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December 7, 2007 at 8:55 pm · Filed under Actual posts about being moms, Milestones
I was at work on Wednesday when Shawna IM’d me that Grammy got her first shiner. She had her first playdate with her friend Dobbs, and they were playing on his indoor slide and ball pit. Shawna and Sybil were upstairs talking, when Dobbs came upstairs and said, “I think Grammy needs you.” Apparently they were taking turns down the slide, and someone didn’t get out of the ball pit before the other one came down.
This accident happened after a minor incident with the balance beam at gymnastics. Graem insists on using the highest balance beam they have–but this time she slipped off and cut her ankle in a couple of places. What was surprising is that she didn’t cry for either the balance beam fall or the black eye.
November 9, 2007 at 6:48 am · Filed under Actual posts about being moms, Milestones
Last night, not knowing what to do for dinner, we all decided to go for Indian food. I was a bit wary, as Shawna has been puking up anything non-white-bread for the last few weeks. Graem was on her best behavior and was starving–she ate a TON. While she was eating, she kept saying her lip hurt–I just assumed she either bit it or had chapped lips, so I kind of blew her off and told her to drink water and wipe it with a napkin.
Early this morning, she sat up and said, “Mommy, the bed is wet.” Shawna and I were both in disbelief–she already had one accident in the bed this week, and was so ashamed and sad we were sure it wouldn’t happen again. Thankfully, it was just a little pee, and our several layers of protection actually protected us. I took Graem downstairs to wash up and change, and again, she said her lip hurt. There in the bathroom light, in the wee hours of the morning, and despite my lack of glasses, I saw it: her first cold sore. I was totally crushed.
We have a three-year-old with herpes of the lip. I blame myself and Shawna (for there’s no other way) for giving it to her. Whether we kissed her at the wrong time, or because we weren’t as adamant about forbidding the sharing of toothbrushes and Carmex, I feel so absolutely responsible.
I’m pissed, because I never had cold sores until I met Shawna. And I’m pissed because she got them from her mom (or at least, that’s how the story goes). The only thing I’m thankful for is that Graem didn’t get the outbreak that I did from her first exposure: my face was covered with them–I had them in my eyes and my nose!
And now what do I do: warn a three-year-old that those fun, playful kisses with boys at daycare are forbidden when she has an active sore? And that she can’t scratch or touch the blister until it goes away? I shouldn’t be having this conversation with a three-year-old. Do I have to warn daycare that she has a cold sore?
I suppose I’m equally upset that perhaps the doctor was right in diagnosing her 6-week long cold as viral. I’m always confounded that of all the kids in daycare who are told have bacterial infections, my kid is the one that’s viral.
When will we figure out how to kill viruses? I keep thinking about alien DNA replicating in my kid’s body.
October 9, 2007 at 11:40 pm · Filed under Actual posts about being moms, Milestones
I decided to finally paste in all my pre-Wordpress blog posts. Wow, I never realized how much I’d appreciate Wordpress! For your viewing pleasure, we now have posts dating back to the week before Graem was born–with every smile, carseat upgrade, and well-visit checkup now recorded.
Reading through them was interesting–I’ve already forgotten what it was like to drop her off at daycare for the first time, when she got her first tooth, and when she first said, “Mama.” I’d also forgotten how long I was taking her in to work with me, which in retrospect, I greatly appreciate having had the opportunity, but also can’t imagine it now with a near-three-year-old.
How time flies.
July 22, 2007 at 7:07 am · Filed under Actual posts about being moms, Milestones
Of late, Grammy has become obsessed with the question, “Why?” It reminds me of my own inquisitive stage, when I’d ask my dad incessantly, “How come?”
Here are some recent answers to Grammy’s “Why?”:
- Because it’s hot
- Because that’s just how farts are, they smell
- Because the earth revolves around the sun
- H=mc^T (I don’t know the keystroke for delta)
- Because flies are dirty
- Because they land on poo
- Because I stink
- Because Bailey stinks
- Just because
- Because I said so, and I’m the boss
January 26, 2007 at 10:04 am · Filed under Milestones, PP, Tech
We are now a PAGERANK 1!!! Without even whoring ourselves out to get on everyone’s blogroll. Ah, the mysteries of Google’s pagerank algorithms. And Uncle Den is now a 3–mostly because he did whore out his site.
This opens up a whole new world of PayPerPost opps!
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