Friday!

Here's some Friday randomness, for what's been happening this week.

• Julianna's adjusting, slowly. She's able to eat and drink now, which is obviously a huge, and very welcome, improvement. She's extremely slllllooooowwwww though. Which is not good. Breakfast has always been a challenge for her, it's gotten much, much worse. She barely eats what, for most people, would seriously be three bites. I'd gotten into the habit of urging her on reminding her constantly to keep eating. As I found myself wondering this morning if this is how eating disorders get started, I realized I have to stop. If she gets hungry from not eating, she's a smart girl, she'll (hopefully) learn to eat more. It's hard, but I'm officially letting that one go. Yesterday was really hard for her at lunch. School called me, she has a tool that's similar to a mascara wand that she can use to poke things out from her palate expander which she hadn't taken to school. I think we were both hoping it wouldn't be necessary. Anyway, it was, and even with me helping her it still took us a good 5 minutes or so to get it cleaned up. By the time I got there and helped her, lunch was over and she had barely eaten. I have a feeling she's going to lose some weight with this whole thing. I keep telling myself it's only been a few days and she's come a long, long way. Hopefully someday it will be normal for her, just in time to get it off, lol.
• Jacob's too funny. We were watching Undercover Boss this week. ( I love our DVR) I don't always let the kids watch it, but this one was with the executive from Great Wolf Lodges. I knew they'd be excited to see the water parks, live vicariously and all that, plus I wanted them to see a woman CEO. They did enjoy it, but at one point the CEO comes face to face with a frog used in one of their programs and she jumped back, shuddered and said she can't stand reptiles. Jacob looked up, clearly disgusted, shouting out, "and she went to college". At first I couldn't figure out what he was so upset about. Then, it became clear, she went to college and called a frog a reptile, not an amphibian. He's such a funny kid.
• Mark's sick. I feel bad for him, truly. However, he's also making me nuts. Definitely more a reflection on me than him. Evidently I deal better with sick kids than sick hubbies. :)
  
• Rebekah comes home today!!! So exciting. I will be spending my day doing laundry (no, not hers, just catching up), cleaning, grocering, baking cupcakes, making Barefoot Contessa's Wedding Soup; spaghetti & meatballs, scribbit's Bread machine bread; and watching 3 children. Ack! I may have set the bar a little high on this one.
  

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, whatever it entails.