Jason's Blog

It is with a heavy heart that we share the news of Niña's passing. After a long life of nearly 16 years, of which she spent the last 8 with us, we had to put her down on Thursday morning. She had been in decline for nearly a year, when she first developed some GI problems. About a month ago, she mostly stopped eating, but did not appear to be in pain and continued to interact with us normally. My hope was that nature would take its course, and we could avoid having to make a difficult decision. However, on Wednesday night, she woke us up in the middle of the night howling.

I've been meaning to post an update on Penelope's communication skills for a few weeks, but life keeps getting in the way. Anyway, here we go. Penelope has really started learning words quickly now. We can judge how interested she is in something by how fast she learns the word for it. For example, she learned the word "swing" within a day or two of us putting up the swing, to the point where we would have to use code if we wanted to talk about it without her demanding to go on the swing.

So, we've been using Amazon to get lots of baby supplies, mostly diapers and baby wipes. Today, we were supposed to get a case of baby wipes, which is good because we only have a few wipes left. When we got home, we saw that our front doormat was leaning up against the door, usually a sign that the UPS driver is "hiding" a package behind it. (Why they seem to think that this hides anything is beyond me. Our favorite was when we received a fairly large box and the driver just put the doormat on top of box.) We get to the front door, look behind the mat, and no box.

A few days ago I told you all about Penelope's cold and how we thought she got it from Katie. Well, our not so scientific new analysis is that she got it from day care, because Penelope has now given it to us! So, yes, within less than a week of starting day care, the whole family is sick. That was fast. Katie started feeling sick on Saturday, and was pretty miserable all of today (Sunday). I started feeling sick when I woke up this morning, and I'm hoping not to feel like Katie does tomorrow. Tonight we had matzo ball soup to help with the recovery process.