Smokers

Please excuse my long posting absence, we having been moving half way across the continet. We are now at our new rotation site and Adam is loving it. He is working with an optometrist/opthomologist so he gets to do a lot of the more surgical things with the eyes. Already he has assisted in surgeries and even stitched up afterwards. He loves it! He gets to scrub up, wear the surgical gowns, gloves, masks, everthing. He came home from his first surgery day all excited telling me the details of his day and how he got to stick his finger in and behind some person's eye. Kind of gross, but also cool.

Gabe is growing fast. Already he is 15 lbs and 3 months old! He is starting to get heavy to carry around for extended periods of times. My back was sore yesterday and I couldn't figure out why until I realized that I was carrying Gabe in the Snugli for a couple hours the previous day! He is such a cutie! He is laughing now and smiles all the time. He's pretty vocal and likes to "talk" to us. He likes to sit propped up with pillows and is starting to really concentrate on grabbing things. It's amazing how fast babies develop. It's fun to watch.

Lizzy has had a fascination with smokers lately. Let me explain. In our last apartment, the people below us smoked almost all day long on their balcony. The smoke would drift up into our apartment and drive us insane. It was absolutely disgusting. We would always have to close the sliding door to the balcony and then it would get super hot and stuffy in our apartment.

Anyway, we had to explain to Lizzy that smoking is bad for you and we don't want to be breathing that into our lungs. We also told her that it was a bad choice to smoke and we are taught that we shouldn't do it. So now she thinks that anyone who smokes is a bad person. I've tried to explain to her that just because someone makes a bad choice, doesn't make them a bad person. I don't think the concept has stuck.

For example Lizzy ran away from me the other week down the street. I told her to come back and to stay near me so she can be safe. She said, "Why? Is a smoker going to take me?"

Another example: We were watching a show on TV and Lizzy was asking what was going on. I told her that the bad men were chasing the good guys. She said, "Are they smokers?"

Also she will ask me when we're out for a walk or shopping if some random person is a smoker.

Yesterday she came up to me and said, "I just went potty." She paused. "I wasn't smoking."

It's good to know that my 3 year old wasn't smoking in the bathroom.

I will post some pictures soon, but the batteries are dead on the camera, so I can't do it now. There will be some new pictures of Gabe and of Lizzy's new haircut! Fun times for all!