Back up and running

Hi, all,

Team Beatrice is back up and running with a brand-spanking new MacBook. The old computer has been taken to a repair/recovery shop where our personal information will be extracted and used to establish nefarious lines of credit that will prevent us from ever buying our own home.

I digress, but only slightly. The computer issue illustrates where Team Beatrice's energy and time is focused these days: Beatrice. Normally, the breakdown of an expensive item of equipment would lead to a couple days of trouble-shooting and then, if a replacement were needed, a prolonged period of comparison shopping. But not these days: it took us 30 minutes to decide we needed a new computer and about 15 minutes to purchase it at the UW bookstore. No kidding; our parking ticket was stamped at 12:15; we drove out at 12:32. [Note: one way to speed up the purchasing process is to announce that you want the cheapest, slowest MacBook in the store and you don't want anything else.]

Anyway, back to main event...

Ms. Beatrice is still doing well, but we recently received an ominous reminder of whence we came: X-rays showed a slight reaccumulation of fluid in Bea's right side. The fluid is consistent with what the doctors expected to happen under the best of circumstances, but we still didn't want to hear it. She's scheduled for another round of X-rays tomorrow (Monday), so we'll keep everyone posted. With any luck, the x-rays will show no further reaccumulation and Bea will start getting real food, possibly even breast milk in the next few days. (Fingers crossed: it may be a long time before she gets any breast milk.)

In the meantime, enjoy the picture of Bea in her new onesy courtesy of Grandma Nancy. Check out the green feet: they're little frogs! Hilarious.