Estay Frock means throw up in dari. Why, you ask, do I know the word for throw up? I mean, I only know about 200 words in the whole language – why throw up? Well, it all began the day it snowed and we learned that the word for snow is “barf.” Obviously, this led to us wanting to know what the dari word for barf is. After much miming and acting out, we found out the word for barf is “estay frock.” We learned this word just in time to use it 46 times in one day – the day that EB “estay frock”ed all over everything all night and all day.
I am still not exactly sure why EB estay frocked – she had no fever and did not act sick at all – but two loads of laundry and three baths later she stopped estay frocking and THEN had a fever. Day two of EB’s weird sickness I was giving her Tylenol and discovered 5 new teeth. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, EB acquired five new teeth in one day. I don’t know if this is why she threw up, but I am certain it is the reason for two of our three sleepless nights and 99% of EB’s crying and fussy/clinginess. After this discovery, I began administering much orajel and Tylenol and all is well in the land of EB.
Saturday is EB’s birthday!! I can’t believe she is one year old! We are going to have a “family” party on Thursday with real cake (betty crocker kind) and some friends that are here that were also part of our “family” in Virginia. Friday we are inviting every national we know over to the house for a party – the kind where EB really is just an excuse to make friends and meet our neighbors and she will probably nap most of the time. We are very excited about this, and hope you will be thinking of us and the possibly outcomes of this event. We are expecting anywhere from 10-100 people, so it is a little bit overwhelming, but in this culture it is sort of expected that you invite this family, and then this family, and if you invite this person you have to invite this person, and then next thing you know 100 people show up.