Wednesday Update

Hmm...it's been a week, let's update!

Mommy's been to the doctor for a check up.  Blood pressure went from a normal 90/60 to a low 100/40.  Doctor congratulated me on being dead, and said to get more sleep.  HA.  Life's funny joke, it takes me hours to fall asleep a lot of the time, and I don't sleep deeply.  Which means.....oh!  I overcompensate by eating!  So yeah, weight gain and low blood pressure...no sleep, no energy... we're working it out :)  I made E promise NOT to wake me up tonight unless she really needed my help.  Last night, 1:30 am, she yelled for me until I came in...and then I flatly refused to pull her blankets up.  She has arms, she can DO that!  The other night it was cuddles that she wanted.  OK, I know: she needs more face to face time.  But seriously, can't it happen BEFORE I go to bed?

Mimi has been to the doctor.  35 inches, 26.5 pounds, BMI of 15.  She's our little stick bug of a kid!  Nothing fazes her, it's amazing.  This morning I let her use kid scissors to cut up some paper while I sat next to her.  Later, as I helped her get her shoes on, I wondered when she got into a red marker??  No, she had a fist full of blood from a little nick on the inside of a finger.  She didn't even raise an eye brow, but did say "EWWWWWEY Mommy!" when I pointed it out to her.  She has a little cold (allergies??) right now, and I'm hoping any side effects from the flu shot she got yesterday will be minor.  She just woke up coughing, and our tenor child has become a bass.  I have the humidifier running, and just made "juice" for her (warm honey lemon water) and I think she's gone back to sleep.  Oh, one funny story from the doctor's.  Since M is now two, the doctor said she could go ahead and start drinking 2% milk, whenever we give her lactose-free milk at home.  But I have to laugh, because the child refuses to eat meat, can't eat most dairy products, doesn't eat a lot of prepared foods...her only source of fat is baked goods (which I make maybe once a week), soy milk, and whole milk, and the occasional slice of cheese I let her have.  Her BMI is 15.  I think I'll stick with the whole milk for a while :o)

We had a really great dinner with some old friends that Wonder Daddy ran into at a training event for his networking group.  It seems he's been made VP of his networking group?  (Honey?  Is this a big deal?  Because you never told me about it :o)  Shall I make a cake?)  It was so nice to see their two younger kids playing with ours, and the two teen boys out playing basketball with the dads.  I had a lovely chat with the mother- as a home schooling wife of an entrepreneur, we had a lot in common!  She knows exactly what I mean when I say it's hard to budget....and it's the most amazing thing to have this WORK to do, and be totally responsible.

Life is excellent, and busy, and there's the update :)