Just wanted to write a quick post to let everyone know that Gracie is doing much better. She is able to eat baby food now and is plowing through containers of it like it's going out of style. Her mood has improved drastically and she only occasionally gets upset when her sisters get to eat something that she doesn't. Otherwise she is truly returning to her happy little self and we are all very grateful for that. The surgery went well in general. Although a small hole did open back up, her doctor said it is not in a critical spot for speech and if it doesn't heal over itself, he will be able to fix it at her next surgery. Otherwise everything looks good and we will be starting speech therapy next week.
We've had a really interesting week with all of the funeral goings-ons for President Ford. Today we all walked up the street to watch the funeral procession go past. We wanted the girls to see it as a moment of history that they would hopefully remember and appreciate later, but trying to explain all of the various aspects of a funeral and a president to the Kindergarten and younger set is not always that easy. First they were convinced that it was John Kerry's funeral since that's the only "president" we've talked much about in our house. Then there were the inevitable questions about death: how does one get to heaven? Do babies go there, too? Do they have toys? And from Sophie, "How do they separate the head and all that other stuff to put the body in the coffin?" It took some time, but we finally realized that she was assuming "body" meant "torso". Then there was the big question: "Mom, what's a government?" Now there's a question worth pondering.
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, as we did. I have to go now. If I don't clean up every night, we might all drown under the weight of all the My Little Ponies and Barbies in our house.
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