9.28.2004
Happy Birthday, Emma Kate! You are such a sweet girl and have made me a very happy Mama. I love you!
9.22.2004
Argh. I feel like such a moron. I was supposed to tape tonight's season premiere of Smallville so Chris and I could watch it together, but I dropped the ball. I didn't watch it, either. Anyone out there catch it on tape and care to help us out? We could work out a deal...
9.14.2004
9.13.2004
Some pictures of Emma Kate's eye. It actually looks more scabbed-over now - these were taken not long after we got home from the hospital.
What a weekend. If someone else told this story I would probably think they were making at least some of it up. How often do you get rearended, have your child fall into a dog crate and get a cut on her eyebrow that results in a trip to the ER, and find your dog having a seizure all on the same weekend?
To make a long story short, we are all fine. There was no damage to the car; it was more of a bump, really. The only thing we are trying to determine is whether or not we need to replace the car seat. We seem to have landed smack in the middle of a grey area on that one.
I never in a million years thought of the dog crates as something that could cause a cut, but Emma Kate fell face first into the corner of Hannah's crate and got a gash at the bottom of her right eyebrow. Needless to say, I was terrified, and she wasn't too happy either. After getting the bleeding stopped and talking to my mom and a nurse, it was decided that I should take her to the pediatric ER (thank goodness for that - the regular ER on a Saturday night in Raleigh is not somewhere I'd want to be). Fortunately, after somewhat of a long wait, the docs said it would heal on its own and we escaped what would have been a horrible experience of getting stitches. EK is fine, Mama is still feeling guilty, but upon closer inspection, it appears most of the cut is in her eyebrow, so visible scarring should be minimal.
Just when I was starting to feel a bit better about things, we came home from running errands yesterday and caught Hannah at the beginning of a seizure. She had seizures about 2 years ago but we thought they hadn't happened since. After yesterday, we realized that she's probably had about 3 others this spring and summer. We were told 2 years ago that they wouldn't put her on medication until the seizures were more frequent than once a month, so there isn't really anything we can do. She recovered from it quickly and seemed fine this morning.
I'm hoping for a very boring day today.
9.10.2004
I've done it. I've become one of those people who listens to classical music on the radio in the car. I recognize things on the playlist. I enjoy the music, and it's largely due to this station: WCPE. I have tried off and on to like classical music on the radio, but I just couldn't do it. When I was pregnant I found that music with vocals/lyrics was sometimes too much for my jangled nerves. I guess that was when it started, but in the last few months I have really started tuning in to the music instead of just letting it be pleasant background noise. I'm kind of proud of myself.
