Daisy's quotes of the morning

1. This was in response to my telling her that I am visiting an all-girls kindegarten this morning as one potential school for her.

Daisy (nonjudgmentally): Does that mean no one will be pretending to shoot each other with guns?

She then proudly told her preschool teacher, when I was dropping her off, that she would be attending this (elite, hard-to-get-into, seemingly out of our reach) school next year. Sigh.

2. Daisy asked me what electricity was. Following my rather jumbled answer, she said: "Mama, I don't think I need 'lectricity. I need bones."

3. As we were approaching the school we were passed by a very cute little boy who is also in Daisy's room and his mother. Daisy told me, "[This boy] is my friend and also Gigi's." She then added in a loud stage whisper, as though this were top-secret information, "DO YOU KNOW WHY GIGI LIKES HIM SO MUCH? BECAUSE HE IS VERY SILLY."

Goblin Jamboree

Never was there a day to be so disappointed at not having a camera! What made it worse was that I did bring my camera, only to discover it was out of batteries. GRRRR. So my verbal report will have to suffice. Took Daisy and Henry to the Discovery Museum for the Halloween Goblin Jamboree and it was the most fun day ever. The preliminary count is:

--4 train rides
--1 pony ride
--1 round at the petting zoo
--2 trips to witch school, three magic potions concocted
--3 visits to the jumpy house
--1 pumpkin ride
--facepainting, games, prizes, popcorn, one attempt at the Haunted House (but Daisy was too afraid to go in), brief sightings of cousins James, Anya, and Kiki... and I am sure I am forgetting something. We were there for four and a half hours and I am quite sure these kids could have closed down the place if I hadn't had to go.

The only bummer is that I seem to be sicker than ever this evening. It has been two weeks. Some days I think I am getting better, and then I have another night where I can't breathe and my throat swells shut. At the moment I am almost laryngitic, and the pain is awful in my throat and sinuses. Last night I got a terrible stomachache in the middle of the night which I think had to be caused by drinking too much cough medicine with codeine. I drank a glass of milk, and the pain went away, although not immediately.

It was worth it, though. Such a delightful day, and such sweet little friends! I really wish I had pictures.

October 12 is reading day!

I am posting this so I won't forget: Daisy's preschool teacher, Giuliana, told us to mark the date of Oct. 12 as the date Daisy is officially reading! Apparently she has been reading a little book they have at school for this purpose. I have noticed some reading at home, too; Daisy can read most of a book we have called Big and Little. But I am happy to call it as Oct. 12, since that is the day the teachers pegged it. Daisy is four years and almost three months. My mother tells me I was reading well before that, at three and a half, but I am proud of my girl for getting there at four!

I have been feeling pretty wretched lately. I got sick over a week ago, on Monday of last week, and forced myself to continue through my week, attending my job and my classes, my trainings and my supervisions. Then I thought I was getting better toward the end of last week, but suddenly I felt worse than ever. My throat and lymph nodes are super swollen and painful. I went to the doctor this morning and she ran a strep test, the results of which I get tomorrow. It was hard forcing myself to cancel my day and just stay home, despite the fact that the doctor told me I wouldn't get better if I keep going like this. I hated having to cancel my appointments with clients at the clinic, and I am worried that this will somehow give leverage to my group supervisor, who doesn't like me and has been giving me a bad time at group supervision each week. I really hate potentially giving her anything to pick on me about, and I had to miss her training today plus cancel my clinic clients.

This has been a terribly hard time.