We had an exciting beginning to the week with Ani. Sunday morning as we were getting ready to make some pancakes, and as I picked her up, I noticed she was breathing very quickly. She was using some of her neck muscles to help her breathe, which is a sign she is having some respiratory difficulty. Being in a large daycare, they've both had a cold pretty much since September, but this is the first time she has had an issue like that. So we called Baba to come watch Gav, and we brought her to the ED. She was a real trooper - that kid never complains. So we got in quickly and she got a nebulizer treatment and quickly improved. A little lower airway inflammation, but not asthma (as of now...). Again, she's much better now. And finally back to daycare. Between fevers, hand-foot-and-mouth viruses, and the breathing problem, it had been a couple of weeks.
Ani is still working on talking. Last night she said "turkey" which could have been in reference to either dinner or her brother, but we are still working on a number of concepts. Anything that is on the wall is "daddy". She sees a picture of someone : "daddy". The clock on the wall: "daddy". There's not much point to trying to correct her. If you tell her "no, that's a clock", she'll look at you, and with the confidence of a young toddler, she'll re-assert "Daddy!". She is firm in her convictions. She holds her own against Gavin as well. It is good to know that she will stand up for herself. I suppose you have to as a younger, smaller sibling. If Gav has his way, Ani would be in a box under the sink, occasionally taken out and played with, but for the most part out of the way.
I try to go cross country skiing at least once a week, and Gavin has taken to coming with me. Not that he's skiing - he gets pulled along behind me in a snow tube. It's a nice workout. But yesterday Ryan was watching snowboard cross, and Gav watched it for a few minutes before stating that "I don't need to be pulled in the sled anymore. From now on, I'm going to do that." Um, if you say so, buddy. This is a child who likes to place a pillow at the bottom of his slide. I don't really picture him doing snowboard cross. Ever. But the next sentence out of his mouth was "and Mommy and Daddy will hold my and when I go over the big bumps." Ah, that's better.
Last night the kids were playing in the kitchen utensil drawer (distraction while we prepare dinner), and Gav found the turkey buster. Which also functions as a brain sucker. By the way, the proper technique to suction a brain using a turkey baster is through tmouth. Re-insertion of said brain is best done through the ear. See visual demonstration below:
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