H is for Here Comes the Sun!

Happy Valentines Day!

Holy Crap! I'ts been a month-and-a-half since I've updated this blog. It's been an eventful couple of months. Let's just say I've been in a fog and the blog has not been very high on the priority list. My apologies to any one who has been checking this since Christmas....

December and January are completely foggy for me, as I have been dealing with some extremely painful pinched nerves in my neck due to buldging disks. I've been on vicodin, percoset, and prednisone. Needless to say, that's where the fog comes in. I also received two rounds of cortisone shots into the swollen nerves in my neck. So my entire body has been a mess since the beginning of December. Finally this week I'm at a place where I don't have to take much in the way of pain medication. And my poor immune system is still reeling and trying recover (after several colds and sinus infections).

We spent New Year's Eve with Vera's Mom in Novato. Zoe and Vera slept in Vera's old room, and I had to sleep upright on a chair in the living room. (It's only been since late January that I've been able to sleep lying down consistently.) It was a lovely evening, good food, good company. With my family so far away, I'm so grateful that we have Vera's Mom so close by.

In Mid-January, we went to Tahoe with our "Mom's Group". We had 8 moms and 4 toddlers in a rented home in the snow. It was great fun. I have lots of photos and videos to edit from that trip. I hope to post them in the near future. While there, Zoe turned 18 months old, she hit the 1 1/2 year mark. Amazing... time sure does fly.

It's worked out that at least one of us has been sick consistently for the past 2 months - aside from my whole neck pain stuff... Vera had the flu just this past weekend and has been crazy busy with her new job.

And Zoe, well she simply continues to amaze us. Her vocabulary grows and grows. She has started to learn letters of the alphabet. "H" is one that she really likes to say. She also knows, A, B, F, I, H and P. One thing that she started to do around Christmas/New Years is call me "Mommy" and Vera "Mama" which is a thrill! We both have our own name! She also knows to call Vera's mom "Nana". She calls my Dad "Papa" for Grandpa and for my Mom, Grandma comes out kinda like Mama or Nana.

She loves to run now too! She dances when Signing Time is playing. She loves to stomp. Whe she dances she seems to keep the beat. It's incredibly adorable. She's simply just a whole lot of fun right now. I'm just bummed that I have not been myself physically, as I can't always get down on the floor and play with her or pick her up easily.

Day care is going well--she naps really well there. But she has been sick quite a bit since she started there. Hand-foot-mouth, colds, coughs, now an ear infection. We feel like we live at our Pediatricians office. At one point, mid January, she was coughing and wheezing so hard that her pediatrician told us that if it got much worse she may have to be hospitalized. Fortunately, the prednisone she took both orally and inhaled by nebulizer helped reduce the inflammation in her lungs, avoiding the hospital. Whew! She remains on a nebulizer treatment once a day and will do so until the end of cold/flu season this year. As soon as she got better from that, she got an ear infection. So it's just been on thing after another,as I mentioned, with one of the three of us being sick consecutively pretty much since early December.

The weather has been feeling like spring is on it's way... The sun has been out and the rain has stopped. All of us are hopefully on the mend. My neck is doing much better. We all seem to be moving toward recovering from what ails us. -Knock on wood- So, H is for "Here Comes the Sun!"

I hope to add some back dated posts with Christmas, Tahoe trip and other fun things, likie Zoe eating broccoli and stomping in the rain in her new rain boots soon. I'll do my best to make it before the end of the month.

Till then... Here Comes the Sun. Doot-n-doo-doo, here comes the sun. And I say: It's alright!