What else did I miss blogging about recently? Q’s birthday! His birthday was last Sunday, and he celebrated it a day earlier by going to the horse races – just like last year. Avery and I stayed home, but he and Zoe had a lot of fun with friends – and the rumor on the street is that Zoe is quite good at picking winning horses!
-M
So what kind of things did blog readers miss out on this past week? Here’s a sampling of what I would have written about here, had I felt well enough:
Zoe has been on antibiotics for the past 9 days for an ear infection, and she’s actually been pretty excited about it. (I think it made her feel special to be the sick one – especially after Avery’s long illness last month.) “Avery, I’m sick!” she told her sister late one day last week. “My ears hurt, and I’m taking medicine!” … At the end of the weekend, Zoe got sick again and developed a fever. It was a short-lived bug (which she probably got from me), but she was pretty miserable for a full day. “I’m sorry you don’t feel well,” I said to her at one point. She looked up at me with big, sad eyes and said, “I’m sorry you don’t feel well, too.” … Though Zoe and I were both slowed by illness, Avery (thankfully!) was as busy and mobile as either. In fact, these days, she’s constantly on all fours, rocking back and forth in what BabyCenter.com calls the “precrawl.” (My notes tell me that Zoe started doing the “precrawl” at 32 weeks; Avery is 30.) This morning I noticed Avery was even moving her knees forward, before falling on her tummy – so I suspect we’re just days away from having a cruiser on our hands… Q noticed the other day that Avery’s two bottom teeth are coming in. She hasn’t been drooling or fussing more than usual, so there’s no telling when the teeth will make an appearance… And lastly, a funny Zoe story. “When you peel back a banana like this, you say ‘Yum, yum,'” she told me the other night. “Oh, who told you that?” I asked her, expecting her to mention someone at school. “God,” she replied. I prompted a bit further, asking her who God was (“My friend”) and when he told her that (“Yesterday”). I wonder what he’ll tell her next…
-M