In all seriousness, Charlotte has been handling her confinement with aplomb. She’s been trying to get her schoolwork done without too much complaining, playing board games, reading, and practicing the piano a lot (it’s good for her post-surgery posture recovery!). And pretty much every night at 7:36 she says, “I need to go to bed. Now.” Then she sleeps for about 12 hours.

We finally went for a walk around the block yesterday–had to wait until the below-zero temperatures subsided. She also had a visit from a school friend yesterday. Today, another school friend visit plus a haircut (with a one block walk to/from the car) led to Charlotte abandoning a game of Qwirkle midway through for a nap. Charlotte never naps. It’s kind of against all of her principles (silly girl). But today, she passed out for about two hours, waking up only because Phil tempted her with wonton soup and we let her watch some of the Oscars (well, we let her sit in front of the t.v. and play video games on her iPod).

She’s running a  low-grade fever today–the first we’ve noticed. It’s only 99.1F so, we’re not too worried, but we’ll keep an eye on it.

She’s gotten all of her bandages off, except the surgistrips on the big incision, which the APN will take off on Tuesday.