Week 36- Chicks, Photo Shoots and the Rise of Proud Flesh

Bear,

This week has been WILD.  As in a jungle of excitement and creativity and HOLY HECK WHAT IS THAT GROWING ON  MY THUMB.  You may get grossed out by this in years to come, but trust me, it was on MY finger, so I get it.



Needless to say, the week started out with fun.  We got four baby chickens!  In honor of Tobias and his Danish Pride we named them after favorite monarchs and places in Daneland.  Margarethe, Ingrid, Silkeborg and Thunderbear.  (Thordenbjorn)  They are all girls. Here they are in their miniature splendor. They live in a horse trough. We sing them songs and catch worms for them, so you will see in years to come, that we like to tend young things :)

We also had a photo shoot with Brent Williams, who is basically one of my brothers from another mother and a damn fine photographer.

You'll see that Tobias and I adore playing dress-up first hand, but there is definitely some foreshadowing in this session.  We wanted to make sure we had some fun, creative shots of how much we've enjoyed this process of incubating an incoming spirit...I think it shows pretty clearly, but of course, you be the judge!







And then, good lord.  I had gotten a blood blister when living in Thorsager during the first part of being pregnant...it had taken its sweet time migrating to the surface, months in fact.  Well,  I finally snipped it a couple weeks back to let it breathe and everything seemed to be going well UNTIL....I woke up this week to find it infected and growing a LOT of extra skin. Check this out.  We scheduled a visit with a Western Doctor to see What The Deal Was and he smiled and cut it open and cauterized it, as in, BURNED THE FLESH with silver nitrate sticks and the prescribed an atomic blast of antibiotics.

We weren't too impressed with that course of action so our midwife Joy, who is awesome, suggested this Chinese Herbal Doctor that people fly around the world to see for cures.  Amazingly and magically, he agreed to see us the next day.  Dr. Kou took one look at Thumbkin and was like, 'Oohhhhh...we treat this with herb."  Good old Dr. Kou.

So now we are in the thick of trying to fight the infection with Chinese Herbs with names like Dang Shen and the ever popular jujube.  Keep you posted on that one.

Week 36 has totally taken the cake for exciting things in the outside world.  If you remember any of your in the womb experiences, I betcha this week would be one of the impressions.
Love you kid,

Jaime