Even more amazing is a week ago at this time she was barely walking. In day four of her bout with Norovirus which she picked up in DC as it spread through the entire Joe Dickson family starting with the birthday girl Luisa herself. It's a stomache virus and run as fast as you can the other way if it comes to your neck of the woods. I was bedridden for four days. I don't know know how parents were able to take care of themselves and their children.
Luckily Margaret, Andrew and Simon didn't get it, and neither did Jeff or Melodie. We had all been over at Joe and Leonor's for a birthday party but they must have stayed far enough away from the sick birthday girl. Jeff and Melodie filled in some details of their trip to India including watching some official walk away with their passports!
We stayed with Margaret and Andrew and got in our grandparents fixes at both houses. Andrew's enjoying his new job with FDA.
Luisa wasn't the only one with a birthday. In fact there were so many, it's hard to keep up. Daniel, then Kiernan and then Lur. Pause. Then Erin. That's a lotta cake. All these milestones are important but when you're two! Wow!
And there's another birthday next week. Enjoy the build up, David.
Big news from India. Annie got her spouse visa which means she doesn't have to leave the country every six months. It took a lot of time and paperwork but she's official.
Recovery continues out in Illinois as Andrew is now walking pain free and doesn't lose his breath. He starts pt at the end of the month. Daniel took a Chicago break for a brief visit.
In between illnesses we continued to do a little prep work on our new project next door. The weather's been nice so we had a tree guy come out and see what could be saved. There are two apple trees but he was drawn to the large ginkgo at the corner of property. Big clean up. Another builder came by and was the most optimistic about trying to restore it. Uh oh.
Almost back to normal eating. But maybe there's a message there. My eating wasn't all that normal. Pop tarts?
Love from over here!
