Another update to catch up before Matthew comes home tomorrow! They changed his schedule and he negotiated coming home two days early. Yay! It seems really quick this time, since he won't even have been gone two weeks, and last month he was gone two and a half weeks! Thomas is still talking about him excitedly, although that may be a sign of Thomas' growing memory rather than anything else. Tonight I told him that Daddy is coming back after dinner tomorrow, and he grinned happily and said, "Dada?" instead of looking down silently as if thinking, who? And then, a day or two after Matthew comes back, Mom and Dad will be coming down! They were in northwestern Indiana for a week of round dancing, and they are coming down to help Utaka move out to California, and spend some time with Thomas and us! Yay! Thomas still is excited to see movie clips of Mom and Dad on the computer, and of course he still loves to see them in Dad's journal of the New Zealand trip in 2006, so it'll be great to see his reaction when he sees them in person. It'll be a full house! So exciting!
Life with a toddler is getting more busy. I take him out in the car almost every morning now, to playdates or the supermarket or swimming or coffeehouses with play rooms just to get out of the house and expend some of his energy. I hope I'm not turning him into a "city kid," but while we're in the city, might as well make the most of it, right? Also, I found that I have to be even more vigilant than ever these days ... one day (and these things seem to happen when he's alone for only a minute) I discovered him standing on a toilet with one foot on the seat and one foot in the bowl. And then tonight as I made a second trip to the table carrying food, I discovered him standing eating two fistfuls of fish that he had reached up and grabbed off the table. Or occasionally I find him sitting behind the play yard barrier with one hand in Chloe's water dish, just quietly sitting. Or mercilessly pulling Chloe's tail (after I thought he learned not to do that!). Or standing on the seat of his high chair after I had announced that it's dinner time. Thankfully he seems to be back to his normal sleep routine, so at least I'm more rested for these jaw-dropping events!
The other day we had another blood test for Thomas, this time for anemia. Since he can't drink milk and he's not drinking a lot of the rice milk, the doctor wanted him tested, so we got tested together, me for gestational diabetes. (Result for Thomas: not anemic. Me: no news (is good news).) I was pretty nervous about sitting in the office for over an hour (for my test) with Thomas, fearing that he'd get restless, but he was great. A small supply of toys in my bag helped, too. This time after they drew his blood, little red spots appeared on his hand, upper arm and under the bandage. The tech said that it looked like he might be allergic to latex, and I should get him tested for it. And it turns out that it's a blood test! Ha ha! This after seemingly-endless minutes of wrapping my arms and legs around him, trying to hold him still, trying to soothe his screams and tears, while one tech dug around forever with the needle trying to find a vein and another tech holding down the upper part of his arm! Oh, the irony of life sometimes!
Also, we welcome Ben, Sarah and Ellis to the "neighborhood!" We're very excited you're going to be in the same city! Hopefully we'll actually see you sometimes!
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