Back to School

Preschool started again, and Dale was able to take a prep period to go with Sojo for her first day. Having a new teacher this year and a new classroom was pretty darn exciting. It was a great first day; that is, until I got a call from the teacher saying that they found a long white worm in her poop. Yea, pretty mortifying, but part of me had to laugh just because those things tend to happen to teachers. Of course, we were properly concerned, and the teacher did some research and said she thought it was a whipworm. I did an image search and then started laughing aloud. Seeing that worm on the computer made me remember that we had a stir fry the previous night where I added some Asian straw mushrooms that are really long and skinny and white. Sojo ate tons of them, and we even joked that she was eating worms. Ha!
And after suffering more than a few bouts of hives, we decided to bite the bullet and have Sojo tested for allergies. They drew blood, which was heartbreaking to watch (smart nurses wrapped her like a burrito with only one arm sticking out--Sojo sobbing, "no, everybody!" over and over is burned in my memory). We'll know soon enough and hopefully will find some lurking allergies that are causing such havoc.
Before we left for the summer vaca, we ordered a couch we saw at a market and kept thinking about. Dale and I spent about a month saying, "Hmmm, wouldn't it be nice to be sitting on that brown couch right now?" and then decided to go for it. Not only it is super comfy, but the turquoise walls we didn't quite love before are now my favorite in the whole house.