7 Quick Takes, Late Edition

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I spent today in New York City at the Mt Sinai allergy practice.  I'm sort of at the end of what my allergist here in Philly can do for me (I'm pretty extreme when it comes to allergies), and I started seeing someone up there.  Now that I'm not pregnant anymore, we can move forward on a management plan.  Today's visit was to redo all the original testing to establish a baseline and go from there.  I feel more hopeful about the whole thing than I have in a long time.

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Piglet has been off school all this week and while it hasn't been easy, it hasn't been terrible either. I have had a lot of extra help from my regular babysitter, as Birdie is still cranky and sick, and I'm terribly tired (see #3).    But even so, the week has gone better than expected, and I'm starting to be able to appreciate who he is as a person rather than this unruly being that has to be constantly disciplined and monitored for acting out. He is getting very close to four, so maybe what everyone says is true, that four is a bit easier.  On the other hand, he did fall in the toilet and banged his forehead on the procelain this week.  I'm still laughing.

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We actually had two nights that lasted past 1 a.m. this week!  We've had several weeks of whatever sleep I get before 1 a.m. is what I get, and I was getting seriously giddy from the lack of sleep.  So while I'm still very seriously sleep deprived, I no longer feel like I am a danger to myself and others from the lack of sleep.

--4--

Okay, I know this is sort of dumb, but I discovered by accident this week that my novel has a Barnes and Noble listing.  So neat!  Kind of makes me feel official.  Or something.

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Boo graduated out of services this week, so now I only have one child receiving therapy--woot woot!  Boo is walking pretty well, gaining about a word a day (or more sometimes) and is fond of multi-syllabic words like broccoli or chocolate.  He's started asking to use the potty.  Sometimes I forget he is only 19 (almost 20) months--he seems more like a 2.5 year old to me. Oh, and I forgot to mention in #2 that Piglet is finally cough-free for the first time in three years!! YAY!!  Turns out it was sinusitis and that an extra long course of antibiotics did the trick.  Now we just have to wean him down from all the other meds he's been on to manage the cough.  

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Birdie still sounds awful, but our pediatrician said we just have to wait for her lungs to heal.  In other news, her head is HUGE!  (All my kids have big heads).  I always think of Mike Myers in So I Married an Axe Murderer when I think of their HUGE heads.  (If you haven't seen this film, run, do not walk, to the nearest Netflix streamer and watch it.  You'll thank me).

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Nothing new to share, because I have zero creative energy right now for anything except MDS (working on Birdie's baby book...), but I CASEd this from Nance Leedy a few months back.  I just love that pop of red on the flowers--I forget how nice this set is.