{"id":3840,"date":"2012-04-26T21:45:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T04:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2012-04-26T22:07:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T05:07:35","slug":"7-quick-takes-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=3840","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: Grumping Drivers, Silly Boys, and Cute Preemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel had his 3 year old Well Child appointment on Wednesday.<\/strong>  He&#8217;s looking good, has a healthy BMI, has a healthy curve on his growth chart, and was his normally chill self which was a rare sight for his doctor, especially during naptime.  I&#8217;m bummed because she&#8217;s done with her residency in June.  I&#8217;m happy for her to move on to bigger and better things (including her wedding in November &#8212; she had a lovely engagement ring that looked like it was a sapphire ringed with diamonds) but I&#8217;m sad to lose her.  I first met her during our epic hospital stay last March when she was doing her PICU rotation and we ended up getting her as our pediatric resident.  She&#8217;ll kick butt on her boards in October and I know she&#8217;ll be an awesome pediatrician when she goes into practice.  Meanwhile&#8230; hey <a href=\"http:\/\/nfpandme.blogspot.com\/\">Katie<\/a>, could you please come do a peds residency at <a href=\"http:\/\/ucdmc.ucdavis.edu\" title=\"UCD Medical Center\">UCD Medical Center<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To the white Ford F150:<\/strong><br \/>\nIt might be slightly safer if you waited until I was OUT of the lane before you try passing me IN it.  You almost sideswiped my rear driver&#8217;s side and I would have taken the law into my own hands if you had hit me and something had happened to the cute three year old riding with me.  You really don&#8217;t want to get between me and my cub.<br \/>\nSnuggles,<br \/>\nThe white car with the <a href=\"http:\/\/promisewalk.org\" title=\"Promise Walk for Preeclampsia\">Promise Walk<\/a> ribbon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The lesson: never mess with University of Virginia grads.<\/strong>  Apparently, public education actually works in states other than California.  \ud83d\ude42  And before I get a huge number of flaming comments, I&#8217;m the product of California public schools and Daniel is in an ABA class at a California state preschool.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Speaker Howell: I guess I&#039;m not speaking in little enough words for you to understand.\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2gA9e_LrpUY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And no, this video is not intended to be a political statement &#8212; I just enjoy her retort to the Speaker&#8217;s comment about &#8220;not speaking in little enough words for [her] to understand.&#8221;  I admit to feeling like I need to use that phrase frequently (that is, speaking in small enough words) in comboxes and it&#8217;s awesome to see a rational and well-reasoned retort.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My parents are headed up on Saturday to deliver a frame for a raised bed for our garden.<\/strong>  I know my mom is bringing up some tomatoes and I&#8217;ll pick up some basil plants from <a href=\"http:\/\/traderjoes.com\" title=\"Trader Joe's\">Trader Joe&#8217;s<\/a>.  I also need to start some pumpkins and perhaps a few other things.  Our treasurer came over and rototilled it on Tuesday.  We&#8217;ve had some rain so I&#8217;m kind of also hoping for no weeds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 5 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I continue to be blown away by the awesomeness of Daniel&#8217;s preschool class.<\/strong>  Not only does he have a teacher who LOVES her job (and it totally shows) as well as aides who love Daniel, I also have fellow parents in the class who are cool.  One of the little girls in Daniel&#8217;s class came up and hugged him when he came to class on Monday and I met her mom on Wednesday.  I was walking him to class when she walked by and greeted Daniel warmly.  She then looked up and explained that she was this little girl&#8217;s mom.  It was great to meet her and I&#8217;ve also talked with a few other parents while trying to teach our kids some basic social skills like waving good-bye and acknowledging someone talking to them.  I didn&#8217;t realize how cool it was until today that I&#8217;ve got 10 other sets of parents who are dealing with the same stuff I am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 6 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/reecesrainbow.org\/1581\/brett2601\" title=\"Brett's adoption fund\">Brett&#8217;s adoption fund<\/a> has moved up two orders of magnitude.<\/strong>  We went from 1\/25000 to 1\/250 this week.  Amazing what $100 will do, huh?  Now for that other $24900&#8230;  I&#8217;ve got some fundraising ideas but I also need to find him a mommy and a daddy.  You can read about all of this at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacefulwaters.org\/brett\" title=\"Blogging for Brett\">his adoption blog<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve also got a blogathon tentatively scheduled for July 27th and I&#8217;m trying to come up with ways to publicize it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 7 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Need a reason to sponsor me in the Promise Walk?<\/strong>  Is this one good enough?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/swdb\/DSC_0063.JPG\" alt=\"Baptizing Daniel at 4 days old.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This would be Daniel at his baptism in the NICU at 4 days old.  From left to right: my nasty-looking hand (dry skin cracking), Daniel, Jon&#8217;s hand.<\/p>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Jen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\">ConversionDiary.Com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; 1 &#8212; Daniel had his 3 year old Well Child appointment on Wednesday. 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