This Week's Woes

I've still been unsuccessful in getting my Christmas pictures uploaded here and on Facebook. We've had some major computer issues. Hopefully they're resolved now, but it's been a giant pain the butt. The other night our computer got super slow and would lock up no matter what you tried to do. We've done lots of defragmenting and purging on the hard drive. (And by we, I mean Jacob) I had 3 entire years of pictures saved to the hard drive...and we all know how many pictures I take. Once we moved those all to an external hard drive it cleared up almost half of the space on the computer. I am not even kidding. It seems to be running much better right now and hopefully I'll get the Christmas pictures up soon. I'm also still working on my annual "Farewell" to the previous year, slide show. The computer problems have slowed me down this year, but hopefully I'll have it up by Saturday.

Monday we had a new little boy start at daycare. He's 13 months old and this is his first time in daycare. That's always a hard adjustment for kids that age. Oh, and did I happen to mention that he really doesn't understand English? That's a new one to me. He's Vietnamese and his family only speaks it at home, although his parents do know some English. He also has a 4 year old sister who goes to our daycare and speaks English fairly well now. She's been there longer. He stayed at home with a grandma or someone from Vietnam who had to go back after they lost their Green Card. Anyway, this poor little guy is miserable. He cries all day. I don't think he knows what we're saying. We're completely foreign to him (literally). We can't get him to drink anything all day. I Googled some Vietnamese translations to some words, but I just ended up more confused.

It dawned on me this afternoon to try and teach him sign language. Every time I'd give him food I'd sign, "Eat" at him and say it over and over. He started imitating me and he even smiled at me (a first!) when I clapped my hands. Please pray for my sanity though because I know it's going to be a good 2 or 3 weeks before he starts really getting comfortable around us and I'm may lose my mind by then.

Last night I started to take down all of our Christmas decorations. Tonight I finished. The only thing left is the tree itself, and I'll leave that job for Jacob. Now my living room is back to normal almost. It's always a little sad to take everything down, but I feel like there's more space once it's done.

Anyway, it's been quite the week so far. I'm ready for the weekend, but still have another 2 days to survive first!