sick days

Thank goodness, Flynn's LaoLao is here, because less than 24 hours after she got her, my somewhat latent giardia really kicked in hard, and I have been inhabiting the 8th circle of Dante's inferno ever since. No good to anyone, really. It's miserable being sick during these early days when our daughter is just getting to know us...I know that I am not presenting her with "the real me"...heck, I don't even feel human! So it's frustrating. But LaoLao has been picking up the slack while I've been flat on my back.

Here's a gratuitous picture of QiuQiu in the squash patch, wearing her I Heart New York t-shirt.

This was just before I got really, really sick. We took Flynn to her first consultation with the head plastic surgeon from the Rose cleft team. She had to spend wa-a-a-y too long in a tiny doctor's office, and since she is just learning to state her preferences , she made no bones about the fact that she was bored silly.

An old standby: the mirror. The girl enjoys nothing much more than looking at her own face, be it on a camera, a computer or in a mirror. She's smitten with herself! Hey, at least she has a good self-image right out of the gate!