I hope the little one stays safe, but with multiple older siblings attending school/ daycare, there is a risk of them bringing something home with them.
My sister ( 4th child in our family) got sick a lot as a baby from all of the stuff the older ones brought home from school.
And I fear the measles outbreaks are the tip of an iceberg.
Just my observation.
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GS (19 months) has the “p” sound now. When he sees me its a very excited “papa, papa, papa.” Because of coaching, I was late to family dinner at our Mexican place and when I sat down he also decided that he needed to borrow my hat. I think oversized hats on toddlers are one of the most adorable things.
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Thanks to Southwest for FINALLY implementing a direct flight from Nashville to West Palm Beach, I made a short trip to see FL grands & their parents over the weekend. Several highlights, but maybe my favorite was a “what goes around, comes around” moment with younger grand. S was trying to prompt her (she’s 4 1/2) to get dressed so we could get out the door and to the pool to meet her mom and watch older sister in swim meet. She didn’t have a bath on Friday night but was instructed to be sure to put on clean underwear. She comes back to living room and S had to make her display clean underwear on her body and dirty in her laundry bunch in her hands. Sure enough, she hadn’t changed and she was just going to take a clean pair to laundry basket. My initial reaction was to laugh and point to S who used to be responsible for changing his sheets on Saturday morning before collecting his allowance. I would leave the clean sheets on his desk to prompt him. Several years later I learned that he had only been changing the sheets about half of the time. The rest of the time, he made up the bed with “old” sheets and crumpled up the new ones to go down to laundry. He wavers between being annoyed at my telling on him with his children and laughing at what he thinks was a clever strategy.
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Little kid texted me that Little Miss Mess had some weird spots on her hands (she had HFM already but it can come back). I asked her to give more details, but she responded, “Mom, don’t worry, my sister is a doctor - we have this covered.” Oh good. 
Grandma can stay out of toddler disease diagnosis. 
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Even though my H hasn’t been a pediatrician for almost twenty years, my D calls him for EVERYTHING with her kids. He would love to be off duty. GK’s have a perfectly good pediatrician (whom H trained when he was a Chief Resident many years ago), but it’s so much easier to check in with Dad.
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I wish we had a doctor in our family.
I spoke with D1 about GD2 getting MMR. She said GD2 got a lot of vaccines at her 6 months check up, so they are going to wait a month to get the MMR. Apparently her parent group on FB have been discussing this. I think most of them are going to get their babies vaccinated early.
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LOL! I once texted my daughter a picture of deep cut on a finger joint that just wouldn’t stop bleeding to ask if I needed to get stitches.
She called me to say: yes, you do need stitches and she’d be happy to do it for me if I didn’t live over 2000 miles away.
Another time–when she was still 2000 miles away-- I texted her I had vertigo and a headache. She called me back and told me to go to the ER immediately in case I was having a stroke. I told her I would if my headache got worse. Her boss, the director of Emergency Medicine at Yale Hospital, then got on the phone and told me to go to the ER immediately or he would instruct my D call an ambulance to come get me.
I went to the ER.
(It wasn’t a stroke.)
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Texas (I think it was the Dept of Health) today recommended babies get the first MMR at 6 months.
I think the theory is even one more case is one too many, and it doesn’t matter if it is in West Texas where most of the cases have been or in Houston or Brownsville or San Antonio.
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Yeah, I know we are lucky, and it was a godsend when our kids were growing up. For me, anyway – for him it was always stressful.
He didn’t start med school till the older one was a baby, so I didn’t have that resource in the first few years. But it sure came in handy eventually.
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My mom was a nurse in a pediatric practice for many years. She was always my first call when I had questions.
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The problem with having a doctor in the family is that beforehand, when you have a med student in the family, you may get a lot of unsolicited/uninformed input. 
Unless you’re lucky and they’re in the earlier generation. I have a relative who is a major vaccine expert and that is awesome.
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D2 and her husband have settled on name for their baby that’s due in August.
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My out of town grandchild is arriving tonight. I can’t wait, it’s going to be fun watching the cousins play together. They are just at the age that I think they will play together.
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There have been 2 or 3 in MD. Two people traveling together and they came through Dulles with measles and there were lots of places they named that one or the other or both had been over a week or so but then I haven’t heard more. I guess luckily most kids in the D.C. area are vax’d.
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Well, we have a case of measles in Honolulu in an unvaccinated child under 5 who traveled internationally. The pharmacists are already seeing an uptick in vaccinations. My sister and her H got their 2nd MMRs today. Both had negative titers—no immunity, though they had gotten shots as children.
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My nursing daughter said it can happen with the titer showing negative - for some people they have to get re-vaccinated (like your sister and her H). DD talked about some kids needing re-vaccination before college due to their titers being negative.
When I was at Aldi a couple days ago, I made an impulse buy … and it was great! I picked up a spinner that you put eggs into, with markers to color them while they spin. GD enjoyed dyeing eggs with me last year & has been asking to do it again, but her span of attention just isn’t enough to wait for the dye to really take. As a result, she was disappointed last year that the colors weren’t bright enough. I figured that the spinner would be a better option, and it definitely was. She spent a very long time coloring every egg we had (including those not hard boiled). She liked it so much that we went to Aldi & picked up a spinner for her to take home. I highly recommend it!
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Babysitting tonight so that D and SiL can go to a party. My wife has all of the stuff for dinner that we will cook for everyone before his parents go out.
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We just returned Wednesday evening from being with DD1/SIL/grandkids - I was there 5 weeks while DH flew in for 6 days – he was delayed a whole day due to aircraft mechanical issues having him to take a later flight and then weather caused the later flights to be canceled; the next day he was routed through east coast airport and then had a very long layover due to delays and they had to get a new flight crew… DH’s longer flight they gave him the last seat available - first class - and he actually had a chatty guy that was interesting - he was a retired dentist that set up clinics in various needy places with a charity and did it all donating his time and paying for his own expenses. DH’s flight got in at 3 am (was supposed to be in at 10:43 pm). But he did have a very good meal at airport Legal Seafood, and he went all out on his meal, so he didn’t suffer badly. DH hasn’t flown a lot since he retired in 2021, and he noted that the airplanes are better/newer/nicer.
DD1 and GD1 took us to the airport (along with carrying GD3) - DD1 needed to go to TSA Enrollment Center with her picture ID and process. Later when we left, GD1 cried at home, and later when we were on our layover - we called her (DD1 had sent us a text). One of the things the older two grandkids do is draw pictures on Grandpa’s computer - when GD1 didn’t want to save her picture because she thought she would have time to do a better picture, and that time never happened. She also was sensitive to not having that much time with Grandpa (in comparison to Nana).
Since SIL had taken off of work last week and this week, some of what I was doing for them was giving him a break too – and DD1 took advantage of having SIL do tasks with her during the school day (that they can’t do with 4 kids underfoot). Organized garage space/new shelves; organized their walk in closet and master bedroom. While DH was there, SIL and he did some things together - like DH put training wheels on the 5 YO’s bike and the 6 YO learned how to ride her bike while the 5 YO got going on his bike too. DH assembled some things and fixed some things - some with SIL.
My sister had acquired a wooden highchair (good quality used) that she used with her two sons (who are now 42 and 38) which she passed to me, and I used for DDs. Now DD1 has used it for her kids, but the latch mechanism has worn out - it has metal brackets that make it adjustable, and you can swing the tray up on one side when it is all working. So DH has removed the brackets/metal parts to either purchase replacement type of hardware or figure out how to fix it. GS2 (3 1/2) and GD2 (22 months) both use toddler chairs - one was custom made by my in-laws for DDs, and the other was purchased at IKEA. It will be a while before GD3 uses the highchair (she is now 2 weeks old).
Was glad for the experiences, and now home have a bunch to catch up on.
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D2 had her first anatomical ultrasound scan on Friday. Everything looks normal and the fetus appears to be very healthy. She sent me some ultrasound images and videos from the scan. D2 is a worrier and even more so because she’s OB/GYN and she sees/knows all the bad stuff that can go wrong during pregnancy. So she’s very relieved.
And in other news, Twin B (age 4) can now ride a bike. No training wheels. She’s been practicing in the driveway and did 4 lengths of the driveway Wednesday after school with no help from Dad. She’s managing the handbrakes perfectly too.
D1 says what’s really adorable right now is GS (age 2) at the skateboard park. He really wants to do tricks on his scooter and go down inside the steep sided bow that’s way taller than he isl. He’s been watching the older boys on skateboards and a couple of 8-9 year old boys have been coaching him on how to do some tricks.
And one last recent milestone, Twins A & B now can add numbers that sum up to 10. (No carrying yet.) They’ve been playing math games with mom for about a year or so where they have to uses their “money” ( mini marshmallows) to buy animals for their zoo or buy pretend ice cream and cones at a store. But last week mom transitioned from the game to actual math problems written on their chalk board. Twin figured it out fast and now when they have free time, they will write arithmetic problems on the board to solve. SIL (who is a math/physics theorist) is thrilled!
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