I know, this is late. And I only have two pictures to show for the entire day. Forgive me. A half-dozen episodes of Lost are to blame. Zach and I huddled around the laptop last night. For, ahem... a few hours. Poppy perched in my lap, surrounded by some Wasabi peas, Cup o' Noodles and milk flavored wafer cookies. Somehow, it was very, very good for all of us. Poppy continues to make small strides. She's sleeping better. She's eating a tiny bit better. She's making some efforts to play on her own, but really doesn't want to do much more than … [Read more...]

Baby steps. That's the name of the game these days. Poppy slept less anxiously last night. And made an attempt to feed herself some hard boiled egg at breakfast. She didn't swallow it, but she did try to eat it. She was slightly tearful on our very-short-because-it-is-exceedingly-hot outing for the day, especially when anyone tried to look at her. Or worse, talk to her. Even Zach and our awesome guide Rebecca are on the boo-hoo list. For now. She did manage to tolerate almost an hour of skyping with her exceedingly excitable … [Read more...]

until we meet Miss Poppy. So grateful we got a good night's sleep last night. I think I crawled into bed at 8:00 and other than a short span around 1:30 AM, I slept until 5:30. Seriously, a huge blessing for this mama who doesn't do well without adequate snooze time. Then we got up and got cleaned up. So glad to wash my hair after a 48 hour travel day. And then onto the breakfast buffet, which was either really great, or we were really hungry. Or most likely, both. Then we perused the hotel grounds which includes, not-so-surprisingly, a beautiful garden. … [Read more...]