It's already been 2 weeks?
I'm not around HM much these days but there are a few people that might remember me...
Alexander was born on February 2nd!
He's healthy and we are enjoying getting to know one another.
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Weigh in on Santa for me?
We're Jewish and haven't perpetrated the myth of Santa at all. My daughter (almost 5)has reasoned for herself that "Santa is just a man who dresses up in a suit" and kind of sees it as an extension of Halloween. She gets that Santa brings presents.
We haven't broached the topic of WHY people celebrate Christmas. But she knows that we celebrate Hannukah and she understands some of the basic tenets of the holiday. She is mostly looking forward to food and the presents she knows her parents give her.
MN/WI mama's Thomas the Train on Minnesota Zephyr?
"Day Out With Thomas™ offers an opportunity for children and their grownups to take a 25 minute ride with Thomas the Tank Engine™ and to have their picture taken with Sir Topham Hatt™, the Controller of the Railway. Every event includes Thomas & Friends™ storytelling, a viewing station for Thomas & Friends videos, temporary tattoos, and an Imagination Station. The activities on site at Day Out With Thomas™ are for you and your children to enjoy for several hours or more. Please plan your arrival times accordingly.
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Twin Cities - GT Sunday?
The children's museum is free this Sunday. Anyone hip to going?
We're planning on going late morning before it gets too crowded.
Saturday & Sunday Accidents
I sometimes wonder if I am too overprotective of my daughter. We are older parents and she is our only child. She is 2 years and 5 months and talks a blue streak and is physically fearless! Our parenting philosophy is that she needs to explore her world and that we can't protect her from everything and that she has to experience some natural consequences.
Saturday while at a wedding shower for my brother's fiance, my daughter snarfed a whole grape off the table and then choked on it. We got it out with no incident.
Then on Sunday, we were in the neighbors backyard and they had two kiddie pools set up. My daughter wanted to go in the deeper pool. She'd never been in there. The water was up to her chest. She was dancing and twirling and pushing an inflatable toy around. She lost her footing and went under! I could see the panic in her face while I raced to the other side of the pool to haul her out. She was out in a few seconds and was sputtering but was fine!
Grats list
1. Finally got some stuff framed and hung on the walls of my bedroom. I have lived there for almost 4 years!
2. Yummy plum from the tree in the backyard.
3. Coffee.
4. S, who replied "snuggle" when asked what she wanted to do yesterday.
5. My husband who cleaned the whole house for me on Friday so I could have a clean house over the weekend.
6. Gardening. Each year my side garden looks better.
7. Fresh produce - yum!
8. Cool nights and warm sunny days.
Compelled to do a grats list!
Seriously, my mind is stuck in a crappy place; I need to shake it:
1. Coffee.
2. Cold pizza for breakfast. Yum.
3. Having my sweet daughter at work with me today.
4. Not being sore after last evenings workout activity. I think I feel more out of shape than I actually am.
5. Potty training! Yay.
6. Traded phone calls with an old friend yesterday. I've known her since I was two. I'm gonna email her for a lunch/coffee date. It's been too long since I've seen her irl.
7. First period after m/c over!
8. I've got a plan for MIL visit on Saturday.
9. Picking up CSA box tonight.
10. Fresh basicl for the picking at a friend's garden. I'll make another batch of pesto for freezing and we will have yummy fresh goodness all winter long.
Interpretation help?
Okay. I'm a believer in signs. Like, things that occur in my everyday life that are like the universe saying "hello".
Now I already have a theory but I'm curous as to what ya'll think... Everyday for the past month or so I have been seeing feathers on the ground. More than I can ever remember seeing in years past.
Ideas? Opinions? Anyone?
Day 14 of Underwear & a question?
Woo Hoo! We are going on 14 days of underwear...
We have been rewarding her with a one piece of candy after she goes - a jellybean or an m&m - and we've been filling a chart on the wall with stickers for each entire day she stays dry. She's been told when the chart is full that we will go to the toy store and she can pick out a toy.
So here is my question - when should I discontinue the candy rewards? My inital reaction was that when the chart was full we would but then I am afraid that will work against me.
Any ideas?
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