May 16th, 2008
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May 15th, 2008
what a way to wake up
Warning: This post is not for the weak stomached.
Poor Bo has been burning the candle at both ends of late. He’s been coming home late from work and getting up early to do moving things. He has slept only 4-5 hours a night every night since the work week started. This morning I was determined that he was going to get to sleep late and catch up a little. Victoria came in a bit after 6 and told me that her stomach hurt. I figured it was because she hadn’t really eaten much for dinner as lentil soup and grilled cheese aren’t her favorites. I told her to get some yogurt and I’d be up in a minute. I did all this in a whisper in hopes that Bo would stay asleep. Aidan woke up so I actually got out of bed and she said she was still hungry she thought so she got an apple. I went to get the maid and left her here with Chullain to play (Bo was home still sleeping so no shouting child neglect). I am on my way home and the phone rings… “Mom, Victoria is throwing up all over and now she’s in my bathroom so what do I do?” Awww, now we can say, “poor, poor Bo,” as he’s about to be woken up from his one sleep in morning to clean up funky sweet, apple yogurt, vomit from all over the tile. It’s lucky that I wasn’t far away because it had to be cleaned all out of her long hair as well and I don’t know that he was up to that task. This is not the ideal way to be woken up and hopefully it won’t bode for the entire day though it appears that it might…
I foresee a day of Victoria napping on the couch and sipping water and me crossing my fingers that none of it comes back up again. Poor thing.
May 14th, 2008
Yeah Aidan
He could roll front to back and now has figured out back to front. Yeah for him! I’m going to have to be on my toes now because he’s entered the escape zone. Once he figure out how to roll then comes the scooting, crawling and eventually pulling up. Time passes all too quickly.
May 13th, 2008
hammer and nails legacy
Yesterday at scouts we built saw horses. You wouldn’t believe the noise. Wow, the reverberation off the tile was amazingly loud. The boys had a good time though. A bit into it when Chullain was ahead of just about everyone (except the boy scout leaders son who is very good at this sort of thing for obvious reasons) I began to wonder why it was that he’d have any advantage at nailing things over the others. Admittedly we do not build many things out of wood or even do many home repairs because it’s been awhile since we’ve owned a house. It occurred to me after just a bit of thought why… when he was younger we lived with my Dad for awhile and then we bought a house down the street from them while he was still small. To keep him occupied my Dad used to give him a piece of wood, pile of nails and hammer and let him go to town. He would pound and pound and I guess the skills he learned stuck because he picked it right back up yesterday like he’d hardly left off. Thanks Dad, who knew it would have such lasting effects.
May 12th, 2008
happy mothers day!
“Mothers day sucks,” is what I learned this year. Chullian informed me of this when he discovered that I didn’t infact want to play video games as part of mothers day. Ahh well, I guess you can’t please everyone. We ended up resolving the issue by sending him for “thinking time” to his room where he promptly fell asleep. After a bit of a nap he didn’t feel like it sucked anymore (or atleast didn’t care to share that he felt that way) and the rest of the day went pretty well. Our day was spent not doing too much of anything in particular but we did it together and that’s just how I like it. We combined mothers/fathers day this year as we’ll be traveling on the later and won’t be able to be together. I talked to all three of my Mom’s which was nice. We ate too much Indian food from our favorite restaurant while sitting on the living room floor and watching anime with the kids. We made a huge pile of stuff to be shipped by Bo’s company and weighed it as it’s a weight based shipment. Like I said not too much of anything in particular but it was really nice.
I hope that it was a nice mothers day for all the rest of you out there. Treasure up those handmade cards and funny little presents. Make a note of what you did because it’ll be hard to remember in a week let alone years from now.
May 8th, 2008
ahhh the flexibility of youth
Aidan has figured out how to grab his feet and just about everything else. I love it when they start grabbing their feet. Before we know it they’ll be in his mouth too.
That’s his camera face. He won’t smile once he realizes that we’re taking pictures he just stares at the camera real hard often like this.
Here is the surprise that I found on my camera. He’s got a personality all his own and keeps me on my toes, heheehehe. There was also a picture of his ipod for some unknown reason but I’ll leave that one off.
May 7th, 2008
revelations
I’m up at 11:14 pm not because I want to be but because my daughter and her friend are having a sleepover and haven’t gotten to the sleeping part yet. It appears that drowsiness may be setting in though so I have hope of hitting the pillow soon. It’s sad to discover that my children have a greater ability to stay awake and savor the late night hours than I do now. I know that this is a trend that’s not going to end anytime soon and I imagine that this heavy, burning eyed feeling will become a familiar one as they hit the teenage years.
A friend of mine had a baby today. They took advantage of the virtually free health care here in Kuwait and the baby came at Adan hospital. Her husband messaged me and said that she’d been admitted and that he was going home for awhile and would be back later in the afternoon. My first thought was “what a jerk, leaving her like that” though this sentiment went against everything that I knew of the sweet and attentive man. Another friend drove over to the hospital to be with her during her labor and offer some comfort if possible only to find that she wasn’t allowed to see her. No one was allowed to be with her outside of hospital staff. No wonder her husband had gone home, now that part made so much more sense. What didn’t make sense was the fact that she had to be apart from family or friends while delivering her baby. If it was a shared birthing area I can see a policy on no men but no women either is just beyond me. My impression of the culture here has been that it’s family centered with a lot of interaction with immediate and extended family members. To make a woman be alone at such a emotionally stressful and potentially scary/painful time just doesn’t seem to jive. Anyone have any insights on this one?
I like the heat. I realized today that I’ve gotten used to it being 100 F and it’s going to seem cold to me when I go back to the states. Go figure I’ve finally started to adjust to what was prior one of the hardest parts of living here and we’re leaving.
May 6th, 2008
how many batches…
of cookies can I make from a freezer partially filled with chocolate? That appears to be the question of the move. I’ve made Dark chocolate cranberry orange cookies, black and whites, triple chocolate oatmeal chippers, brownies with chocolate chips, no bakes and molasses, for good measure, since we decided to move. Tomorrow is a sleep over for Victoria and a friend and the request is the old standby, chocolate chip. I still have a big block of dark chocolate left and several bags of white along with chocolate bars and a partial block of milk chocolate. I think that eventually I am going to have to leave off trying to use it all and just throw it out or give it away. This is what comes of the mentality that any items that strikes my fancy in the grocery store must be bought because it might not be there the next time around. Any requests, bring em’ on!
May 5th, 2008
Here’s the stats
Aidan went to the MD today for his check up. He’s getting tall but not so fat as we’d like as his height is off the charts and his weight is only 75% percentile. Previously they had both been about 90% consistently. Of course now that I think of it I the the nurse didn’t have his head all the way at the top of the thing when they were measuring him so maybe it’s not so off as it might be. Anyhow…. here is what they said.
Height 71 cm, Head 43 cm, Weight 17.36 lbs
I feel better about having him start baby food before six months now. He can stand a little bulking up. I can tell you for sure that his milk consumption hasn’t been going down. :0)
May 3rd, 2008
