Our garden has made it 3 days and looks pretty darn great. We cruised over to water our 10' x 12' plot and also Sara's. I admit, we sounded like surly jerks while cruising past another fenced off cube after we noticed their perfect 36" high fence was not attached whatsoever to one corner thus making it a playpen for rabbits. If I had ties on me, I would have fixed it. When we stop in tomorrow, I'll be sure to bring a few.
I awoke at 6 am to Sylvie yelling "Mom, I want to go downstairs!" and recalled a dream from the night before in which MIchael said to me that he made Sylvie an egg wrap at 3 am and watched Channel 9 news. Only it wasn't a dream. So I got up, retrieved Sylvie and he stayed in bed a little longer.
Sylvie's back to bossing us around from the family room couch. I managed to strike an armistice with Sylvie and she was pretty well-behaved while downing her berry-flavored magnesium today. Neither good nor bad but Sylvie's Jackson-Pratt drain (JP drain or Bulb drain which is a drainage device used to pull excess fluid from the body by constant suction that we affectionately call a grenade) is pretty full. Sylvie won't let me pin it to her nightgown or dress for fear of leaving a pin hole in the fabric. Drama queen.
As you can imagine, having little Mussolini barking orders at us day and night (and I do mean ALL night) is exhausting so today I also embarked on a new concept which I am calling "Project YES." I told Sylvie that instead of saying NO all the time, and saying YES instead that we will have a lot more fun. I made her repeat the word YES back to me five times. My very non-yogi mantra for the day is "I am smarter than my child. I am smarter than my child." I realize a lot of her tendencies are merely those of a feisty 3-year-old and that we're not alone in this fight.
Michael and I took Sylvie to get a hair cut which took no more than 7 minutes. I swear it looks better, even though she still obviously looks sickly. And of course she went insane. But then we ran across the street where she picked out two Hello Kitty lip balms in pink and yellow which restored peace in the valley.
We are super excited for the race on Monday!!!
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Aud, Michael & Sylvie, While we continue our days and nights in 3 hour segments of sleeping, eating and pooping, we are keeping you guys in our thoughts and wishing we could be waiting at the finish line cheering for you tomorrow at the race. We are beyond proud to call you dear friends and we celebrate all your triumphs if only in spirit this time around. Big kisses to you all and huge high fives as you and the rest of the Strides for Sylvie team finish the race.
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