Well it's been about a week since I last updated my blog and I don't have much to do at work at the moment so what better thing to do but to write some stuff on this lovely baby journal of mine.
The Fasu has been kind of ok in the past few days. Yesterday she had a pretty high fever but she slept through the night and this morning was ok. I took her to school and they haven't called me to pick her up yet so maybe it was a one-night virus or something.
Today I am supposed to give her a flu shot. Well, not me but the nurse at the doctor's office. I am not looking forward to that. The first time she got her shots was pretty traumatic for me and then I waited a whole month for my mom to come from overseas because I didn't want to go through it again alone.
I wish they could give babies shots with medicine.
The Fasu is still not standing on her own. I think when it comes to motor skills she is not one of the advanced kids. But it's ok. She is getting on her knees a lot and tries to pull up but she is still uncertain in her abilities. She is becoming a very fast crawler though which makes me happy because I can tell crawling is fun for her.
The fasu is not very wild but she is very curious. She would take an object and explore it by looking at it intensely and rattle it. It's so cute to watch.
She did learn how to say Almo, banana, mama and dada....About the last two I am not sure if she really knows what that means.
Speaking of bananas. she is a little monkey, she gets really excited when I show her one and she can pretty much eat a whole banana in less than 5 minutes. She also goes around the house mumbling "nana," "nana."

Happy Turkey Day

It's so nice to write in the blog when everyone is asleep. The Fasu has been napping for three hours now and dad crashed on the TV after another episode of This Old House or The Simpsons.
Well today is thanksgiving but it is also Ms. Fasu's day of TV debut. Yes, today I took her to work with me since there was no daycare and she was on TV throughout my entire one hour show. It just melted my heard to see her on the big screen. So beautiful in her pink dress. My assistant held her and then she played with my female talent too. It was too cute for words. Everyone commented how good she was considering the fact I was backstange and she was surrounded by strangers. I brought all her toys, well, lots of her toys to the studio so she and the other kids could play and she seemed to have a blast. My little star.
After the show we went to visit our friends, the Rainbow Family, who just had their second daughter Layne Ann. She is still in the intensive care nursery because she was born at 35 weeks but she is doing good and God willing, they will all be home soon. They are one of our dearest friends and I love them very much. They basically kept me from dying (emotionally) when the fasu was little and I didn't know what to do with the little screaming creature I brought into my house.
As I prayed on my last posting, The Fasu, praise God, is completely healed. Quin's mom, you are right! there is nothing worse than a barfing baby. Well maybe a barfing and constantly pooping baby....it was hell and hopefully we won't have to experience anything remotely like that in the next decade. Amen!!!!
Today we're going to some friends for Turkey dinner. I hope I won't feel too sick. I am kinda sick and tired of being sick and tired....dad and fasu are sure to have a blast...it's eating galore!!!
Happy Thanksgiving dear friends...I am very thankful to have you in my life and in the life of my family. You teach me tons.

From bad to worse

I haven't been writing much because I was kinda of feeling under the weather. And me feeling bad has made it very difficult to do things I used to enjoy like hanging out with the Fasu or even do the things I didn't like so much like cleaning house.
Of course I am full of self pitty and I want everything to be behind me.
And just when I thought things could not suck further, they did. Big time.
The Fasu apparently caught the Rhoda Virus, which is, I think, a stomach virus that causes you the throw up, have diarreah and feel shitty all over. Pardon my french. And the fasu does. It's been going on since Monday. Thank God my sister was here all week so she stayed with her but on Friday she flew to Texas for work so dad and I stayed with her in shifts. It got so bad that last night, after the little food she ate flew out of her mouth twice, I took her to the hospital. There they took some blood and hooked her to an IV. Afterword she slept through the night which was nice for me (she has been waking up a ton and crying a lot), but today she is really feeling bad. She barely eats. and she throws up and still has diarreah. It's not the happy baby that I know and love. She is so week and cuddly because she feels so bad. She sleeps a lot but when she wakes up nothing seems to make her feel better.
Dad made her some chicken soup today which she is yet to puke. I hope it will sooth her tummy. It sucks so bad to see your kid sick. It's just very very hard and with me feeling under the weather (which, believe me, is an understatement), things just blow all over.
I do hope she feels better by Thursday which is Thanksgiving. My show is all about families and I wanted her to make her TV debut. I alreay planned how I'd dress her and all but now I fear nothing will be executed. Bummer.
I also thinks she has lost a bunch of weight because she is much more lighter it seems. My baby is usually a terrific eater and would want to eat anything that is on your plate, even if she just had her meal, but now nothing seems good to her. Except maybe, dad's chicken soup.
I hope my next entry will be on a more positive note.