7 Quick Takes: Paper Roses

--1--

My post today is rather late because I had to get up extremely early this morning to catch a 6 a.m. Bolt Bus to New York City for a food challenge at my allergist's office.  Today we challenged soy, and I'm happy to report that I passed!  So I can have soy in all forms now, no restrictions.  Hello Chinese food!!  (And just in time for Great Lent...)

--2--

Piglet had surgery on Tuesday to have his adenoids out and ear tubes placed and everything went very well.  He was a real trooper, and the surgi-center was incredibly efficient and kind.  I was totally impressed.  Piglet was a little out of it the rest of the day, but woke up Wednesday morning and declared, "I feel very well and I want to go to school," so we decided he could go.  

--3--

Wednesday went fine for him, but unfortunately, he woke up at about 4:00 a.m. on Thursday morning crying in pain.  We gave him Tylenol, but he kept complaining that his knee hurt so bad, and couldn't walk on it.  I kept him home yesterday, and took him to the doctor in the late afternoon as she was concerned about a possible bacterial infection.  She decided that the pain was not emergent, but that we needed to keep an eye on it.  He is still limping a bit, but not complaining of pain any longer, and went to school today, so perhaps it is just a strange little virus in the fluid around the knee.

--4--

Boo has pink eye and has been even more miserable than usual this week.  We got the eye drops and his eyes look a ton better, but his disposition still leaves a lot to be desired.

--5--

I've been making paper roses like a mad fool this week (well, in between tending to sick little people)--I'm supposed to demonstrate how to make them at our next Philly Inker meeting on Monday.  I'm also doing a 3-D paper flower demonstration at our Spring Fling in March, so the roses will be part of my display.  I'm still working on the finished product, but these are a few of the roses I made this week.  I had fantasies of offering a paper flower line in my etsy store, sort of on the order of wedding floral arrangements, but after making so many roses this week, I may rethink that strategy.  They are not that time consuming in the abstract, but they are a little fiddly to put together in mass quantity.

--6--

I took all three kids with me to Whole Paycheck, erm, Whole Foods yesterday to pick up a few things.  I took our double Maclaren, and since Piglet couldn't walk, I put him and Birdie in the stroller and Boo on my back in the ERGO (which was lovely for the stress fracture in my foot, by the way--my foot is killing me today!).  I got my stuff and was waiting in line with the kids (who were amazingly good for the whole trip), and the woman ahead of me turned around, appraised me and my stroller and said with her eyes wide, "Are they all yours?"  No, I routinuely go to the market with three children under age five not my own.  Ahem.  "Yes, they are all mine."  I shudder to think what people will say when there are four or five of them.

--7--

I have been looking for a pair of light brown sweater-type stockings and finally found a pair of extra-long thigh highs.  (I hate regular thigh highs because they usually end up like weird knee socks on me, even though my legs are short and stumpy).  They arrived earlier this week and I wore them on Tuesday.  Piglet was watching me put them on in the morning and as I unfurled them to put them on, his eyes got very big and he stage-whispered, "Biggg socks."  Ha!  (And for other kid-funnies, Boo has been informing all and sundry today: "I'm a boy."  So there you go.)