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E has strep again, precisely one week after finishing his antibiotics for his last round of strep. They've given him harder-core antibiotics and tested me for strep as well. So, I spent Sunday and Monday dealing with a feverish, sick, cranky kid, instead of doing fun things. Ah well. At least there were snuggles.
(Side note: the Mercy Express Care on Route 1 in Yarmouth is terrific and I highly recommend them.)
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Because E has strep again, he was unable to go to Sarah's today, which made him very, very sad.
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On Saturday night, Josh was doing bedtime stories and E chose The Giving Tree sort of randomly off the shelf. Mistake. After the tree got cut down into a stump he started to cry. "Is it going to grow back?" he asked. No. "Why doesn't it grow back?" Many, many tears here. He refused to let his father read any further, and made up his own, happier ending for the story.
Then, he looked at his father and said "Tomorrow, can we sell that book to somebody else?"
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Yesterday, while we were fighting the fever and waiting for his pede office to call us back he watched an episode of Blue's Clues called 'Blue's First Holiday', which is basically Blue's origin story, told through home movies. He loves this episode so much that we watched it over and over and over again (it's 22 minutes long, so at three times an hour I suspect we watched it more than 20 times). He loves it, but I find it disturbing, since it clearly shows that these two infants are being raised by a sentient salt and pepper shaker in what appears to be a foster home full of babies (and one school-age child (Steve) who does many of the chores around the house).
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I never made E a proper baby book and he's started to agitate for one. I have plenty of material, but it's not the traditional "here's your ultrasound photo" "here's your ankle bracelet from the hospital" stuff that the fill-in-the-blank baby books provide space for.
It's easy enough for me to make one, but I have to choose a path. Can you help me decide?
Scrapbook style:
Pros: I can do it in short bursts, uses actual photos, can incorporate other items
Cons: I'm very intimidated by the whole scrapbook industry; I'm not very comfortable with the page layout process in scrapbooking; my handwriting sucks.
Digital memory book style:
Pros: I'm very comfortable with the process of layout and design; we can make multiple copies; it would look terrific.
Cons: Cost; we wouldn't be able to have any finished product in our hands until all the pages were done.
Thoughts?
(Side note: the Mercy Express Care on Route 1 in Yarmouth is terrific and I highly recommend them.)
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Because E has strep again, he was unable to go to Sarah's today, which made him very, very sad.
---
On Saturday night, Josh was doing bedtime stories and E chose The Giving Tree sort of randomly off the shelf. Mistake. After the tree got cut down into a stump he started to cry. "Is it going to grow back?" he asked. No. "Why doesn't it grow back?" Many, many tears here. He refused to let his father read any further, and made up his own, happier ending for the story.
Then, he looked at his father and said "Tomorrow, can we sell that book to somebody else?"
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Yesterday, while we were fighting the fever and waiting for his pede office to call us back he watched an episode of Blue's Clues called 'Blue's First Holiday', which is basically Blue's origin story, told through home movies. He loves this episode so much that we watched it over and over and over again (it's 22 minutes long, so at three times an hour I suspect we watched it more than 20 times). He loves it, but I find it disturbing, since it clearly shows that these two infants are being raised by a sentient salt and pepper shaker in what appears to be a foster home full of babies (and one school-age child (Steve) who does many of the chores around the house).
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I never made E a proper baby book and he's started to agitate for one. I have plenty of material, but it's not the traditional "here's your ultrasound photo" "here's your ankle bracelet from the hospital" stuff that the fill-in-the-blank baby books provide space for.
It's easy enough for me to make one, but I have to choose a path. Can you help me decide?
Scrapbook style:
Pros: I can do it in short bursts, uses actual photos, can incorporate other items
Cons: I'm very intimidated by the whole scrapbook industry; I'm not very comfortable with the page layout process in scrapbooking; my handwriting sucks.
Digital memory book style:
Pros: I'm very comfortable with the process of layout and design; we can make multiple copies; it would look terrific.
Cons: Cost; we wouldn't be able to have any finished product in our hands until all the pages were done.
Thoughts?
