Where Is Thumbkin?
Amy learned this song at preschool and it is now one of her favorites. I must say, I’m a bit envious of Thumbkin, as no one seems to realize that he’s simply behind your back. Hmm. How to master this trick…
I’ve missed a few days’ blogging here and there. Things have not settled down at the house.
For one, Amy has this thing. By thing, I mean bug/virus of some description. It is not the same thing as a week and a half ago when she was prescribed antibiotics. The doctor looked at her nose and said, “If you had this much pus anywhere else on your body, you’d treat it” and promptly wrote a prescription for Omnicef.
Ten days-ish later, she has developed a new thing: fever and vomiting. It started last Saturday (sort of) when, just after we finished a lovely dinner, we arrived back at our friends’ house to find Amy under a blanket, complaining of being cold. She was quite feverish. She promptly threw up all over the car seat and our friends’ driveway.
On Sunday, we laid low and by Monday, she appeared to be completely recovered. But that was Monday.
She started off Tuesday by crawling into my bed with another fever. When she was feeling well enough to get up, she proceeded to vomit all over the kitchen, mud room and powder room. On the plus side, we now have a downstairs powder room to vomit in…
Today, she seems better. I, however, feel like I’ve been hit by a truck. Partly getting something. Partly worked too much in the yard on yesterday. I have no Halloween costumes finished yet, but I did move my butterfly bush to the back of the yard (it was too close to the sidewalk), divided a peony, moved a lavender plant that was being choked to death by lantana and weeded/pruned the day away. Chris and Katie were underwhelmed but I think it will look great next spring. Oh, and I ordered two trees for the yard - a Japanese maple (cliche, I know) and a sorrel tree. Fingers crossed.
We terminated our agreement of sale on the new house this week. We have asked for our money back. And now we wait. The sellers are not pleased - but I did notice that the ad for the house was back in the paper on Sunday, so it was hardly unexpected.
On a sad note, our long time vet died of cancer last week. I wish his family much peace.
And that’s the news for now.
October 24th, 2007 at 10:39 am
So did she learn the “run away; run away” or “run and hide; run and hide” version?