Nadia's first word (if you don't count "hi" that she said when she was very young) was "dada." Well the last couple of days I have been reminded of the stage when she said "dada" incessantly because her new favorite word is "Daddy." She says it many,...

I'm still really congested, but I feel a million times better today just because I got a good night's sleep last night. I was in bed for 11 hours! I didn't sleep that whole time by any stretch of the imagination due to going to the bathroom many times,...

In the last three days Nadia's vocabulary has exploded. She also has started repeating or at least attempting to repeat almost every word we ask her to say. I have given up on keeping track of what words she can say, but here are a few recent...

Thanksgiving 2008 Yesterday I ate "normal" meals at lunch and dinner, and both times my blood sugar was 103. What a relief! My dinner was a pasta dish (noodles, sauce, cheese, and meat), and I definitely ate more of it than the diabetic diet allows. I...

Christmas photo 2008 (taken almost exactly one year ago) Today we went for our annual family Christmas photos at Sears. Last year although we only liked a couple of the poses, and they were with only Nadia. This year we did buy a few prints of one of...