still puking

I'm still sick, Frederic is still having to do everything around the house and work, and Benjamin is still cute. The renovations are at a stand-still because Frederic doesn't have time to work on them at the moment. Frederic also pulled a muscle in his back at work a few days ago so was off for 4 days -- too bad that 3 of those days were his normal days off anyway!

My mom is arriving tomorrow for 2 weeks to take care of Benjamin and the house so that I can rest up and Frederic can work on the renovations.

I saw the GP yesterday; he gave me some medicine but so far it's not working, maybe tomorrow.
Oh, and everything you read about having beautiful, luxuriant hair during pregnancy? It's not true. My hair is falling out by the handful.

I thought I didn't have any Benjamin pictures to post for you... I was right. We need to buy new batteries for our camera; they've been recharged for 2 years and won't keep their charge anymore. And I'm a little busy throwing up to take many pictures at the moment. I do have an extremely short, poor quality and soundless video of him dancing for you, though. I guess he got his parents' sense of rhythm, poor kid. We should send him to spend more time with his dancing Creole relatives.




And I can tell you that he knows the Sesame Street Video "Learning About Letters" almost by heart now, and can say "bah-bo" (apple), "nana" (banana), "loons" (balloons), and for some reason says "Daddy" every time Cookie Monster shows up on the screen to sing "C is for Cookie." Not sure where that came from!

He can point to his nose, his ear, his mouth, his teeth, his head, his arm and his feet... he's not too sure where his eyes are, though. One of his favorite books is about a baby who can't find his nose, and finally finds it when he looks in the mirror at the end of the book.