July 6 (Friday): We hit 100°F for a couple of hours, our 8th day this year. Rebecca didn’t want to go outside at all, maybe overloaded from the two previous days’ trips. She also didn’t want to eat. For once, I didn’t force the issue. I just let her drink milk and juice all day. She survived and seemed happy enough about it.
July 7 (Saturday): Made it to 99°F by 2 p.m., but then it started cooling off a little. At about 6, a cool front moved through — windy, cloudy, down in to the 80s. Very nice. Maybe we’ll get rain tonight. Rebecca did much better, eating and playing happily all day. She practiced her body part words — she can identify (by pointing) any body part you can name, and can say most of them relatively well. (She can’t say chin or neck, and sometimes gets those two mixed up when pointing at them.) She watched Shrek and Shrek 2 back-to-back, despite having seen them several times in the past few days. She especially likes the character named “Donkey”, who is in fact a donkey.
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Yesterday got very hot, and still, til about noon. Then the front came through with very gusty rain. It felt sooooo good to have rain again. Now it’s supposed to be cooler for a few days, and that will be nice, too.
You know I can’t imagine a child who won’t eat, so I don’t have anything to say about that. :-D
Shari: Sometimes, I’m convinced Rebecca is a robot, sent back from the future to test and confuse me. Being a robot is really the only sensible explanation for why she just won’t eat sometimes. However, it doesn’t explain why she (sometimes) actually gets angry when we try to feed her.
It’s not every day, though. This morning, for example, she ate her full helping of oatmeal without complaining.
This blog has inspired me to start working on my own blog
@nootropics:
I hope the rest of the world will forgive me for inspiring a spammer to start his own blog. (I’ve removed the spam link from your post.)
For future reference, a site filled with spam links and advertising, with no content, does not count as a web log (“blog”).