Teaching ... myself

Aw, Esme is just growing like a weed.  She smiles all the time now.  Last night she just studied my face and smiled as I talked and sang to her - for quite awhile.  She seemed to be partial to U2 and The Cure:)  She interacts like this all the time with Ashley, but it was neat to get a piece of that action. I know, cute or horrifying?  It was a nice warm spell last week and Adia was out on the porch playing.  When I came out, she apparently felt the need to take a dip in the dog bowl.   Adia has been a lot of fun and a lot of challenge recently - she is really asserting herself and since she doesn't do many words, she has found that she can register a protest by crying really loudly.  My 3rd and 4 th periods are the same way. And just go ahead and break my heart in two equal but separate pieces.  Last night Adia was rummaging through my diabetic bag and I was making a rather stellar off the cuff chili so I just let her play (hoping that she wouldn't figure out how to expose

Well, the last few weeks have been a blur.  Perhaps it is getting used to a new baby, perhaps it is the general busy-ness of life now, or perhaps it was the flu.  I'm going with the flu.  3 weeks back Zoe got sick.  Started with some throwing up that I was able to catch most of in my fingers... she rapidly progressed to become very handy with the barf bowl.  I was quite proud of her in a grateful sort of way.  A few rough days after that and she eventually got better.  Which was just in time for Adia to start up.  I caught most of her vomit in towels.... we did lots of laundry that night... and 4 baths.  She added some fatigue and diarrhea to the disease and stretched it out a few more days than Zoe.  I assume she was trying to outdo her big sis.  Luckily the disease just got worse as it claimed more victims.  (I have no idea why this is underlined, it is not me)  Its now a week and a half into it and Ash comes down with it.  Won't go into details except to say that I then got