Seen at Dewey's Treehouse . . .
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Miss M is recovering nicely, it's just like they said - "By tomorrow morning, you won't even know she ever had anesthesia." Except she woke up with a nasty cough.
I, on the other hand, am taking longer to recover. I totally understand now how tempting it is to spoil a child with health problems. Even though she's fine and back to her normal dancing, accompanied with her very loud, "da da dah DA DAHH da da!" I still find myself thinking about her coming out of the anesthesia, and fighting the urge to baby her and spoil her. If I'd had the means, I probably would have bought her a ton of candy, more stuffed animals, a dollhouse and her own cell phone by now. And she probably has no memory of the whole thing - the "giggle juice" they gave her is supposed to have an amnesia effect.
This morning she asked me how eyelashes get on your eyes and I told her "they just grow there." She had a banana for breakfast and saw those stringy things that bananas get and was pulling them off, and she asked "how did these get here?" I said, "they just grew there." So she asked, "Are they eyelashes?"
This was posted to the Ambleside Online email list. If you click on MamaLion's blog, there's a way to help this family replace some of their lost homeschool materials.
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Last Saturday the house [that an AO family] was renting burned
down and they lost most of their possessions. They have six children
ages 12-4. A few special heirloom dishes were retreived from the
kitchen today, but everything else is gone. Thankfully, everyone made
it out safely. In order to save me the time of typing the whole story
out here, I will direct you to my blog:
http://shadybrookacres.blogspot.com/ to read about it.
Please pray for the family as they recover from the trauma and start
over without their precious keepsakes and favorite things.
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You can read the rest on MamaLion's Shadybrookacres blog.
Miss M had a cavity in one of her front teeth (the eye tooth, I think) and we ended up having her put to sleep to have it filled. A little worrying, since you never know for sure how a person will react to anesthesia. There's always a small risk of complications.
She did fine, thanks to some prayers from friends. When she went in, they had her get up on the bed and put on the hospital gown. She was very chatty and friendly and cooperative. She drank the "giggle juice" very willingly, but then got upset because it made her tongue feel funny. She kept trying to spit it out, but it was too late; she'd already swallowed it. When it took effect, she got giggly and happy. She gushed about how much she loved the wall, and the opposite wall, too. She was floppy and rolling around on the bed, so I carried her to the room where they were going to do the anesthesia and dental work. I was afraid she'd fall off the bed! She was one wild, happy girl!
After the dental work, she woke up fretful and crying, but she was allowed to nurse right away and that put her right to sleep. The orderly who was keeping an eye on the recovering patients went on and on about how well-behaved she was (he wouldn't have thought so if she hadn't been allowed to nurse!) He said you could always tell which kids had never been reigned in because they had a hard time with rules like keeping the IV in, or staying in the recovery room for one hour - he said they always "freak out." The little girl recovering in the area next to us was upset, I felt bad for her, and there was nothing her mother could do for her except to say, 'I'm sorry you feel bad , honey, I wish I could take it for you, but I can't.' I was really glad I had nursing as a comforting tool because nothing else would have helped.
Miss M started getting upset when her hour was up - she felt sick and cranky. I asked her if she'd like to go home and she shook her head, then I asked if she'd like to go home and watch Dumbo, and she immediately perked up, opened her eyes wide, nodded "yes," and demanded that I put her shoes on so we could go. And it brought to mind another benefit of not watching much TV. Miss M watches only ballet videos or Mister Rogers (and Lassie sometimes), she's only seen Dumbo three times in her life (but she doesn't remember the first time). So, since she rarely watches cartoons, they work great as occasional babysitters. On the rare occasion when I really need her to be occupied, I can count on a movie to keep her entertained.
She slept on the way home and has been off-and-on cranky, dozing, fretful, picking at food, and (mostly) zoning out in front of Dumbo as if she's in a trance. They said it would take all day for the effects of the anesthesia to fully work its way out of her system. L just brought out his train set to set up for her, and that perked her up. Now she's giggling and helping him set the cars on the track.
Oh - a side effect of her dental appointment: last night she fell and hit her mouth on the treadmill. She's been complaining about it ever since, she said her tooth hurt, but when I looked at it and felt it, it seemed normal. But I mentioned it to the dentist before he started working so he'd know it might be sore and be careful of it. Well - he felt it, and it wiggled, and he said it was fractured and would have to come out! So she had her tooth pulled while she was under the anesthesia!
And another side effect - she's not allowed to have any hard or crunchy food today. So, on this, National Potato Chip Day, she's not allowed to have any potato chips.
Mar 14 is National Potato Chip Day.
Hat tip to TC at Fish in My Hair.
This morning, the first thing Miss M said when she woke up was, "Mommy, what room is this?" We were in the bedroom, same as we are every morning, so I said, 'The bedroom." "Oh. I thought it was a treehouse."
I have no idea what she meant by that. Maybe she'd been dreaming?
Not thirty feet from the bedroom window. I'm afraid its catch was a robin (which it flew off with a few minutes after getting its picture taken).
Taken at about 7:10 EST. The moon will leave the umbral shadow at about 8:10 and the penumbral shadow around 9:30 (02:24 UTC) (Wikipedia and NASA have more information). If you miss this one, there's going to be another August 28th.
Everyone else is marking which books they've read on the latest most popular 100 Books list. I just haven't read enough books to make that kind of project very interesting. Here's what I've been reading: Fish in my Hair. Don't miss Feb 2's entry about the romantic poems.
I've still been doing the Bar Method that I got before Christmas, but only a couple times a week. Mostly, I still use the treadmill. It's easy to do while watching a video - which, lately, has been some kind of ballet, since that's what Miss M is stuck on right now. A person can only watch so much ballet before starting to want to dance. So . . . I got two new DVD's, something fun for a change.
Ballet Boot Camp - this is like a ballet class. They do floor stretches, bends, plies, etc. for an hour, which is a really good workout. Then they go through 6 dance "phases," and, when they put all the phases together, you're actually dancing the Paquita Waltz from a real ballet! The steps aren't coming easily for me, but I know who to ask for help ("Sis!") and I figure, if I do it faithfully a few times a week, I might have it down in 6-8 months, although it won't be pretty. Did I mention that I'm not a natural dancer?
Cardio Hula - I know just enough hula not to be totally lost, I'm picking up the steps easier with this one, although I'm frustrated that my hula looks nothing like the girls on the DVD. Did I mention that I'm not a natural dancer? Still, it's fun, and it feels good to be moving for a change instead of just pacing the treadmill. This DVD combines hula steps with knee lifts and hops to get your heart rate up, so it's kind of a cross between hula and low-impact aerobics. Very fun. I think I could enjoy doing both of these for quite awhile before getting bored.
