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To: Rambi who wrote (10514)	5/11/1998 3:22:00 PM
From: DScottD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

penni-- What a week we have had. Our 7 month old, Michael, got his first tooth, sat up by himself and began crawling all in the same week. He was constipated for the first time too, which put a slight damper on our Mother's Day celebration since he cried the entire time he was up between 5 and 11 in the morning. I had to stay at home with him so I missed Mass, where my wife sang Ave Maria. I'm really sorry I missed it, because she doesn't get a chance like that too often, especially on Mother's Day. I was able to calm him down (or, more accurately, he wore himself out crying) for a nap around 11 am. He had a BM during his nap, and a much more explosive one later in the day, and he is feeling fine now. Thankfully we didn't have to use a suppository. The episode reminded us of when our 4 year old, Stephen, was in a similar predicament around the same age. He had gone 3 or 4 days without a BM and we were talking about it in the car on the way home from somewhere. He was in his seat in the back. My wife said, "maybe we should give him a suppository when we get home." Before I could respond, a loud rumble from the back seat and a satisfied smile from Stephen indicated that there was no need for further intervention. With Michael feeling better, we went to the park for a picnic (just the 4 of us) and retired later in the day to gin and tonics on the deck and a couple of strip steaks on the grill. It was probably the finest weather day we have had all spring. DScottD

To: Rambi who wrote (10514)	5/11/1998 4:17:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Penni, you know your bonnet story reminds me that I have a pile of these drawings and things that the kids have done. I can't bring myself to throw them out. I have been able to edit them down to a manageable selection that represents their drawing through the years. And many have colorfully adorned the refrigerator and various walls for some period of time. Whether or not they ever get looked at again, I have no idea. It's just that I have the idea that having them when they get older may help them to get in touch with seeing their lives in a more holistic way. A bottle recovered from the seas of time with something from the past. I think this stems from my own experience of seeing my old drawing artifacts when I was clearing out my parents house after their passing. I can remember looking at my old work, pencil and crayon scratchings on long yellowed paper, and being in an instant transported to that time. At the same time as a parent I could immediately relate to why my mother kept them and what they may have meant to her and how her keeping them reached out to me to communicate even then after her passing. I keep them I think, if only to give them each that moment of reminder that I have valued what they have done, and that I have saved these simple treasures that once were so proudly given. Never mind that they are my treasured reminders of these happy times of their early journey in life.