Schlepped it through the wetlands and UW sports facilities that separate us from President Barack Obama to see him this am at UW. Geoffrey and I left the house without breakfast or coffee, or hats or gloves to join ten of thousands of other Washington State residents to have the chance of a glimpse and listen to him, there were few (literally few) others on our walk down there and we sort of stupidly thought it would be the two of us, plus the "few" other retired folks that walked with us. But no, this guy commands a crowd!
I didn't realize the facility would be so actually small and intimate and we were very close to him and it was wild. He is small in real life, very slim. And he seems as he does on TV, a sort normal, funny, approachable guy that has 2 young kids and a nice wife but unlike us, he has a drive, an eloquence, a presence, a passion, an intelligence but mostly a vision of what a great nation this is and could be.
It was cold and windy waiting and I was without food and coffee and pretty cranky and mostly wanted to leave and go home and fire up my latte maker and have a piece of toast, but we didn't - WHEN else do you get the chance to schlep it through the wetlands and UW sports facilities to see the one of the most iconic president this country has had.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
we've managed to have some fun
even with high fevers and ear infections, mommy broke down and bought huxley a cozy coupe and just as i expected, he shit himself with excitement - i even had to attempt putting it together with him in it (which eventually posed to be a challenge)...
Monday, October 18, 2010
i remember a night 2 years ago to the day
when we struggled and faltered and had a terrible time, everything crashing into one another and both geoffrey and i feeling at the very end of our rope. funny lux hasn't been rushed off to the ER for a Lux-induced fever of 105.5-106 SINCe two years ago today.
while this trip seemed such a breeze, the fevers make us sick with worries but slowly we learn, the fever is the good part, its what accompanies the fevers that cause worry - and Lux fevers come with hyper energy, followed by a big crash, lots of TV and a craft or two thrown in for good measure.
2 years - it was amnio (not that it was unexpected, an amnio that is, given my age) but the news that I needed one that things didn't look good, after 16 weeks of struggling through what was and will very likely be the hardest 16 weeks of my life, crawling on my hands and knees so sick with my pregnancy with Huxley to learn that possibly the pregnancy wasn't right and baby wasn't healthy. dragged ourselves to an amnio appt, came home with the most terrible cold of my LIFE, to a sick kid, who got such a bad fever in the night, we rushed her to the ER, maybe 10 hours after an amnio and be ordered into bed. home from the ER to her vomitting everywhere, me to sick from pregnancy and a cold to move, Geoffrey to shaken and rawed, rushing around to help her, help me.
it was a tough day, a tough few days, the sort of tough that you'll always remember.
today seemed so easy - yes both my kids are a wreck sick, i am too, not a wreck sick, but sick. but they have colds - and huxley turned out fine and lux hasn't had a fever of 105.5 for a year and half (besides today), thats damn good.
what else happened that day two years ago - i had a mother's hunch my baby was fine, and although i was determined not to know the sex, it dawned on me through the process of the amnio that of course i was having a boy, i wanted a girl, i wanted lux to have a sister, but the whole process told me boy, and shortly after i picked the name Huxley and kept the name to myself until the right moment to share with Geoffrey a month before Huxley was born.
so thats my story, today two years later. i hope this crude passes soon.
while this trip seemed such a breeze, the fevers make us sick with worries but slowly we learn, the fever is the good part, its what accompanies the fevers that cause worry - and Lux fevers come with hyper energy, followed by a big crash, lots of TV and a craft or two thrown in for good measure.
2 years - it was amnio (not that it was unexpected, an amnio that is, given my age) but the news that I needed one that things didn't look good, after 16 weeks of struggling through what was and will very likely be the hardest 16 weeks of my life, crawling on my hands and knees so sick with my pregnancy with Huxley to learn that possibly the pregnancy wasn't right and baby wasn't healthy. dragged ourselves to an amnio appt, came home with the most terrible cold of my LIFE, to a sick kid, who got such a bad fever in the night, we rushed her to the ER, maybe 10 hours after an amnio and be ordered into bed. home from the ER to her vomitting everywhere, me to sick from pregnancy and a cold to move, Geoffrey to shaken and rawed, rushing around to help her, help me.
it was a tough day, a tough few days, the sort of tough that you'll always remember.
today seemed so easy - yes both my kids are a wreck sick, i am too, not a wreck sick, but sick. but they have colds - and huxley turned out fine and lux hasn't had a fever of 105.5 for a year and half (besides today), thats damn good.
what else happened that day two years ago - i had a mother's hunch my baby was fine, and although i was determined not to know the sex, it dawned on me through the process of the amnio that of course i was having a boy, i wanted a girl, i wanted lux to have a sister, but the whole process told me boy, and shortly after i picked the name Huxley and kept the name to myself until the right moment to share with Geoffrey a month before Huxley was born.
so thats my story, today two years later. i hope this crude passes soon.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
I should have known this would bring him lots of amusement
we pulled out of storage lux's baby swing - (will post pictures of her in it later), for our nanny's little one. what i should have known was how much enjoyment huxley would get crawling in and out of it and making it swing at a fever pitch (not caught by this grainy, shitty video from my iphone). but here you go - our daredevil, who gets more enjoyment from all of lux's hand me down toys in a day than i think she ever got out of them!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpHek5ji6_U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpHek5ji6_U
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