We started out the month with the twenty-four-hour barfing bug, followed by a cold, another cold, and finally the otherwise symptomless intermittent fever bug. At this very moment, both girls have temperatures within the normal healthy range, and it looks like we have an outside shot at everyone going to their respective daycare, preschool, and places of business.

I had Anna home today with a 100-degree fever, but she was an absolute peach otherwise. I even brought her to my Tuesday volleyball game, where she ate her packed lunch and watched videos while I played. I think she only had one time out the whole day, and although I probably spent an hour and a half reading Pippi, and most of the rest of the time playing with her in her room, I’d consider it a low maintenance day. She only began acting up when Jennifer came home with Tara, in part, I think, because having Tara around divides our attentions and gets her riled up that the same time. Another contributor is that Jennifer tends to be objective driven, and when Anna gets in the way of Jennifer accomplishing what she wants to do, the two of them end up butting heads. I’m guessing this is a preview of the next thirteen years or so. I just try to play peacemaker.

Anna and Tara have really seemed to bond lately¹ and there are more and more tender moments between them that we are able to capture. It is truly special to see the two of them so close, but in other ways it’s just nice to squash any previous notion that the two of use were insane to have a second child given what a hard time we had with the first.

¹ Possibly through shared germs.