Today is Madison's 21st month birthday:-) and everyday with her is an adventure! She is talking LOTS now and understanding much more so it's definitely fun to interact with her everyday. She started to really enjoy Sesame Street especially when we are driving to Disneyland:-) Loves to take Ellie for a walk, to play on the beach and to dip her feet in the pool afterward, and to say "Hi" and "Bye" to everyone she sees...:-) Oh and she has Chandler (from Friends)'s work laugh down pat... which I shall get on film sometime real soon:-)
毎週火曜日の図書館であるお話聞かせ会はマディソンのお気に入りの一つ。図書館にも慣れて到着すると直ぐ水槽に行ってお魚を見た後、子供用のコンピューターで遊んで...お話会の途中に歌う歌やダンスもしっかり覚えて嬉しそう動き回ったり。ダンスの歌で使うクマのぬいぐるみやスカーフをもちろん取りに行ってちゃんとママの分も持って来てくれた後、片付けまで全部ママの面倒見てくれてます：）
Our Tuesday Story Time has been so great for Madison and I... At this point she has stopped running out of the theater and has been sitting with me nice, or standing around me, really engaged in dances, songs and book readings. For two of the dance songs she needs to go down the steps and get a teddy bear or a scarf, well without me asking her to do so she always picks up one for her and one for me then after we are done using them she would come get my bear or scarf and go put them back in the box! Soooo Sweeeet!
図書館にある何万冊とある絵本の中でマディソンが私に持って来てくれる本は家にある同じ絵本なんだけど、良く見つけられるな〜！と私は関心しまくり：）
Then after storytime we spend a little time browsing the shelves and would you believe out of those thousands of books Madison always seems to find her way to the same books she already has at home...amazing!
このダンスは途中で音楽が止まる度にフリーズって自分達も止まらなきゃ行けないんだけど、マディソン上手でしょ!!
This freeze dance is one of her favorite song to dance to... and she is soooo good at freezing!!
最近マディソンがし始めた事で全然可愛くない事があります...それは“ブリージングスペル”って言って、５％の子供に起こるんです：(
Another thing Madison started to do recently is nothing cute at all...it is called "Breathing Spells." Apparently it happens in .1% to 5% of children, so hooray, Madison is special :-(
最初にこれが起きたのは、私がエリーを散歩がてらマディソンと公園に行った時の事...いつもエリーのひもを持って歩くのはマディソンでとっても上手に出来るんだけど、この日何かにつまずいたのかエリーが強く引っ張り過ぎたのか、道ばたで転んじゃったんです。その後、思いっきり泣こうとして大きく息を吸ったんだけど、長く吸い過ぎたのかな？急に体に力がなくなってそのまま気絶するみたいに目を閉じ始めたんです。マディソンを抱きかかえていた私はビックリして大声で“マディソン!!!!”って言ったら、目が閉じ終わる前に起きて来たんだけど私は少し放心状態...そして二回目に起きたのは、バイブル教室の途中でした。私の財布を漁っていたマディソンから財布を取り上げた後グズり始めたマディソンを連れて外に出たマディソンは外に出た途端気絶、中に居た私はデイブがマディソンの名前を叫ぶのを聞いて慌てて駆け出して１、２秒後には目を覚ましたから良かったんだけど慌てて病院に連れている事にしました。結局分かった事はこれはまれだけど５歳以下の子供達に起こる事があるらしい...他に変な症状が出なければ大丈夫だって...とりあえず、これが何なのか分かって良かったんだけど後３年間も起こる可能性があるのは困るな...：(
This first happened to Anna when Madison fell while walking Ellie...she got herself so upset that she inhaled deeply and then doesn't breathe out, but instead her eyes start to close and Anna screamed out Madison's name and she came back...so scary. The second time it happened was at Bible class...Madison was rifling through Anna's purse and when we took it away she got upset, so Dave took her outside and then she fainted...Dave screamed her name and tried to wake her up not understanding what was going on...we tried to take her to the doctors but the site we went to didn't have emergency hours so we settled for calling the on-call nurse as Madison seemed perfectly fine after both of the instances. The nurse went through all these other symptoms and Madison didn't have any of those...we were worried about brain damage, but that doesn't seem to be a concern. We later learned from people at church who had experience with the same things what these episodes were called and looked them up. We got a bit of relief to find out it's not just Madison and it goes away... but 3 more years of this!? not great...:-(
いろんな資料を読んでみると、この症状は子供達が無理の起こらせている訳じゃないんだって、だからなるべく起こっても大げさにしない事が大事で無視出来る限りした方がいいらしい...もう二度と起こらなければいいんだけど...
We also read that it's important to ignore it rather than make a big deal. We are trying to see what may work to get her to snap out of it when we see that she is heading that way but at this point we just hope it won't happen too often to her that she will be able to deal with those upsetting situations differently...
So my friend, Brenda, told me one time that she had "spells" as a kid that sound a lot like what you're describing with Madison. She said that when she'd get upset about something she'd black out or faint (she doesn't remember because she was really young, but her parents told her this). She said that her parents finally got fed up with it and threw her in a bathtub full of cold water once when she was out and it never happened again.
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