just lumping along

so we're all sick. ella got croup and i got laryngitis. then my mom and momby got it, too. now j. is sick.

of course, while i have no voice, now is when ella is suddenly into reading the winnie-the-pooh chapter books which include pages without pictures--just text. i can't believe she sits and listens to those stories, but she just loves them. especially the story about the heffalumps. the other day as we strollered to the park, elenora suddenly said "i saw a heffalump this morning." (which is what christopher robin says.) and i said "what was it doing?" and she answered "just lumping along."

naps have been semi-nonexistent during this illness. she has gone 2 days in a row without naps and then she'll take a nap on the third day and then go back to no naps the next day. and since she's not sleeping so good at night due to coughing and congestion, she is so overtired at night that she wakes up an hour after she falls asleep and just howls with her eyes closed. the poor darling girl! it's so sad.

but for the most part she's had a really good attitude during the day and her energy has been up. we've been going to the park a lot because of a surge in warmer weather, and she loves climbing up the ladders and the climbing walls and sliding down the fastest and the tallest slides.

i'm reading 100 years of solitude, now. i just finished love in the time of cholera, which really spoke to me as only a good work of literature can.