Sweet Yet Sour

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Here is a review of the exciting and not-so exciting things going on here at the House of Munhall.

1. We took Anna to the pediatric opthalmalogist on Wednesday to see if she has a lazy right eye.  After an hour and a half long appointment and three sets of eye drops to dialate her eyes, we were told she does not have a lazy eye.  It’s apparently a “pseudo” lazy eye, but they want us to have her checked again in 6 months anyway.  Here’s the weird part though – we saw a Dr. Steele, a nice, but not terribly friendly, woman who looked like she was about 8 months pregnant.  When we were walking out with our paperwork I did a double take when I realized that the doctor’s name was Anna and her middle initial was L, just like our Anna.

2. Mike gave Anna her first cold and me my second cold in two weeks.  It’s lovely when we can all share these things as a family.  Anna was pretty congested, but with lots of baths, the humidifier cranked up and the elevation of her crib mattress we kept it to a minimum. She seems to be pretty much over it by now.  Just so you know, if your baby sneezes out a lot of snot, you need to be very quick with the Kleenex.  I learned this the hard way after watching Anna sneeze once; I guess the sweet little thing thought  “Oh, what’s that on my lip? I should taste that and see.” and before I knew it, it was gone….

3. I went to see my eye doctor today about some redness in my left eye.  Turns out I have lots of sun damage from when I was a child and one area of damage is irritated.  No more contacts for a while for me and lots of eye drops.  The doctor said, “I bet you spent a lot of time outside when you were a kid.”  I did actually; I rarely came inside for anything.  Once, my mother put me down for a nap right before some of her friends were due to come over for tea.  They were just beginning their tour of the backyard when they found me halfway out my window on my way out to play.  Oops!

4. On Saturday we went up to Laura and Nate’s for a lunchtime visit.  The drive up to their house was so green we thought we were lost; we’re pretty used to it being snow covered.  Cash came along too and as usual, Duke spent the entire time showing Cash how much Duke loves him. We got to taste some of Nate’s latest brewing adventures, some grilled meat and veggies and yummy peach pie.  Nate is making some great alcohol, including a lovely apple cider and a peach beer. Do these count as fruit servings?  I hope so, because I had two!  Mike and I each had second helpings of the peach pie that Laura made – so that in the end, there was no more pie when we left. Oh, and I helped to finish both the vanilla and the butter pecan ice cream.  See how helpful I am?

5. Because the DNC is in town, Mike’s office decided that everyone could work from home this week. The DNC doesn’t really affect Mike, except that some of the train stations closest to his office are closed, but it’s nice to have him home. Anna and I do pretty good at pretending that he’s at work – but not always.  Sometimes, Anna says, “Hey, I want to show Daddy how good I am at drooling today.” and really who can say “no” to her cute self?