I have been terrible with the blog. Sorry about that. Here are some updates.
Coral
Coral finished up her first year of preschool. She had a week (or was it two?) and has started a two week summer session. There are a handful of kids in her new class that were in her old one but it’s mostly new kids. I asked her the other day how her new friends were and she said, “they’re not my friends yet - I’m not used to them.”
The outdoor pool opened and she’s really enjoying that. At Aunt Carole’s house she cruises around the entire pool on her noodle. At the pool by our house she has discovered that she can touch the bottom in the shallow end (she must be a foot taller than she was last summer!). She tried on her snorkel gear the other day and like it - but she has to get more used to it before I think she could really snorkel. Her swimming is coming along. I suspect that by the end of summer she’ll be swimming like a fish.
Recently (today) Coral joined the world of Twitter. She has noticed me tweeting before so I asked her if she wanted to try it. I told her how you could use Twitter to tell people what you’re doing during the day. When I asked her if she wanted to try it her response (I didn’t make this up) was, “No. I don’t understand it.” I think that’s what I said the first time someone told me about Twitter! I’m not sure I get it now either.
Coral still really loves her sister. She’s not too rough with her. If we take Pearl away Coral usually responds, “don’t take her, she’s MINE!”
Pearl
Pearl is 7 months old now! A couple of weeks ago she got her first tooth and now has two cute little bottom teeth. She’s still a smiling machine. She loves to spit and blow raspberries a lot. Her hair is getting longer and it’s still red. She is super chubby. She can’t sit up or roll over yet but she holds herself up well on her tummy and she really likes to stand if you hold her hands. She sits/stands in the exersaucer and really seems to enjoy it. She’s still sleeping in our bed but is a good sleeper and hardly ever cries.
She’s scheduled to have surgery in a couple of weeks to correct her strabismus. It’s supposed to be a pretty routine procedure so we’re trying to not worry about it too much - but of course we’re a little worried. If it’s successful it will be nice to have her eyes lined up.
I’m sure there are many details I’m forgetting - but that’s all I have right now.
For those of you who look at my little Twitter feed on the side of the blog I just wanted to follow up on my mention of a pediatric ENT - I don’t want anyone to worry!
Pearl has unilateral choanal atresia - which basically just means that she was born with one nostril that is basically closed. This isn’t a big deal, her other nostril is fine and allows her to breath without any trouble. However, for a few different reasons, we’re thinking of having them do a procedure to open up the closed nostril. This requires a CT scan so the doctor can see exactly what he’s up against. We went in for the CT scan this morning but the order from the doctor wasn’t specific enough for the technician - it didn’t say exactly what she was supposed to do the CT scan of. It was fairly dumb because the order did say “choanal atresia” and that is a condition of the nose - hence the CT scan should be of the nose.
It probably wasn’t the tech’s fault but she couldn’t do anything until someone (she claimed it had to be the doctor who ordered the CT) told her what exactly to do CT of. This was 8:15am so our doctor wasn’t readily available. Being in a hospital full of doctors apparently didn’t help either. However, when the radiologist finally got there he apparently said something to the effect of, “duh, we should do a CT scan of her nose.”
So, it all worked out fine. Pearl was such a great kid that they didn’t have to conk her out - she stayed still for the quick scan. It will be a couple of weeks before we know the results of the scan and make a decision about her nose.
Here are some photos for you. Last Saturday we went into the city for the Cherry Blossom Parade. The weather was great and we had a good time. Coral really likes parades.
Then on Sunday we went to the circus. I thought this version of the circus wasn’t as good as the last one we saw. It had a fairly weak story line (I suggest no story line) and a very weak finale. I think a good circus is like a good fireworks show - you have no doubt when it is over. But Coral seemed to enjoy the circus so that’s what really matters.
I’ve thrown in some other random photos. Coral got hold of the camera for a while and snapped a few shots - not half bad!
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