After being sick for a little over three weeks, and having a week of health, our little Sophia is sick again. She is coughing, her nose is a faucet, and all she wants to do is watch ‘La-La’ (Cinderella). We are being rather diligent in washing our hands, and changing our clothing or covering them up before we handle Ellie. So far, so good.
Anywho, congratulations to Daniel and Marcia! We will see you at 2pm.
Ellie is sleeping through the night!!!!!!!! Well this post is three weeks overdue because that is when she started. She also, for the first time last night, rolled over from her belly to her back. For those of you without children this is an exciting thing. To see a once useless little creature do such simple things for the first time is exciting. It is especially exciting for us as Ellie has an arachnoid cyst on her brain and we were told this may cause her to have some physical developmental delays. So far Ellie has been more advanced than Sophia and she was born three weeks earlier!
As for Sophia, she too is doing well. She enlivens the Hensley household with much chatter, singing, and dancing. Much of her chatter has become communicable. She is speaking well over seventy words, which our pediatrician has informed us is about the vocabulary of a two year old. The other morning she rolled out of bed and said, “Pancake. Pancake, please?” Our frustrations no longer come from the department of communication, but more from that of excessive curiosity. Imagine that, a curious toddler!
| I thought this was interesting because it was mostly right. Especially about learning best with visual aids and demonstrations. And I love to create things. Your Dominant Intelligence is Spatial Intelligence |
 You’ve got a good sense of space and how the world around you looks.You can close your eyes and “see” images. You have innate artistic talent.An eye for color and shapes, you’re also a natural designer. Since you think in pictures, visual aids and demonstartions help you learn best. You would make a good navigator, sculptor, visual artist, inventor, architect, interior designer, or engineer. |
So it has been a while. It may be hard to understand for one without two small children, a husband and a house to take care of that time is hard to find to do such things as write a frequent blog entry. Yesterday I spent 14 hours trying to get the laundry done, taking intermittent brakes to feed children, wash dishes, grocery shop, make dinner, and clean house.
Why, you may be wondering, would one want to spend such a long time doing laundry? If you have that much laundry why not just do a load a day? Well because if I do it that way I feel like the laundry is never ending. If I do it my way I don’t have to think about it for six more days, and that my friends is worth the 14 hour marathon. For those of you without children who are wondering how such little creatures could create the mountains that they do when their clothing is so little the answer is ‘I don’t know’. It seems like for every dirty piece of laundry you put in the hamper two more appear (except for socks, for every two of these you put in the hamper only one seems to make it into the drawer). My good friend Liz had a great idea and took all her laundry to a laundromat and got all her washing, drying and folding done in three hours. This is quite a feat considering she has all boys in her house. Contrary to popular belief boys create more laundry than girls. At least the adult variety. Yup, that’s right. Think about it. Their clothes are bigger and they always wear an undershirt.
Anywho, I am still exhausted from yesterday so I must go and crawl into bed.
