all better

...i am happy to report that cadence is all better now. she didn't even go into the doctor's office on wednesday. her fever went away overnight tuesday, so even though the doctor on call had told me to bring her in the next day, i had ted just monitor her temperature the following morning, and it stayed normal, so i figured why mess with a good thing?

...my cousin ben and his wife rachel were in town this week. ben's being transferred to chicago from CA, and we're excited! they signed a lease on an apt. in south evanston, which is just a couple miles from us. they'll be moving here the 1st week of july. woohoo!

well, it's hard to believe, but cadence is going to be 21 months old tomorrow. she's got quite the personality, that little one does. she can be OH SO VERY FRUSTRATING at times, but mainly she's a super kid. i have to admit that sometimes i worry whether we're doing enough for her. the pressure these days to have your kid sleeptrained, pottytrained, and reading and writing by a REALLY early age is somewhat daunting. i have to keep reminding myself that she's not even 2 yet. and so what if the dooce's toddler already knew the entire alphabet and could count to 17 by the time she was cadence's age? so what if cadence answers 'yellow' any time i ask her what color something is, even if it's turquoise? so what if most of what she says is still total absolute gibberish? at least she says it with gusto and like she means it.

it's all too easy these days to compare your kid to other kids constantly. parenting is the new black, and it's become a dominant way of keeping up with the joneses. i just have to remind myself that ted and i are NOT playing that game...