The new baby: March 2008 Archives

Sorry I haven't had a chance before now to update you on how Noah's surgery went!

Everything went great, and he's home and doing fabulously well. They found some other things while they were poking around in there, so he had more things taken from his little belly than we expected, but it all turned out OK.

I'll give you the full story in the next day or so.

In the meantime, make an extra effort to hug and kiss your kids today. I just spent four days on a hospital ward with kids between the ages of 3 and 6 who have cancer, and it made me appreciate how lucky I am to have healthy kids.

Here's a new round of pictures from my niece-in-law Gina, who -- bless her -- stayed with us during her spring break from college.

Thanks again, Gina, for staying, and for the pictures!

Awwww, look at that face!

There's that smile!

Here's Sam, being a good big sister. I can't believe she still likes him.

Check out Daddy and Noah -- they have the exact same expression, don't they? (And please ignore the toilet paper sitting on my kitchen table behind them ...)

And this, folks, is my Crazy Samantha in her natural state ...

USA Today had a great article about the reality of "Momnesia." Click here to read the story.

YAY! It's so nice to know that my memory lapses are not because I'm getting older, which is totally what I attributed it to.

Of course, I don't think I can blame it all on Momnesia. Yesterday, I lost two pieces of paper for almost 20 minutes -- and of course I found them on my desk, in a spot where I had looked at least five times. *sigh*

Got a great momnesia story to share?

So I woke up with the flu Wednesday morning.

Fever. Aches all over. Sweating, followed by chills. Stomach cramps. It was oh so pleasant.

And I had to take Mr. Noah to an appointment with a pediatric surgeon. I found out about the appointment sort of by accident -- I got a letter in the mail reminding me of an appointment I never made and didn't know my doctor had made -- but after talking it through with Noah's pediatrician, I understood why we needed to go.

Noah has a cyst attached to his intestines. They first saw it during my 20-week ultrasound, and at that point the conjectures about what it was ran wild. Follow-up ultrasounds determined that it wasn't growing and that it wasn't an extra bladder (which was the first guess), so we settled into the let's-wait-and-check-this-thing-out-better-once-he's-born philosophy.