Intussusception

Friends

A lot has happened since last time. Lots of developments and activities, and it's just been too busy around here to sit down and write about all of them.

So we had our first trip to the ER on Rachel's behalf. The weekend of October 21, she was showing signs of stomache pain, and combined with vomiting and blood in her diaper, it was time to visit the friendly pediatricians. It didn't take them long to diagnose her with intussusception, which I'd never heard of before. The long version is under that link, the short version is that the intestine folds in on itself, cutting off all digestion and bloodflow. Luckily, the folks over at the new children's hospital were able to resolve it without surgery, and she's been as right as rain since then.

Grandpa and Farmor were visiting here for the last 10 days or so, which is always a nice treat. We had planned an excursion down to Santa Fe and Taos which looked for a while like it might be cancelled by the trip to the hospital or the snowstorm we had the day of departure, but it all worked out well. The kids were superstars on the longish car ride.

Santa Fe - well - you have to really love art galleries to get the most out of that place, but we stayed in a nice B&B, and it was relaxing.

Daniel is really taken by the Pixar movie "Cars" right now, and can portray all the characters. His favorites are naturally enough "lightening McQueen" and "Tow Mater", but he does a hillarious rendition of being a tractor, from the "tractor tipping" scene.

The wooden blocks came off the tricycle pedals - Daniel's finally tall enough that he doesn't need them.

Some milestone dates are already upon us as I write this, so I'll stop this update and move to the next one.

Love -> R.E.D.A