It appears that Nick is not the Nickelodeon of our time, friends. That's not necessarily a bad thing! (For starters, they have several channels. I remember when ALL of the kids programming was on Nickelodeon. No Nick meant no TV.)
I admit that I have not yet begun to watch kids shows since Abby does not watch them. I have a friend that started sitting down with his boy the weekend after he was born to watch Saturday morning cartoons. I, on the other hand, refuse to give in until I have to.
Anyway, I heard this morning about a good think that Nick is doing. Seems that they realize how much TV is contributing to the obesity of children, so they are going off air tomorrow for a three hour period! I would imagine that means that they are losing money in revenue, but for all I know it may just have their logo and a logo for Coke or something.
It's a part of their annual Worldwide Day of Play. They encourage folks to get outside and do something. Anything. They have a website to come up with ideas if you're fresh out of them. This is the fourth year.
I say good for Nick. I think I'll go out and play to celebrate! (Actually, I don't have a choice. It's Homecoming and Anny wants to show off Baby.)
September 28, 2007
September 19, 2007
Took This Quiz Today, Not Too Surprised
| You Will Not Be a Cool Parent |
 And that's pretty okay. While your kids may not think of you as a friend, they will respect you. You know that kids need discipline and structure, and you're not afraid to give it to them. Just be careful that your strictness doesn't lead to rebellion. It's good to have standards and rules, but you don't need to have an iron fist when enforcing them. |
September 17, 2007
Preparations A-G, No H
So I have to assume that most folks prepare for their childs baptism in some way. Arrange for a cake and some platters; do a thorough cleaning of the house; invite friends and family to be a part of the celebration of brining a child to the church (officially).
We paint. Actually, I'm beginning to think that we prepare for any milestone by painting! Before we were "ready" to bring a baby home, (if that's really possible) we needed to paint the nursery.
The weekend of the batism, though, we are going to have great fun with lots of people staying with us, and even more people coming through for meals or just hanging out. This has brought about another version of THE LIST.
I am a list maker and, more importantly, a list follower. When we were getting final things in order for Abby's birth, we made a large post it note for each room in the house, and systematically moved them to the "finished" side of the wall when they were done. Granted, a few of those have not been done yet, but that's another post, on a different day.
My MIL and FIL do not require much preparation. They have "their room" which actually has furniture that came from their house about 18 months ago. It still smells more like their house than it does our house, to be honest. (which is fine, just an observation)
My BIL and SIL, on the other hand, have not been here before. They had the first children, and it has made the most sense to make trips west rather than have everyone fly east. They are going to come for the baptism, and we're elated! But it means that we have to get some things in order.
Sleeping: We have three adult beds in our house, plus two for Abby. We're set for the adults, and are going to borrow an air mattress for Ellie the toddler. Ada the (will be) ten month old will need the pack-and-play.
That led to the decision to move Abby to her room. She turned three months old this week, and with the combination of her age and the need to let someone else sleep in the pack-and-play, we moved her into her own room Saturday night. She did amazingly! Slept for seven hours and when she woke, she happily stared at the mobile above her. If she made peeps through the night, they didn't disturb us because it was through a monitor, not 14 inches from my head.
She slept there again last night and did really well again. She woke up right at 5:15, which is when I've been aiming at. That gives us enough time to eat and get dressed before my ladies have to leave for schools.
Dining: Our dining room had some very old, very not-our-style blue wallpaper with birds and a colonial theme. Our dining room is also sloped. The front half of our house is. The combination of the wallpaper and the slope has been known to make people a little woozy while dining. Our little kitchen table will not fit six adults, a toddler and two infants, though. This means that we need to make the dining room into a dining area again.
I have already taken down the wallpaper, but now have to patch some holes and get some paint up. That should happen over the next ten days or so.
The lists usually work, hopefully THE LIST does again. I'll probably update here as I go along. We're glad to have a reason to get some of our house projects done!
We paint. Actually, I'm beginning to think that we prepare for any milestone by painting! Before we were "ready" to bring a baby home, (if that's really possible) we needed to paint the nursery.
The weekend of the batism, though, we are going to have great fun with lots of people staying with us, and even more people coming through for meals or just hanging out. This has brought about another version of THE LIST.
I am a list maker and, more importantly, a list follower. When we were getting final things in order for Abby's birth, we made a large post it note for each room in the house, and systematically moved them to the "finished" side of the wall when they were done. Granted, a few of those have not been done yet, but that's another post, on a different day.
My MIL and FIL do not require much preparation. They have "their room" which actually has furniture that came from their house about 18 months ago. It still smells more like their house than it does our house, to be honest. (which is fine, just an observation)
My BIL and SIL, on the other hand, have not been here before. They had the first children, and it has made the most sense to make trips west rather than have everyone fly east. They are going to come for the baptism, and we're elated! But it means that we have to get some things in order.
Sleeping: We have three adult beds in our house, plus two for Abby. We're set for the adults, and are going to borrow an air mattress for Ellie the toddler. Ada the (will be) ten month old will need the pack-and-play.
That led to the decision to move Abby to her room. She turned three months old this week, and with the combination of her age and the need to let someone else sleep in the pack-and-play, we moved her into her own room Saturday night. She did amazingly! Slept for seven hours and when she woke, she happily stared at the mobile above her. If she made peeps through the night, they didn't disturb us because it was through a monitor, not 14 inches from my head.
She slept there again last night and did really well again. She woke up right at 5:15, which is when I've been aiming at. That gives us enough time to eat and get dressed before my ladies have to leave for schools.
Dining: Our dining room had some very old, very not-our-style blue wallpaper with birds and a colonial theme. Our dining room is also sloped. The front half of our house is. The combination of the wallpaper and the slope has been known to make people a little woozy while dining. Our little kitchen table will not fit six adults, a toddler and two infants, though. This means that we need to make the dining room into a dining area again.
I have already taken down the wallpaper, but now have to patch some holes and get some paint up. That should happen over the next ten days or so.
The lists usually work, hopefully THE LIST does again. I'll probably update here as I go along. We're glad to have a reason to get some of our house projects done!
September 14, 2007
An Open Letter:
An Open Letter to Sanitation Workers:
As a parent of a three month old, I must send you my sincere thanks and appreciation. As I opened my trash can this morning I was hit with the power of three-day-in-the-heat-of-the-trashcan poopy diaper stench.
I will be honest, I have never envied your job. You work long hours and deal with some nasty things, but I feel like I have been gentle on you for at least the last ten years of my life. I have put out an occasional moldy piece of fruit, or scrap wood from a house project, but not much more.
Now we are producing more in both volume and stench. For that, I must apologize. If the diaper can were full only on days that you picked up the trash, that would be a miracle. Instead, they tend to be full, or full enough for us to notice, about three hours after your visit.
I will even go so far as to send thanks from every parent that uses disposable diapers.
Your work is VERY appreciated by us all!
As a parent of a three month old, I must send you my sincere thanks and appreciation. As I opened my trash can this morning I was hit with the power of three-day-in-the-heat-of-the-trashcan poopy diaper stench.
I will be honest, I have never envied your job. You work long hours and deal with some nasty things, but I feel like I have been gentle on you for at least the last ten years of my life. I have put out an occasional moldy piece of fruit, or scrap wood from a house project, but not much more.
Now we are producing more in both volume and stench. For that, I must apologize. If the diaper can were full only on days that you picked up the trash, that would be a miracle. Instead, they tend to be full, or full enough for us to notice, about three hours after your visit.
I will even go so far as to send thanks from every parent that uses disposable diapers.
Your work is VERY appreciated by us all!
September 12, 2007
Pumpkin Update!
I gave up on the pumpkins on day this summer when the AC was out. I needed to vent on something, and the vines were growing up the outside fan unit. I folded back half of the vines onto itself, and assumed that would be the end of my fun, no maintenance project.
We planted the seeds in late May/Early June, and proceeded to ignore them completely after Abby was born. Priorities, you know. I based my decision to kill the project based on the drought we had been having.
I went out to take care of trashing the vines, and found a pumpkin bud. (no picture, sorry.) I began to water with our harvested rain water every other day or so, but didn't do anything else. This past weekend I went out to snap a photo of our one pumpkin:
(the dark green croc is mine, a size 12-13!)
And discovered a second one:
We're going to pick the one orange one this week to be sure it does not go bad, and hopefully to get the other one ripe because the nutrients will all go to one instead of two. We'll get some good autumn photos of Abby this year!
We planted the seeds in late May/Early June, and proceeded to ignore them completely after Abby was born. Priorities, you know. I based my decision to kill the project based on the drought we had been having.
I went out to take care of trashing the vines, and found a pumpkin bud. (no picture, sorry.) I began to water with our harvested rain water every other day or so, but didn't do anything else. This past weekend I went out to snap a photo of our one pumpkin:
(the dark green croc is mine, a size 12-13!)
And discovered a second one:
We're going to pick the one orange one this week to be sure it does not go bad, and hopefully to get the other one ripe because the nutrients will all go to one instead of two. We'll get some good autumn photos of Abby this year!
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