Miciah is doing SO MUCH better today. She's off the heavy pain meds and she's only had Tylenol once, at 10 a.m. Unless she asks specifically for it, we'll not give her any more until bed time. And all this means that SHE CAN GO BACK TO SCHOOL TOMORROW!! This is fantastic for her, cause she's obviously been bored today. You can only watch so many movies.
She has concerns about returning to school that I wouldn't have thought of. For instance, she said she needed to pack her lunch every day until her cast is off, cause how will she carry a tray? I told her someone could carry it for her. She said, "Who?" Umm, I don't know. But I think it would be taken care of. Another concern: What will she wear? Right now she's in Rob's shirt, since the arm hole has to be big enough to go over her cast. At the elbow the cast is HUGE. I told her that we'd try to find a shirt of hers that she can wear, and then, if we can't find one, we'll try to find one of MY shirts. Cause my shirts don't look ridiculously huge on her quite the same way that Rob's shirts do.
We have an appointment on May 29th to get the pins out and the cast off. Don't tell Miciah, but that's actually closer to 4 weeks in a cast instead of 3. But who's counting.Flying Pig Marathon
Pictures from Saturday morning, a few hours before Miciah broke her arm.
In front of the van, ready to go. I love that she chose to wear a skirt to a marathon!
Taking pictures in downtown Cincy.
Posing with her friend, Olivia, in front of the MHE sign. The school ran the marathon to honor Ms. Skukan, the gym teacher who was killed over Christmas break.
Taking pictures with the MHE team. Some 250 kids from the school participated in the Flying Pig.
With Ms. Lyons, her 1st Grade Teacher.
With Rob. Miciah's wearing the medal she got from the race. She was so excited that the medal is "real" (meaning, it's medal and not just play plastic).
Run, Miciah, run!!Elijah
Elijah was playing on the computer last week. It was a game he's played a hundred times. Elijah is quite good at anything that resembles a video game, which totally shoots our "screen time" numbers when we fill out that question at the doctor's office. When they ask "How much screen time does your child get a week?" I try to roughly estimate and then I add in the margin, "Too much." Anyways, she was playing a computer game when all of the sudden he said, "This game will only work if I speak Spanish." I looked at him with a puzzled look on my face. We don't have games that are THAT advanced. And it wasn't even like it was a Dora game that incorporated Spanish. It was just a normal, lame, English game.
I told him the game didn't really require him to speak Spanish. He looked at me like I was being terribly silly. I shrugged and walked away. From the other room I heard him shouting his "Spanish" words: "Olag!" and "Santos!" I just giggled.
Teancom
The boys have both been a little nuts, since their schedules were so interrupted. Teancom has been a little clingy, and on top of that he's been acting up a little. This is unusual for him, but it hasn't been out of control, so that's good. He has informed me several times yesterday and today that he doesn't love me. Not only does Teancom not love me, the only one who loves me at all is Cleo, our cat.
Teancom is pretty fickle with his love. He'll walk into the room at random, after telling me for the last hour that he doesn't love me, and say, "I love you now." How does one keep track of such a swiftly-moving on-again-off-again relationship?
Life
That's life here. During this whole affair with Miciah, people have taken care of us better than we deserve, and we're very grateful. It's humbling to so quickly be at the mercy of everyone's kindness and service. Reminds me of a quote from a genius Sunday School teacher from a few years back: "We all live on the milk of human kindness." There are lots of times when I feel like I'm living fine all on my own, thank you. And it is a source of some pride that Rob and I try very hard to take care of our own needs, and mostly we succeed. It's just every now and then that we really need other people. And it really does remind me that no matter how hard you try, no matter how well you're prepared, there will be times when you need others. And it lets me know that we're not alone.
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