Our little boy turned two, um, about a month ago. I finally posted pictures to Flickr. Check ‘em out!
Okay, so he had his first haircut on March 30th. We know we haven’t been blogging. Blogging is hard. Look! Here are some pictures!
Keegan's First Haircut
We’re getting ready to head to Seattle Center for the St. Patrick’s Day Dash, and as I look outside I can’t help but notice that it’s snowing. Well, here’s to suddenly reduced crowds!
“You know what? I have a destiny!”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah! My destiny is to do art! And you know what?”
“What?”
“And when I’m a grownup I’ll do a play about Star Wars and if you’re still alive you can be in it and you can be a good guy and you can be a boy or a girl, whichever you want! And you know what? I’ll be in the play, too, and I’ll be a princess.”
We’ve clearly been slacking on our blogging duties. I logged in just now on a whim, and the new interface from the last upgrade I performed looks completely foreign to me, almost as if I’ve never seen it. Ahem.
We’ve got some photos to post and we’ve been doing lots of stuff. I hope to start getting caught up. Not tonight, though. Time for bed.
Zoey is in the living room testing out my speakers which didn’t work earlier. Audioslave and Show Me How To Live was the testing song of choice. Imagine rock music coming out of tiny speakers.
Zoey: “Can you turn that down, please. I am trying to read.”
Daddy: Speechless.
“That’s not a van. This is a van.”
–Eric Sass
We were taking some holiday pictures yesterday and we got this one. He is our dancin’ boy!
Who can save the day when the Crime Monster takes all of Santa’s presents? Superhero, of course, with her trusty animal sidekicks and her hair-tangling sword. Art and story by Zoey.
Once upon a time, Santa was talking, saying, "Hey, you bad guys… Stop taking my presents!"
"I will not, since I’m a crime monster!"
The sidekicks were really, really happy, ’cause their job was to help the superhero.
Superhero said, "No problem! I can fix this anytime!"
She got out her sword…
…she gently picked it and made a knot in his hair, and he said, "No fair!"
"But, you need to go to jail."
"Not fair that I need to go to jail!"
Superhero said, "I saved the day!"
Here’s Zoey narrating her comic book:
Yesterday we went back in to see Dr. Huang. Nothing nasty going on in the head scans, so no left ‘n’ right ear tumors or anything scary like that. I do seem to have some sort of inner ear fluid issue, which seems most likely to be Meniere’s Disease, like my Grandpa Holderby had. I’m not having major vertigo issues yet, which would make the diagnosis easier.
The treatment we’re going with is a diuretic taken once a day in the morning (to minimize nighttime bladder-induced waking). This should help regulate the fluid in my inner ears, along with the bonus of lowering my blood pressure. I took the first one this morning, and it’s not bad at all so far. This will probably only maintain my current level of hearing rather than fix anything, but that’s something. I suppose it should help me avoid the vertigo, too, which can be disabling in some people with Meniere’s.
We are going to schedule a hearing aid fitting and see what styles help the most. I’m hoping that Costco carries whatever brand we end up picking, as I hear (heh) their prices can be up to $1,000 cheaper. Per ear.
On the upside, if not my first set of ‘aids, my next one in five or so years will probably have Bluetooth or some new wireless technology, to allow me to listen to music or phone calls without putting on headphones. Efficiency? Sounds good to me.
[Edit: I completely forgot to mention the part where I'm also starting a low-sodium diet. Denial? Never!]
