19 MARCH 2007
Sorry for the lack of updates lately. To say that I’ve been under the weather lately would be an understatement. The illness that the girls had a few weeks ago made it’s way through my body. The fun part was that I also had a day chock full of vomiting. It happened to be last Saturday that this happened, and Mike was home working on his Jeep. On my second trip to the barf bowl while glimpsing the girls throwing beads at each other, apparently from a broken necklace, I decided it was not enough to just let them fend for themselves all day. I called Mike, while hunched over said barf bowl, to request his babysitting services for the rest of the day. My apologies for being so graphic, but it affected me harshly. By Monday I was feeling a bit better even though I had no voice by then. However, I fooled myself into thinking I was healthy too soon because by Thursday evening my sore throat was making an encore appearance and continued until late last night. The remains are minimal, and I actually felt well enough to return to the YMCA today.
During my recovery period I made myself a mix disc and gave Mike a copy. One particular song struck a chord with him because he couldn’t stop singing it all weekend and kept talking about the possible meanings. “I wonder if it’s about two guys that made a rocket. And one of the guys launched it while the other went to go get a tool or something,” he would say. I would just shrug my shoulders and say, “I don’t really care, I just like the song and how it’s got those little xylophone sounds.” I decided to search for the video and found this. I hope Mike can now put to rest all his theories. If you’re curious it’s “Launch Yourself” by Adem.
The girls (well, mostly Mimi) have gotten into the nasty habit of waking up several times a night just wanting me to check in. My guess is that it’s because they woke up constantly while they were both sick and now think that that’s part of the program around here. I don’t know how they can get up the next morning all refreshed while I feel like I haven’t slept in months. The maddening part is that each time I’d go into their room whichever girl who was not awake didn’t even stir from all the racket. It’s so unfair!
Annie can now write her name all by herself and is venturing onto new letters as well. It’s funny though because sometimes she’ll forget a letter from her name and just attach it at the beginning or end like that would be completely acceptable. Annie’s also showing much interest in drawing. Of course, I’m always up for shoving paper and drawing utensils at her to keep her busy. Anything to keep her busy!
Mimi has been cracking us up lately. “It’s so coooode (cold),” sounds so cute when she says it. As mentioned before Mimi has this strange sound that she makes regularly. We’ve recently nicknamed her “Zuul” whenever she makes the sound. “There is no Mimi, there is only Zuul,” is also usually what we say. If you’ve seen Ghostbusters (ALOT), then you should know what I’m talking about. We still love her though despite sometimes being possessed by a demon. I’ve been too lazy to either take pictures of the girls or to download the ones that have been on the camera, but I figure the video (see above) will suffice (for now). I promise to share some pictures soon.