2004-03-16 - 10:39 a.m.

I'm back at work today after my 3-day weekend. Nicolas is back to his normal self, or so he seemed this morning. He spent most of the day yesterday running a 101/102 fever, but he didn't want to take anything for it so I didn't force the issue. His fever had been 103/104 the previous 2 days, so this was a break for him. These high fevers are the norm for him, so I no longer worry too much about them as long he's doing well otherwise. He had his difficult moments yesterday, but for the most part things went well with both kids.

I rescheduled my ultrasound appointment from today to Thursday. Last night I reminded Frank about it and he acted shocked that I wanted him there. Actually, he told me that I told him I did NOT want him there, which is something I NEVER said. I did tell him last week, when I was making the appointment, that I had to schedule another ultrasound but he didn't have to be there but he told me he WANTED to be there and I was happy about that. Now last night he gets the idea that I didn't want him to go? What? Plus, today is his first "official" day in his new office and I know he didn't want to have to leave, so I rescheduled for him as well as for myself. I also had a meeting today that I didn't want to miss, since I have barely seen my boss in the last 2 weeks. So, it all works out the best and I actually got through the first time today and got it all rescheduled without any problems.

Frank talked to his sister for a while last night as they are planning a dinner out this weekend for his mom's birthday. This will be a non-kid event, so now I have to find someone to watch the kids for a few hours Saturday evening. I am thinking of asking my daycare provider's daughter first, but if that doesn't work then we'll try my parents instead. We usually use Frank's family as our babysitter, so now we need to find someone else since they will be out with us. If we don't find anyone, I think I'll just tell Frank to go and I'll stay home with the kids. I'm not going to go through a lot of trouble to find someone.

In other news at home, Nicolas is once again waking up about every hour at night for various reasons and it's really starting to wear on both Frank and myself again. I could understand it when he was sick, but now it seems to be continuing and that's just getting out of control. He usually requests us to come and help him with his blankets, to get some water (even though he has a full cup of water on his headboard, where he can reach, at all times) or just other various stall tactics to get us in his room. I sure hope he does better tonight, but I'm not getting my hopes up completely yet. I just never imagined I'd be getting up so often with a FOUR YEAR OLD child. Perhaps he'll finally be sleeping through the night by the time his baby brother arrives.

Oh, and speaking of that, we also learned yesterday some more news about my sister-in-law and the baby that they lost in January. They had genetic testing done on the baby and learned first that it was a boy, and of course that news just crushed them. They spoke about how cool it would have been to have 2 boy cousins so close in age that they could play together. They also learned that the testing didn't come up with anything unusual for them to not continue on with the process of IVF, so they will start their new cycle of in-vitro fertilization and have another implantation in early April. So, keeping our fingers crossed that this one will be successful and they'll have a December or January baby to celebrate.

So I guess it's back to work for me now. The next few weekends for us are just so busy so this is about the only time I have to update here.