The Kays and The Giauques in Puerto Rico

This has been a week of preperation and excitment. Our second and more difficult of our first two trimesters is coming to a close. We have a lot of exams and extra work to do. We have been lucky to have a take home final in both trimesters. Anatomy and Physiology is the take home test that we have and the other exams are in Medical Surgical Nursing and PsychoSocial Nursing. The professors are paying more attention to the course content this time around and they are actually making sure that we know what we are studying.

Sylvia just got her first homework assignment today. She has to read a story and draw a picture about it. The story is all in spanish. My little bilingual genius.

Mom and Rod Giauque flew into San Juan International Airport on Friday night. They took a Lancha from Catano to Viejo San Juan. Alice is amazed at how observant and scientific Vivian is. She and Rod are very excited to see her walking. Rod has either one of them in his arms or within 12 inches of him at any given moment. He is a neice magnet. He may have contracted some traveling sickness. He has been feeling queezie since yesterday. He spent most of the day sleeping today. Mom whipped our house into shape today while I was at my last day of work and while Nicky was studying. She is sure great to have around. We are planning a trip this weekend after our final exams to go to Viequez, a little Island off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico.

Today is Valentine's day. Nicky taught me a valuable lesson about being poor on a holday. She took my hand this morning and told me with a gleam in her eye, "Happy Valentine's Day, I didn't get you anything". How sincere and profound. Broke on Valentine's day but with the account of my heart overflowing with deposit's (and no I am not referring to plaque).

We have decided to put the use of the Animalitos to rest. The babysitter came to us the other day and told us that sylvia was biting her fingertips. (she has been doing this for a while now as a nervous reaction. Her papa thought that it would be just as easy to get her to stop biting her nails and her fingertips by explaining that "the animalitos were going to munch on her fingertips if she kept biting them and exposing the dermal layer of skin). Jen explained that she saw her that night really goin at her fingertips and when she asked her what she was doing Sylvia replied, "I have to get rid of the Animilitos or they are going to eat my fingers". I did not think that the reason that she was bighting her finger nails and tips was because of the Animalitos. So that same day we presented her with chewable princess vitamins and told her that when she took them that they got rid of all of the Animalitos and that their were no more Animalitos. I think that Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny is an easier fable than the wrath of the Animalitos.