.