Day +516: Another uneventful appointment
I took Mina to clinic this morning to see the bone marrow team. It was the first time they'd seen her in three months, so Dr. Cowan gave her a good going over. She checked out just great. She's been getting noticably taller and many of her clothes no longer fit her. Today she clocked in at 3'3" and 40 lbs. Dr. Cowan plotted her on the growth curve, and she's between 75% and 90% on both height and weight! This is a great sign that maybe she'll continue to grow normally without needing supplements of Human Growth Hormone. We also got back the results of her most recent round of blood tests, and all looks good! She's still 100% donor, and her immune functions are normal. This means it's time for her to start getting immunized, so Dr. Cowan gave us a schedule of more than a dozen shots that she'll need to get over the next few months. With Mina in school and the flu season coming up, I know I'll feel a lot better when she's well into her immunization schedule.
Mina is progressing in other ways as well. I'm pretty sure I was a lawyer as a kid, and I've started noticing some of those tendencies in Mina as well. On Saturday we took the train to the Duboce playground, and I was planning to push them back home in the stroller so they would chill out in preparation for their afternoon naps and so I could get some exercise. Mina would have preferred to take the train back, and made her feelings known. I had to push the stroller up a steep hill where there were steps cut into the sidewalk, so I had to push the stroller on the street. Mina wondered why I didn't push the stroller up the steps. When I explained to her that the stroller wouldn't go up the steps, she said immediately that this was why it would have been better for us to take the train instead.
She's been enjoying school, but the school has still been meeting at the park while the final inspections are done on the construction that took place over the summer. They're finally in the regular school this week, so Thursday will be Mina's first day there. There was a work party on Saturday that Keri attended, and she said the school room is looking great.
A few stories: Mina has been going to sleep on her own sometimes lately. I'll lay with her for a while, but then I'll make an excuse to get up and if she's tired enough, she'll lay there by herself. Occasionally she'll get up and come bring me back into the bed, but she's been really great about it. But of course, sometimes she really wants her Daddy to lay with her. The other day I asked her as I was putting her to bed if she wanted me to lay with her for a little bit. She thought about it for a minute and said "No, a lot of bit!"
She bumped her foot the other day and wanted a bandaid. I got one out of the closet, and while I was fumbling trying to get it open, she got impatient, took it from me and said, "Here, I will show you!" She is the true bandaid expert, no doubt about that. This morning at the clinic she immediately wanted to get into the drawers under the examining table. I said I didn't think she was supposed to be in there, but she opened the drawer anyway and got out some bandaids. She knew exactly where the good stuff was.
She's been drawing a lot, and also "writing", where she very carefully makes zigzags all across the page. The other day Keri asked her what she was writing, and she said it was a birthday card for Keri (she'd just been at her friend Bliss's 4th birthday party). She told Keri that the card said "I hope you will live until your next birthday."
Isaac is also growing up so fast. He's at a very fun age these days, because he's old enough to do lots of things on his own, he communicates real information verbally, and he's not anywhere near as needy as he was when he was littler. And, he's not yet at the age where he's being defiant. Just very sweet and fun to be around these days. He still loves music, and the other day there was some music playing during the early evening when he was pretty tired and actually in kind of a zone. He was dancing around to the music, holding onto a tambourine with his left hand and beating it with a short drumstick which he held in his right hand. He would move the tambourine back and forth across his body, beating it once on the left side, then on the right, then on the left, etc., all the while moving his feet to the music as he slowly made the circuit from the living room to the foyer, to the kitchen, and back to the living room. It was really quite a sight. He wasn't exactly moving in rhythm with the song, but his dance was quite rhythmic in its own way and he looked very graceful and light on his feet for a not-quite-two-year-old.
Mina's teacher said there will be a spot for Isaac in the school within the next couple of months, which basically means as soon as we can get him potty trained. He's showing some interest, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to happen any time soon. It will be nice for them to be in school together. Mina says she misses him when she's in school. Today we got home from her appointment around 10:00, so we gave her the choice whether to go to her school for the last couple of hours or go join Isaac at Kaaren's house, and she chose Kaaren's house because she wanted to be where her brother was. It's nice that they're attached like that.
Mina is progressing in other ways as well. I'm pretty sure I was a lawyer as a kid, and I've started noticing some of those tendencies in Mina as well. On Saturday we took the train to the Duboce playground, and I was planning to push them back home in the stroller so they would chill out in preparation for their afternoon naps and so I could get some exercise. Mina would have preferred to take the train back, and made her feelings known. I had to push the stroller up a steep hill where there were steps cut into the sidewalk, so I had to push the stroller on the street. Mina wondered why I didn't push the stroller up the steps. When I explained to her that the stroller wouldn't go up the steps, she said immediately that this was why it would have been better for us to take the train instead.
She's been enjoying school, but the school has still been meeting at the park while the final inspections are done on the construction that took place over the summer. They're finally in the regular school this week, so Thursday will be Mina's first day there. There was a work party on Saturday that Keri attended, and she said the school room is looking great.
A few stories: Mina has been going to sleep on her own sometimes lately. I'll lay with her for a while, but then I'll make an excuse to get up and if she's tired enough, she'll lay there by herself. Occasionally she'll get up and come bring me back into the bed, but she's been really great about it. But of course, sometimes she really wants her Daddy to lay with her. The other day I asked her as I was putting her to bed if she wanted me to lay with her for a little bit. She thought about it for a minute and said "No, a lot of bit!"
She bumped her foot the other day and wanted a bandaid. I got one out of the closet, and while I was fumbling trying to get it open, she got impatient, took it from me and said, "Here, I will show you!" She is the true bandaid expert, no doubt about that. This morning at the clinic she immediately wanted to get into the drawers under the examining table. I said I didn't think she was supposed to be in there, but she opened the drawer anyway and got out some bandaids. She knew exactly where the good stuff was.
She's been drawing a lot, and also "writing", where she very carefully makes zigzags all across the page. The other day Keri asked her what she was writing, and she said it was a birthday card for Keri (she'd just been at her friend Bliss's 4th birthday party). She told Keri that the card said "I hope you will live until your next birthday."
Isaac is also growing up so fast. He's at a very fun age these days, because he's old enough to do lots of things on his own, he communicates real information verbally, and he's not anywhere near as needy as he was when he was littler. And, he's not yet at the age where he's being defiant. Just very sweet and fun to be around these days. He still loves music, and the other day there was some music playing during the early evening when he was pretty tired and actually in kind of a zone. He was dancing around to the music, holding onto a tambourine with his left hand and beating it with a short drumstick which he held in his right hand. He would move the tambourine back and forth across his body, beating it once on the left side, then on the right, then on the left, etc., all the while moving his feet to the music as he slowly made the circuit from the living room to the foyer, to the kitchen, and back to the living room. It was really quite a sight. He wasn't exactly moving in rhythm with the song, but his dance was quite rhythmic in its own way and he looked very graceful and light on his feet for a not-quite-two-year-old.
Mina's teacher said there will be a spot for Isaac in the school within the next couple of months, which basically means as soon as we can get him potty trained. He's showing some interest, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to happen any time soon. It will be nice for them to be in school together. Mina says she misses him when she's in school. Today we got home from her appointment around 10:00, so we gave her the choice whether to go to her school for the last couple of hours or go join Isaac at Kaaren's house, and she chose Kaaren's house because she wanted to be where her brother was. It's nice that they're attached like that.
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