A Baby!!, A Rash, & a little this and that

She had her baby!! I was so excited Saturday to be called to go the the birth. I was helping a fantastic midwife in the area with a local birth. Everything went so well. She had a sweet little boy. It was so fun to be involved in the arrival of a new little person. He just looked and looked at his family. I just love homebirths! The other children were downstairs with friends of the family's. They came upstairs and it was so exciting for them. I really, really wanted a homebirth with Darling. I am so grateful that hospitals are available when we need them, but it is really an special experience to have a baby at home.

Deer got her new flute! We enjoyed getting to play flute together, vs. sharing my flute. :-) She is progressing beautifully with her lessons. She has a fantastic teacher, which I think makes such a huge difference.

Darling had quite a rash on her torso, and it was starting to go down her limbs. I thought it was just dry skin patches, but despite baby oil, lotion, antibiotic ointment, it wasn't getting better just steadily worse and worse. When I took off her clothes, she looked awful!! As a last ditch effort before taking her in, I tried hydrocortizone cream. I think it burned a bit, as there was so much rash. We played with ice packs in her jammies until she felt better. She slept better that night, and her rash was so much better in the morning. It is almost 100% gone now! I was giving her a rubdown with it 2x per day. Now I'm down to 1x per day and will probably start skipping days. I can't believe how dramatic a recovery it was!!

Little news:
Dot applied for her passport for her mission's trip this summer,
Drum passed his CAP test last night,
Deer started a new project (a latch-hook rug kit we had around),
Duke is reading better,
I'm getting tired of school (How long til summer break!!),
Cousin E (9) showed Dot who showed the rest of us how to do Google Earth (that is the coolest!!),
a friend of Dot's is loaning some books to the girls (I've enjoyed them as well!) so Deer has been doing a ton of reading,
Dessert has been trying to learn how to play cribbage (he wants to play, but I told him he needs to know more math, so he just keeps watching to try and figure it out) ,
Dime joined CAP so now I have 2 uniforms to iron and sew patches on (my thumb is finally healing after the 1/2 inch poke I gave it sewing patches),
I started doing some exercise on the rebounder (which means I have less time for the computer since I try getting up and doing that vs. getting up and checking the computer - which I'm doing right now - which will mean I might not do my exercise)
Oh well..... :-) Spring's COMING!!! (Do you hear me, Spring!)