cute things about my kid today

January 5th, 2009 @ 4:13 pm | Comments (3)
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One of the first things Maggie did this morning was ruin our plans for the day by puking up her breakfast. But I’m going to overlook that, because she took a 2 1/2 hour nap this afternoon and then we played with blocks for an hour.

1. Pigtails. Her hair is getting longer and thicker, so her pigtails just keep getting cuter. And she keeps them in now without fussing with them too much, which is nice.

2. CRASH. Her new favorite word. Everything crashes: blocks when she knocks them over, books when she throws them off the shelf, her school bus when she, um, crashes it into my leg.

3. Phrases. All of a sudden, my kid talks in multi-word phrases, near sentences. When did this happen?? ‘Elmo friend!’ was one of the first (OF COURSE. DAMN THAT RED MONSTER.) (Just kidding, Elmo. I love you and how you give me the ability to write emails and cook dinner without having a short person attached to my leg.) But today she said ‘I did it!’ and squealed with delight. She was referring to when she stood her markers up on their ends like people. AND THEN SHE COUNTED THEM. Which brings me to #4…

4. ABCs and counting. She randomly launches into her ABCs while wandering the house- she sings it the whole way through, even the ‘Now I know my ABCs…’ part. And she’s been counting to 10 for a while now, off and on. Today when I asked her to count to 10, she said ‘Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen!’ She’s totally Harvard-bound. Or maybe Yale.

5. Just like her mother. This one drives Dan NUTS. He has this theory about me that if he mentions something, I’ll think it’s a dumb idea… until tomorrow when I come up with the idea, and then it’s the Best Idea Ever. So just a little while ago, given that she puked up her breakfast and I only fed her a little bit of food at lunch, I thought she might be hungry. ‘Do you want some animal crackers?’ ‘NOOOO!’ (spoken like she’s 13 and I just suggested she wear one of my shirts to school) Five minutes later: ‘AM-OOLS! AM-OOLS!’ ‘You want some animal crackers?’ ‘OKAY!’

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hello, 2009.

January 2nd, 2009 @ 9:12 pm | Comments (5)
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Wow, okay then! 2008 is no more! Instead of doing my usual ‘year in review’ post where I go through each month of my archives and highlight events or funny posts or whatever, I thought I’d do something different. Because frankly, that way takes FOREVER and tonight all I want to do is go downstairs and watch a movie all by myself. It’s just that kind of night, you know? So instead, I’m going to take an idea from my bloggie-friend Laura and pull the beginning sentence from the first post of each month of 2008. Because the New Year isn’t so much about endings, but beginnings. Or something.

January: Hello, 2008. So far, you’ve been just… meh. ah yes, I remember this well. We were in the midst of Sleep Training Hell with Maggie. Seems like we’re always in the midst of that.

February: People have asked me before why I blog. I don’t always have an answer, but mostly it’s just a habit now. I’ve been blogging for nearly 10 years. TEN YEARS, people. It’s a part of me. And I love you all.

March: I remembered! HA! No small feat when you’re a Mom. In this case, I remembered to participate in A Day In The Life.

April: If you haven’t seen it already, please read Emily’s post about her close friends and their 16-month-old daughter. Recent updates on Baby Emily’s health can be found here.

May: This weekend was ‘Project Weekend’. Heh, Dan would say that for me, EVERY weekend is ‘Project Weekend’. I get a little carried away at times.

June: Yesterday was one of those days where you thought ‘Hey, what a relaxing, empty day we have ahead of us!‘ but then, it got filled up with busy-ness and stuff and ended up not being so lazy as you thought. If I had a nickel for every time…

July: If you haven’t experienced it for yourself yet, let me tell you: Parenting is an adventure. Wise words.

August: This past weekend we went to visit some friends in Ohio. Wow that’s… probably one of the most boring first lines of a blog post EVER. I couldn’t have jazzed it up a bit?

September: This weekend was supposed to be fun and relaxing. Let me guess: SOMETHING HAPPENED AND IT WASN’T SO MUCH RELAXING ANYMORE. (ew, just read the entry and that was when Dan puked in my car and then it smelled like the RibFest. GROSS.)

October: Just a quick update before I crawl upstairs and crash in bed. SNORE.

November: So today is the start of NaBloPoMo. Three years in a row. Go me!

December: So NaBloPoMo is officially over. heh…I’m like a REALLY boring NaBloPoMo newscaster.

Doing this made me think of a good resolution for 2009: THINK UP BETTER OPENING LINES FOR MY BLOG POSTS.

Unrelated, but hilarious:

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end of the year randomness

December 30th, 2008 @ 9:20 pm | Comments (7)
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So this is my official announcement- CUE THE TRUMPETS! AND THE MARCHING BAND! WHERE ARE THE GIRLS WITH THE BATONS?- about my new site: Dress My Blog. I finally FINALLY got it all finished today, in between Maggie napping and eating goldfish crackers off the floor and making me laugh at her pronunciation of ‘penguin’ (which has now morphed into ‘gemmin’, yesterday it was more ‘commin’). If you need a free theme for your Wordpress blog or if you’re interested in my blog design services, go check it out. (And despite the pink girly design of the site, I CAN in fact design more male-oriented blogs. In case you are a boy and are wondering.)

In other news, I’m going clothes shopping tomorrow. ALONE. And I’m super-excited about it. I don’t usually get all that excited about clothes shopping, but I’m looking forward to it since I a) have some gift cards and money from Christmas, so it’s pretty much guilt-free shopping at this point! and b) most importantly, I’ve lost at least 8 pounds in the last month so all my pants are too big and WOW am I excited to go try on pants. And shirts. Because my back-fat is (mostly) gone and this makes shirt-trying-on much more enjoyable, you know? (Tomorrow is weigh-day, so we’ll see if I’ve lost any more since last Wednesday. I’m not feeling very optimistic since it was Christmas weekend and we had approximately 6,289 parties to attend and I let myself not track my Weight Watchers points at all for about 4 or 5 days. I didn’t go crazy with the food, but I know I ate way more than 21 points a day.)

Our plans for New Years Eve consist of dinner with my sister and her husband, their friends, and my sister’s in-laws (which sounds horrible but it’s not- they are awesome and fun and they took Scotty into their family so how bad can they be? Insane maybe, but not bad people, ha). My parents are watching Maggie- they volunteered to give us a night out and we were all OKAY LET’S GO OUT, SOMEWHERE, ANYWHERE! After dinner, we’ll be bringing Maggie home and changing into our pajamas and possibly watching a movie, or playing XBox (I got this game for Christmas and only played it for like 20 minutes so far) or possibly even just passing out way before midnight. Any of those scenarios? Will be just fine with me.

I have Dan at my disposal tomorrow and Thursday, which means he’ll be playing ‘cway-ons!’ with Maggie and possibly watching ‘gemmins!’ (which is ‘Happy Feet’ for those not in the know) and chasing her around the house for me for a few days. So I just might get some things done around here! Like putting away some Christmas decorations, or organizing my kitchen cabinets (OH LORDY, does it need done badly.) I do have a ‘2008 In Review’ post planned… I’m hoping to get it written before the first month of 2009 is over (you laugh, but last year I almost didn’t make that deadline!)

I hope you all have a fun (and safe!) New Years Eve!

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reason #872 why I love the Internet

December 29th, 2008 @ 9:51 pm | Comments (7)
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Today I got a package in the mail from my lovely friend Melissa. My first thought was ‘aw, she had Oliver (her 2yo son) send Maggie a Christmas gift, how sweet!‘ Then I opened it and found that yes, she had sent Maggie a present. But she also sent me TWO presents!!

Someone has been paying attention to my Kaboodle wishlist! She sent me these earrings, which I LOVE, and this cookbook, which is AWESOME. Just like Melissa.

Speaking of ‘Awesome’, my kid says that word now. Along with ‘Crazy’ and ‘You’re welcome’ and ‘Commins!’ which means ‘Penguins’. Yeah, I know: ADORABLE.

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is there such a thing as too much Christmas?

December 26th, 2008 @ 10:46 pm | Comments (5)
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Holy moly. What a Christmas.

Wednesday: Christmas Eve dinner at my sister’s house. She made us all turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing… all of it, so good. Maggie got a few presents (my mom just couldn’t resist!) and then we headed home to wait for Santa.

Thursday, Christmas morning: Up at 7, breakfast, and then gifts! It didn’t take long for Maggie to catch onto the whole ‘unwrap the package and there’s a gift inside‘ concept. And she was surprisingly patient about waiting for Dan to put together and/or open some of the toys. Then it was hurry and shower, pack up the car, and head to my parents’ house by 10 (okay so we were like 15 minutes behind schedule- not bad, I don’t think!)

More presents and lunch at my parents’ house. Then, a Christmas miracle when Maggie napped without a fuss in her pack-and-play. For two hours! During her nap, we played Scattergories (JUNIOR!) and yes it might have been hard for us because we are old and our brains don’t work like they used to. But we had fun.

Before Maggie’s nap, we all settled down for Elmo. Because Christmas isn’t complete without some Elmo.

Out the door again by 3:30, driving 40 minutes to Dan’s grandma’s house. A bigger crowd, but Maggie wasn’t deterred. She pretty much had every single person there wrapped around her little chubby fingers by the time we left. She even helped pass out gifts to everyone. I kept asking myself, is this REALLY my kid?? She was a doll and so well-behaved.

We got home around 9:30 and were all passed out by 10:30. Exhausted doesn’t even begin to explain it. But it was a great, great day.

Today we had a smaller Christmas celebration with Dan’s parents and sister (home from her Army base in Georgia for the week!) I made beef barley soup and we opened gifts and while the three of them entertained Maggie, Dan and I laid on the couch and may have dozed for a bit. Maybe.

So, this pretty much sums up the last few days:

AND WE’RE NOT EVEN DONE YET.

Tomorrow is a Christmas round-robin thing with my dad’s family- 20-30 people in my house and yeah I have no idea how that’s going to work, but it will be fun. Then Sunday, we’re planning another visit with Dan’s parents and sister before she heads back to Georgia the next day.

Monday, I plan on zoning out on the couch for a few hours. Hopefully Maggie will comply with my plans.

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