Since I don’t have much material right now, I’ll just give a short roundup of how things are going here.
Charles is doing better about sleeping in his bed. It’s been over a week now and he’s only resisted once and that was because Mom hadn’t read to him yet. Charles was very slow getting up this morning but he was laying awake on and off in his bed and didn’t run over to ours. I even pulled him out at one point to get him to wake up and he went back to his bed. It’s looking like we’ve finally worked this one through.
Alice seems to be sleeping a bit better, although every second or third night she decides to stay for hours and gets very cranky if she’s lain down. If Mom gets desperate than Dad takes Alice down to sleep on the couch. Dad can actually sleep there and prop up Alice in such a way that she’s not horizontal. That seems to be the key when she’s in one of her moods.
Alice’s coloring seems noticeably better to me. She seems much less ruddy, which probably means that her bilirubin problems are behind her now.
Some long time friends of ours, Fred and Jennifer, came over for a visit. They live in California but were out visiting family. They brought their son Sean (2 years old) along. They all liked the basement, which is nearly as big as their entire house. As we showed them around the house, Corwin immediately ran off to get his pinewood derby trophy. Fred acted suitably impressed which made Corwin’s evening.
As part of the visit I got out the big glow sticks. These were a hit, as always. Corwin and Charles popped outside for a bit to sword fight with them but it was windy and chilly so they didn’t last long. Charles made Corwin switch at least twice, even though the sticks were identical. Corwin is saving his in the refigerator (the sticks glow well a second day if they’re keep frozen) but Charles left his behind the TV, where it wasn’t found till the morning. Sadly, there’s no point in saving just one because Charles will need a new one and it seems unfair to in effect punish Corwin for having the foresight to save his. But it also seems wrong to not save Corwin’s. Ah, the moral dilemmas in raising children.