What did we do this weekend? Took the kids to the pool. Went to a Chinese wedding reception. (Yeah for mayonnaise walnut shrimp!) Spent the night in Denver. (The Westin is excellent.) Painted the house. (Most of it any way.) Had dinner at Frank’s parents. Went out with friends. Volunteered at the Boulder Bolder. Can […]
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Common wisdom says that successful blogs are niche blogs. Actually Ben Casnocha puts it well when he says blogs are either niche blogs or personality blogs and each blog post gets evaluated by: a) Does the post cover one of my preferred topics?b) Is the post from someone I like and want to stay connected
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We’re home and Caleb is doing well! His crib mattress is at a 45 degree angle and he has his own humidifier.
We’re two hours into the four hour test – can Caleb maintain his oxygen levels without supplemental oxygen? If he can, we’ll be going home in two hours! Yeah!
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We had kind of a rough night. Caleb was doing good on 1/4 L at midnight so they decided to slowly turn down the oxygen overnight. (They were trying to get us home today!) Only they didn’t tell me. So in the wee hours of the morning I couldn’t figure out why his oxygen levels
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10:21pm. We are back down to 1/2 liter of oxygen and looking good! Caleb spent the last couple of hours eating a ton (well, compared to the last couple of days anyway) and playing and talking.
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They got his oxygen down to 1/4 liter this afternoon. (They turned it down little by little and then waited to see if his numbers held steady.) But we had to turn it back up to a 3/4 liter this evening because his heart rate jumped back up to the 200s and his oxygen went
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Caleb is doing much better today. He slept all night, ate 5 ounces in one sitting and woke up "talking" like he normally does. His heart rate has also come down a lot. We even got a couple of smiles out of him today. (He’s been playing and interactive most of the time but no
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In case you are wondering where we are – Frank and I are camped out with Caleb in a hospital room this weekend. Caleb has Respiratory Syncytial Virus, RSV for short since I haven’t even figured out how to pronounce it yet. For most of us this would be just a common cold but for
Here’s a great post on why physical punishment often doesn’t have the desired effect. Some Reasons: Ten Reasons Not to Hit Your Kids. I think it applies to all punishment, not just spanking. Some I definitely agree with: 1. If you hit your kid, they are likely to hit others, because hitting must be ok.
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