# Chateau de la Tobler

## Tuesday, November 21, 2006

### Ross Family Update

Sorry I've been MIA for so long. There have been a lot of things going on in my life right now, and all of them slightly crazy, so that when I finally get a chance to relax, I just don't have the energy to compose a blog post. But I've been feeling guilty, and missing all of you so much this week, that I'm just going to buckle under and say "Hi!"
Hi!
Okay, so health update first. Ezra and Daddy are all better from the cold/flu combo that hit us last week, Mommy is nearly better (sore throat and stuffiness still), and Mercy was doing better but is extra clingy and sad this morning, so who knows if she's really over it. If she isn't feeling better by tomorrow morning, I'm taking her to the doctor to check her ears again--I don't want to have to go to an Urgent Care over Thanksgiving (like Caren had to last year!). Dule is a tap dancer, a mime, practicing American Sign Language, or possibly all three. My poor insides sometimes feel black and blue from all his actions. He is by FAR the most active of my three, which is marvelous and exciting (but not at all diagnostic of future mobility). LaDale thinks maybe he knows this is the time to exercise this little mortal body as much as possible, since it's going to be a lot harder when he comes out. Sounds good to me. I think he's a boy that's going to make the most of all this opportunities.
My OB and my perinatalogist have slightly differing opinions on when Dule should come, which is a little annoying but could be much worse. My OB wants to induce on...maybe you should all sit down...December 14. The FOURTEENTH. That's, like, tomorrow almost. It totally freaked me out, although I played all cool and casual. My perinatalogist thinks we should wait until Monday or Tuesday of the following week, which would be either the 18th (Efram's birthday) or 19th (Sam's birthday, on Brad's side). I think they are all insane because there is no way I am ready for this baby to come AT ALL, much less in less than a month. I mean, really.
We really won't know/decide anything until the end of the first full week in December--December 8th, to be exact. We will definitely be doing an amino before induction, won't THAT be fun (and expensive). This baby will definitely not be able to sing "Born free, but now I'm expensive."
Other interesting stuff--it's almost Thanksgiving and I'm not done with Christmas presents (ack!), but I do have roughly 1/3 of them wrapped and labeled. I don't know if I will be able to make the pj bottoms for our family, which is a pity because I already bought the material and it wasn't very cheap. But I've been concentrating on a few other things--my sick family, my calling (I'm doing the Christmas party in less than two weeks and I need to finish the invitations and call the caterer), and my thesis.
Oh, my thesis. Yes, it still exists. Yes, I have my rough draft back from Dr. C, and it is rather marked up, but you really expect that from him. I have four more illustrations to do, and a few other things to clean up. But then it's done. And there it will sit until a couple of months after Dule is born when I have enough energy to write all my letters of petition, pay my last two credits, and DEFEND. And, not so incidentally, get a blasted MASTERS degree before Samuel, who started undergrad the same year I started grad, gets his DOCTORATE. (Yes, that's my goal, to beat Samuel, who is four and a half years younger than me and took two years off for a mission. I'm a modest woman with modest goals.)
Oh, how I miss you all! I really hope you are all having safe travel to Vegas and that you all have the most joyful of joyful Thanksgivings.

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