The Boy has been sick the last few days. Recurring fever, loss of appetite, congestion. The pediatrician says it’s nothing serious — at least, no visible infection or signs of other serious issues — but it means late nights and tired days for us all, especially K.
A bit of sunshine and fresh air in the early afternoon, though, leaves him smiling and ready for a nap.
I have a Q and a comment: friends of mine are wanting to call their daughter L (insert your girl’s name here). I was a little surprised that I found myself pronouncing it Leh.. whereas they see it as Lee..
How do you pronounce your daughter’s name? And if it’s the Polish way, do people make mistakes when they read her name? That’s the question. The comment is that when I clicked on your Home tab, thinking there might be an email address there, I noticed that you describe yourselves as a family of three! :)
I hope you’re all well now!
We do indeed use the Polish pronunciation, and does that ever cause problems. She gets “Leh-” and “Lee” all the time. A very close friend of ours has always mispronounced it! L is very reluctant to correct people, and that worries me just a bit. Of course, she’s only six, so I suppose that might explain quite a bit. The same thing is happening with the Boy’s name. The two of them will either toughen up from correcting everyone or get called countless variants of their names. We’d taken that into account when choosing names, but we just didn’t think it would be that much of a problem. “At least we didn’t name him Zdzislaw,” I always laugh. (I actually really like that name, but I would never name a child that in the States.)
Thanks for the heads-up on the “About” page. I’d updated the picture but I didn’t take the time to reread the text. At least someone does!