Hello Again

It's been a while, but I have a good excuse. I was in Central Illinois from Thursday-Sunday at a Reagan centennial conference at his alma matter, Eureka College. They paid for everything and the conference will appear on C-Span at some point. Today our contractor showed up to fix our basement, which was a pleasant surprise!

Anna was home with Anders for those days. He now tries to comb his hair. She got him to take four steps at a variety of times. He started Kinder Music again for another semester. Anders caught another cold last week, which he promptly gave to me. Anders was able to sleep with the workers drilling into concrete downstairs, yet he still can't stand the sound of the vacuum.

Anders says a bunch of words. He loves to say "no" to things now. He can now get up on his toy train all by himself!

Anders has become quite obstinate. Anna spent most of her snow day on Thursday trying to get Anders to sleep in his crib and eat, neither of which he wished to do.

I can't really remember much more now since Anna spent most of the past few days with him, plus I'm getting sick. Anders is fortunately feeling much better. His appetite has mostly returned. We fled to Chipotle for lunch to get away from the dust and noise.

We should have a much improved basement, Anders will be better, and I might not get any sick, all by tomorrow. Plus, Anna will go to work tomorrow for the first time in a week owing to snow days and one sick day to take care of Anders.

I'll try to write more specifically about discrete episodes later.