1977 Catherine's Letter -Nov.10

Thurs. AM, November 10, 77

Dear Mom, Dad, and Mary Virginia,

Hi!  We were glad to get your letter and the school newspaper with Mary Virginia's poem in it.  A very nice poem – we especially liked the subject matter.  Wendy likes to push against things with her legs but she hasn't gotten to the point where she is ready to walk yet.

I have started her on cereal (with cooked egg yolk added) in the morning and vegetables for lunch.  The first day she fell asleep before supper and slept until 2 a.m. But yesterday she stayed awake long enough to have some cereal for supper.  The Dr. said it is important to get more fluids down her – i.e. juice and water – as she tends to go two or three days without a bowel movement and the vegetables won't help the situation.  I am having a hard time though because she doesn't like the bottle and I don't have a breast that dispenses juice or water.  I try giving her juice or water before nursing her but she still doesn't take too much.

We went Christmas shopping last weekend and again last evening so we have made a good size dent in our shopping.  We have to get things to mail to Maine ready to go so they will get there in plenty of time.

DeeDee is sorry you won't be here sooner but she does hope she will get to see you.  She will be returning from Canada on the 2nd.

Have you got flowers blooming from all the warm weather you are having this month?  Every day we look at the temperatures in Boston, Cincinnati and Spokane and so far Spokane seems to be having the worst weather.  However, that is still the area we would most like to be in.  It is getting cooler here in the evenings but the days are still warm and sunny.

We got a postcard from Roberta yesterday but she didn't have much new to say.  Have you heard anything new from Serena regarding her Christmas plans?  I suppose though that you won't know what her plans are until the last minute.

I'm going to have to get Wendy some new clothes.  She has out-grown practically all of her original outfits.  Yesterday I tried a 15-20# size on her and it seemed to fit fine.  It was one of those Sears terry cloth sleep & play type.  I'm sure her growth rate should be slowing down a little.  If she continued to gain four pounds every six weeks she would weigh almost 40 pounds by the end of year!

Gerry's knee has been bothering him again so he hasn't been jogging but we have been doing some exercises every morning.

Hope to hear from you again soon!

Love,

Catherine, Gerry 

& Wendy