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Oh boy, so much to report.  First off, to get your appetites appropriately wetted:

so much has happened in the last few weeks... where to start.  We left off with sienna crawling and me getting back from oregon.  Well, the week before that she was congested and feverish and diarrhea-ey and rashy/eczyma-ey.  Poor girl.  so she wasn't exactly sleeping the best (since she couldn't breath), which gave her 12+ extra hrs to exercise her lungs and vocal cords.  This means we weren't sleeping, and by the time I got back from oregon, we realized why she was crawling.  Sienna was distraught to be away from us, so anytime we'd pur her down she'd double over to crawl back to us.  How cute, but also kinda sad.  Well, then this last week we noticed her bottom two teeth coming in.  so finally, she's officially teething, and it explains all of this.  poor girl.  but wait, yesterday we noticed that her left eye was red and green mucus was coming out.  bummer.  When I was in belize, I got the conjunct-a-junk, so I could recognize it well.  yup, she has pink eyes, so we took her in to the ped doc, and she had a look at her ears and sienna flipped out.  yup, ear infection too.  Aaahhhh, so that explains it.  well, along with everything else.  She has managed to have everything that could make her go off, within reason, all happen at once.  poor girl.  but now she's on antibioticas, and feeling much better.  back to her usual self because she actually wants to play with things.  We've also learned just how fearless she is.  when she pulls herself up to standing (second position), she often immediately launches into walking without help.  Despite some bonks, she is unperturbed and continues on with her antics.  crazy girl.

Ah, but here's the real news that I couldn't wait to tell.  Laura fed her pizza.  A couple weeks ago on the blog I was joking about feeding her pizza...joking.  well, laura had an epiphany saturday night and said "hey peter, what if we order some pizza" (you have to understand, this is the first time this has happened in 9+ years of being together.  needless to say, I laid an egg, and out sprouted a monkey with cymbals.  While laura was being distracted by the banging monkey now circulating around the room, I dialed up the pizza co., whose number I had memorized just for this moment. I also went to the secret stash of cash that I had been saving for about 7 years in order to pay the pizza guy at just this moment.  needless to say).  Anyway, we were enjoying our pies and sienna was on laura's lap and of course sienna was trying to grab her pizza.  To my amazement, laura sez "you want some pizza? okay sweetie," and proceeded to give her pizza.  sienna sunk her little fingers into the velvety cheese, watching tomato sauce squirt up between her nails.  The look of joy on her face was unmistakable.  My mouth dropped wide open, and as the monkey marched over my pink tongue which had unrolled onto the floor, laura looks up and says, "wait a minute..."  It was at that moment that i came to know heartbreak for the first time.  It was as if someone had flipped a switch and all the stars and moon went dark and all the crickets stopped chirping, and suddenly you were only aware of the overwhelming loneliness emitted by the nothingness of  empty space-that was sienna's expression.  people talk about not wanting to traumatize their children.  I guess my question is, what if the child is already traumatized. what then?  I guess we'll find out.