Hello out there
Oh dear, I have really been neglecting you. My excuse - Amelia has been ill yet again (twice) and she passed both bugs on to me, which means I haven't been able to do much for two weeks. The last one was quite a nasty stomach bug. We've taken Amelia to the doctor's office so often in the past month I almost feel like we live there. Usually they can't help much, but we still like to take her just in case.
She's most likely picking the bugs up at daycare, so we kept her home this week. I'm getting quite depressed about it. If she gets ill again, I don't know what we'll do. We may even have to take her out of daycare entirely.
Apart from that, not much has been happening. We went round for drinks tonight to the house of a couple who also have a child in daycare at the Family Centre. They are both either lecturers or professors at the university, and had invited some of their work colleagues and some of the other parents. Needless to say, at times the conversation was a little bit more - I don't know how to put this - intellectual than we're used to. I don't mean that they were pretentious or that our usual conversations are stupid, just that people who work in universities tend to discuss things that the rest of us would not usually talk about. The couple who invited us are really lovely people, though - she's French and he's Irish, and they live in a beautiful semi-detached house with a long, walled garden.
Amelia has discovered how to fit puzzle pieces together, and she has also worked out how to put the stickers in her sticker books in their proper places. She's doesn't always get them right, but I was quite taken aback when she suddenly started doing some of them. I didn't expect her to be able to do that for a while yet. And she's been having great fun with playdoh, and also drawing pictures with her markers. (Or as she calls them, "colours.") She likes to draw round and round and round until the end result looks like something you would draw with that old toy - what was it called - spirograph?
She is currently a big fan of her doll Mei Mei and has to take her everywhere she goes. She often tries to feed her things, and Ian said last night when he was sitting beside Amelia's bed reading her a book, she leaned over and said "sshh" and poined to Mei Mei, who apparently was trying to sleep. If we go somewhere without Mei Mei, every once in a while Amelia will look around and say plaintively, "Mei Mei?"
The weather was so nice while I was sick, and now that I am better it has turned to fog and rain. What I think of as a Sherlock Holmes sort of day.
All for now.