Baby Bird Flaps Her Wings

Clara started up with the coughing yesterday evening, and even though it sounded different and there wasn't a whole constellation of symptoms as with Joe, given that Joe is still walking about with pneumonia, just the be on the safe side, Julie took Clara in today, too. She has "just a cold." We are, strangely, relieved. Since the visit wasn't followed by a trip to the pharmacy, Julie found herself at home with Clara well in advance of "normal" time. And after Ted and Uncle Scott left to get Joe and bread to have with dinner*, B. Bird and Julie were on their own. They had a high flying time. Clara's new thing of late is to windmill her arms around everywhere and smile and screech. Fans, it's a cute as it sounds. She is a bucketful of darling when she does this. After we finished up our apple puree with grains (or Gerber Apple with whole grain infant cereal), Julie pushed Clara, in high chair, into the kitchen, where we listened to the Glee Christmas album and waved our arms at each other. (Julie also washed the bottles.) The boys came home right as this all ceased to be fun for Clara and she was whisked off to the bird bath!

*Uncle Scott has learned this week that Raleigh loves himself a loaf of bread. Ribbons ate up some bread--from Rustica--that was waiting to go back into the mouse-proof pot that had been used for soup and was cooling down that never went back in the pot because Julie called Scott to assist in pharmacy run and Clara pick-up yesterday. Oh we forgot to mention that the mice were back? Yeah. Everyone wants to live at Raleigh House. But the mice cannot live at Raleigh House.