Today was a great day
[Re: work screw-up; is fixed. It was administrative. I did an interview with someone last week about "why did Tiger Woods cheat" (sad media note: saying that cannot possibly out me since everyone and their dog did that interview last week) and he said that high powered sensation-seeking men basically have to do something risky to get their adrenaline high and once they're famous that becomes doing something as stupid as that. While I am not sure I buy this argument, I did start to wonder if I occasionally royally procrastinate while that one item gets worse and worse in order to feel the adrenaline rush myself. Sadly I do not have the talent to go with it.]
And now onto today.
6:15 Noah wakes me up to ask if we can please decorate the (pre-bought disgusting kit, but we will never eat it!) gingerbread house. So, starting a bit later at 7 after breakfast has been consumed, we do.
Then we played Playmobil general store. Then we played Little People (ah… the Little People. Just when I was about to pack them away.) Then we went to his school holiday party and Noah played in his first piano recital. He played middle C, in quarter notes, alternating hands at regular intervals. It was very exciting.
Then Santa came and Noah was entranced. But not shy. He went up to Santa and said “Hi Santa! I’m Noah from XXX Trail” where XXX Trail is our address. Noah asked for a Playmobil castle and a “stormtrooper bigger than Daddy.” Fortunately Santa pointed out that said stormtrooper would not fit in his sleigh.
Then we came home and chilled out in front of YouTube and watched the Star Wars Christmas special, fast-forwarding through a number of bizarre things. (Jefferson Airplane!) Then we played Star Wars together ad nauseum and had pizza and read books.
It was a very ordinary but extremely fun day. Well, ok, the party was not ordinary but it was low-key and very enjoyable.
Noah did go to the doctor last week as he was still suffering diarrhea, but also because he was pale and tired out beyond what you would expect. Carl took him, but our doctor is concerned that he might be anemic. To be truthful about it, we have been a little worried for some time that he is excessively pale. So far the recommendation is to come back in a month and also to increase the iron in his diet. (He does take vitamins, but without iron, as it creates other issues, but we may change this.)
I sat down and looked at his diet though and short of frying liver (I’m actually going to get pate) I’m not sure what else we can do: on the plant front he eats black beans, chick peas, and lentils; kale, spinach, dried figs, raisins, dried apricots, and so on. On the meat front we do eat beef and salmon. We only eat whole grains, and the odd times we don’t, they’re fortified for the most part. I’m not sure about trying oysters, especially as they come with other things.
I will pay more attention to combining vitamin-c rich foods with meat + plant iron all in the same meal, but really? I don’t think we can address this via diet. However I’ll keep a journal and see what’s what. Noah is at what will probably be the most neophobic stage, but it’s never translated into a white diet. Right now his most requested meal is either soup (minestrone or pea) or baked breaded eggplant with buckwheat noodles. You see what I mean? Well, ok. He also eats Zoodles from time to time (1 per month). And tonight we had pizza, with steak and spinach on it.
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