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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

More recent stuff

*Timothy is in a constant state of giggliness. Just an observation.

*Jacob's excema is bad bad bad......it's driving him and me and Tom crazy.

*Leanna's been writting little stories at home sometimes. They are often about her day, or sometimes about Narnia. Very cute, and I love the self-driven literary streak.

*I am getting increasingly frustrated with Leanna's school and some of the behavior that goes on in the classroom. I like the principal, and some of the staff members I've met. They have a challenging job and most of them seem to truly care about the kids. But we've had multiple situations with kids doing things......if I hadn't been looking into homeschooling already, I think this stuff would have driven me to do so now. I have to talk to the school again, and I really dread doing that.

Leanna's been leading her brothers in making me appreciation cards. She also has another card waiting for "my loving Ant Lara."

This past weekend I took Justin to the store with me. For various reasons it's been quite a while since I've taken just him on an errand with me. He talked non-stop, the entire trip. I quizzed him on current favorites and found out that he likes dinosaures so much because they're big and scary!! It was a lot of fun, I always enjoy when I take just one kid out with me. I seriously cannot comprehend how someone could NOT love each and every one of their children.

* I don't remember if I ever mentioned here how Leanna named one of her webkinz Mayarosa. Strange name, right? Turns out it comes from the cartoon Handy Manny-when the characters reffer to Mayor Rosa, the words kind of slur together and my kids all thought it was one word, the name Mayarosa (pronounced May-uh-row-sa ) Reminds me of Ramona Quimby(book character) naming her doll Chevrolet because it was a beautiful name. Or a two year old Claire naming her doll "Nope." : )

4 comments:

Jamie said...

will they maybe do food allergy testing for jacob? sorry he's not doing well with his skin =( i can sympathize!

Sue said...

I agree on the food allergies because what ever you eat passes to the mother's milk, so maybe it is a food allergy. He is just so cute to be in so much discomfort with his itching. I feel so badly for him.

I hope it gets better soon for him.

sajmom said...

Yes, I thought I'd mentioned it before-of course they suspectd a food allergy from the start. They already did a basic allergy panel. They did an IGE level which also came up negative as the cause. The next step would be to see an allergy specialist. Unfortunately the kids are temporarily without insurance. Sometimes they never find a cause for the excema. And it wouldn't have to be from my milk, he's 19 months old, he eats plenty of food all on his own now.
(Yes I know about CHIP, we are in the process of re-doing all the info. for insurance It's a little different when you are self-employed.)

Jamie said...

huh. skin is very tricky...sry i didn't remember your previous post but i kinda do now...if i remember he was a trooper with the blood draw, right?