We went to a friend's pool party last night, and spent hours in the water, and got home much too late. Kitty's irresponsible parents didn't pay much attention to how much she ate, so when she woke up wailing and inconsolable at 3:30 it took too long before I realized that she was probably starving. She ate a fruit bar and a stick cheese laying down in her bed like an invalid, telling me, "I'm gonna grow big and strong when I'm all done with dis fruit bar!" Then she slept until 10am again and woke up hollering. I say again because the previous two nights, Kitty was up talking and chatting to her stuffed animals until close to midnight! And then sleeps in. So not only does she have a mouth and an attitude like a teenager, she sleeps like one too!
Back to the hollering. "MAMA ARE YOU ALL DONE S'EEPING? I AM ALL DONE S'EEPING TOO! I WANT TO GO TO A SWIDE* PARK TODAY, MAMA. I WANT TO GO ON DA BIG SWIDE TWO TIMES!"
*Slide park. Kitty's summertime life is divided into suh-wimming poo's, swide parks, and sprink'er parks. Oh, and shopping.
We may actually get to a swide park, but we also have to do laundry and I have a work meeting, and we need to think about packing because we are going on vacation tomorrow! Tuesday night we drive to St. Louis, after the fourth, Kitty and I take the train to Chicago, and at some point we fly home. Still haven't bought tickets, so I don't know when.
In other news, I hate summer laundry, even more than the rest of the time. Every other load is towels, and for the secodn time this year damp stuff has gotten tossed in the hamper and gotten mildew spots.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Summer Wednesday
My small person is currently stretched out flat, face down on the floor, making the most fake sobs for "daddddddy." Here's how the conversation has gone this morning.
Kitty wakes up way late.
K: I want to go outside!
Me: Ok, sounds good, let's take your jammies and didy off!
Jammies come off.
K: NO! Didy on!
M: We have to take your diaper off so you can get dressed to go outside.
K: NO! I need my diaper ON! ON! Mama, on!
Runs to her room fake sobbing. Comes to find me.
K: I want to go outside, mama!
M: OK, what do we need to do before we can go outside?
K: Put the didy off.
M: Great! Let's go!
K: NO! No mama no! I want the didy on!
Runs to room with fake sobbing.
ad infinitum.
This was eventually solved just now by her tantrum ending, asking for a snack, and me simply taking her didy off in the kitchen without demanding agreement. She didn't protest.
Also this morning, the only way I could get her to eat anything was to tell her that the food was only for me and she couldn't have any. Then she mugged me for it. And she fell for it three times, one for each quarter of a pb+j (I did eat the last quarter.)
If I offered her her own food, she said, "No, Mama, I don't want X. I only want chocolate."
As I posted on facebook, Kitty had her two-year-old well check yesterday. She is in amazingly good health, tall and skinny. 90th%ile height, 35th%ile weight.
Today I go back to my hemetologist. We finally have the right dose of the interferon. My platelets are lower than they have been since I was diagnosed. I expect this to be a keep-on-keepin-on visit.
Kitty wakes up way late.
K: I want to go outside!
Me: Ok, sounds good, let's take your jammies and didy off!
Jammies come off.
K: NO! Didy on!
M: We have to take your diaper off so you can get dressed to go outside.
K: NO! I need my diaper ON! ON! Mama, on!
Runs to her room fake sobbing. Comes to find me.
K: I want to go outside, mama!
M: OK, what do we need to do before we can go outside?
K: Put the didy off.
M: Great! Let's go!
K: NO! No mama no! I want the didy on!
Runs to room with fake sobbing.
ad infinitum.
This was eventually solved just now by her tantrum ending, asking for a snack, and me simply taking her didy off in the kitchen without demanding agreement. She didn't protest.
Also this morning, the only way I could get her to eat anything was to tell her that the food was only for me and she couldn't have any. Then she mugged me for it. And she fell for it three times, one for each quarter of a pb+j (I did eat the last quarter.)
If I offered her her own food, she said, "No, Mama, I don't want X. I only want chocolate."
As I posted on facebook, Kitty had her two-year-old well check yesterday. She is in amazingly good health, tall and skinny. 90th%ile height, 35th%ile weight.
Today I go back to my hemetologist. We finally have the right dose of the interferon. My platelets are lower than they have been since I was diagnosed. I expect this to be a keep-on-keepin-on visit.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Happy Birthday!
A small selection. Click the photos to see all the ones from her birthday week.
Goofy smile
Opening the presents from Uncle Jack and Auntie Katie. (Click photo to see more)
"You talkin to me?"
Goofy smile
Opening the presents from Uncle Jack and Auntie Katie. (Click photo to see more)
"You talkin to me?"
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Almost happy birthday!
Auntie Caroline and I spent all day building Kitty's birthday presents from Ikea and Lowe's components. It's not 100% done. I still need handles for the oven and fridge, and Caro is making a curtain for the undersink area. And it'll look cuter when all the cups, plates, pots, pans, etc are unloaded (with thanks to Uncle Jack and Auntie Katie for them!) But we're going to wait until birthday morning for those. She's little enough I didn't feel we had to go crazy hiding them--I'm sure next year I'll feel differently.
But look! We did it!
But look! We did it!
Friday, June 12, 2009
Punch ball!
Yesterday, Kitty shimmied up on a kitchen chair, stole the remaining uninflated punch balls from the package, brought one to me, said, "I'm making a red one for you, mama!" attempted to inflate it, and when she couldn't, thrust it at me saying, "DO IT MAMA."
We went to her regular Thursday playgroup and had lots of fun. There was even another girl there! The regular crew is very boy heavy. Then we made some groceries and came home for a nap.
After she woke up, she said, "I want to go to da park wif da kids, Mama!" so we went out again. We actually went swimming, to our little neighborhood pool that just opened up this week. It's nice! It's totally free, you just walk in the gate, and they have a nice big pool and then a little 12" kiddy pool. Free is just perfect because you can go and stay for 30 or 40 minutes and not (if you're me) worry about getting your $5 or whatever, worth. I was worried that it would be overrun with rowdy teenagers, and there was some of that. But it wasn't too crowded between 6 and 7. I asked the lifeguard, and she said that 3pm is when it's crazy insane, but right around dinner it's mostly like it was today.
I'm going to have to plan dinner better though, as I didn't have a plan for something quick. Kitty inhaled a can of chicken and rice soup and leftover smoothie from breakfast. I'm glad because she's doing that toddler thing of eating much less than she ever has, though when I list it out in my head it's not so bad.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Photos!
Kitty and Theo at the free concert we went to Sunday night
Flirting with 20somethings
With me at the snoball stand
At Tim and Angie's wedding a few weeks ago
"What? You want a piece a dis?"
In a pretty dress Auntie Adrienne sent
Sometimes the after-church doughnuts are blue frosted. You can see why I took her dress off before giving her the doughnut.
Flirting with 20somethings
With me at the snoball stand
At Tim and Angie's wedding a few weeks ago
"What? You want a piece a dis?"
In a pretty dress Auntie Adrienne sent
Sometimes the after-church doughnuts are blue frosted. You can see why I took her dress off before giving her the doughnut.
Vacation!
Kitty isn't used to having me home all day yet. She probably assumed that the extra days so far were a long weekend, as far as she thinks about it, because when she woke up this morning she called for Daddy. When I walked over, she said with indescribable delight that made my WEEK: "MAMA! you ah HEAH, Mama! You ah HOME, Mama! How ah you doin', Mama?"
My garden isn't going so well. My herb patch is getting overrun with grass, all my pumpkin vines died and I don't know why, and my tomatos don't seem to be able to get enough water. They're hanging in there, but getting browner and crispier. I remulched them today and will try and get out and water more often. They haven't totally given up the ghost yet. There are lots of green tomatos, but the leaves are getting a little sparse. I'm holding on to my experience last year when I had a cherry tomato in a smallish container that appeared to be dead all of August, but then when the weather just barely started to turn in September, sent out all new leaves and blossoms and fruit. Tomorrow I'll pull out as much grass as possible from the herbs and thickly mulch there too.
The front is doing better. The rose beds in the front are underplanted with this really cool flower. The leaves are big, flat, lush and dark green, and the flowers are long skinny cones that open at night and close during the day. They must be really drought tolerant, because I don't water anything in the front and they look amazing. And the roses are doing really well! The yellow one by the kitchen window is almost as high as the roof! I can tell the pink one wants pruning--it's all crowded up with crissed crossed skinny little branches, but I don't know which ones to take out. But it keeps getting these "crowns" of flowers (like a circle of five blooms in tight formation at the end of a sticky uppy branch), so maybe I should leave it alone. I still want to expand the circles around the trees in the front because the scale of them is just all wrong. I want to put in perennials, though, and don't have a good plan, yet.
I've caught myself not relaxing into my summer vacation. The last couple of weeks of work are always so checklisty, and it does make the time go. So this week I've been all focused on what we need to get done each day, but with the attitude still like, "AND then it'll be Wednesday thank god, only two days til the weekend." When really I don't have to tick off each day like a marathoner counting down the miles. I can stop and smell the roses.
Yesterday I walked away from a full cart at Home Depot because the paint department was such a pain in the ass. I put in an order and 25 minutes later they hadn't started it (and it wasn't that they were just that busy) and then when they still hadn't located the base can, I told them I was leaving. I went to Lowe's today and got the stuff to fix the walls and paint the bathroom. Also a couple small pieces of plywood. I'm going to make Kitty a playkitchen for her birthday: http://www.ohdeedoh.com/ohdeedoh/how-to/how-to-build-a-play-kitchen-from-ikea-components-066719 Isn't it just the cutest thing?
My garden isn't going so well. My herb patch is getting overrun with grass, all my pumpkin vines died and I don't know why, and my tomatos don't seem to be able to get enough water. They're hanging in there, but getting browner and crispier. I remulched them today and will try and get out and water more often. They haven't totally given up the ghost yet. There are lots of green tomatos, but the leaves are getting a little sparse. I'm holding on to my experience last year when I had a cherry tomato in a smallish container that appeared to be dead all of August, but then when the weather just barely started to turn in September, sent out all new leaves and blossoms and fruit. Tomorrow I'll pull out as much grass as possible from the herbs and thickly mulch there too.
The front is doing better. The rose beds in the front are underplanted with this really cool flower. The leaves are big, flat, lush and dark green, and the flowers are long skinny cones that open at night and close during the day. They must be really drought tolerant, because I don't water anything in the front and they look amazing. And the roses are doing really well! The yellow one by the kitchen window is almost as high as the roof! I can tell the pink one wants pruning--it's all crowded up with crissed crossed skinny little branches, but I don't know which ones to take out. But it keeps getting these "crowns" of flowers (like a circle of five blooms in tight formation at the end of a sticky uppy branch), so maybe I should leave it alone. I still want to expand the circles around the trees in the front because the scale of them is just all wrong. I want to put in perennials, though, and don't have a good plan, yet.
I've caught myself not relaxing into my summer vacation. The last couple of weeks of work are always so checklisty, and it does make the time go. So this week I've been all focused on what we need to get done each day, but with the attitude still like, "AND then it'll be Wednesday thank god, only two days til the weekend." When really I don't have to tick off each day like a marathoner counting down the miles. I can stop and smell the roses.
Yesterday I walked away from a full cart at Home Depot because the paint department was such a pain in the ass. I put in an order and 25 minutes later they hadn't started it (and it wasn't that they were just that busy) and then when they still hadn't located the base can, I told them I was leaving. I went to Lowe's today and got the stuff to fix the walls and paint the bathroom. Also a couple small pieces of plywood. I'm going to make Kitty a playkitchen for her birthday: http://www.ohdeedoh.com/ohdeedoh/how-to/how-to-build-a-play-kitchen-from-ikea-components-066719 Isn't it just the cutest thing?
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