Taking a page out of Jack's book today, I'm quoting song lyrics as my girls wing away from me on their way to Beijing.
It's the first time we've been apart, and I'm sad. :(
So seeing as there will be a dearth of Margaret photos for a few days (they're back Wednesday), I thought I'd do as many as I could today!
Despite getting up at 5:30, Margaret seemed to be in a good mood... until we got on the airport express which is probably around when she should have gone down for her nap.
The funny thing is that she built up to full forced screaming from a sort of intermittent mumbling so that when we finally realized she was making quite a bit of noise and put the pacifier in her mouth, the silence in the train compartment was absolutely defeaning.
Some parents.
The other challenge this morning was one we've been struggling with for a couple of days - getting eye drops into an infant's eyes.
I'm not sure if any of you out there have any experience with this, but it must be something like trying to hit a jinking fighter jet armed with nothing but a rifle. You don't know where she's going next as she desperately thrashes her body side to side, upset at all attempts to hold her still while being restrained by the limitations of the weapon which is that it can only dispense a droplet of medicine straight down.
Oh, and if she sees the dropper, she clamps her eyes shut with the force of an alligators jaws.
Completely watertight.
So we're left trying to hold the dropper just out of her sight line while trying to anticipate when the almost perfect randomization algorithm in her head will cause her to turn just the right amount so that you can squeeze the bottle in time for the droplet to fall somewhere along the very small space defined by the bounds of her upper and lower eyelids (her eyelashes serve as near-perfect natural eyedrop barriers). Then, prying her eyelids apart when the golden BB hits so that some gets into her eyes.
We figure we use about three to six drops per eye just to get a little smidge into a corner.
We've already gone to the pharmacy and bought another, bigger bottle of the stuff.
Now the girls are with the girls and the boys are home alone.
Jack and I are off to live it up on this, the last day of my long weekend.
It's a beautiful day outside and we're off to the New Territories. Fun stuff.
We'll keep you posted.
2 comments:
It is VERY quiet around here! John had the day off, so we had a fun time, but we miss the girls and want them back soon!!!
John, you are so funny! You make it all so REAL! I feel guilty as I'm laughing out loud. :-) Who's going to help SAM with the eyedrops in Beijing??
Hope the days pass quickly!
XXOO
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