Pajama Pictures
Curie January 2019
For New Year’s Eve we did not go over to the Hoaglands for the first time in years because they were away diving in South Africa. We instead had the Tamanahas over for New Year’s Eve. As a Christmas gift, they brought over a game where you had to try not to step into the poo, which was a great hit. The kids stayed up for New Years and we took our first picture of the year. Albert opened his Solo Stove Bonfire and we found out how hard it was to actually light a good fire without some practice, but Curie loved the marshmallows. Continue reading “Curie January 2019”
Curie December 2018
So it is remarkable how life can envelope your time especially during the holidays and beyond, which is to say, we are behind in blogging again. For the record, it has been a month since this blog was supposed to be written, and so now we are relying on memory and pictures to recount what happened. The winter holidays are not as carefree as they might be when you work at a non-profit. It is the end of the year and it is an important time to solicit donors who are also thinking about charitable giving in relation to their taxes and tax brackets; so Erin especially has a lot of work at the end of a year. Continue reading “Curie December 2018”
Doodling with the Kids
Three Musketeers 2019
NICU 2018
As many of you know, each year we go back to Virginia Hospital Center’s Labor and Delivery and NICU, to drop off some chocolate and thank them for their treatment of Erin in Labor and Delivery, PACU and post-op, and for Curie’s 4 days in NICU, and Elia’s 18 days in NICU. Curie was 4 pounds and 7 ounces and had trouble with jaundice and eating. Elia was 4 pounds 8 ounces and had some pulmonary trouble and eating as well. William Schimmel once said of his kids, “you never want to be in NICU, but once you are there, you are glad you are.” I have repeated this line to so many people after our own experience. We also always reference James, and Analise (for Curie) and Ray (for Elia) and Emma for Erin who restored our faith in the hospital by taking care of us so well after being abandoned in the bathroom post-op by another nurse. Thank you again. Curie on the left, Elia on the right. Curie just lost her first tooth, and Elia registered in the 40th percentile in height in her last check-in.
Curie November 2018
We made a decision before Chicago not to get the flu shot because we were worried that we would feel sick on the trip. That was a bad decision because Curie got sick after and ended up with pneumonia. This was October. We planned on getting flu shots after but one by one each of us were sick, even though we knew we needed to get the flu shot. Then Curie came down with a fever again, and was out from school for another week. Getting the flu without the flu shot is a 5 day affair, with the flu shot is only 3. After she was over the flu we immediately went to go get it, but the pediatrician didn’t have any availability. We went to CVS, but they were closing so we went to Giant where it was a terrible ordeal. Elia was not allowed to get a shot at Giant because she was not 5 yet, so she got hers later at an urgent care.
Curie October 2018
So, Curie got sick this month with 8 straight days of fever, three of which were on antibiotics. She was diagnosed with pneumonia and needed to do blood work which was acutely traumatic since she doesn’t even like getting shots. We traded days taking care of her, and Albert took her to the doctor and the lab and had to hold her down while they took her blood. Luckily she is recovering and is almost 100% with just a residual cough. She missed a week and a day of school, days that she really couldn’t afford to miss to begin with. She did get a 3 out of 4 on her science test with only half of the unit in class. Continue reading “Curie October 2018”
Curie EMA Photoshoot
Curie had a photoshoot today. The pictures won’t be available until a lot later, but Erin took a few rogue ones. There is a crazy high kick one in the real pictures. We’ll post when we get them.
Evil Queens
