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3/4/2010 8:59:11 PM   First of all, thank you very much to all of you out there who have asked about our March of Dimes campaign for this year. I sincerely apologize for not being more forthcoming about that but we were really kind of on the fence about what we were going to do. Turns out that the walks in both St. Louis and in Edwardsville are on the same day as the regional tennis tourney that James's boys will be playing in here in town. So he wouldn't be able to go. I tried to get used to the idea of doing it without him but then I quickly realized that my heart didn't feel totally in it since we don't have any ties to the local chapters. We're not doing it this year and I don't think that we're probably going to do it in the future as our official family tradition of honoring Ronan Woods and James Thomas. We may do the walk again in future years and we wholeheartedly support the efforts of the March of Dimes and we encourage all of our friends and family to contribute to those efforts. It really does sadden me to not be participating but the truth is that I want to participate in Austin and that's not at all feasible right now. Our new family tradition, starting this year, is our local Arbor Day celebration. (Ironically, it's also on the same day -April 24- as the tennis tourney but at least it's less than a mile away so James will surely be able to swing a brief attendance.) When we were still in Austin, we planted a tree each year on the boys' birthday weekend. Our yard here is considerably smaller and planting more trees right now would clutter up the landscaping. As it turns out, we can purchase memorial trees to be dedicated and planted at the Arbor Day celebration each year. The coolest part is that they can be planted in the park we can practically see from our yard. The park where we take the boys. Pretty cool. So I think we've found a way to honor Victor & Erick's brothers while teaching them about giving to their community. I just like the thought of them playing there in the park amongst their brothers' trees as they grow up. I'm actually hoping that we can get the boys to the park this weekend because it sounds like we will finally have warm enough weather for it (barely). Victor has gotten to play outside at school for the past few days but I know he'll still be ecstatic to go to the park. I'm pretty sure Erick might be ready to try out swinging now too. Here he is recently in Victor's therapy swing in the basement: He did some swinging today too, at his first Play Pals meeting of the session: Sadly, he spent most of the 45 minutes looking kind of like this: Baby boy was tired this morning! He must have been awake earlier than I realized or something because usually 9:00 is a really perky time for him. He made the most of it though: And then he crashed hard once we were home again: The thumb sucking is getting more and more prevalent, clearly.

3/2/2010 10:22:13 AM   Erick and I are missing music class at the moment. He's healthy and happy as can be but I just couldn't even try to take him today. I seem to have food poisoning or a gastro virus. Horrible stabbing cramps last night followed by 4 hours of vomiting. Still not keeping much down so I don't really have the energy or strength to haul Erick around today, sadly. He seems perturbed. Meanwhile, Victor still hasn't gotten rid of his yucky nighttime cough so I took him to the doctor yesterday while he was off school for Pulaski Day. She thinks it's a sinus infection again since the cough has gone on so long so he's on Amoxicillin. Naturally I didn't hear him cough at all last night but I may have just been too focused on my own pain and discomfort. He doesn't mind taking the medicine though and he's fairly chipper (albeit pretty subdued). The good news was that he's up to 39 pounds now! He's been gaining so slowly for the last year but that's a few pounds in just a few months. I'm not really sure why it happened but we'll take it. Time to try to get Erick to nap so that I can nap too. It's been a lousy few nights sleep-wise, mainly because we have been trying to get Victor to stay in his own room until at least 5:00 again. We caved in a lot when he was really feeling sick and now it's very hard to break the cycle. He's getting pretty crafty about trying to sneak into our bed quietly.

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