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Saturday, August 16, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
"Fragile Baby"
Mikey has been sick this week with a nasty flu bug. He and I decided that he has been a 'fragile baby' because all he wanted to do was be held and rocked.
Yesterday, he was feeling lots better. He was playing with Lincoln Logs and it was time to clean up. When I asked him to pick up his toys, he said "no Wowo, I fragile baby", and put his tiny little hand next to mine to show me how he was too small to pick up all those logs. LOL! I convinced him that it would be fun to clean up if I timed him, and he raced to pick them all up.
Yeah for three year olds! And "I'll Time You" is always a valuable tool in the nanny's box o tricks.
Watching the Olympics of Course!
I've been trying to watch as much Olympics coverage as I can (it's better to watch others sweat than to do so myself). Of course, the gymnastics events with the fabulously named Elfi Schlegel commentating is a favorite. If I ever get a dog, Elfi Schlegel is my #2 name choice, right after Sam Evans.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Ugh!
The boys are all coming down with the nasty stomach flu (barf) this week. Mikey has been sick for 3 days now poor little chap.
Just to class up this post, here's a 14th c. painting of someone puking.
Introducing...
Rex the Wonder Dog! Lorraine caved and bought the boys a new puppy and he is presh!!!
Rex is a border collie/St. Bernard mix (she swears he won't get over 50 lb but I dunno) 2 months old and as cute as can be.
He is jolly, lets the boys cart him around all over the place without complaining at all. Lorraine said Liam had little tears in his eyes when they were buying him, and when she asked why, he said "I'm just so happy". Is that sweet or what!
Mikey is a little bit jealous bc he is not the baby any more. First day he was eating puppy chow and barking so that he could get some attention. Poor guy!
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Camping Fun (and disasters)
no pictures with this post, just a little story about how good I am at roughing it:
Thank god Steve came along bc our campsite (tent, boy's pup tent, kitchen, etc) was set up and ready to go in no time. Unfortch, I opted to be in charge of blowing up my fancy air bed. Which promptly got two giant holes in the sides. First night, we just laid out the flat mattress and attempted to sleep on it (here's where the hip and butt padding might come in handy, but nooo. Still painful to lay on rocks and roots). Next day, we set out to get a patch kit in town, which we then left at the hardware store and Steve had to drive back to get.
He patched the holes and we crawled into bed, where we realized we had yet another hole somewhere. Which meant pumping up our mattress every hour through the night.
Our campsite was quite a ways from the bathroom, natch. And after one of the 2 am mattress pumpings, I had to pee something fierce. Being the savvy camper, I decided to grab a package of tissues and pee in the bushes. I had no flashlight, so had to position myself VERY carefully to avoid nettles. No nettles, but I forgot to position my pj bottoms and ended up with pee all over my pants leg.
AND I FELL AGAIN! What's the deal here? Actually, I had a reason both times (last time, I tripped over a sidewalk crack, this time I slipped on wet concrete around the water faucet). I bonked my head and my arm has a ginormous bruise from armpit to elbow.
Next vacation better be to a luxury hotel is all I'm sayin'
Thank god Steve came along bc our campsite (tent, boy's pup tent, kitchen, etc) was set up and ready to go in no time. Unfortch, I opted to be in charge of blowing up my fancy air bed. Which promptly got two giant holes in the sides. First night, we just laid out the flat mattress and attempted to sleep on it (here's where the hip and butt padding might come in handy, but nooo. Still painful to lay on rocks and roots). Next day, we set out to get a patch kit in town, which we then left at the hardware store and Steve had to drive back to get.
He patched the holes and we crawled into bed, where we realized we had yet another hole somewhere. Which meant pumping up our mattress every hour through the night.
Our campsite was quite a ways from the bathroom, natch. And after one of the 2 am mattress pumpings, I had to pee something fierce. Being the savvy camper, I decided to grab a package of tissues and pee in the bushes. I had no flashlight, so had to position myself VERY carefully to avoid nettles. No nettles, but I forgot to position my pj bottoms and ended up with pee all over my pants leg.
AND I FELL AGAIN! What's the deal here? Actually, I had a reason both times (last time, I tripped over a sidewalk crack, this time I slipped on wet concrete around the water faucet). I bonked my head and my arm has a ginormous bruise from armpit to elbow.
Next vacation better be to a luxury hotel is all I'm sayin'
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