End of December

Hmmm...  This is going to be a random post though I had planned to write about quilts...  Maybe tomorrow again.

Thank you for all the good wishes for our new grandchild.  Tetsu was especially amazed that so many people read my blog and would think of us.  We get daily updates from Leiya and of course as we can't be there in person, we get the next best thing with baby photos and videos.  

Tony and Leiya took Luka off about 24 hours after being born, IN A CAR!  What are these young parents thinking of!?  Well, it turns out the new parents were having trouble with breast feeding so off they went with Luka to a lactation consultant.  New to me!  They got some very good advice and assurance and I think that Luka is doing fine now and getting enough nourishment.

Leiya says that Luka spends most of his time sleeping and so she rarely sees him with his eyes open.  Enjoy it now!  But she did send us a video with him looking around for a bit and so I saved a screenshot.  He sure looks like Tony to me!

But this isn't supposed to be a baby blog so let's see what else I can write about.

The past couple of days have been very wearing on us because we get updates from Julieta and Takumi and he is still battling whatever has gotten a hold on him.  It is turning out to be a long and brutal battle with numerous trips to Urgent Care, Covid testing, scans and blood tests.  As of now, the Covid tests come back negative but the blood tests aren't very encouraging.  And of course Urgent Care really is completely overloaded and medical staff do NOT want to spend time on non-covid cases, so he gets shuttled off to the side.  Julieta steps up for his rights but I don't think she is allowed into the facilities with him...  Finally today they were able to see their regular doctor online and more tests are scheduled for next week...  Can you imagine how terrified Tetsu and I are right now.  We don't want to hear that Takumi has contracted Covid, but any illness is not good during this pandemic and the holidays aren't helping.  If more than a day passes without word from Takumi and Julieta then we start getting panicky and then pester them with texts, emails and telephone calls.  Please continue praying for him...

On the more positive side, Tetsu bought a new-to-us car this month and it arrived yesterday.  Let's say that we are rather floored at what a car can do these days and ours is not even equipped with extreme technology...  just the basics (like automatic fold away mirrors, backing-up screens, blue-tooth connections...) but we have managed all our lives with non-remote everything and all the beeps and whistles are rather amazing to us.  I am still afraid to drive it and so I haven't sat behind the steering wheel yet.

Our bright blue car.  I don't think we'll lose it!

And here is Tetsu modeling the vest that I knitted for him this Christmas.  It fits!  And he says it's pretty warm too.

This is one of my last pages from my bullet journal this year.  I've had a good time decorating it and adding Bible verses and quotes to it...  Almost all of my artistic attempts are just re-creations from Pinterest so I can't take much credit for any of the art work...  

Here is another colored pencil picture at the bottom of a page...  I've got a new bullet journal for 2021 and hope to try my hand at water colors next month...

And a last photo that just came in from Leiya and Tony.  I just love the dark coziness of mother and baby.