A few funnies.
-Weds night I went over to a friend's house. I had gotten Meredith's dinner ready, but she decided she didn't want to eat anything but her pears, so the mac n cheese & green beans were just sitting on the table when I left. Well, she told Chris a little later that she was hungry, but wanted to eat upstairs in her room (she has a little table & chairs in there and I mistakenly let her have a snack up there one time and determined that was a big no-no on my part). Well, she knew she could get it past her father who was glued to a game on his new flat screen tv in the loft, so he brought it upstairs for her. Well, she proceeded to make 'soup' by mixing her juice with her mac n cheese and then it appeared that she flung it all around the room (no evidence of green beans, so she either ate them or they are hiding somewhere. Fortunately, he had it cleaned up by the time I got home, but this is what happens on Daddy's watch.
-Meredith has figured out that if she puts her fingers in her ears it makes things sound different, so at random times I'll see her standing there, fingers in ears just humming or singing or talking. Pretty funny.
-She busted out with this song she learned at daycare awhile back,
'Arriba's up, Abajo's down,
I speak Spanish and English too,
I like them both, how bout you??' (enter lots of enthusiasm and jumping up and down here)
That just totally cracked me up. She actually knows quite a bit of Spanish. Counting to 10, her colors, directions, some basic commands, but our daycare lady says that when she tells the kids to do something, she will very often only say it in Spanish and Meredith is great about knowing exactly what to do. So, I think she actually understands a lot more than she can actually say. It's just proof that repetition with anything can really sink in! I can't help but think that this will help her later on in life when she's in a classroom learning Spanish.
-She has also recently determined that boys and girls are different. Not in any anatomical way, but just that there are boys and there are girls. She frequently reminds us that Mommy and Meredith are girls and Daddy is a boy. I have to just laugh, but some of the things she says are just totally made up. Like last night her daddy was going to read her bedtime stories and she piped up saying, "No, boys can't read stories!"...that translation could easily read that he almost never reads to her, so hence, boys can't read stories. She does a lot of the boys can't do this and girls can't do that kind of talk, which makes me cringe a little and I have to remind myself that she isn't a right wing Republican, but an almost 3 year old who is a little sponge and I just try to calmly reinforce that girls and boys can do whatever they want if they put their minds to it!!
It's hard to believe she'll be 3 on Monday!
Friday, January 30, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Carrots
So, Meredith's stall technique last night about going to bed was 1) she had to go potty (no she didn't) and 2) she was hungry and wanted carrots. I totally just started laughing because here is my child sitting on her little potty with the most serious face ever saying, "Mommy, I want some carrots". Guess that's better than wanting cookies!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Blizzard of 2009!
Well, we survived the big snow! I know to other parts of the country it is rediculous, but for NC to get around 6 inches of snow is a huge deal. We haven't had anything but a few flakes for about 4 years, so it makes it so novel every time it happens! We already had a nice long weekend with the MLK holiday and then Chris (of course) didn't have school Tues or Weds and they are delayed 2 hrs this morning. I had to make my way into work during the thick of the snow (we almost never closed-our HQ is in Boston, so they think this is crazy), although almost no one else came to work. I am responsible for checking the voicemail for people who won't be coming in on any given day so I can make staffing adjustments where needed and we had over 130 voicemails! Yikes, itwas not a fun day. I think the only thing that saved us was that the Inaguration had the country pretty distracted and no one was calling us!
Speaking of the Inaguration, I had totally planned on just watching it online since a TV really isn't necessary to watch these types of events anymore. Well, I just saw that the Triangle area had the highest viewing % in the country; therefore, that would make more sense as to why I couldn't sign onto to any of the websites and see it, everything was either terribly slow or it would just go in and out. I was totally bummed that I missed it live, but it doesn't change the magnitude of the event! I also thought it was totally cool that the next day, Meredith saw the front page of the N&O and said, "Hey Mama, look at that guy. That's Obama!". We're working on the word 'president', but it tends to come out as something more like 'pregiment'...who knows.
To be honest, I have been ok coming to work and being out of the house because my child is making me crazy! She spent the night at my mom's on Saturday bc it was our annual winter party for work. Mom said she had been great for her and she had taken her to Sunday School and then I met them for service. Meredith proceeded to be terrible enough that I had to take her out of church and she then threw fits in the narthex and literally laid on the floor. She is so opinionated and stubborn all the time. There is no talking sense to her at all. She has moments of absolute gloriousness (not sure if that's a real word, but it fits!), but then it's like a switch is flipped and she is so darn naughty I don't know what to do with her. Don't get me wrong, she makes me laugh all the time, but she frustrates me just as much. She is so independent these days too that it makes things like brushing her teeth a nightmare because she 'can do it'. She's really into dress up and being super creative these days. I hear her playing with her dolls sometimes and the conversations totally make me laugh and realize that whether it seems like it or not, she is listening and taking in what we tell her because she regurgitates it to her dolls (with a wagging finger...I promise I don't do that!). On the other hand, she has really improved when we go out to restaurants. She sits fairly still and actually eats her food and doesn't cause too much chaos in the place. I'd say that has really improved over the past several months. Trust me, she's still quite spirited, but it's a little more reigned in when we're in public (most of the time). I remember watching kids who were sitting nicely and eating their food across a restaurant, while I'm literally wrestling with my child, thinking that she'd never do that, but I guess everything passes, huh? They never said being a parent was an easy job!
Ok, I've rambled on long enough. Have a good one!
Speaking of the Inaguration, I had totally planned on just watching it online since a TV really isn't necessary to watch these types of events anymore. Well, I just saw that the Triangle area had the highest viewing % in the country; therefore, that would make more sense as to why I couldn't sign onto to any of the websites and see it, everything was either terribly slow or it would just go in and out. I was totally bummed that I missed it live, but it doesn't change the magnitude of the event! I also thought it was totally cool that the next day, Meredith saw the front page of the N&O and said, "Hey Mama, look at that guy. That's Obama!". We're working on the word 'president', but it tends to come out as something more like 'pregiment'...who knows.
To be honest, I have been ok coming to work and being out of the house because my child is making me crazy! She spent the night at my mom's on Saturday bc it was our annual winter party for work. Mom said she had been great for her and she had taken her to Sunday School and then I met them for service. Meredith proceeded to be terrible enough that I had to take her out of church and she then threw fits in the narthex and literally laid on the floor. She is so opinionated and stubborn all the time. There is no talking sense to her at all. She has moments of absolute gloriousness (not sure if that's a real word, but it fits!), but then it's like a switch is flipped and she is so darn naughty I don't know what to do with her. Don't get me wrong, she makes me laugh all the time, but she frustrates me just as much. She is so independent these days too that it makes things like brushing her teeth a nightmare because she 'can do it'. She's really into dress up and being super creative these days. I hear her playing with her dolls sometimes and the conversations totally make me laugh and realize that whether it seems like it or not, she is listening and taking in what we tell her because she regurgitates it to her dolls (with a wagging finger...I promise I don't do that!). On the other hand, she has really improved when we go out to restaurants. She sits fairly still and actually eats her food and doesn't cause too much chaos in the place. I'd say that has really improved over the past several months. Trust me, she's still quite spirited, but it's a little more reigned in when we're in public (most of the time). I remember watching kids who were sitting nicely and eating their food across a restaurant, while I'm literally wrestling with my child, thinking that she'd never do that, but I guess everything passes, huh? They never said being a parent was an easy job!
Ok, I've rambled on long enough. Have a good one!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Update
I have been terrible about updating lately, so here goes. I'll try to keep it as brief as possible.
Christmas was good. I was able to be out of work for almost 2 weeks, which was really nice, but definitely didn't feel like that long. We went to the children's Christmas Eve service at church, which was nice, but Meredith ended up spending probably half of the service in the bathroom because she had to go potty. Chris conveniently took her and I think he was more of the reason why they missed the majority of the service.....
Meredith went to bed reasonably easily, but was quite concerned that Santa would be too loud and would wake her up with his jingle bells. We left some reindeer food in the backyard and cookies for Santa, so she was pretty excited. She slept so well, that we needed to wake her up by around 8:15 so we could get over to my mom's and then over to Chris' step-sister's house that afternoon. We had a jingle bell ornament that we rang at the bottom of the steps and she woke right up and was amazed that she heard the jingle bells and kept saying how Santa was so loud and his jingle bells woke her up. It was totally priceless.
Christmas day was really nice, but every year we have the issue of not enough hours in the day, so we're already trying to think of a better plan for next year.
We spent most of our vacation doing boring stuff like cleaning closets and organizing. It actually felt really good to purge so much stuff. I took 9 garbage bags of clothes and shoes to goodwill. It was and still is rediculous the amount of crap I have accumlated over the years.
We went out to dinner with Randy and Katy for New Years. Meredith was actually in High Point with her grandparents for the night, so we could really live it up. Well, let's just say that Chris and Randy had to wake both Katy and I up at midnight since we both fell asleep on the couch. It was a wild night!
Nothing else too exciting to report, but thought I'd just get a quick post up about the holidays.
Christmas was good. I was able to be out of work for almost 2 weeks, which was really nice, but definitely didn't feel like that long. We went to the children's Christmas Eve service at church, which was nice, but Meredith ended up spending probably half of the service in the bathroom because she had to go potty. Chris conveniently took her and I think he was more of the reason why they missed the majority of the service.....
Meredith went to bed reasonably easily, but was quite concerned that Santa would be too loud and would wake her up with his jingle bells. We left some reindeer food in the backyard and cookies for Santa, so she was pretty excited. She slept so well, that we needed to wake her up by around 8:15 so we could get over to my mom's and then over to Chris' step-sister's house that afternoon. We had a jingle bell ornament that we rang at the bottom of the steps and she woke right up and was amazed that she heard the jingle bells and kept saying how Santa was so loud and his jingle bells woke her up. It was totally priceless.
Christmas day was really nice, but every year we have the issue of not enough hours in the day, so we're already trying to think of a better plan for next year.
We spent most of our vacation doing boring stuff like cleaning closets and organizing. It actually felt really good to purge so much stuff. I took 9 garbage bags of clothes and shoes to goodwill. It was and still is rediculous the amount of crap I have accumlated over the years.
We went out to dinner with Randy and Katy for New Years. Meredith was actually in High Point with her grandparents for the night, so we could really live it up. Well, let's just say that Chris and Randy had to wake both Katy and I up at midnight since we both fell asleep on the couch. It was a wild night!
Nothing else too exciting to report, but thought I'd just get a quick post up about the holidays.
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