My week

Posted on March 4th, 2005 by hanfaith.
Categories: Art, General.

Yesterday, Seámus had his six month well-baby checkup. Everything was fine… but they are concerned about his weight. :sigh: If you were to look at him, he doesn’t look like a below-weight baby. He looks happy and healthy. But they want me to come in a few weeks to have his weight checked again. He’s in the 90th percentile for height, and 10th perecentile for weight - not really a good combination, I guess. He hasn’t been too interested in solids, so we’ve not pushed it, but now his pediatrician really wants us to get him going on solids. We’ll try!

I’ve been busy with my mosaics this week. I finished up my smalti pieces so I can put the smalti away for now. It’s fun to play with and it really helped me improve my technique, but I don’t like working with it exclusively. I bought a 4×8′ piece of plywood today, and Phil is busy cutting it up into pieces for my next batch of mosaics. I’ve got a number of orders to fill and I am starting to prepare for the summer shows. I’ve already signed up for four shows, and I am probably going to try to get into another one which is juried. We’ll see from there. I like to do the shows in Greenville because they are cheap and it helps me form a local presence. The juried show is a little more expensive, but hopefully it will be worth it. If I’m going to pay more to do a show, I want to be able to count on it being a worthwile investment. I’m also thinking about having a sign-up at my shows for a newsletter detailing my current work and special offers. I’d really like to have this option for those people who stop at my booth, are interested in it, but want to think about it some more (and then usually forget).

7 comments.

Geof F. Morris

Comment on March 4th, 2005.

My friends have a baby of almost the same proportions, Hannah. Little Joshua is doing just fine.

Mom

Comment on March 4th, 2005.

If everyone was in the middle of the height-weight charts they would have nothing to average together. Good grief, if it isn’t one thing it’s another! Hang in there… and let us know what he ends up liking to eat!

the Sagely Dad

Comment on March 4th, 2005.

I remember reading in one of the books we used to read when your mother was pursuing a craft business that some kind of newsletter is an essential. Many people who like your work at a show but aren’t ready to purchase then really would buy later if they had a reminder.

Sarah Joy

Comment on March 4th, 2005.

I think that it must be in our family to have to deal with weight issues. They had us coming in every six weeks for Ethan from the time he was born because he never quite fit the “ideal” weight category. Don’t stress about it-Seamus looked quite healthy last time we saw him! Go with your own intuition. As the parent, you’re usually right. The things I thought were wrong with Ethan, no doctor would listen to me for quite a while about, and now he’s having surgery to correct those issues. I never really thought the weight was a big issue, and it’s turned out not to be. You know when your child is doing well or not well, for the most part. Keep up the good work!

Hannah Faith

Comment on March 5th, 2005.

I was a little surprised that this doctor made such a big deal out of it. One of the reasons I liked him initially was because he didn’t make a big fuss about Éva’s size, which was quite tiny when we first started going to him.

Roger

Comment on March 7th, 2005.

You have shows in Greenville? There must be more people there than I think…:)

hanfaith

Comment on March 7th, 2005.

Greenville grows from 1,500 to 10,000 during tourist season… and the shows cater to the tourists, not the locals. We have one each month, June-September. The September fly-in is huge… it’s one of the largest sea plane events.

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