Happy Sabbath,

It is Friday night and we finally have both tired girls in bed.  It has been a long week.  This week Chantel seems to be sick with some unidentifiable bug.  She had a fever on Tuesday afternoon of 102 degrees F.  I gave her Tylenol that evening and it broke, but when she woke up at 4:30 in the morning it was back again.  That fever was gone by mid morning and she hasn’t had one since but I can tell that she still isn’t feeling good.  Last night during supper she threw-up everything that was in her little tummy.  And this afternoon when we were shopping she sat in her car seat dazed and the sales clerk asked if she was always this mellow or if she wasn’t felling well.  On top of that she has a huge infected sore on her bottom and red bumps all over her body which I am hoping is just heat rash.  That was the healthy kid. 

Sharmi has had a high and low week.  The first day after her chemos her skin was very yellow and she had black circles around her eyes.  This evening she was holding her head and complaining of a headache, which is not a common complaint from her at all.  And several times this week she has asked to take a nap.  The poor girl.  When she feels awful her attitude is worse, (like everyone) and my biggest struggle is how to discipline bad behavior with such a sick girl.  She is learning that hard way that life is not fair!  But good news, “egg noddles always makes thing better.”  :)

Other than the sickness I am really enjoying the girls stages right now.  Chantel is cruising around furniture, holding onto walls, and she took her first step between things last night.  She went from holding onto the chair to letting go and stepping over to my knee.  Sharmi’s brillance of the week was this morning, we were doing a sound puzzle of the United States.  She is better than me at knowing where they go, but she only knows about 4 states.  She knows, we live in Washington, Guyah (her former nanny) lives in Michigan, the Bahamas is in the water below Florida, and she says, “California is my favorite.”  However what surprised me today is when we began putting the pieces in she said, “Alaka capital Juneau.”  I don’t even think she knows what a capital is, but she memorized, “Alaska capital Juneau.”  I told her that capitals are the cities in each state that make the rules, like mommy and daddy do.  I am trying to teach her that everyone has rules they have to obey.

Well, I should get to bed because I never know who is going to wake up, for what and for how long.

Goodnight,

Cheris