In which we discuss matters of the family.
From Judah’s aunt:
I spoke to my mom today and she had encouraging news. She had walked into his room and saw that his eyes were wide open. She said “Hi, it’s Grandma!” and he smiled at her. She thought that maybe she imagined it, but [Judah’s father] saw it too. She was so excited. He had another MRI and it showed that he doesn’t have as much swelling in his brain.
My friend’s nephew is in a coma. He’s 6 years old.
He fell a few days ago and hit his head. The initial CAT scan showed that there wasn’t much damage. The results were comforting. When the doctors opened his head to release some of the fluid, though, they found that things were worse than the scan had suggested.
He’s being transfered early next week to a children’s hospital in a larger city. Please pray for him, for his doctors and for his family.
Poppy is a bit, shall we say, attached to her “shows.” It’s not unusual for her to ask for “Sesame” or “Easter Beagle” or “Baby Kitty” before she even gets out of bed. I thought I could use this to my advantage in the Battle to Get Poppy to Eat Something Nutritious. So I laid down the gauntlet: “No more shows until you take one bite of fruit.”
That was last Thursday.
The first few days when she asked to watch something I had to remind her, “No fruit, no show.” She responded with fits for about two days, then with “No show.”
While this hasn’t worked exactly as I’d hoped it would, the “no fruit, no show” approach has worked for me. I’d been wanted to cut back on the amount of TV the kids watched, and sticking to the promise/threat I made last week has definitely done that. The television has been on in her presence — it was US Open week, after all — but Poppy hasn’t seen any of her programming in nearly a week. And she’s fine with it. I asked her this morning if she’d like to watch “Sesame Street.” I was prepared to say, “OK then, let’s take a bite of banana!” But it didn’t come to that. She said, “No shows,” and then she went off to play in her room.
That works for me.
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