It had to happen...(Postscript)

Countless tears & shrieks, 6 stitches, 1 gauze pad, 1 roll of gauze, and an order to keep it dry & clean, & go get the stitches removed by Dr. Schwanke in 10-14 days later, we are home & everyone is sleeping soundly.

I did note, when Rohan had his mouth open & wailing, that he has 2 more teeth visible now, 1 on top & 1 on bottom (this fact, a likely contributor to him gnawing on big brother Deven earlier).

Here's hoping he sleeps thru the night.

Kate Sherwood
Mobile (650) 387-6767

It had to happen...

Sooner or later.

The boys had to fight until 1 went to the hospital.

Tonight the cause was big brother Deven, who accidentally cut Rohan on the hand with a broken pen-clip from the pen that they'd been fighting over. Rohan was far from innocent - he had been using his teeth, pushing & grabbing Deven.

I had been in the shower, and Yogesh was tired after having a long day outside & himself, a bad-belly the past few days. My planner, with the offending pen, was out of place on the floor, in perfect reach for the boys to fight over.

Now I sit with the poor little guy @ CPMC's pediatric urgent care, waiting for the doctor to come put 3-5 stitches to seal the 1" gash on his right palm. He's calm now, but I hear the lidocaine (sp?) will be painful for him.

This is actually Rohan's first time in a hospital, because he was born at home. I hope it's his last, but somehow I think that's unlikely.
Sigh.

Kate Sherwood
Mobile (650) 387-6767

Happy 60th Anniversary, Daadaji & Daadiji!

Tuesday 4/20/10 marked the 60th Anniversary of Daadaji & Daadiji. They were married when she was 15 and he was 18, after his younger brother, sister, and mother had met her and approved (this was normal at the time). There are no photos of them on their wedding day.

While they live apart now, they share regular telephone conversations a few times a week, and had a nice long, sweet-sounding chat that morning. Daadi is always happier after she speaks with Daada.
Her rascally grandsons danced around and congratulated her (while we tried to get them to stop throwing things for the occasion). We've had our cousins-cousins in town (that makes them just cousins, right?) - twin 3-year old boys from Atlanta and their lovely parents, so we celebrated the occasion with a pizza dinner and 4 under the age of 4 rioting in the living room - perfect.

Photos to come, soon.

Ring Around the Rosie on our Anniversary

...enjoy the dancing!

Happy!

We celebrated today.

Photo: Mommy, Deven, & Rohan reading this evening (following Mommy's facial).

Bad Mommy Blogger - and Happy 3rd Birthday, Deven!

The trouble with starting something (like blogging) that you like doing, and that other people have told you they like reading, is that you have to stick with it. Not just because other people care, but because you care. Or in my case, because I find myself playing with my sons, and actually thinking in short-blog-format.

That's scary, I know.


I try to be "present" with them - to not get sucked into the CrackBerry, the mail, the many, many interesting magazines and articles and Macy's One Day Sale catalogs. To simply enjoy Deven saying "Ro-HAN!" and Rohan whisper-talking "Wat!" (that's his word for water) or "Mik" (that's "milk").


And I'll try to not think in blog-post format.

UPDATE

Rohan's hearing was retested, and it is perfectly normal. Unfortunately, his speech is not yet; but he is making more noises which is good. We're still on the research-and-maybe-therapy track but I know Yogesh and I both breathed a big sigh of relief that at least he can hear.

Deven is now three. 3! We had a wonderful, successful birthday party weekend for him, complete with
- Naani.
- Nanni buying Deven a skuut bike, and Deven grinning wildly as he rode down the sidewalk after getting his birthday gift.
- Party for 20 children + their grownups, with fire-truck cake, nobody cried and most people sang along with Music Teacher Andrew (scroll down to see a photo of him - we think he's great).
- Rainy Sunday where Naani and Yogesh managed the kids while I umpired a lacrosse game (boy was it wet!)
- Good Monday - Deven's actual birthday.
- LOTS of gifts for Deven; he hasn't even opened them all as he hasn't quite figured out how much fun it is to open gifts - instead he just likes playing with the ones already opened. Unfortunately, we didn't have great systems to confirm who-gave-what; so we'll have to just say THANK YOU to everyone, here

Now that we take most photos with our camera phones, these snaps aren't the best, but they're what we've got for now.