Pneumonia Signing Scripts

So – it’s been a big week around here. On the not so great side of things – Ryan was diagnosed with viral pneumonia. He’s okay, now, though he had a few bad days. I knew he really had something bad because he is a person who never misses work or takes sick days – and he took two before he went to see the doctor. On the bright
side, because he was, as our doctor put it, “1,000 percent contagious” he got to work from home almost the entire week. I am not, however, going to get it. I just can’t. And I won’t. I suspect the kids both already had it to some degree.

On the great side of things – Fang Fang continues to do beautifully. Her signing has recently exploded – she is getting more and more expressive. She wakes up every morning signing something to me (usually, “Shoes” because she loves shoes and wants them put on her feet ASAP – but sometimes rather random things like, “Dirty” or “Full.” Maybe she’s trying to tell me about her dreams?). Today Spike was crying (literally over spilt milk. He ruined a picture he had been working on and was very upset) and she kept signing “Sad” and “Cry” and looking very worried about her brother. She also attempted to make up a sign today when Ryan made a bonfire – waving her hands in the air to signify “smoke” (I don’t know the sign for that yet, but I imagine it’s not too far from the one she made up). And her relationship with Spike continues to get more and more loving. He is still feeling his way around this new family structure – but I think it will all be okay in the end.

On the non-baby related front – I have had an incredibly busy, exciting work week. Y. and I received some amazingly good news from our agent on Wednesday night. I won’t divulge it publicly just yet because there is more that needs to be worked out – but we are pretty much holding our breath in excitement. We’ll know more in a couple of weeks, and maybe I’ll be able to be more specific then. We also continued to interview managers, and had some really really great meetings with some fantastic people and feel very lucky to have such great choices and options. We should be able to reach a decision about that by the end of next week. I think I will be going to L.A. fairly soon (baby, and possibly Spike, too, in tow) and I’m looking forward to that. So much to do. So much to do!

Anyway, this is basically a post saying that I won’t be posting much for a while – and if people have noticed that I have sort of dropped off the face of the earth – please don’t take it personally. I have basically no extra time and I need to spend the little time I do have on getting some work done. I am still reading all my favorite blogs - maybe not commenting as often as I used to because the baby doesn’t like it when I type. And I’m getting all the emails – but having a hard time finding the time to respond. And I still care people – I sincerely do. But right now I gotta tuck it up and get some serious work done. Strike while the iron is red hot. So – I’ll keep posting the weekly hit of Bell pictures over at West Wind (more tomorrow night, I think) and I’ll definitely be posting here on and off - but if things seem quiet for a while – don’t worry. I’m just really really fuckin’ busy. Or maybe have viral pneumonia. But I will be back and posting like mad, eventually, I’m sure.