Sunrise

Stained glass looking colors behind the trees

Happy Blurry Esme

Thoughtful? She stares at her frog on the mobile like this a lot.

Happy!

Mark's Canadian friend Meow pointed out I haven't had an Esme picture in a week or so ;) Here you go! She is very wiggly, but I managed to catch a bit of a smile!

Esme also has a lot of dry skin or cradle cap coming off of the back of her head right now. She looks like she has dandruff all of the time, poor kid! Her cold isn't getting any worse, maybe somewhat better but she is still 'snorting', especially in the mornings.

Giraffe prototype #1

Head

Legs

4 inches tall, final product to be 8-10 inches tall
Changes to be made: lengthen nose, even up leg lengths, skinny up forehead

Esme's docor appointment

Esme does have a cold, and the doctor gave me some drops for her nose and some reccommendations. The doctor's appointment didn't cost much, but her vaccines aren't covered under our insurance. I asked them how much they would cost, but they said instead I need to go down tomorrow to the health department and fill out paperwork to see if Esme can get immunized under some statewide 'vaccines for healthy futures' program. It was really strange they wouldn't tell me what the cost would be. Instead they said just go and see if she is covered by that program first. If she isn't - then they'll tell me how much they cost. The closest to a number they would give me today was 'lots.'

/hates sitting in beaureaucratic offices

No more word on my sister - except she tried to call for more money for bail that my mom didn't have. I wonder if my mom slept at all last night, she sounded so tired on the phone. Still no precise description of what Marcia did that has her in this much trouble.

Esme's Immunization Appointment

Happy New Year everyone! I hope it is a great year for all of you and for all of us as well :)

Tomorrow we go into the doctor for Esme's immunizations. It was supposed to be on Friday, but I called the doctor today and they moved it up a day. That is because Esme has what could be the beginnings of a cold. She has had junk in her nose three days in a row and been 'snorting' when she eats. I'm feeding her more often, whenever she will nurse, and that seems to be helping her a lot. If the doctor says she is well enough to get her shots they'll give them to her tomorrow after checking up on her cold. Of course I'm a paranoid first-time-mother, and it might not be as bad as it seems. I hope it isn't ;}

It snowed here a little bit yesterday and today ;) but not even enough for a snowball.

I ordered the reprint copy of the Voynich manuscript the other day from Ebay. Apparently there are a lot of people very interested in understanding what it is about... codebreakers and such. Glad to see other people see this as a valid form of entertainment as well. I've been making little books of obscure plants, animals, math formulas, mechanical diagrams and 'secret' pictographic languages since I was a kid. I was a very bored but also very imaginative little kid. In college I found a well-bound set of Leonardo's Notebooks in our college library and spent many days sitting there looking through all of his varied studies in math, science, anatomy and art. Even now, as an adult, looking through my sketchbooks would produce things quite close to Voynich, strange creatures and plants doodled on pages with phonetically encoded text of quotes I'm not sure I want other people to read... musings and poetry and the like.

What a way to start off the New Year (family)

*sigh* I don't talk about my sister much here, but she's in big trouble again... I usually feel like the big sister around her even though I'm the little sister by seven years. She is always in trouble and milks my mom for money constantly. When she lived near my mom she would leave her kids there for days on end, only picking them up when she wanted to ask for more money. She is in jail tonight and my mom is really upset. She may actually stay in jail for several years this time where before she has always gotten out with warnings and/or time served etc... *sigh again* Sadly I had to tell my mom my sister is an adult who knows she is not doing the right things when she does them and in this case mom can't really help her. In my sister's mind (my opinion) nothing is ever really 'wrong' until she gets caught and punished for it. My mom knows she can't do anything, especially halfway across the country, but still is staying up all night worrying what will happen to the kids and, in general, why my sister is the way that she is...