This week started off with an email from the teacher that makes you scratch your head. It was a notice that a child in preschool had head lice and that we were to check our children for lice before returning to school. The notice included a long list of precautions including that we were to notify them if our child had been diagnosed with head lice. How do you get diagnosed with head lice? Don't we all know what they look like from our childhood? I certainly did, but I wasn't going to tell the teacher. Unfortunately I did find a couple nits on W's head and treated him with a natural lice treatment of coconut oil, tea tree oil soaking on his head for two hours and then a rinse with apple cider vinegar. Apparently the oils kill the bugs and the vinegar loosens the nits from the hair. After a late night long procedure, I dried his hair and combed out any remaining nits. It appeared to work since I was able to comb a few more nits out with the nit comb. The next morning there were no nits in his hear from my close inspection, so I have complied with the school's "No Nit Policy"! On Wednesday, the next preschool day, all the mothers milled around like nothing had happened. No one mentioned the lice. No one asked, "Did you guys have it?" "Did you have to do a treatment?" The teachers didn't mention it. It was hilarious! It was almost like the email never went out.
I can't believe I'm actually writing this in the morning! This week O has been sleeping about 7 hours at a stretch at night, and I have been enjoying the benefits. Last week I was at my wits end after he woke up to eat every 2-3 hours. He is 8 months old and he was waking up like a newborn.
W hasn't been eating much lately and you actually see his back ribs! It worried me so much I sent him to bed with a big cup of milk and a promise to get up in the morning and make him a big pile of eggs.
Can you actually grind espresso bean so small that it turns into powder? It tastes like I'm drinking coffee beans. Yuk! Why is it so hard to make a simple cup of coffee? Why can't I make something as simple as a decent mocha every morning? I hate paying $5 for a cup of espresso. Oh well, I guess I will be really wide awake after my coffee bean puree.
