Wow it's been busy, and there's been sickness around. I got the cold from hell and was out for about 3 weeks - I was already sick when I did the last blog. It was a weird one - really bad sore throat and breathlessness, but otherwise fine. Just endless coughing, especially at night - leading Lucas to observe "mummy noisy". Then he had a sickness bug last week - threw up all over the bed one night, and then again and again until I ran out of bedding and we had to sleep under towels. He was fine within 24 hours so that was good. And then earlier this week I was pretty much ordered to attend some snazzy dinner at a local pretend-grande hotel in honour of a visiting professor from India, and I got sick from eating fish there. The evening itself was memorable for all the wrong reasons. The staff seemed to have forgotten we were in Wisconsin and put up faux-Parisian airs, but I knew we were in trouble from the moment we were told about the soup du jour of the day. My gin and tonic ended up on my plate as if it was my main course (if only it had been!) - everything about it was just wrong. Including the age of the fish... I had a meeting the next day so had to go into work, but then I spent the afternoon in bed which was quite heavenly. So it all worked out.
2 weeks ago I went to the women's basketball by invitation of the Chancellor, I had been expecting smoked salmon and champagne but instead we got pizza and beer! At least it wasn't pretentious! I had a great time, the game was fun and remarkably easy to figure out (get ball in basket - 2 points. get ball in basket from further away - 3 points. punch opponent in stomach - lose turn and point).
I took Lucas to the doc as his teacher is slightly concerned about his speech. The doc noticed Lucas's enunciation is not so good and suggested he might have a hearing problem. I said I really had no concern about his hearing at all, apart from of course when he didn't feel like hearing me. "well" says the doc, "that comes with the y-chromosome". Such insight! :-D We have to go see the speech evaluation nurse next month but Lucas uses more words and constructions every day, and even though he is a little lazy in his pronunciation I really have no worries about that.
Last weekend was the most crazy action-packed weekend! Saturday I had arranged for a babysitter so I could work - the proposal is coming along very well but the deadline looms and I have to keep going with it. Caitlin took Lucas to a model railway show which of course he loved! Then that evening we had dinner at his grandmother's house and Oma and Lucas shared the remote control and switched between curling and cartoons. Sunday lunchtime we had a playdate with Teddy, Lucas' favourite friend at preschool. Teddy is almost 5 and Lucas totally adores him. It is very sweet. So we spent most of the afternoon there until it was time for our next outing: the circus!! OMG we had so much fun. Wisonsin knows how to do the circus - it was politically incorrect with half-naked women in heels and feathers everywhere, and full of animal cruelty with lots of different animals doing things they would never do of their own free will. But overlooking those minor things :-) - it was brilliant. Some of the trapeze acts were terrifying, and I have never seen Lucas so spellbound. He was oohing and aahing though partially picking up on my responses. He also loved the clowns and totally got the jokes. I can't wait to go again next year!!
This evening the University housing community center offered free childcare and I had signed Lucas up for it a few weeks back, so I dropped him at 6 - and went back to the office :-(. He had not been before but he had a blast. I will try to get a place for him again next month (it books up quickly) and as the proposal will be in by then I shall do something properly fun! And that's a promise!
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