Poor Delaney

Today Delaney woke up 5:30am. This is not normal for her. She was all snuggly, so I set her on Dan's chest to sleep while I got a head start on my run. When she was awake, I realized she was quite toasty. Our ear thermometer is dreadfully inaccurate, and the rectal one has 2 issues- first, the ick factor, and secondly, the last time I did use it, it seemed to be under reading as well. So, I base my temperature taking on less scientific means. And by golly, my baby was hot!

On the plus side, she already had a doctor's appointment today. I had called last week for a 15 month well-baby and they slid me into today, where they'd had a cancellation. I took it, even though 2:40pm is a rotten time. Delaney did scream for most of it. She puked too. I was surprised, since she had not actually eaten anything today. It turns out she has full-on infections in both ears. Poor thing. And her temp was 102 when they took it.

I came home with ammoxacillian and motrin- neither of which have made it into her. She screamed and wiggled and spit and gagged, and when I managed to get a miniscule amount into her, she vomited pink everywhere. Soooo, fun times for us!

Thoughts on Global Warming

The whole Global Warming thing has irritated me for a while. Imagine my delight upon discovering that Normal Mormon Husband felt similarly to me! I steal from his blog what he said about it, and I add a fervent "Amen!"

you can see his original post on this date at: http://mormonhusbands.blogspot.com

Friday, October 20, 2006
The GEICO Cavemen prove that global warming is a non-issue. Let me explain. There are brilliant scientists who can convincingly prove that the planet has either been cooling since 1979 or that it will explode like an egg in a microwave by 2015 unless we all start riding bicycles (that study was sponsored by Schwinn). They are all much more informed in this area than I am, so I don't believe either side. Honestly, I hope global temperatures rise by 10 degrees. Give me 85-degrees year 'round and I’m thrilled. I don't like being cold.Now to tie this in to the GEICO Cavemen who would have suffered through an ice age that suddenly covered the entire planet. Here is a great quote from the BBC’s Science & Nature website:“This Neanderthal stood no more than 1.65m (5' 4") tall, but he had a robust and powerful build - perfect for his Ice Age environment…The popular image of the Ice Age is a period of unremitting freezing conditions. But over nearly a million years, Europe has seen huge climate swings including warm as well as cold periods. For much of the last 200,000 years, when Neanderthals were alive, the climate was mild, sometimes even warmer than today's. But they did also have to live through periods of intense cold.”
In other words, the earth has shown us over the centuries that its temperature is going to wildly fluctuate, regardless of human involvement. The polar ice caps left behind from the global ice age melted away because of natural environmental changes, not because the Cavemen were irresponsibly cooking too many wildebeest over open flames. (Though had Al Gore been alive at the time, he may have contended this was the case). I realize that that we as an industrialized world burn a lot of junk into the atmosphere, but in my very unscientific opinion it's no big deal. In a couple of years, something else will take the place of global warming as the topic du-jour. Perhaps it will be how the corn grown for our ethanol-powered cars should be given to people who are starving to death in underdeveloped nations.
I can already picture the Sweat Family Reunion in 2065 and I will bring up the, “Remember when people thought global warming was going to kill us all?” question. We will all chuckle a bit, get into our hover cars, float to our dwelling pods, watch Survivor Season 78, laugh at another GEICO Caveman commercial, and then go to bed praying that the earth doesn’t explode like an egg in the microwave before the sun comes up.

Our project

I think I am so clever. Family fun Magazine had an idea and I took it a step further. Well, we are currently in the process of taking it one step further, is what I meant to say! In light of our move, and all the upheaval it will bring for the kids, I told them that we could go to all their favorite places and take pictures. When we are gone, we can put together a book with them in all the places they use to go. Joshua loves this idea. We have been to his school, to the park, to the library, to the pool, and the camping pictures are for the book too. He made a list of all the places he needed his picture taken and we are nearly done. The kids have had a great time shouting "take my picture" while doing some interesting things. Callie has suddenly developed a permanent facial tic- as she wants to make a silly face with every shot. Delaney refuses to look at me, Marian ducks her chin down, and Joshua just has a cheesy smile. I have got to figure out how to get them to look natural!

So, back to our project. I may have mentioned before how much I LOVE blurb.com and their books. We will take the pictures and make them into a book for the kids. That way they can look back at where they use to live and see what they use to do while living here. Hopefully I can show them that they have all new places to go in their new home. For example, we will have a new library to visit, and a new school, and there will be new fun parks and a pool there too. Here are some of the shots we have- notice Callie's face!

Camping with Dad!

Dan took Joshua and Marian camping last night. The had a very good time! They roasted hot dogs over the fire, and then made s'mores. Dan said they all slept well, once he got them to stop talking. And this time they didn't get home till 8:30! I had packed them donuts for breakfast, but they ate them last night, and stopped by BK for breakfast. Anyway, these are the pictures Dan took.

Back to the Pool

Yep, we went to the pool again today. In a fit of panic, Dan realized he only has 2 weeks to get his swim up before the triathlon. So we went to the pool. The kids had such a good time. Marian is really getting brave- till you take her where she can't touch. Then she hates it. Joshua went of the diving board today! 5 times or so. I went off it as well- my first dive in like 7 years! It was fun to see the kids getting better in the pool. Joshua's arm strokes are really improving. He learned the basics last summer in a session of lessons and he loves to work on it. Marian sees what he is doing and has to do it too. Sometimes that works out nicely!
Here is Joshy, leaping off the diving board. He was so funny.

Marian cracked me up with her beautiful leaps into the water. Look at her go! She goes all the way in everything! No half-hearted stuff for her! It is all or nothing.

Callie is just a cutie. She splashed away in the kiddie area and had a blast.

Delaney just splashes, and splashes, and splashes and thinks it is so much fun. I'm just happy she's not in the bathtub getting water all over the floor.