November 24, 2009
Linlee likes to pretend to drive the car every time we get home from an outing. She’s a bit obsessive about it. As we were driving home last night after dance & dinner, Linlee kept reminding me, “Yinyee drive blue car when we go home.” I kept responding, “Yes, you can drive the car when we get home.” After about the fourth time she said it, I looked back at her and discovered that she was saying it in her sleep! She continued murmuring it about every two or three minutes as she slept. I totally had the giggles. When we got home, she woke up enough to climb into the front seat and put her hands on the steering wheel. Then she mumbled, “I go play inside,” tipped over and was out cold. Too funny!
We never actually put this one Christmas decoration away last year. Linlee likes to watch the trains go around every once in a while.
November 22, 2009
We were given the light of our lives.
We are thankful that she is ours to love every single day.
Beautiful Linlee today.
November 21, 2009
Sorry for the poor quality of this image. The picture is scanned and we have a terrible scanner. (The chair is actually a dark, green velvet, not black.) We made a quick trip to the mall today because I decided that I needed a pretty mold for the cranberry salad next week. Santa had already arrived and there was no line. We were lucky, too, because it took quite a bit of coaxing to get Linlee to sit on Santa’s lap. He was so sweet and patient and read her a story. The shots they took of Linlee looking up were not great because she was not smiling and looked like she was going to bolt at any second. We chose the shot of Santa reading to Linlee because that seemed like this year’s memory to cherish. (By the way, this is the teeny-tiny Santa at our mall. I don’t know if he is five feet standing, but I love him!)
November 20, 2009
My delightful daughter has returned to me. Linlee looks like such a flower, but she can be a real stinker when she wants to be. Today she has been adorable and we’ve enjoyed a really nice day together. I spent Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday running errands in the pouring down rain (and when one is sick, that’s just about the worst). It was a relief to stay home with Linlee today and go nowhere. I’m actually feeling better (so is Rob) and managed to make a few candles as well. This is more like it. Let’s get November back on track.
Here is a picture of my sweet daughter about to strangle a snowman:
*** Shortly after I put up this post on how delightful Linlee has been today, she was sitting next to me and suddenly turned to me and said, “Mommy, go play.” I’m so sure!
November 18, 2009
(You know, I have some of her hair pulled back and it’s still in her face!)
November 17, 2009
Today was tiring. Even though Rob and I are both sick with miserable colds, we still had to spend the day trying to get fingerprinted for the next adoption. It was crazy complicated. In fact, it was so complicated that I’m certain our agency is making it harder than it has to be. I came away from the experience thinking that stupid people would never be able to complete an adoption; it’s much too difficult. (I’m sorry if that is offensive to stupid people, but I doubt any are reading my blog.) Tonight we are so tired. Today would have been challenging even if we were feeling good – and we weren’t. However, the fingerprinting is done and on its way to the FBI along with a money order from the bank, a notarized release of info for our adoption agency and a prepaid FedEx bill. Hopefully that means we are one step closer to baby #2.
Linlee has recovered from being sick. She was impossible the last two days for fun, I think. She truly did seem to be making trouble so that she had something to complain about. We dropped her off at preschool today (she hasn’t been for over a week) and she did great. Thank goodness! Now Rob and I just need to conquer these colds so that we are ready for Thanksgiving (next week? really?).
“Who me? Cause trouble? I’m too cute!”
November 15, 2009
Linlee is definitely on the mend. Her symptoms have all but disappeared. She did, however, wake up in the foulest of moods this morning and I finally had to put her in time-out because she was purposely trying to cause trouble so that she had a reason to fuss. After the fourth or fifth time, I’d had enough. She has mellowed this afternoon, thankfully, but mommy & daughter are both still on a short fuse. I managed to stay well all the way until today. I knew I was probably on borrowed time when Linlee became sick. Rob is sick now too. Oh well, whaddiya gonna do?
Linlee, how about a picture?
Ha ha, very funny!
Trying on daddy’s glasses.
November 13, 2009
Linlee woke up from her nap feeling much better. For the first time all week she dumped her toys all over the floor to play with them all. She’s done some chatting and singing as well. I’m feeling relieved this evening.
November 13, 2009
Last night was dismal. Linlee’s fever returned higher than before and I freaked out (because I’d read that when their fever goes away for a few days and comes back, that’s a bad sign), so we took her to the walk-in clinic at 7:30 last night. She was one sick little girl. They did a chest X-ray and the doctor said that Linlee had the “budding” of viral pneumonia. Not what we wanted to hear. He gave us an antibiotic to prevent anything bacterial from developing, but once again, getting medicine into Linlee nearly impossible. We did our best squirting the stuff down her throat, but she made herself throw it back up. I feel defeated on that front. The doctor suggested I put some Cortaid on Linlee’s upper lip which is chapped raw, but the moment I did, she frantically rubbed it all off with a blanket, making it worse. Again, defeated. I have a sick child who will not let me help her get well. I feel so helpless. I kept checking on her last night to make sure she wasn’t burning up or breathing too fast, etc. By mid-morning this morning, she actually seemed to turn a corner, although she is still pretty sick. Her fever is gone. She was well enough to take a bath (so I could wash all the Tylenol syrup from the last four days out of her hair) and she wanted to make scrambled eggs. She even looked at some books and sang a song. Right now she is taking a nap. I’m so hoping that she is getting better. I feel sick with worry.
My poor little girl.
November 12, 2009
Hey, at least she is sitting up in this picture! Poor baby lies on the couch barely watching her videos and then shuffles to the kitchen table where she nibbles at some food and then shuffles back to the couch to lie down some more. Her flu seems more like a nasty cold at this point. She’s got the faucet nose going, watery eyes, cough (still dry), sore throat, but no fever. Whatever it is, she still feels miserable. Why isn’t there a magic pill for this sort of thing?
The timing of Linlee’s illness has been particularly frustrating because Rob and I were supposed to be fingerprinted for adoption #2 this week. We rescheduled twice, but now it will have to be next week, assuming Linlee is well. It almost feels like there is a conspiracy against us on moving forward with this adoption, but we’re not giving up. On the brighter side, it’s been an extremely easy week for me. While I feel awful for my baby, I haven’t had to spend my days in the car driving her to & from school and to & from all her therapies or running errands. I’ve had to remain at home and it’s been a nice break. Rob actually stayed home yesterday so that I could leave the house to get us stocked back up with groceries. Now I’m housebound again until Saturday. Hopefully Linlee will feel better very soon.
