Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Ross "Chest"
When I got home from work this morning, LJ and RJ had the checkers/chess/backgammon box out. RJ had been trying - with some success - to teach LJ how to play checkers. So, I sat down with LJ while RJ went to get ready for work. LJ wanted to play "the other game" - which I discovered is chess and not backgammon. LJ told me, "Ross likes to play chest" and that he wanted to play "chest" too. I showed him how to set up the pieces, but I told him that I think chess is a bit complicated for a 3-year-old...maybe we could play "LJ chess"? He said, "no, I want to play "Ross 'Chest'". So, I attempted to show him how the difference pieces are allowed to move and then LJ agreed 'chest' is too much for a 3-year old, "but maybe I can play 'chest' when I'm 4"?!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Weekend Recap:
Saturday night: I’ll spare you the details, but I left the garage door open. When RJ went to "lock down the house" and checked to make sure the garage door was down, well…he opened the door from the kitchen to the garage to find a possum in our garage. Sick out. Our garage is FULL of stuff - no car could park there, so this possum has plenty of places to hide without leaving. RJ tried to chase him out, but the possum crawled behind some stuff. In the end, RJ opened the garage door just a bit, to give the possum a way to get out and that was that. Let me just say that I will not be going in the garage EVER again.
Sunday: I decided that I'm fairly certain that it is time to start moving PJ toward 1 nap a day. He takes the morning nap with zero problems, but the afternoon nap is becoming a rarity - I'd say he's taken one for me about 25% of the time in the past 2 weeks. So, I'm ready to intervene and start moving his morning nap back by 10-15 minutes every couple of days until he's napping at around 11:30. He'll probably need an earlier bedtime too, but he has been getting that lately - considering he has been up from about 11:30 am until bedtime for the past 2 weeks. Of course, Sunday morning, he woke up at 6:15 and was a crank-pot all morning. In his defense, he is sprouting his bottom molars, so I suppose that is a reason for crankiness. I thought, "There is no way we were even going to make it to his normal nap time of between 9:30 and 10:00, but we went outside and helped RJ clean up his garage. PJ was covered in dirt and chalk, so I gave him a bath before I put him down at 10:15. He slept until noon and did not take an afternoon nap. I still tried, but he didn’t sleep.
We bought the kids new shoes for the colder months. LJ's are a size 12 and they look so big. This is the part that is hard for me...seeing the shoes get bigger. It is just such a sign they are growing up. PJ’s are a size 8 super-wide…for reference, LJ wore a 6.5 at PJ’s age. They do both seem to love their new shoes.
After shoe shopping, we went out to lunch and the boys got haircuts before their naps. Neither of them slept. RJ then took LJ to the hardware store and LJ fell asleep in the car. So, RJ drove around for about 20 minutes to let LJ get a little cat-nap in. The boys went to bed at 7:30.
Sunday: I decided that I'm fairly certain that it is time to start moving PJ toward 1 nap a day. He takes the morning nap with zero problems, but the afternoon nap is becoming a rarity - I'd say he's taken one for me about 25% of the time in the past 2 weeks. So, I'm ready to intervene and start moving his morning nap back by 10-15 minutes every couple of days until he's napping at around 11:30. He'll probably need an earlier bedtime too, but he has been getting that lately - considering he has been up from about 11:30 am until bedtime for the past 2 weeks. Of course, Sunday morning, he woke up at 6:15 and was a crank-pot all morning. In his defense, he is sprouting his bottom molars, so I suppose that is a reason for crankiness. I thought, "There is no way we were even going to make it to his normal nap time of between 9:30 and 10:00, but we went outside and helped RJ clean up his garage. PJ was covered in dirt and chalk, so I gave him a bath before I put him down at 10:15. He slept until noon and did not take an afternoon nap. I still tried, but he didn’t sleep.
We bought the kids new shoes for the colder months. LJ's are a size 12 and they look so big. This is the part that is hard for me...seeing the shoes get bigger. It is just such a sign they are growing up. PJ’s are a size 8 super-wide…for reference, LJ wore a 6.5 at PJ’s age. They do both seem to love their new shoes.
After shoe shopping, we went out to lunch and the boys got haircuts before their naps. Neither of them slept. RJ then took LJ to the hardware store and LJ fell asleep in the car. So, RJ drove around for about 20 minutes to let LJ get a little cat-nap in. The boys went to bed at 7:30.
Monday, September 15, 2008
The Aftermath
Since the school was closed over the weekend - RJ and I did not have our Sunday evening meetings - but I asked Jfer to come over earlier in the day and RJ and I went to see The Dark Knight (we are probably the last 10% of people who haven't seen it) and went out to eat. That was nice...I liked the movie, but I kept thinking it was about to end and I could wait to go to the bathroom. I was wrong many times, but I made it to the end.
I admit that I did not want to go to work today. We had Friday off - in today's society, I guess the school decided it needed to allow people to go somewhere without missing class or work so that if it were really bad here - they wouldn't be so liable? I don't know, but we got the day off due to Hurricane Ike! It did give me time to clean the house in preparation for our evacuees (Grandma and Grandpa) and it gave RJ time to stake our trees...the trees we transplanted in the spring. But, that one day off got me out of my routine and now I just want to say "I'm finished with this semester" - which of course, I can't!
LJ has been being a menace lately - mostly due to lack of sleep. I can make him stay in bed (kind of), but I can't make him sleep and he's been exercising his free will on this one. He's gotten in the habit of getting up to tell us his tummy hurts. Oddly, it only hurts when he's supposed to be sleeping...of course, we are suspicious. It had gotten to where he'd come in at 5:30 AM to tell us his tummy hurts. Then, he'd be awake in his room, talking to himself - or he'd have made enough noise to wake up PJ. It was really getting frustrating...so, I "called the dr." yesterday and "the dr." told me that "if LJ's tummy hurt in the night, he shouldn't go swimming the next day". Wouldn't you know it - LJ did not get out of bed once last night and his tummy did not hurt. Amazing. Hopefully, he won't be too jaded if he ever realizes what has happened.
P.S. I've been told my spelling has not been good as of late. I'll do my best to correct this, but I'm usually typing while children are hanging off of my arm or banging on the key board. I suppose I could write while they are napping, but I chose to use that time to read my book or catch up on some tv and I don't see that changing anytime soon!
I admit that I did not want to go to work today. We had Friday off - in today's society, I guess the school decided it needed to allow people to go somewhere without missing class or work so that if it were really bad here - they wouldn't be so liable? I don't know, but we got the day off due to Hurricane Ike! It did give me time to clean the house in preparation for our evacuees (Grandma and Grandpa) and it gave RJ time to stake our trees...the trees we transplanted in the spring. But, that one day off got me out of my routine and now I just want to say "I'm finished with this semester" - which of course, I can't!
LJ has been being a menace lately - mostly due to lack of sleep. I can make him stay in bed (kind of), but I can't make him sleep and he's been exercising his free will on this one. He's gotten in the habit of getting up to tell us his tummy hurts. Oddly, it only hurts when he's supposed to be sleeping...of course, we are suspicious. It had gotten to where he'd come in at 5:30 AM to tell us his tummy hurts. Then, he'd be awake in his room, talking to himself - or he'd have made enough noise to wake up PJ. It was really getting frustrating...so, I "called the dr." yesterday and "the dr." told me that "if LJ's tummy hurt in the night, he shouldn't go swimming the next day". Wouldn't you know it - LJ did not get out of bed once last night and his tummy did not hurt. Amazing. Hopefully, he won't be too jaded if he ever realizes what has happened.
P.S. I've been told my spelling has not been good as of late. I'll do my best to correct this, but I'm usually typing while children are hanging off of my arm or banging on the key board. I suppose I could write while they are napping, but I chose to use that time to read my book or catch up on some tv and I don't see that changing anytime soon!
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Random Catch Up - I'm a Horrible Blogger These Days!
LJ and PJ are in a nice phase right now...everyone is sleeping well (knocking on wood) and in a rather good and happy mood most of the time. They are playing fairly well together and PJ has seemed to tire of running to the bathroom, throwing the door open and trying to get in the potty. Or getting up onto the table. Or pulling the card out of the DVR.
Speaking of DVR - ours started deleting shows - like 10 hours worth last week. Not cool. I called Dish Network - with zero questions asked...the sent a new one. Of course, they want to keep us on the dish, so I'm sure the hardware is like nothing to them...just replace it and keep them paying the monthly fee - LOL. I was pleased to see that our new DVR has a 60 hour capacity as our old one had only 35.
One afternoon last week, I realized we would not make it through the rest of the day without buying some milk. I did NOT want to go to the grocery store at 4:30 in the afternoon - that is an exercise in madness. So, I texted RJ and told him that when he got home, we'd go to Sam's and buy some milk. Milk is not as cheap at Sam's as it is at the grocery store, but we also use a trip to Sam's as our entertainment. Walking up and down the aisles and seeing what's new, sizing up prices on things we've had our eye on, - this is family fun. One such item we keep our eye on - The Canon Rebel XTi. Holy Cow - they only had the display model left and it was $220.00 cheaper then the last price it was. Without a question - we bought it!!! We have been looking at this camera for 2 years. When my niece (SH) got married and asked RJ to consider taking the pictures - we thought about buying one then...that would have cost a ton of money and we decided not to do it AND not to take the wedding pictures (hers turned out fantastic without us!). We had considered a Nikon since we have a few really good, old, Nikon manual focus lenses, but in doing some research - it turns out we can actually uses those lenses on the Canon (with a step ring) and still use the light meter, etc. and I cannot use them on the Nikon. Whacked out, but true.
Finally, I got my hair colored (thank goodness) and I actually got a new style. My hair is not my friend. It has gotten wavier over the years (and with each pregnancy), but only underneath...the top layer of hair is straight as a board. I also have rather thick hair and it is also fairly coarse (as it is really just dyed gray hair). So, I'm tired of trying to make it bend under...I don't have the patience or desire to spend time with the round brush. At any rate, my directions were..."I want to keep the length in general, but if you need to take a little off - that is ok. If you can cut it where it won't matter if it is all perfectly styled - that would be terrific." It is shorter than I'd like, but not so short I'm upset (I think stylists tend to do shorter than you'd like most of the time) and it is rather "free", so I'm fairly happy. It feels like I have so little hair when I wash it!
Speaking of DVR - ours started deleting shows - like 10 hours worth last week. Not cool. I called Dish Network - with zero questions asked...the sent a new one. Of course, they want to keep us on the dish, so I'm sure the hardware is like nothing to them...just replace it and keep them paying the monthly fee - LOL. I was pleased to see that our new DVR has a 60 hour capacity as our old one had only 35.
One afternoon last week, I realized we would not make it through the rest of the day without buying some milk. I did NOT want to go to the grocery store at 4:30 in the afternoon - that is an exercise in madness. So, I texted RJ and told him that when he got home, we'd go to Sam's and buy some milk. Milk is not as cheap at Sam's as it is at the grocery store, but we also use a trip to Sam's as our entertainment. Walking up and down the aisles and seeing what's new, sizing up prices on things we've had our eye on, - this is family fun. One such item we keep our eye on - The Canon Rebel XTi. Holy Cow - they only had the display model left and it was $220.00 cheaper then the last price it was. Without a question - we bought it!!! We have been looking at this camera for 2 years. When my niece (SH) got married and asked RJ to consider taking the pictures - we thought about buying one then...that would have cost a ton of money and we decided not to do it AND not to take the wedding pictures (hers turned out fantastic without us!). We had considered a Nikon since we have a few really good, old, Nikon manual focus lenses, but in doing some research - it turns out we can actually uses those lenses on the Canon (with a step ring) and still use the light meter, etc. and I cannot use them on the Nikon. Whacked out, but true.
Finally, I got my hair colored (thank goodness) and I actually got a new style. My hair is not my friend. It has gotten wavier over the years (and with each pregnancy), but only underneath...the top layer of hair is straight as a board. I also have rather thick hair and it is also fairly coarse (as it is really just dyed gray hair). So, I'm tired of trying to make it bend under...I don't have the patience or desire to spend time with the round brush. At any rate, my directions were..."I want to keep the length in general, but if you need to take a little off - that is ok. If you can cut it where it won't matter if it is all perfectly styled - that would be terrific." It is shorter than I'd like, but not so short I'm upset (I think stylists tend to do shorter than you'd like most of the time) and it is rather "free", so I'm fairly happy. It feels like I have so little hair when I wash it!
Monday, September 01, 2008
The Comedian
LJ is fond of telling knock knock jokes. He's finally mastered the orange/banana knock knock. Whenever he starts to tell one - PJ starts yelling - "KNOCK KNOCK - KNOCK KNOCK"
I taught LJ the Boo Hoo knock knock joke and he's a pro now. I asked him if he thinks it is funny and he said yes, so I asked him what is funny about it and he said, "it is a knock knock joke!" - as if they are all funny. Hilarious!
PJ is on a hunger strike. The only things he'll eat are fruits. Oh, and he will drink milk. I'm not worried - he's clearly not malnourished and when he's hungry, I suppose he'll eat. I am getting tired of preparing something for him and then throwing it away. He also has two bottom teeth that broke through.
PJ slept until 8 this morning. Great, but now is whole day is running an hour late. I'm rolling with it.
I taught LJ the Boo Hoo knock knock joke and he's a pro now. I asked him if he thinks it is funny and he said yes, so I asked him what is funny about it and he said, "it is a knock knock joke!" - as if they are all funny. Hilarious!
PJ is on a hunger strike. The only things he'll eat are fruits. Oh, and he will drink milk. I'm not worried - he's clearly not malnourished and when he's hungry, I suppose he'll eat. I am getting tired of preparing something for him and then throwing it away. He also has two bottom teeth that broke through.
PJ slept until 8 this morning. Great, but now is whole day is running an hour late. I'm rolling with it.
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