As predicted in October, C has her first bottom tooth. It poked through just the other day. The other bottom tooth isn't far behind. It's always sad when the gummy smile is gone. But I'm glad to have that first one behind us. The first tooth and the molars seem to be the worst.
(I tried to take a pic, but her tongue kept getting in the way.)
BTW, I never updated...
She's 6 1/2 mos old. Almost 19 lbs. Sits up. Eats 3 meals a day. Will eat anything. (I know that doesn't mean she won't be a picky eater. She's teething. She'd eat my shoe if I let her.) Started a little bit of the separation anxiety. Doesn't want Mama to go far.
And the best news of all... She's NOT crawling yet. Hallelujah, praise the Lord. It's exciting to see your babies hit those milestones. But I'm no fool. :) There's something wonderful about setting a baby down and knowing that if I walk away, she'll still be right there. No need to overly obsess about choking hazards just yet. No need to put the gate up at the base of the stairs. I think mobility is highly overrated. :) ha!
Friday, January 29, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
What S Did at School Yesterday
Dear Moms:
We had another fun day at Preschool. When we first got in class the children made their Gingerbread Man and decorated him and then we walked over to the church kitchen and put the tray into the oven. When we got back to the room they made their Gingerbread sequence page and I read the story about the Gingerbread man that jumped out of the over and ran away from the little boy. The boy and many others tried to catch him but he out ran them all. In the end the smart fox tricks the Gingerbread man (cookie) and eats him. As the fox got closer and closer, in the story, to the gingerbread man I got closer and closer to the children and when he snapped up the cookie I jumped and snapped at the kids and they laughed and screamed.
After playground time and before our lunch we walked over to the kitchen to get our Gingerbread men and when we opened the over door they saw that they were gone! At that point we all started looking around and saw flour on the floor. We followed it through the church, out the side door, down the sidewalk, across the boardwalk right up to our classroom door. Now the children are really excited about finding their Gingerbread man and wondering how they got out of the oven. I had hidden them in our snack basket and when they found them they were “over the top” with excitement. All afternoon I could hear different ones talking about their runaway Gingerbread man.
I made play dough the other night and after lunch they had fun making things with all our different cookie cutters.
I took pictures and will send them in another email.
Love,
Missy
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She talked about this non-stop when she got home. :)
We had another fun day at Preschool. When we first got in class the children made their Gingerbread Man and decorated him and then we walked over to the church kitchen and put the tray into the oven. When we got back to the room they made their Gingerbread sequence page and I read the story about the Gingerbread man that jumped out of the over and ran away from the little boy. The boy and many others tried to catch him but he out ran them all. In the end the smart fox tricks the Gingerbread man (cookie) and eats him. As the fox got closer and closer, in the story, to the gingerbread man I got closer and closer to the children and when he snapped up the cookie I jumped and snapped at the kids and they laughed and screamed.
After playground time and before our lunch we walked over to the kitchen to get our Gingerbread men and when we opened the over door they saw that they were gone! At that point we all started looking around and saw flour on the floor. We followed it through the church, out the side door, down the sidewalk, across the boardwalk right up to our classroom door. Now the children are really excited about finding their Gingerbread man and wondering how they got out of the oven. I had hidden them in our snack basket and when they found them they were “over the top” with excitement. All afternoon I could hear different ones talking about their runaway Gingerbread man.
I made play dough the other night and after lunch they had fun making things with all our different cookie cutters.
I took pictures and will send them in another email.
Love,
Missy
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She talked about this non-stop when she got home. :)
Friday, January 15, 2010
Have I Ever Told You...
...that I used to be the Blind Date Queen.
Jason reminded me tonight about a blind date that I told him about once. And I started laughing all over again.
How did all these blind dates start???
I was engaged when I was 19 and we broke up right before I graduated from college. So maybe people wanted to get me back in the dating scene. Or maybe it was because I was a teacher... a predominantly female profession and so people worried that I wouldn't meet anyone at work. But whatever the reason...it seems that, for a while, everyone seemed to know someone who would be perfect for me.
I was set up a lot. And I always was up for it... why not. But, man, some of them were hard to get through.
There were just the average run-of-the-mill bad dates.
The guy that took me to the movies to see "Oceans 11" and I fell asleep at the movies.
The guy that was supposed to come pick me up at 7 and never showed up because he fell asleep... at least that's what he told me. (It's not the greatest feeling to be dressed and ready to go and end up being stood up. My brother happened to call me that night, forgetting that I was supposed to be out on a date. When I told him what happened, he came to my apartment and took me out to dinner. He's a good brother. BTW the guy called to reschedule... and I turned him down. If you want to go out with me, then STAY AWAKE.) haha
The youth minister who I didn't click with at all.
Then there were the bizarre dates.
One of the girls I worked with set me up with a really cute guy. We were having a good time, until he rolled up his pants to show me how he shaves his legs. ??? "Are you a swimmer?" I asked. Nope, he just likes having shaved legs. Now look... I appreciate a well-groomed guy as much as the next girl, but personally, I'm not into the shaved legs. It went downhill from there. My friend had NO idea about his grooming habits and was very sorry for having set me up.
Another girl I worked with set me up with a guy that was a HUGE Star Wars fan. (This is the date that Jason reminded me about tonight.)
I like Star Wars, I guess. But probably as much as you do. I know some of the characters, reasonably familiar with the story lines. This guy was on another level. He asked me to go to dinner and a movie. Dinner was at 7. The movie was the midnight showing of "The Phantom Menace" on the very first night it was released. The night when the weirdos come out all dressed up as their favorite character. Of course we had to eat quickly so that we could wait in line to get a ticket to the movie. Then we had to fight for a good seat. We were seated in the theater 2 hours before the movie even started. I feel like I'm pretty good at small talk but the entire conversation was Star Wars themed. I've never been so glad for a movie to start, just so we could stop talking. But then on the way home, we had to analyze whether or not George Lucas delivered a movie that lived up to my date's standards. Wow.
But even after all those horrible dates. I still went on more. And there were some that went well. Didn't lead to anything. But still they were fun.
And then of course Jason and I met on a blind date. So all's well that ends well.
Have you ever been on a blind date?
Jason reminded me tonight about a blind date that I told him about once. And I started laughing all over again.
How did all these blind dates start???
I was engaged when I was 19 and we broke up right before I graduated from college. So maybe people wanted to get me back in the dating scene. Or maybe it was because I was a teacher... a predominantly female profession and so people worried that I wouldn't meet anyone at work. But whatever the reason...it seems that, for a while, everyone seemed to know someone who would be perfect for me.
I was set up a lot. And I always was up for it... why not. But, man, some of them were hard to get through.
There were just the average run-of-the-mill bad dates.
The guy that took me to the movies to see "Oceans 11" and I fell asleep at the movies.
The guy that was supposed to come pick me up at 7 and never showed up because he fell asleep... at least that's what he told me. (It's not the greatest feeling to be dressed and ready to go and end up being stood up. My brother happened to call me that night, forgetting that I was supposed to be out on a date. When I told him what happened, he came to my apartment and took me out to dinner. He's a good brother. BTW the guy called to reschedule... and I turned him down. If you want to go out with me, then STAY AWAKE.) haha
The youth minister who I didn't click with at all.
Then there were the bizarre dates.
One of the girls I worked with set me up with a really cute guy. We were having a good time, until he rolled up his pants to show me how he shaves his legs. ??? "Are you a swimmer?" I asked. Nope, he just likes having shaved legs. Now look... I appreciate a well-groomed guy as much as the next girl, but personally, I'm not into the shaved legs. It went downhill from there. My friend had NO idea about his grooming habits and was very sorry for having set me up.
Another girl I worked with set me up with a guy that was a HUGE Star Wars fan. (This is the date that Jason reminded me about tonight.)
I like Star Wars, I guess. But probably as much as you do. I know some of the characters, reasonably familiar with the story lines. This guy was on another level. He asked me to go to dinner and a movie. Dinner was at 7. The movie was the midnight showing of "The Phantom Menace" on the very first night it was released. The night when the weirdos come out all dressed up as their favorite character. Of course we had to eat quickly so that we could wait in line to get a ticket to the movie. Then we had to fight for a good seat. We were seated in the theater 2 hours before the movie even started. I feel like I'm pretty good at small talk but the entire conversation was Star Wars themed. I've never been so glad for a movie to start, just so we could stop talking. But then on the way home, we had to analyze whether or not George Lucas delivered a movie that lived up to my date's standards. Wow.
But even after all those horrible dates. I still went on more. And there were some that went well. Didn't lead to anything. But still they were fun.
And then of course Jason and I met on a blind date. So all's well that ends well.
Have you ever been on a blind date?
I Think I Can Get Used To Recording TV Shows
I love the DVR!!! All of your comments were true. I just set the machine to record my favorite shows and when I have time to watch, they're just magically there. No more remembering when things come on. No more secretly resenting the fact that I'm watching Nick Jr instead of what I really want to watch. And don't even get me started on how great it is to fast forward thru commercials. I feel like such a sucker for sitting thru them all these years.
But it is a little embarrassing when I realize what I'm actually setting the DVR to record. Setting it is a little like publicizing my dorky TV habits. Do you know what I mean? Flipping thru the channels and running across "The Millionaire Matchmaker" and watching it is fine. Admitting that you like it enough to record it is slightly pathetic.
I feel like Jason's shows that he's set are not humiliating. It's a DIY show here and there. It's "The Mentalist". It's maybe something that's SciFi. That's the most embarrassing his TV interests get.
I'm "Real Housewives of OC", "Biggest Loser" (I like to watch people lose weight while I sit on the couch), "American Idol" (at least for now while it's funny), "The Bachelor" (I know, I know... but to me it's fun mindless entertainment), and the list goes on and on.
When Jason runs thru the lists of shows I've set to record, he shoots me a look that says "seriously, Julie?"...
What's even worse is that I watch my goofy shows in bed while I'm working a crossword puzzle. It's a good thing I'm married because no one would date me. :)
But it is a little embarrassing when I realize what I'm actually setting the DVR to record. Setting it is a little like publicizing my dorky TV habits. Do you know what I mean? Flipping thru the channels and running across "The Millionaire Matchmaker" and watching it is fine. Admitting that you like it enough to record it is slightly pathetic.
I feel like Jason's shows that he's set are not humiliating. It's a DIY show here and there. It's "The Mentalist". It's maybe something that's SciFi. That's the most embarrassing his TV interests get.
I'm "Real Housewives of OC", "Biggest Loser" (I like to watch people lose weight while I sit on the couch), "American Idol" (at least for now while it's funny), "The Bachelor" (I know, I know... but to me it's fun mindless entertainment), and the list goes on and on.
When Jason runs thru the lists of shows I've set to record, he shoots me a look that says "seriously, Julie?"...
What's even worse is that I watch my goofy shows in bed while I'm working a crossword puzzle. It's a good thing I'm married because no one would date me. :)
Mommy and Me: Baking in the Kitchen
Aunt Abby and Uncle B gave S a cookbook and her very own, kid-sized spoonula for Christmas. The recipes in the book are so fun. S could flip through it and look at the pictures for hours.
After asking several times (and my promising several times that we would), we finally got around to making 2 of the recipes. Cupcake Farms and Jam Sweethearts.
It was a lot of fun for the kids. Although, I'm pretty sure that the person who actually made the desserts photographed in the book was over the age of 4. But we had a great time, and I think the kids did a good job... even if they look nothing like they "should".
What they should have looked like...
What they looked like... (We didn't have heart cookie cutters... We didn't have circle cookie cutters either. Sarah used the lid to the Pam cooking spray.)
What they should have looked like... Cute right? Dogs, Sheep, Pigs
What they looked like... Yep, those white things are supposed to be sheep.
Those poor earless pigs...
Oh well! It was a good cloudy day activity.
After asking several times (and my promising several times that we would), we finally got around to making 2 of the recipes. Cupcake Farms and Jam Sweethearts.
It was a lot of fun for the kids. Although, I'm pretty sure that the person who actually made the desserts photographed in the book was over the age of 4. But we had a great time, and I think the kids did a good job... even if they look nothing like they "should".
What they should have looked like...
What they looked like... (We didn't have heart cookie cutters... We didn't have circle cookie cutters either. Sarah used the lid to the Pam cooking spray.)
What they should have looked like... Cute right? Dogs, Sheep, Pigs
What they looked like... Yep, those white things are supposed to be sheep.
Those poor earless pigs...
Oh well! It was a good cloudy day activity.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Welcome to the 21st Century...
The UPS man brought us a DVR today. We finally caved in and decided to try one for a year. I have a feeling I just might get hooked and wonder how I ever lived without it.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Nobody move...
I just got C to sleep and was able to SET HER DOWN WITHOUT HER WAKING UP!! No way! If she keeps this up, naps might actually be a time for me to be productive.
I'm scared to even post this. I don't want to jinx it.
Do you think it might last longer than 15 minutes? Could I be that lucky? Not holding her AND a longer nap? Keep your fingers crossed.
I'm scared to even post this. I don't want to jinx it.
Do you think it might last longer than 15 minutes? Could I be that lucky? Not holding her AND a longer nap? Keep your fingers crossed.
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