Monday, March 10, 2008
Who needs a star chart?
When you can BE the star chart? Cady had a chart where she earned stars for brushing her teeth. The chart is no longer effective as she must wear her stars. It started with me putting them on her jammies. Then it progressed to her hands. And now?
Monday, January 21, 2008
Mini-Me!
That's what Cady is!
Doesn't it just take your breath away when they mimic what you do? It takes mine away. I can't believe someone on this earth thinks that I am cool enough that she wants to do everything that I do. It's amazing...really.
We have a whole getting ready in the morning ritual. Whenever it comes time for make-up she runs over to me and yellls "MAKE-UP!!" and puts her face over the gate while I pretend to put mascara and face powder on her. She then walks over to where I keep my jewelery and points and tells me to put my jewelery on. Then she brings me my shoes and always reminds me to get my coat before I leave. She watches everything.
Today, she got a hold of one of my necklaces (and broke it but that was my fault for leaving it out) and she put it around her neck. She said, "Oh pretty" and then I watched her walk over to the full length mirror and do a twirl. And she did it exactly the way that I do it (according to Rob) where she showed one side to the mirror and then the other. I would have sworn that I don't do that, but he said that Cady does it exactly the same way that I do.
This morning we went to the store. We couldn't leave the house without her purse (just like mommy). At the store I said, "where would the water filters be?" and Cady said, "Ummm" and clicked her mouth. She did it three times like I do when I'm exaggerating something. Then she started looking for candy at the store and started calling, "Candy, where are you?" and started making kissing noises like I do when I'm calling the cats.
She has stolen all of my expressions. She says, "gosh" and "geez" just about as much as I do. She folds her arms now when she stands. Another thing that I had no idea that I do, yet I do constantly. She even sings like me, shaking her head back and forth with her mouth in the air when she sings, "meow meow meow meow!"
Bottom line is that I'm amazed at how much she picks up...how much she watches me. I know that the day will come that she is going to realize how completely uncool I am and she'll start doing things her way and even rejecting the way that I do things. But for now....this is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doesn't it just take your breath away when they mimic what you do? It takes mine away. I can't believe someone on this earth thinks that I am cool enough that she wants to do everything that I do. It's amazing...really.
We have a whole getting ready in the morning ritual. Whenever it comes time for make-up she runs over to me and yellls "MAKE-UP!!" and puts her face over the gate while I pretend to put mascara and face powder on her. She then walks over to where I keep my jewelery and points and tells me to put my jewelery on. Then she brings me my shoes and always reminds me to get my coat before I leave. She watches everything.
Today, she got a hold of one of my necklaces (and broke it but that was my fault for leaving it out) and she put it around her neck. She said, "Oh pretty" and then I watched her walk over to the full length mirror and do a twirl. And she did it exactly the way that I do it (according to Rob) where she showed one side to the mirror and then the other. I would have sworn that I don't do that, but he said that Cady does it exactly the same way that I do.
This morning we went to the store. We couldn't leave the house without her purse (just like mommy). At the store I said, "where would the water filters be?" and Cady said, "Ummm" and clicked her mouth. She did it three times like I do when I'm exaggerating something. Then she started looking for candy at the store and started calling, "Candy, where are you?" and started making kissing noises like I do when I'm calling the cats.
She has stolen all of my expressions. She says, "gosh" and "geez" just about as much as I do. She folds her arms now when she stands. Another thing that I had no idea that I do, yet I do constantly. She even sings like me, shaking her head back and forth with her mouth in the air when she sings, "meow meow meow meow!"
Bottom line is that I'm amazed at how much she picks up...how much she watches me. I know that the day will come that she is going to realize how completely uncool I am and she'll start doing things her way and even rejecting the way that I do things. But for now....this is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Ring around the Rosy gone bad!
What Ring Around the Rosy *should* look like
And what Ring Around the Rosy looks like when it's gone bad!
And what Ring Around the Rosy looks like when it's gone bad!
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Return of bed head!
Front View...Not too bad. Just a crooked pony tail
Side View. Starting to suspect that hair is having some issues.
And then the back. YIKES!!!
Side View. Starting to suspect that hair is having some issues.
And then the back. YIKES!!!
Friday, October 26, 2007
If your mom says you cannot get into the Halloween Candy...
Then just wait for her to turn her back!
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Oh Poop!!!
I'm just posting this, but I wrote it a couple of days ago, thus the old baseball reference:
This morning started out rough. I stayed up waaaaaay too late watching the Rockies sweep their way into the World Series. As a result, I didn't wake up as early as I usually do and had to kick it into high gear to get ready on time. Isn't it the case that anytime you are racing the clock, something unexpected happens?
Cady and I took a shower together as we do every morning and then I let her run around diaperless in her robe for a few minutes while I dried my hair. This morning though she came up to me and I thought she was saying poop. She had this brown stuff on her lips. I PRAY that it was not poop. I had also given her an old tube of lipstick where i had taken the lipstick out (brownish color) but if you put your finger in there you can get some remnants. And she was playing with it prior to this situation. I wiped her mouth and I swear that it didn't look poop brown. That's what I really hope anyhow. So, I hear her say "poop" again but wasn't quite sure so after wiping her mouth I think we are done. Then I smell something. I should mention at this point that not only am I potentially running late but this is the first day the entire school year that it is CRUCIAL that I be on time because I am facilitating a threat assessment on a student and will have ten professionals waiting on me if I'm late.
So, after she says poop the second time, I pull up her robe only to discover that it is caked with poop as she is. She has poop smeared from her back down to her ankles. Cleaning her up took a fair amount of time. When it's all smeared like that, it's quite a process.
After I cleaned her up she said, "poop" again and pulled me by the robe into the bedroom where there was a pile of poop. I mean a PILE. And I'm just not good with picking up poop. A dipaer is one thing but picking it up off the floor is another thing entirely. I immediately ran to find my magazine to find some of those subscription cards that magazines are usually full of. Can't find ANY! But I could find some semistiff perfume inserts that could do the trick. I do a little scoop trick and flush it down the toilet. Cady waves and says, "bye-bye see you" as she watches it go down. I can assure you that I will not be letting her run around diaperless anymore and more importantly I am going to continue believing that it was lipstick on her lips and around her mouth!!
Check her out in her ultra-cute robe!
And a bonus pick for Mimi who bought Cady this cute outfit!
This morning started out rough. I stayed up waaaaaay too late watching the Rockies sweep their way into the World Series. As a result, I didn't wake up as early as I usually do and had to kick it into high gear to get ready on time. Isn't it the case that anytime you are racing the clock, something unexpected happens?
Cady and I took a shower together as we do every morning and then I let her run around diaperless in her robe for a few minutes while I dried my hair. This morning though she came up to me and I thought she was saying poop. She had this brown stuff on her lips. I PRAY that it was not poop. I had also given her an old tube of lipstick where i had taken the lipstick out (brownish color) but if you put your finger in there you can get some remnants. And she was playing with it prior to this situation. I wiped her mouth and I swear that it didn't look poop brown. That's what I really hope anyhow. So, I hear her say "poop" again but wasn't quite sure so after wiping her mouth I think we are done. Then I smell something. I should mention at this point that not only am I potentially running late but this is the first day the entire school year that it is CRUCIAL that I be on time because I am facilitating a threat assessment on a student and will have ten professionals waiting on me if I'm late.
So, after she says poop the second time, I pull up her robe only to discover that it is caked with poop as she is. She has poop smeared from her back down to her ankles. Cleaning her up took a fair amount of time. When it's all smeared like that, it's quite a process.
After I cleaned her up she said, "poop" again and pulled me by the robe into the bedroom where there was a pile of poop. I mean a PILE. And I'm just not good with picking up poop. A dipaer is one thing but picking it up off the floor is another thing entirely. I immediately ran to find my magazine to find some of those subscription cards that magazines are usually full of. Can't find ANY! But I could find some semistiff perfume inserts that could do the trick. I do a little scoop trick and flush it down the toilet. Cady waves and says, "bye-bye see you" as she watches it go down. I can assure you that I will not be letting her run around diaperless anymore and more importantly I am going to continue believing that it was lipstick on her lips and around her mouth!!
Check her out in her ultra-cute robe!
And a bonus pick for Mimi who bought Cady this cute outfit!
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Merry-go-Hell
I'm kind of embarrassed to post this but what the heck..it's slow. A couple of weeks ago we went to the mall and Cady lit up when she saw the merry-go-round in the food court. Last time Rob took her on, this time he suggested I take her on. Sure, no problem. So I do.
I've taken her on the Merry-go-round at the zoo a few times. No problems. It's slow and stable. This one was kind of fast. Not super fast, but since it was smaller it was just faster than the huge one at the zoo. The thing takes off and I have a mini-panic attack because it's spinning and Cady's pole is going up and down and my equilibrium was all off and I felt like I was going to either fall off or be unable to prevent Cady from falling off. So I'm gripping on to her (death grip!) while standing next to her horse and her pole is going up and down. Since that is what I was using to hold on, the movement of the ground below me, helping Cady try to wave to her dad as we passed and the up and down movement of the pole made me break out in a sweat. The last three go arounds I couldn't even watch anymore as I was doing everything I could to NOT throw-up. When the ride was over, Rob came to help me because he said he could tell that I was turning green. We had to sit in the food court for about 20 minutes before I cooled down and the spins went away. Looks like dad will have to take her on the faster merry-go-rounds and I'll save myself for the large pokey ones.
I've taken her on the Merry-go-round at the zoo a few times. No problems. It's slow and stable. This one was kind of fast. Not super fast, but since it was smaller it was just faster than the huge one at the zoo. The thing takes off and I have a mini-panic attack because it's spinning and Cady's pole is going up and down and my equilibrium was all off and I felt like I was going to either fall off or be unable to prevent Cady from falling off. So I'm gripping on to her (death grip!) while standing next to her horse and her pole is going up and down. Since that is what I was using to hold on, the movement of the ground below me, helping Cady try to wave to her dad as we passed and the up and down movement of the pole made me break out in a sweat. The last three go arounds I couldn't even watch anymore as I was doing everything I could to NOT throw-up. When the ride was over, Rob came to help me because he said he could tell that I was turning green. We had to sit in the food court for about 20 minutes before I cooled down and the spins went away. Looks like dad will have to take her on the faster merry-go-rounds and I'll save myself for the large pokey ones.
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