Finally, March!

Photo: Dry weather takes a toll on Bromeliads and the inhabitants.

It just dawned on me this morning that I have not written anything in more than a month! I have been slipping more and more, writting less and less. I do have an excuse, last year was a really bad pregnancy, this year is a really cute little baby...

Anyway, Febraury went by as a mirror image of last Feb. Sickness struck everyone as the last remnants of January were fading away. The first one to go down was Diego, which is normal, but he quickly came back, as is was not the case last year. Then it was Armando's turn. He usually gets them really bad and excerbates his asthma. We were expecting bronchitis for both, only one got it. In turn, Jevon had his share and finally me, which was good because baby got antibodies and escaped the cold. But as we were about to start celebrating the end of the "sick season", the vomit started.

This time it was the baby and, lo and behold, it was a nasty case of Amoebas! So everyone, minus the dog, had to get medicine to kill Amoebas.

Then, one week gone by, vomit overtook Armando and a friend of his. That one passed with no more victims... then the Chicken Pox hit!

Well, we are really not too sure it was the Chicken Pox, but it looked like it, sort of acted like it, but it was really mild. Good thing, since the only one that had not had it before was the baby. He is fine now.

Today both the oldest woke up with a cold... yeepee!

So, we enter March counting our blessings and taking our vitamin C. We are finally off the radiator heat, or at least we hope, as the Cold Front number 38 passes by. The days are getting lovlier but also drier: Xalapa looks dreadful when it gets this dry for a long time. The rain will come soon enough and then green will be living everywhere... even on our shoes and clothes!

Sometimes I wonder... does anyone actually read this blog?