Well there is nothing crazy about this post. This one is just for Daddy... who is on the other side of the world and missing some little things right now... like this little boy having his evening batch of Cheerios!!
Enjoy!!!
Friday, February 27, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Lucas is 10 months old!
Lucas is 10 months old..... AND TEETHING. Teething in a way that makes our little boy not himself! So our 10 month pictures are not our normal smiling boy that we are all used to :-)
He just wasn't in the groove all day and getting a smile at all was pretty tough!!
Case and point...
I was able to get away last night for my girlfriend Kristi's birthday part since Mom was able to do a little babysitting :-) It was a nice little break since I haven't really left the house at night in a few months!
After church this morning, we (Mom) treated us to a little lunch. Lucas still wasn't feeling well, but he was doing good enough for a few snuggles with Mom and Grandma :-)
He just wasn't in the groove all day and getting a smile at all was pretty tough!!
Case and point...
I was able to get away last night for my girlfriend Kristi's birthday part since Mom was able to do a little babysitting :-) It was a nice little break since I haven't really left the house at night in a few months!
After church this morning, we (Mom) treated us to a little lunch. Lucas still wasn't feeling well, but he was doing good enough for a few snuggles with Mom and Grandma :-)
Saturday, February 21, 2009
¿Habla Quechua?
Hello everyone! I was finally able to upload some pics to the computer, but these darn computers are so slow that it would take forever to upload even a couple. I also tried snapfish, but I can´t download the software to distibute the pics. I´m also currently trying to upload pictures to facebook, which isn´t going so well.
Maybe I´ll just wait until I get home.
So, here is the update. This past week I´ve been working in 2 different clinics. The first one was a clinic here in Cusco, where I spent three days in general medicine, pediatrics, and OB/GYN. The clinic was basically run the same as back home, but in much more crouded conditions. In every room people were crammed wall to wall. The only place to move was at the examination table. But, things were run pretty efficiently. People came in for all sorts of problems, but most were the typical stuff we see back home. I got to spend some time in the procedure room, washing out and suturing up wounds. A lot of people in the city work in laborous jobs which can be dangerous. I even got to tie off a vein on a teenage girl who got her arm in the way of a saw. (Shé´s fine now.)
On Thursday and Friday I spent the day in another town called Quiquijana. To get there I had to take a couple of ¨compativos¨ (kinda like station wagons) and a bus. It was about 1.5-2 hour drive, but well worth it. The scenery out here is great. You drive through the mountains and are high enough where you can see clouds forming below the top of the highest peak. When I got there my first day not much was going on in the clinic. But there were some people loading up into an old 1960´s ambulance. I didn´t know where they were going, but I figured that I like medicine that deals with ambulance rides - so I jumped in the back. Once we were driving down the road I asked the other students with me where we were going. They said it was to some place about 2 hours away. They didn´t say that it was 2 hours on the top of the mountain. So, we spent the next two hours in the back of this old ambulance holding on to the seat, walls, windows, and each other as we climbed this mountain on a road that is probably used once a year and this was it. It was a blast! We even had a couple of times where a river crossed over the road and we had to plow through it.
We finally reached our destination point and got out of the ambulance to a group of waiting patients. They are people who live in the mountains, and only speak ¨Quechua.¨ Which is the ancient language of the Incans. Amazing, they are so isolated that they don´t even speak spanish. Needless to say I wasn´t able to communicate with them, but another student spoke a little. We set up our clinic in one of the community buildings (no electricity available) where one of the students interviewed the patients, one wrote down everything, and I examined the patients either on the floor or on one of the benches. Once we were done we would put our heads togther and figure out the problem. Most of the time it was pretty typical- pharyngitis, bronchitis, parasitic infection. We did get to see a woman with a pupilary problem (anisocoria), a lady with vertigo and headaches (possible schwanoma), and a woman with a mass on her arm and loss of sensation in her fingers (ulnar distribution). For them we had to recommend to go to Cusco because we didn´t have the proper tools or imaging available in Quiquijana. We saw about 30 patients, and they were all so greatful for us to come. They prepared lunch for us and made sure we had enought. It was a great experience! On the way down the ride wasn´t any smoother, but still a great time. We even stopped to pick up a pregnant woman to bring her to the clinic in Quiquijana. I guess that´s how the ladies do it out there.
The next day wasn´t nearly as exciting. We mainly saw people in the clinc. Although, we did get to do something unusual. A family brought in their 1 month old child who had recently died and requested an autopsy. I´ll spare the details of what happened with the child, but we did do the autopsy. We had a table outside in the back courtyard and placed it underneath a covering. I never dreamed that I would be helpìng to do an autopsy in the back of a clinic on a makeshift table during a rain shower. It was sad for us and the family, but still an unusual experience. I took the bus back to Cusco where they played ¨Mortal Combat¨ on a TV fixed to the front of the bus. I had to peek over the children crawling all over and the ladies selling bread and popcorn to see it.
Today I went to the hospital for a couple hours of case presentations, but the doctor never showed up for us students and residents. I got to talk with some more students, which will be nice because I have no idea where to go in the hospital on Monday. Tonight I have been invited to go out for pizza and dominoes in the Plaza de Armas, and tomorrow I´ll be going to a festival at a nearby town. We´ll see what happens this next week when I´m at the hospital full time.
Maybe I´ll just wait until I get home.
So, here is the update. This past week I´ve been working in 2 different clinics. The first one was a clinic here in Cusco, where I spent three days in general medicine, pediatrics, and OB/GYN. The clinic was basically run the same as back home, but in much more crouded conditions. In every room people were crammed wall to wall. The only place to move was at the examination table. But, things were run pretty efficiently. People came in for all sorts of problems, but most were the typical stuff we see back home. I got to spend some time in the procedure room, washing out and suturing up wounds. A lot of people in the city work in laborous jobs which can be dangerous. I even got to tie off a vein on a teenage girl who got her arm in the way of a saw. (Shé´s fine now.)
On Thursday and Friday I spent the day in another town called Quiquijana. To get there I had to take a couple of ¨compativos¨ (kinda like station wagons) and a bus. It was about 1.5-2 hour drive, but well worth it. The scenery out here is great. You drive through the mountains and are high enough where you can see clouds forming below the top of the highest peak. When I got there my first day not much was going on in the clinic. But there were some people loading up into an old 1960´s ambulance. I didn´t know where they were going, but I figured that I like medicine that deals with ambulance rides - so I jumped in the back. Once we were driving down the road I asked the other students with me where we were going. They said it was to some place about 2 hours away. They didn´t say that it was 2 hours on the top of the mountain. So, we spent the next two hours in the back of this old ambulance holding on to the seat, walls, windows, and each other as we climbed this mountain on a road that is probably used once a year and this was it. It was a blast! We even had a couple of times where a river crossed over the road and we had to plow through it.
We finally reached our destination point and got out of the ambulance to a group of waiting patients. They are people who live in the mountains, and only speak ¨Quechua.¨ Which is the ancient language of the Incans. Amazing, they are so isolated that they don´t even speak spanish. Needless to say I wasn´t able to communicate with them, but another student spoke a little. We set up our clinic in one of the community buildings (no electricity available) where one of the students interviewed the patients, one wrote down everything, and I examined the patients either on the floor or on one of the benches. Once we were done we would put our heads togther and figure out the problem. Most of the time it was pretty typical- pharyngitis, bronchitis, parasitic infection. We did get to see a woman with a pupilary problem (anisocoria), a lady with vertigo and headaches (possible schwanoma), and a woman with a mass on her arm and loss of sensation in her fingers (ulnar distribution). For them we had to recommend to go to Cusco because we didn´t have the proper tools or imaging available in Quiquijana. We saw about 30 patients, and they were all so greatful for us to come. They prepared lunch for us and made sure we had enought. It was a great experience! On the way down the ride wasn´t any smoother, but still a great time. We even stopped to pick up a pregnant woman to bring her to the clinic in Quiquijana. I guess that´s how the ladies do it out there.
The next day wasn´t nearly as exciting. We mainly saw people in the clinc. Although, we did get to do something unusual. A family brought in their 1 month old child who had recently died and requested an autopsy. I´ll spare the details of what happened with the child, but we did do the autopsy. We had a table outside in the back courtyard and placed it underneath a covering. I never dreamed that I would be helpìng to do an autopsy in the back of a clinic on a makeshift table during a rain shower. It was sad for us and the family, but still an unusual experience. I took the bus back to Cusco where they played ¨Mortal Combat¨ on a TV fixed to the front of the bus. I had to peek over the children crawling all over and the ladies selling bread and popcorn to see it.
Today I went to the hospital for a couple hours of case presentations, but the doctor never showed up for us students and residents. I got to talk with some more students, which will be nice because I have no idea where to go in the hospital on Monday. Tonight I have been invited to go out for pizza and dominoes in the Plaza de Armas, and tomorrow I´ll be going to a festival at a nearby town. We´ll see what happens this next week when I´m at the hospital full time.
Monday, February 16, 2009
While Dad's Gone
Well I came on here tonight to give you all an update in the life of Ted in Peru but I see that he already did yesterday. Woohoo! Saves me time.
So um... that leaves our post with a little update in the life of Erin and baby Lucas. Um... is pretty same ol' same ol'... except without the help of Dad.
Our goals continue to be to get me to work and Lucas to auntie Mallory's on time and in one piece. So far so good. Grandma and Grandpa Sibley (Dave & Nancy) came over on Saturday to play with Lucas while I returned to work at Uline for the day. Saturday night we went out for Valentine's day to Taco Bell: the most romantic place ever. It was to me anyway!! Free dinner and the ability to use my right hand to hold my fork instead of feeding Lucas with one hand and myself with the other at the same time.
Sunday I decided to drive out to Maple Grove to visit our old church (where Grandma and Grandpa are currently attending). We got to see some old familiar faces. It's hard to think that the babies we used to take care in the nursery are now in elementary school and our junior high kids are in college!! I AM OLD.
Lucas hung out and Grandma and Grandpas for a bit of the afternoon and I ran some errands. We hung out here last night. This morning we met another FANA family, the Como's at Rosedale for some play date time.
This was at Caribou at the mall where all of the kiddies were kind enough to pose. Ana is almost 2 (she's almost exactly a year older than Lucas so she's a good barometer of development). Joshua is.... Spiderman... and Solomon is a very mature and helpful big brother himself.
Everybody also wanted to be extra helpful with feeding Lucas' his Cheerios so he didn't get bored... this made me giggle :-)
All of that playing tired us out.
Since we've been sending Daddy pictures every night in an e-mail, I will leave you with a few of our random acts of craziness while we're home alone.
Lucas provokes the snake....
the snake fights back....
Wow that snake isn't letting go!!
It is clear that snaked picked the WRONG baby to mess with. Lucas secures his place as King of the Jungle Nursery. All of the monkeys, frogs, and random giant crab cheered in amazement!!!
Perhaps its clear I've been alone too long already!!!
Never fear, Grandma Holl will be arriving later this week :-)
So um... that leaves our post with a little update in the life of Erin and baby Lucas. Um... is pretty same ol' same ol'... except without the help of Dad.
Our goals continue to be to get me to work and Lucas to auntie Mallory's on time and in one piece. So far so good. Grandma and Grandpa Sibley (Dave & Nancy) came over on Saturday to play with Lucas while I returned to work at Uline for the day. Saturday night we went out for Valentine's day to Taco Bell: the most romantic place ever. It was to me anyway!! Free dinner and the ability to use my right hand to hold my fork instead of feeding Lucas with one hand and myself with the other at the same time.
Sunday I decided to drive out to Maple Grove to visit our old church (where Grandma and Grandpa are currently attending). We got to see some old familiar faces. It's hard to think that the babies we used to take care in the nursery are now in elementary school and our junior high kids are in college!! I AM OLD.
Lucas hung out and Grandma and Grandpas for a bit of the afternoon and I ran some errands. We hung out here last night. This morning we met another FANA family, the Como's at Rosedale for some play date time.
This was at Caribou at the mall where all of the kiddies were kind enough to pose. Ana is almost 2 (she's almost exactly a year older than Lucas so she's a good barometer of development). Joshua is.... Spiderman... and Solomon is a very mature and helpful big brother himself.
Everybody also wanted to be extra helpful with feeding Lucas' his Cheerios so he didn't get bored... this made me giggle :-)
All of that playing tired us out.
Since we've been sending Daddy pictures every night in an e-mail, I will leave you with a few of our random acts of craziness while we're home alone.
Lucas provokes the snake....
the snake fights back....
Wow that snake isn't letting go!!
It is clear that snaked picked the WRONG baby to mess with. Lucas secures his place as King of the Jungle Nursery. All of the monkeys, frogs, and random giant crab cheered in amazement!!!
Perhaps its clear I've been alone too long already!!!
Never fear, Grandma Holl will be arriving later this week :-)
Sunday, February 15, 2009
¿Habla español?
Hello everyone. I had planned to add some pictures this time, but apparently the USB cord that I brought and the camera I borrowed are not compatible. I´ll try another cord later and see if I can get some pictures up here.
I´m getting settled in Cusco, but my days at the hospital keep changing. Yesterday I went in the AM and worked in the ED for a couple of hours. I was told that I would be meeting with my contact person at 11AM and actually met up with his secretary at that time. We mapped out a schedule for me for the next couple of weeks, then my contact person, Dr. Montoya came in. He crossed out the schedule we had made and then made me one for the next 4 weeks. I told him that I would only be here for 3 weeks, and we crossed out that schedule again. He then wanted me to go to the remote clinc this next week and spend time there, but I told him that I already had spanish classes set up for every day in the evening this next week. After about 30 mintues of explaining and redrawing a schedule I think we finallyu have it figured out. I´ll be going to one of the local clinics for the next 3 days, and then out to the remote clinic on thursday and friday. I spoke with the spanish teacher and we´ll do 2 hours on Monday and Tuesday, and 1 hour on Wednesday. For the final week and a half I´ll be at the hosptial rotating in various specialties in the AM with the ED mixed in the afternoon and evenings.
Speaking of the remote clinic, I traveled there today with Dr. Montoya´s secretay. We visited the town and the clinic, and I got set up with a hotel to stay in overnight. I´ll be there for 2 days, but at this point I´m feeling pretty confortable with my spanish that it should be ok. I was able to talk with Carmen, the secretary, all the way out there and back in spanish with only a couple of pauses where we both were lost in the translation. I´m also able to talk with random people on the street in spanish and it´s going pretty well. There is a center courtyard where I can go and strike up various conversations with people. Most people are pretty nice and patient with me and the words are coming a litte easier.
I also went to the hospital last night to work a couple hours in the ED. Everything was going as it usually does until one of the patients in the hospital family member came to us in tears and shouted to the doctor. We ran up 4 flights of stars into the pediatric department and into one of the rooms. I´ll spare you the details but we ended up inubating, placing a central line, 2 NG tubes, and 2 liters of blood before she was ¨stable.¨ All of this with very primative medical supplies. At one point the doctor was cutting through a syringe with scissors for the intubation and placed the central line blindly (we usually use ultasound in the US). We were squeezing bags of blood and fluid with blood pressure cups and the nurse was trying to suction with a pump by hand. It was pretty crazy.
I wrapped up my student ticket for the churches/museums yesterday. For those of you who are into the history of the church this place is a must visit. There is plenty of history of the catholic church and the incan peoples that I probably won´t be able to visit all of the sites during my stay here. There are 14 different chruches and I think 8 different museums to see, each with a different story, and each with different original pieces of art that are important to the incan way of life. I had a private tour of one of the churches yesterday by a peruvian woman who talked about how the incans incorporated catholisim into the artwork/chapels. She also talked about how each place of religious importance to the incans was replaced by one of the churches. The biggest surprise came when she explained that the Incan people believed that the mountains were sacred, so the spanish placed a cross on the highest mountain to cover the Incan place of worship. She even explained that most people in Cusco still practice the Incan religion, although they would never tell their chruch.
Well, I´m off to the pharmacy to buy a mask for tomorrow. Es muy importante no tengo tuberculosis en Cusco.
I´m getting settled in Cusco, but my days at the hospital keep changing. Yesterday I went in the AM and worked in the ED for a couple of hours. I was told that I would be meeting with my contact person at 11AM and actually met up with his secretary at that time. We mapped out a schedule for me for the next couple of weeks, then my contact person, Dr. Montoya came in. He crossed out the schedule we had made and then made me one for the next 4 weeks. I told him that I would only be here for 3 weeks, and we crossed out that schedule again. He then wanted me to go to the remote clinc this next week and spend time there, but I told him that I already had spanish classes set up for every day in the evening this next week. After about 30 mintues of explaining and redrawing a schedule I think we finallyu have it figured out. I´ll be going to one of the local clinics for the next 3 days, and then out to the remote clinic on thursday and friday. I spoke with the spanish teacher and we´ll do 2 hours on Monday and Tuesday, and 1 hour on Wednesday. For the final week and a half I´ll be at the hosptial rotating in various specialties in the AM with the ED mixed in the afternoon and evenings.
Speaking of the remote clinic, I traveled there today with Dr. Montoya´s secretay. We visited the town and the clinic, and I got set up with a hotel to stay in overnight. I´ll be there for 2 days, but at this point I´m feeling pretty confortable with my spanish that it should be ok. I was able to talk with Carmen, the secretary, all the way out there and back in spanish with only a couple of pauses where we both were lost in the translation. I´m also able to talk with random people on the street in spanish and it´s going pretty well. There is a center courtyard where I can go and strike up various conversations with people. Most people are pretty nice and patient with me and the words are coming a litte easier.
I also went to the hospital last night to work a couple hours in the ED. Everything was going as it usually does until one of the patients in the hospital family member came to us in tears and shouted to the doctor. We ran up 4 flights of stars into the pediatric department and into one of the rooms. I´ll spare you the details but we ended up inubating, placing a central line, 2 NG tubes, and 2 liters of blood before she was ¨stable.¨ All of this with very primative medical supplies. At one point the doctor was cutting through a syringe with scissors for the intubation and placed the central line blindly (we usually use ultasound in the US). We were squeezing bags of blood and fluid with blood pressure cups and the nurse was trying to suction with a pump by hand. It was pretty crazy.
I wrapped up my student ticket for the churches/museums yesterday. For those of you who are into the history of the church this place is a must visit. There is plenty of history of the catholic church and the incan peoples that I probably won´t be able to visit all of the sites during my stay here. There are 14 different chruches and I think 8 different museums to see, each with a different story, and each with different original pieces of art that are important to the incan way of life. I had a private tour of one of the churches yesterday by a peruvian woman who talked about how the incans incorporated catholisim into the artwork/chapels. She also talked about how each place of religious importance to the incans was replaced by one of the churches. The biggest surprise came when she explained that the Incan people believed that the mountains were sacred, so the spanish placed a cross on the highest mountain to cover the Incan place of worship. She even explained that most people in Cusco still practice the Incan religion, although they would never tell their chruch.
Well, I´m off to the pharmacy to buy a mask for tomorrow. Es muy importante no tengo tuberculosis en Cusco.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Peruvian days
Hello all!
This is Ted writing to you from Cusco, Peru. To those of you who didn´t know, I am spending 3 weeks at a Hospital in Cusco on an international rotation. I arrived here yesterday morning after about a 24 hour travel that brought me from MPLS to Miami to Lima and then Cusco the next day. I did get to meet some interesting people on my trip. Chad Greenway and Ben Lieber were on the flight to Miami going to the Bahamas with their families. I met a Peruvian woman in Miami that was trying to take 3 large bags on the flight that each weighed just under 50 lbs (yes, I did carry them for her). And in Lima I met a Canadian who is not allowed into the US because of something he did in Africa 20 years ago. He didn´t say and I didn´t ask.
I´m staying with a pharmacist named Haydee in her 3 bedroom house. I get a room, bathroom, and 3 meals a day for 20 dollars. She knows very little english, but is very patient with broken spanish.
Since I arrived I have been spending time getting adjusted with the altitude and the rich history in Cusco. This city was the center of the Incan empire, and also the focal point of the Spanish conquests. That means that there are plenty of Incan ruins and temples along with Spanish Cathedrals to visit. I purchased a student pass for 5 bucks and get an audio tour of these great monuments. For the persons who visted the Montserrate, its kinda like that, only bigger and more of them. Its neat to see the incorporation of the Spanish catholism with the incan way of life. Plus the details put into these buildings are breathtaking.
I´ve also arranged for some spanish classes next week and I´ll be visiting Macchu Picchu over my last weekend.
Oh yes, the rotation. I went to the hospital today to meet my contact person. But he wasnt there. I went to the information desk and they told me he had the day off and would return tomorrow. I then asked if I could get access to the floors with the medical teams and patients, but I didn´t have proper ID or papers - both of which this man has. So, we´ve already experienced our first ¨manyana¨ event of the trip - probably not the last.
Next week I should be able to upload some pictures. I´m at an internet cafe and don´t have enough time for that here. there are no pictures allowed in the churches and temples, but I´ve got some good ones of the city and hospital.
This is Ted writing to you from Cusco, Peru. To those of you who didn´t know, I am spending 3 weeks at a Hospital in Cusco on an international rotation. I arrived here yesterday morning after about a 24 hour travel that brought me from MPLS to Miami to Lima and then Cusco the next day. I did get to meet some interesting people on my trip. Chad Greenway and Ben Lieber were on the flight to Miami going to the Bahamas with their families. I met a Peruvian woman in Miami that was trying to take 3 large bags on the flight that each weighed just under 50 lbs (yes, I did carry them for her). And in Lima I met a Canadian who is not allowed into the US because of something he did in Africa 20 years ago. He didn´t say and I didn´t ask.
I´m staying with a pharmacist named Haydee in her 3 bedroom house. I get a room, bathroom, and 3 meals a day for 20 dollars. She knows very little english, but is very patient with broken spanish.
Since I arrived I have been spending time getting adjusted with the altitude and the rich history in Cusco. This city was the center of the Incan empire, and also the focal point of the Spanish conquests. That means that there are plenty of Incan ruins and temples along with Spanish Cathedrals to visit. I purchased a student pass for 5 bucks and get an audio tour of these great monuments. For the persons who visted the Montserrate, its kinda like that, only bigger and more of them. Its neat to see the incorporation of the Spanish catholism with the incan way of life. Plus the details put into these buildings are breathtaking.
I´ve also arranged for some spanish classes next week and I´ll be visiting Macchu Picchu over my last weekend.
Oh yes, the rotation. I went to the hospital today to meet my contact person. But he wasnt there. I went to the information desk and they told me he had the day off and would return tomorrow. I then asked if I could get access to the floors with the medical teams and patients, but I didn´t have proper ID or papers - both of which this man has. So, we´ve already experienced our first ¨manyana¨ event of the trip - probably not the last.
Next week I should be able to upload some pictures. I´m at an internet cafe and don´t have enough time for that here. there are no pictures allowed in the churches and temples, but I´ve got some good ones of the city and hospital.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Ted made it to Peru in one piece!
Okay so this isn't a normal post... ya know.. the kind with tons of pictures of our son doing cool stuff.
I decided to just post up here Ted's initial e-mail to me to let me know that he made it to Peru okay. Don't worry, it's not to mushy and mostly informative. He hasn't sent any pictures yet, so I'll just throw on a few of Lucas just cuz.
TED'S EMAIL:
Hey honey,
I found an internet cafe across the street from the place that I am staying
- right now the internet at the house is broken and hopefully will be up
tonight. I enjoyed reading your email- I miss you guys very much.
Cusco is kinda like walking in the bad part of Bogota. The city feels the
same, with honking cars, random walkers, street venders, mountains all
around us. Its nice to be back in this part of the world - but difficult
without my two favorite people.
I landed in Lima around 12AM and got through customs about an hour later.
The plane from Miami to Lima was the biggest plane I have ever been on! It
was like riding in a huge limo, only with screaming children running down
the isles. I was able to talk with an older Peruvian woman and a young
Peruvian guy through some broken english-spanish. It worked, but a lot of
charades.
Overnight was a little rough. I slept for about 2 hours at the check in
because I couldn´t actually re-check my bags until 4 AM, and they were
cleaning the floors in the area I was trying to sleep in. I finally put my
feet up on my equipaje and tilted my hat down to get some broken sleep.
The flight here went fine - I slept the entire way. I totally missed the
breakfast, but when I got to the casa Haydee had breakfast waiting for me.
She is great and is very helpful and patient with me. We talked about all
sorts of stuff this morning. Her family, my family (she loves the pictures
of Lucas), what Cusco is like, how I should get around, planning a trip to
Macchu Picchu over my last weekend. I was quite surprised that we were able
to communicate so well seeing that she knows almost no english. But we did
fine.
I´m spending the day getting accostomed to the city, and figuring out where
to go. Dr. Divertie called this AM to see if I made it ok. I may be able to
talk with you at some point as Haydee has a calling card, but I didnt quite
get the details of that.
I love you and I´ll check as often as I can."
So that's what we know about Ted so far folks!!! Sounds like he's doing well. Lucas and I are hanging in there. The goals while Ted is gone are pretty simple: get up,let out dog, get ready, get baby, feed baby, get in car, get to Mallorys, deposit baby, drive to work, do work, drive to Mallory's to get baby, drive home,let out dog, feed baby, play with baby, bath baby, bottle baby, put baby in crib, go back in 10 minutes later to lay him back down, turn off all lights in the house and ignore him, go back to lay him down again (3rd time usually works), write Ted email, deal with house and life, bed.
That's what we will do pretty much every day that Ted is gone! So far its working out, but I'm pretty pooped. Not gonna lie. Lucas is into everything and doesn't like to be apart from mama by more than 2 feet.
Hope you are all doing well and I will close with some videos of about the house events.
I decided to just post up here Ted's initial e-mail to me to let me know that he made it to Peru okay. Don't worry, it's not to mushy and mostly informative. He hasn't sent any pictures yet, so I'll just throw on a few of Lucas just cuz.
TED'S EMAIL:
Hey honey,
I found an internet cafe across the street from the place that I am staying
- right now the internet at the house is broken and hopefully will be up
tonight. I enjoyed reading your email- I miss you guys very much.
Cusco is kinda like walking in the bad part of Bogota. The city feels the
same, with honking cars, random walkers, street venders, mountains all
around us. Its nice to be back in this part of the world - but difficult
without my two favorite people.
I landed in Lima around 12AM and got through customs about an hour later.
The plane from Miami to Lima was the biggest plane I have ever been on! It
was like riding in a huge limo, only with screaming children running down
the isles. I was able to talk with an older Peruvian woman and a young
Peruvian guy through some broken english-spanish. It worked, but a lot of
charades.
Overnight was a little rough. I slept for about 2 hours at the check in
because I couldn´t actually re-check my bags until 4 AM, and they were
cleaning the floors in the area I was trying to sleep in. I finally put my
feet up on my equipaje and tilted my hat down to get some broken sleep.
The flight here went fine - I slept the entire way. I totally missed the
breakfast, but when I got to the casa Haydee had breakfast waiting for me.
She is great and is very helpful and patient with me. We talked about all
sorts of stuff this morning. Her family, my family (she loves the pictures
of Lucas), what Cusco is like, how I should get around, planning a trip to
Macchu Picchu over my last weekend. I was quite surprised that we were able
to communicate so well seeing that she knows almost no english. But we did
fine.
I´m spending the day getting accostomed to the city, and figuring out where
to go. Dr. Divertie called this AM to see if I made it ok. I may be able to
talk with you at some point as Haydee has a calling card, but I didnt quite
get the details of that.
I love you and I´ll check as often as I can."
So that's what we know about Ted so far folks!!! Sounds like he's doing well. Lucas and I are hanging in there. The goals while Ted is gone are pretty simple: get up,let out dog, get ready, get baby, feed baby, get in car, get to Mallorys, deposit baby, drive to work, do work, drive to Mallory's to get baby, drive home,let out dog, feed baby, play with baby, bath baby, bottle baby, put baby in crib, go back in 10 minutes later to lay him back down, turn off all lights in the house and ignore him, go back to lay him down again (3rd time usually works), write Ted email, deal with house and life, bed.
That's what we will do pretty much every day that Ted is gone! So far its working out, but I'm pretty pooped. Not gonna lie. Lucas is into everything and doesn't like to be apart from mama by more than 2 feet.
Hope you are all doing well and I will close with some videos of about the house events.
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