Time seems to have floated past me without any blog entries for the past few months. This gives me an excuse to boil things down to what is important about what I have seen and learned and get something into the blog in the month of May.

I had my wisdom teeth out and it was not as painful as expected. I had a few moments of worry while the dentist was working over my mouth imagining that he was just pulling teeth without thinking much about it and had taken a few extras instead of the four we had discussed. The actual experience was just gross since the holes just kept bleeding for days and it is very disgusting to have big clots of blood in your mouth all day and night.

Madeline keeps charging ahead in her quest for language. She picks up words on a regular basis and has some cute interpretations of complex words to include words she already knows. For example her impression of the word raspberry is RAS-Baby. So she asks for more ras-babies when we have them in front of us. She is better about sleeping through the night but still puts up a big fight filled with tears and screaming when bed time comes around.

We went to Disney in Florida last week on a vacation. Sarah kept having trouble finding things she wanted there. Since she drinks cranberry juice and seltzer we went in search of it in the World Pavilion at Epcot where there are restaurants representing different world cultures. Oddly no world culture offers cranberry juice but they all do have the same list of Coca-cola beverages. We also went looking for gum only to learn that due to the strong desire to avoid gum stuck to their amusement parks the Orlando area is a gum free zone where gum can’t be purchased on the Disney properties, in drug stores, or even at the airport. We had the most fun hanging out at the pool and walking around outside of the parks with Madeline, now at 19 months. We found the Animal Kingdom to be a zoo but mainly because it was so busy full of people and not because it was easy to see animals. I would have preferred to be at the San Diego zoo but Madeline did enjoy the petting area where we could brush goats and look at a cow. I’m sure we could find a more efficient way to accomplish the same experience.