July 22, 2005

Tales from the ER

Okay so I never thought there would come a day when I would need to use tweezers to remove an object from my child's nose but that day has come. Although, I must admit that I already have some experience removing miscellaneous items from noses. Yes, as a mere 5 year old I was called upon to remove one dry pinto bean that had found its way up Sonja's nose, which I was able to accomplish with ease. This was back in the days before strict laws were in effect regarding daycare toys. For some reason the table filled with dry beans was taken off the list of acceptable items that should be present in a daycare these days. Anywho, back to the story about tweezers...Emma and I are in the office and I hear Sadie playing out in the living room. Next I hear funny breathing and many sneezes. Then Sadie says, " Mama, I keep sneezing..." pause "Mama, I hurt." And now bursting into tears and crying, "I hurt, I hurt, my nose." So I run out to meet her in the hall and her nose sounds really stuffed up. I bend over and try to look up into her nostril that she says really hurts but I see nothing. I try touching it and she freaks out. So then she tells me that she has button stuck in her nose. I make her lay down in the light and I look up her nose once again and spy a thin red button lodged. She is really crying and freaking out so I tell her that I am going to get the tweezers so I can get it out and she starts screaming about that. Once back down stairs she sees the tweezers and runs away. So I go into this discussion about how if I can't get it out she has to go to the doctor right not so he can remove it. She is not too fond of that idea. After a back and forth battle about who shall remove the button, she agrees to lay down and be still so the button can be extracted. So carefully, slowly I determine the best method of removing the button and she is being very steady and still. Pop! It comes out and everything is better. Sadie is a little scared and upset but I praise her for being so good while I took it out and she calms down and recounts all the events that just took place. So now I realize that I need to babyproof the house once again. There are little bits of stuff every where and I would prefer them to be in a drawer and not in a wee one's nose.


July 20, 2005

Norman Rockwell-esque


garden

Here is our new garden by the back gate. We discovered that our soil is 20% dirt and 80% rocks! Not too fun for planting out, but now I want to put in flowers everywhere! Everything is sooo formal here it is starting to get to me. After we put in this little bit, thanks to Nathan's suggestion, I want some more color all over.

Also Sadie likes to talk on our new kitchen phone so here are some snaps from that. And also the little Peter Rabbit who comes in to eat grass in the back each night with his mother.






And one more story from today...we were walking up the driveway and Sadie spies a huge ant. She picks it up and says "He likes me, he thinks I am cute and I am smart..." These are the things she comes up with!

July 19, 2005

Conversations with Emma

It was kinda like this...

Yeah,totally!

Isn't it funny!

July 16, 2005

News

At the height of preschool fashion


Kids these days! Sadie likes to think that the ear phones are a stethoscope and plays doctor, check out everyone to make sure they are ok. But today she realized that they have music too.

Emma was rolling onto her tummy all day today and lifting her head, she is so strong!
I had to put the big diaper box beside her to keep her from turning over and then getting all upset that she was stuck there. She had a conversation with the baby on the box for awhile after that.


July 15, 2005

Little Miss M

good hands

Emma is three months today!
She has discovered that after her thumb the best entertainment is watching all the things she can make her hands do. Today while she was on her gym mat she grabbed the butterfly and would not let go. She was quite pleased at how she could hold on to its legs and pull and shake. Also, while doing some "tummy time", she held her head off the floor to look around for quite some time. The milestones are flying by.
On the Sadie front, she has been busy with books, bugs and bubbles. We went the library on Tues and today to get out. She had a bunch of fun. Later she explained that one of the girl's mom was calling her Katie not Sadie. She was a bit upset about it in the Sadie kind of way. We decided on a circus theme for her b-day party since she had so much fun with Nathan when they went. We don't have any elephants or tigers planned to be there, but who knows what Nathan will pull off last minute.

Tonight we had "vasagna" and oatmeal raisin chocolate chip cookies for dessert, so she was a happy kid. Today she told me that chocolate chip cookies are her favorite. We also made some chocolate crinkle cookie dough and when Sadie saw the big blocks of unsweetened chocolate she was like a cat who smells tuna. She grabbed one of the squares and stuffed it up to her mouth and looked side-eyed at me. I told her she could not have it because it was not sweet and it would not taste good. She handed the square back but she thought I was pulling her leg. So later after I had melted the chocolate and she had asked for a square about twenty times and pleaded her case as to why she needed to have it, I gave her a chance to taste it. So she dipped her finger lightly on the back of the spoon and up to her mouth, still with the sideways glance. And after she stuck it on her tongue I asked her if she liked it and she shook her head no. I told her that it was not sweet, first we needed to add the sugar. So we did and then she tried it again, this time approving much more of the taste. The kid is addicted to chocolate. She loves it.
One day she had found a bag of Dove dark chocolates in the office and she came up stairs to see me, I was feeding Emma. Her mouth was stuffed full and there were chocolately smears all over her. I asked her about it and she agreed that she had been eating chocolate. But I realized later that she had eaten five or so by the evidence of the wrappers strewn about the office.

July 07, 2005

Today...

on our way to the park Sadie notices a spider that has spun it's web between the driver's side mirror and the door. She asks "what is that yellow ball thing spinning around?", and I tell her it is a spider. "Oh my gosh, I have never seen that before. We should bounce it off of there,"is her reply.

July 04, 2005

Fourth of July...

GIRLS


This is actually from Sunday. We went to a new park this afternoon that was the extent of our celebration, oh and I made the flag cake found in MS Living a couple years ago. I have been wanting to make it for a long time so decided this was the time. It was really yummy.

Last night I had a dream that Emma laughed for the first time and I told her about it this morning. Then this afternoon I was singing Pat-A-Cake and she laughed for the first time! I just remembered that I had the dream tonight while I was nose to the grind stone on the sewing machine. I was finishing up a quilt that I started for Sadie when I think she was one or so...yes it has taken awhile to complete. But it is now complete!! I will post a picture here. Below are some more of us girls. I thought the one of little Emma with her tongue out just too cute. I had just finished taking about a million pictures, I think she was telling me what she thought of it all. Well I am off to bed.



July 03, 2005

Knit Knack




Here is the "e" raglan sweater I made for Emma. The pattern is from a Debbie Bliss book and I added the e by stitching over the yellow stitches. The yarn is Debbie Bliss- cashmerino aran. It went quite quickly but I hope it still fits her when the weather is cooler. It should, it is quite baggy. I also want to do a "s" sweater for Sadie in the same style.

Here are some more photos from today. The weather is beautiful. I really do like it back here even though some may think I don't by all of my "Jersey" posts. It is just so different than San Diego, where I have lived all my years up until now.
Some things that are different that I enjoy:

green grass without the use of a hose
lots of really really tall trees
a Bambi like spring
bunnies, deer, and chipmonks everywhere
old houses



Sadie looking pretty.



And here the house as it has changed since we moved in.
January

May

July

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