March

Matthew and Linus planting peas and spinach.


Chase and Linus at the zoo, our second to last play date. Linus is holding a bird field guide.




The month has flown by. I don't know why I continue to be amazed at how quickly time flies, but I do. This year Linus started anticipating his birthday around the beginning of the month. Birthday parties for two of his friends, as well as our annual Easter egg hunt in our backyard, broke up the routine; so now his own birthday party is just under a week away.

Linus' friend Chase departed to Hong Kong. Her father has taken a job there. Linus has been attached to her since they met at the library when they were 17-months old. He was very sad when I broke the news to him. We discussed that we are still friends with people in Wisconsin, even though we moved away. Friday was the first day for him at preschool without her there. I asked him about it to gauge how he was feeling about it, and he was just fine. He said, "I thought of her, but then I played with Noah and that was fun."

Linus came down with a cold that had him walking around for a week with a runny nose, which then morphed into terrible congestion, then pinkeye, followed by an ear infection. I felt that the ear infection was a blessing, because that meant we could quit fighting with him to get the eye drops in for the pinkeye. Until now, I have not had to wrestle him down. It was not a pretty sight. I straddled him on the floor and pinned his arms at his sides with my legs. Then I tried to pry his eyes open and get the drops in them and not on his cheek, nose, or the floor. He put up a big fight. He takes the oral antibiotic like it is candy, and we don't end up in tears like with the eye drop fight.