Today:

Boy-o’s cardiologist conferences with the pediatric cardiology team in Iowa City to discuss whether his current symptoms warrant (another) heart catheterization. He continues the antibiotics for his ear infection and nebulizer for bronchiolitis.

Queenie had blood tests and x-rays. Her leg and hip are not broken. It may be a muscle pull. If it’s not better in two days we test for leukemia. In the meantime she lays on the couch demanding snacks. She continues her antibiotics for her ear infection.

Bon Bon is a cheery delight… as he continues his antibiotics for his ear infection.

The Producer has been diagnosed with a sinus infection.  He picks up his antibiotics this afternoon.

I’m fine, thanks.

FREEBIE OF THE DAY: They say smiling is good for you…think it’ll keep me safe?

Best $9.99 ever.

FREEBIE OF THE DAY: Need a little Discipline?

FREEBIE OF THE DAY: Timely! 

FREEBIE OF THE DAY: Un cafe!

Where to start?  It’s amazing how you can be so busy and still get so little done.  I’ve managed to do nothing of note other than become completely and irretrievably addicted to Ravelry, much to the detriment of the housework and probably those two kids.  Wait, two? That doesn’t sound right… let me move this yarn…

Somehow I have also managed to catch every available virus this winter.  It’s probably licking all those library books and sitting directly on the toilet seat at Walmart, but who knows, really?  Right now I’ve got a new one brewing, right in the lungs and throat.  Poor Queenie shares my pain, and at the tender age of 6 got her very first taste of puking at school.  Luckily she missed the lunch lady and just gave the office floor a good coating.  Who serves mozzarella sticks for lunch anyway?

So in the meantime, when I’m not hooking , I’m thinking about hooking.  Also, Jonathan Coulton’s Brains.

FREEBIE OF THE DAY:  The medulla oblongata is just so darn sticky.

FREEBIE OF THE DAY:    While I do not need this, being able to use it would be heavenly!.

We’re up to four.

FREE SAMPLE:  Clean ‘em if you got ‘em!

So our little Bon Bon is not so little these days.  He is now 9 months old, highly mobile, and has developed quite the personality.   He is affable, good-natured, impatient, curious, chewy, giggly, loyal, devoted, chatty, and most of all, dramatic.  Such high drama from a little baby boy.  No small thoughts or emotions here, we’re livin’ large.

Although fully mobile, he moves by a quick snaky army crawl, keeping his belly down and swimming across the hardwood floors. He does get up on his hands and knees a few times a day, and makes quite a show of it, yelling and shrieking so that everyone sees.  But 90% of the time, his elbows get him where he wants to go.  Except when they don’t.  Sometimes, life is just too too exciting. And when life is too exciting, he forgets his snaky skills, and ends up pushing himself backwards, away from his goal.  As you can imagine, this is…erm… frustrating for the lil guy, and accompanied by some tears.  And the saddest thing - he will look you in the eyes, tears falling from his eyes, mouth contorted with knowledge of his own impotence, and put his face straight to the floor, arms splayed out around his head.  Life is just. too. much. some days.

And at these moments, it is really hard for a mommy who spends too much time cooped up with small kids, to stifle her own giggles.  Mean? Maybe. But it is just too too.

Boy-o is also developing into his own little man.  We were so worried when  he didn’t talk at 1… or 2… Well, apparently he just didn’t have anything to say.  He has since burst out in full sentences, knows most of his basic colors (yellow and orange can still be a challenge), knows a few letters and numbers, and astounds me daily by using words I had no idea he knew.   He’ll be 2 1/2 in March.

Of course, with this guy, the drama is guaranteed.  Especially if you miss Dora.  Or suggest a haircut.

FREEBIE OF THE DAY: What’s a show without a snack? And this one says it’s good for your heart - a cause that is close to mine.

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Here at the moogly house, things are finally starting to drift back toward normal.  We are all on pink antibiotics of one kind or another - the kids all got ear infections, and The Producer and I managed to share a bacterial lung infection.  We do so love making out while ill, what’s a girl to do?

So as part of getting better, Queenie has returned to her usual self.  Which includes a new-found fascination with lying.  She loves to lie.  The funny thing is, she’s really bad at it.  If she ever plays poker she’ll loose the farm.  “No, I didn’t rip up that Airborne sample and sprinkle it all over the counter,” is delivered in wide-eyed innocence, but quickly followed by averted eyes, and a hand over a mouth that can’t help but grin from ear to ear.

Sadly, this love of lying is combined with a great new destructive impulse.  Giving her ample opportunity to try out the lying.  Yesterday it was the 3 strikes rule: she was caught in 3 lies, and that was it - sent to her room for the rest of the day.

She retaliated by sending out written missives via her messenger boy (aka Boy-o).  Flowery love notes with hearts and promises of devotion and future efforts to do the right thing.

Why were they signed with a sly little smile?

FREEBIE OF THE DAY:  I cannot tell a lie - these educational bookmarks of historical figures are free!

Felled by the flu.  If this doesn’t kill me, the endless children’s television will have driven me insane.

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