The Toddler is in the bathroom, singing to herself "Dora, Dora, Dora, the Explorer!" It's 8:00, one hour past her bedtime, and 45 minutes past my patience.
I think she's going to be a supreme teenager. She's already got the blank look down. I told her last time I went to check on her that it was time for bed, that she was done, and I got The Look. I now understand the parental sentence "I'm going to wipe that look off your face". I feel I am mere years away from "stop that or I will give you something to cry about" and "because I Said So."
April 25, 2007
April 21, 2007
Double Lapsed
Yeah. I ran out of steam pretty quickly. It's something I do -- take on projects and get all excited and make the project huge and then. Just. Stop.
The Toddler is now 3, and we are now in New York! We've just made ourselves pregnant, so I find myself thinking to blog again. I think this time I'll have to make a regular schedule, maybe with an alarm in my Palm Pilot to remind me to post.
So, into the breach!
The Toddler is now 3, and we are now in New York! We've just made ourselves pregnant, so I find myself thinking to blog again. I think this time I'll have to make a regular schedule, maybe with an alarm in my Palm Pilot to remind me to post.
So, into the breach!
September 4, 2005
Baby Sign
Yeah, we sign with our baby. We started when she was 8 months old, with very few signs (more, done, down) and were rubbish at being consistent with the signs. Somehow, I found it hard to do the sign when it was better to get that spoon in her mouth quickly before she lost interest while Mummy was signing "more".
Despite our best efforts, the Toddler has actually picked up on signing! She now uses 'more', 'down', 'help', 'water', 'please', 'eat', and a few that we've made up together like 'where' and 'Wiggles'. You'll recall I posted about the Wiggles -- they're the Toddler's favorite TV programme. She loves books, so I should teach her 'book', and i've just decided tonight to teach her 'music' and 'reach' or 'get'. She uses nodding head and shaking head for 'yes' and 'no', and waving for 'hi' and 'bye' since I didn't see the need to try and teach those signs.
It's really cute. She uses 'more' the most, asking to continue a game (ie: "again!") or for more food, or to watch the Wiggles for the gazillionth time. Her 'Wiggles' sign is guaranteed to make you smile -- pointed forefingers and thumbs waved in the air, and body wiggling like you are doing the twist, accompanied by the biggest grin ever.
Now if someone could just teach W. sign language. I know what I'd teach him -- 'idiot', 'stop', 'no', 'quiet', 'sit'.
Despite our best efforts, the Toddler has actually picked up on signing! She now uses 'more', 'down', 'help', 'water', 'please', 'eat', and a few that we've made up together like 'where' and 'Wiggles'. You'll recall I posted about the Wiggles -- they're the Toddler's favorite TV programme. She loves books, so I should teach her 'book', and i've just decided tonight to teach her 'music' and 'reach' or 'get'. She uses nodding head and shaking head for 'yes' and 'no', and waving for 'hi' and 'bye' since I didn't see the need to try and teach those signs.
It's really cute. She uses 'more' the most, asking to continue a game (ie: "again!") or for more food, or to watch the Wiggles for the gazillionth time. Her 'Wiggles' sign is guaranteed to make you smile -- pointed forefingers and thumbs waved in the air, and body wiggling like you are doing the twist, accompanied by the biggest grin ever.
Now if someone could just teach W. sign language. I know what I'd teach him -- 'idiot', 'stop', 'no', 'quiet', 'sit'.
August 15, 2005
How About Renaming it MMS?
PMS is such a misnomer. Like Morning Sickness, which is not limited to the morning but rather is all-day-nausea, PMS for some is all-month-evil. To carry the analogy a little further, with Morning Sickness, upon puking (which normally one would assume would make one feel better) one still feels just as nauseated *and* has vomit-breath. With PMS, at the start of bleeding when one would expect relief from the symptoms, the opposite is often the case. Now not only is one moody, miserable and depressed, but bleeding.
Did you ever see those commercials where the slightly disheveled, clearly put-upon woman is trying to get a shopping cart out of the cart line to do her grocery shopping? She wrestles a little with the thing, then bangs her hands on the handle and slams the cart into the others to a voiceover saying "Why does this always happen to me?" I used to slightly grin at that commercial thinking "We all have those days. No need for Prozac."
Heh. Hand over the drugs. I've dissolved into tears recently over something as little as a packet of laundry tablets refusing to open cleanly. I've yelled at The Toddler for -- well, being a toddler. And poor Mr LSG gets his head taken off routinely. He deserves it, you know. He puts his knife in the sink instead of the dishwasher.
Did you ever see those commercials where the slightly disheveled, clearly put-upon woman is trying to get a shopping cart out of the cart line to do her grocery shopping? She wrestles a little with the thing, then bangs her hands on the handle and slams the cart into the others to a voiceover saying "Why does this always happen to me?" I used to slightly grin at that commercial thinking "We all have those days. No need for Prozac."
Heh. Hand over the drugs. I've dissolved into tears recently over something as little as a packet of laundry tablets refusing to open cleanly. I've yelled at The Toddler for -- well, being a toddler. And poor Mr LSG gets his head taken off routinely. He deserves it, you know. He puts his knife in the sink instead of the dishwasher.
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