Sorry this is going to be pretty short. I believe that I caught a cold at my conference. I've got a headache and I'm achey and I'm grumpy.
Kids were out of school today. We went to the park. It was a beautiful fall day. The park was so very crowded and all of the kids had fun playing with friends. Really that was great, but after about an hour I started feeling even worse, so I really am sick. But the sun did us some good.
Beth came down today. She and I had a discussion this morning about the fact that wearing purple pants and a blue sequiny top wasn't matching. She told me that it didn't matter at the park. Her friends there didn't care. But later that afternoon she came downstairs dressed in jeans with embroidery and a long shirt that came down mid thigh. She looked cute.
Beth: Mom am I dressed like a teenager?
Me: Yes you are. You look nice.
Beth: This how teenagers on t.v. dress (Thankfully Carly from iCarly dresses pretty modestly)
Me: Yes
Beth; Now I just need to get the shoes right. What kinds of shoes do teenagers wear?
Me: You are asking the wrong person.
Beth: What shoes did you wear in high school?
Me: (I'm geniunely perplexed. I really only had about one pair of shoes at a time. And I don't remember what type I wore even. I don't think they were tennis shoes, but I don't know.) I don't remember Beth.
Beth: How could you not know?
Well Beth asks Rob when he gets home and of course he has an answer. Ahh! I'm glad someone can guide my daughter to the cool shoes, because I definitely can't. I'm a comfort before fashion type of person, which you should know if you know me at all.
Caleb is doing great. He and Rob went out on a father son date and came home with a toot whistle. Yes, a whistle that makes farting noises. He's lucky it hasn't magically disappeared by now.
Jacob is doing pretty well. He's talking so much more now and will describe things to me and offer comments on situations. He's definitely contributing to the conversation instead of just mimicing. He also managed to color nearly in the lines on his own this morning. Impressive. But he also got a marker and colored outside of the lines, my front door is now red, red! I don't think a magic eraser will be able to fix it. Another favorite drawing surface is his stomach.
I went to the conference this weekend, so Rob had all the fun with the kids. The place didn't burn down (I'm just kidding, I wasn't worried about that) and they all seemed happy when I got home.
Hope your week goes well!
Monday, September 28, 2009
Book Update
71. Princess Ben
72. Wake
73. The Adoration of Jenna Fox
74. Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies (fun book, great for self image and healthiness!)
75. When It Happens by Susane Colisanti Great love story. I do believe I've found another great author to follow. These books are along the line of Sarah Dessen. Sigh of happiness.
76. Bitten by Kelley Armstrong. This is a paranormal book. It's got romance. Anyway I really liked it and currently have all of the books in the series on request at the library!
77. Stolen by Kelley Armstrong
78. Broken by Kelley Armstrong
79. The Bridesmaid
80. Forbidden Boy
81. The Other Boy
82. Waking Up to Boys
83. The Secrets of Boys
84. The Perfect Boy
85. Guardian
86. Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles (loved it)
87. After by Amy Efaw Wow! A dark book because of subject matter, but Wow!
88. Love Off Limits
89. The Safe Keeper's Secret by Sharon Shinn. Loved it, very Robin McKinley kind of, but I love it. I've ordered her other books from the library, but I feel a new author will likely appear on my all time favorites list! yeah! I love it when that happens.
90. Wild Roses Deb Caletti(Wow oh Wow!)
91. The Fortune of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti I really, really liked this one too. New favorite author, oh yeah!
92. The Sweet Life of Stella Madison
93. How Sweet It Is by Alice J Wisler a very nice sweet good book. Good read if you want to find happiness. It is inspirational fiction.
94. Twenty Boy Summer This is a fun book.
95. The Truth Teller's Tale by Sharon Shinn (As could as I hoped it would be. Yeah, she's up there on my author list. Yes she is!)
96. The Dreammaker's Magic by Sharon Shinn Another hit. You've got to try this author out.
97. First Come Loves Then Comes Money (I read this one to review for my about.com site, I really thought it was an excellent book, very insightful)
98. Summers at the Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn
99. Waiting for You by Susane Colisanti
100. Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn (Really she's on my top list now. Really)
Yeah I did it! 100 new books this year and time left to spare!
72. Wake
73. The Adoration of Jenna Fox
74. Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies (fun book, great for self image and healthiness!)
75. When It Happens by Susane Colisanti Great love story. I do believe I've found another great author to follow. These books are along the line of Sarah Dessen. Sigh of happiness.
76. Bitten by Kelley Armstrong. This is a paranormal book. It's got romance. Anyway I really liked it and currently have all of the books in the series on request at the library!
77. Stolen by Kelley Armstrong
78. Broken by Kelley Armstrong
79. The Bridesmaid
80. Forbidden Boy
81. The Other Boy
82. Waking Up to Boys
83. The Secrets of Boys
84. The Perfect Boy
85. Guardian
86. Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles (loved it)
87. After by Amy Efaw Wow! A dark book because of subject matter, but Wow!
88. Love Off Limits
89. The Safe Keeper's Secret by Sharon Shinn. Loved it, very Robin McKinley kind of, but I love it. I've ordered her other books from the library, but I feel a new author will likely appear on my all time favorites list! yeah! I love it when that happens.
90. Wild Roses Deb Caletti(Wow oh Wow!)
91. The Fortune of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti I really, really liked this one too. New favorite author, oh yeah!
92. The Sweet Life of Stella Madison
93. How Sweet It Is by Alice J Wisler a very nice sweet good book. Good read if you want to find happiness. It is inspirational fiction.
94. Twenty Boy Summer This is a fun book.
95. The Truth Teller's Tale by Sharon Shinn (As could as I hoped it would be. Yeah, she's up there on my author list. Yes she is!)
96. The Dreammaker's Magic by Sharon Shinn Another hit. You've got to try this author out.
97. First Come Loves Then Comes Money (I read this one to review for my about.com site, I really thought it was an excellent book, very insightful)
98. Summers at the Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn
99. Waiting for You by Susane Colisanti
100. Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn (Really she's on my top list now. Really)
Yeah I did it! 100 new books this year and time left to spare!
Sunday, September 20, 2009
The Kid's First Concert
Yesterday Rob and I took the kids to the They Might Be Giants concert. This was the kid show and it was an outside lawn concert. The kids had a lot of fun. It was neat to see so many parents with their kids dancing and singing along to the music. Sadly for us grownups the only non-kid song they played was Constantinople. Rob and I had gone to their last concert when they came two years ago. We had great seats, eighth row and it was tons of fun. Well everyone was relaxed and it was open seating, so Rob took Beth and Caleb upfront and they were five feet from the band. They had this little dance area for the kids and it was right in front of the stage. Wow! What a concert. The show only lasted about an hour, but everyone still had fun.
This week has been about the same as always. It was Stake Conference, which actually went better than I hoped. That's always nice. The talks were good and that was happy. This next week is super busy for me. I'm going to a writer's conference and doing other stuff. Rob is going to be with the kids all week long. (I'm not going out of town, just gone a lot of evenings.)
Beth starts homework tomorrow. But she seems excited about it. I wish I could feel the same way honestly. But I don't. She is very imaginative and when she's home she leads the boys in her games. Today Caleb was the Dad and she was the kid. She kept changing her age. Dad, pretend I'm two, now I'm eight, now I'm a teenager so I can drive. Yup. Amazing at how quickly she can shift gears. Those lines were all said in about a five minute span.
Caleb is doing really well. He is adjusting to preschool very well. I think he likes the structure and the busy week. He does miss the park, so I'm going to squeeze in some trips on Tuesday or Thursday. I asked him if he wanted to still go to story time this year and he said yes. That is on Thursday. (Our library offers one on Wednesday and on Thursday. That makes it nice.) So we'll do that this week too.
Jacob has started to do lots of actions to songs. He can do The Wise Man Built His House Upon a Rock, Once There Was a Snowman, Popcorn Popping and Itsy Bitsy Spider. He also throws in the occasional word or approximation of a word. So that is always happy. He's so smiley and happy all the time, but he is stubborn. Rob came down today and said that he didn't know what to do with Jacob, because he knows what he wants, he won't stop (timeouts don't work well yet) and he's too cute and he knows how to get away with things.
Rob seems to be happy. He's wrapping stuff up on a video project he's been doing forever. I think he'll find something to do after that is over as well.
Well that's our last week. Have a Good One.
PS No concert pictures as there was a high chance of rain.
This week has been about the same as always. It was Stake Conference, which actually went better than I hoped. That's always nice. The talks were good and that was happy. This next week is super busy for me. I'm going to a writer's conference and doing other stuff. Rob is going to be with the kids all week long. (I'm not going out of town, just gone a lot of evenings.)
Beth starts homework tomorrow. But she seems excited about it. I wish I could feel the same way honestly. But I don't. She is very imaginative and when she's home she leads the boys in her games. Today Caleb was the Dad and she was the kid. She kept changing her age. Dad, pretend I'm two, now I'm eight, now I'm a teenager so I can drive. Yup. Amazing at how quickly she can shift gears. Those lines were all said in about a five minute span.
Caleb is doing really well. He is adjusting to preschool very well. I think he likes the structure and the busy week. He does miss the park, so I'm going to squeeze in some trips on Tuesday or Thursday. I asked him if he wanted to still go to story time this year and he said yes. That is on Thursday. (Our library offers one on Wednesday and on Thursday. That makes it nice.) So we'll do that this week too.
Jacob has started to do lots of actions to songs. He can do The Wise Man Built His House Upon a Rock, Once There Was a Snowman, Popcorn Popping and Itsy Bitsy Spider. He also throws in the occasional word or approximation of a word. So that is always happy. He's so smiley and happy all the time, but he is stubborn. Rob came down today and said that he didn't know what to do with Jacob, because he knows what he wants, he won't stop (timeouts don't work well yet) and he's too cute and he knows how to get away with things.
Rob seems to be happy. He's wrapping stuff up on a video project he's been doing forever. I think he'll find something to do after that is over as well.
Well that's our last week. Have a Good One.
PS No concert pictures as there was a high chance of rain.
Friday, September 11, 2009
A Day I'll Never Forget
Except that I sort of did. I woke up this morning without realizing the significance of today. As a child I remember people talking about how specific events stood out in their memories. They always remembered the day that Kennedy was shot or when the wall came down (I was alive, but a very oblivious child).
But I will never forget working and listening to the morning radio show as we got ready to open the doors. It was Bob and Sheri and they loved to pull jokes. So when they first said a plane had flown into the towers. I didn't think it was real. But then they said, no this isn't a joke it's real. One of them ran and got a television set, and started describing it.
Immediately my coworker and I want to verify it. So we go to CNN and it's down. That in and of itself was verification.
All we could do was listen to their description and account as the second plane flew into the tower. That's when I realized it wasn't an accident. I knew things were changing. My coworkers and I listened to the radio accounts all day and I raced home at lunch to watch it on the television.
Things have changed. I was so scared at first. I was pregnant with my first and wondered what I was bringing her into.
The thing I've realized since then is that we don't have to retaliate with hate, and we don't have to retaliate with fear. I am still so sad when I think of all those people who died, and the families and friends who lost those that they loved. I'm saddened to think that the world isn't quite as carefree as it once was.
But I also get hope from the brave men and women who worked to rescue those people in the buildings and the people on United Airlines Flight 93 who fought back.
Here's to remembering.
But I will never forget working and listening to the morning radio show as we got ready to open the doors. It was Bob and Sheri and they loved to pull jokes. So when they first said a plane had flown into the towers. I didn't think it was real. But then they said, no this isn't a joke it's real. One of them ran and got a television set, and started describing it.
Immediately my coworker and I want to verify it. So we go to CNN and it's down. That in and of itself was verification.
All we could do was listen to their description and account as the second plane flew into the tower. That's when I realized it wasn't an accident. I knew things were changing. My coworkers and I listened to the radio accounts all day and I raced home at lunch to watch it on the television.
Things have changed. I was so scared at first. I was pregnant with my first and wondered what I was bringing her into.
The thing I've realized since then is that we don't have to retaliate with hate, and we don't have to retaliate with fear. I am still so sad when I think of all those people who died, and the families and friends who lost those that they loved. I'm saddened to think that the world isn't quite as carefree as it once was.
But I also get hope from the brave men and women who worked to rescue those people in the buildings and the people on United Airlines Flight 93 who fought back.
Here's to remembering.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
What a fun and exciting week! Caleb started preschool. So far he loves it. He wants to go every day. I think he loves the structure of the environment and that he gets to be a big kid when he goes. His teacher told me he was a preschool pro. He got to lead the lines the first day of preschool. Jacob is sad when he's gone. I think Jacob would like to go as well.
Beth is doing well in school. She wants to start the homework now! I'm not so sure that she will be quite as enthusiastic as soon as it really starts. We shall see. Beth is so happy, and loves to play with her little brothers, most of the time. She's always looking for more opportunities to make a new friend.
Jacob is doing well. He is becoming quite independent. I woke up one night this week to him crying. At first I thought it was the new neighbors since the cry sounded far away. But I got up to investigate. Jacob wasn't in bed. So I listened and realized the cry came from downstairs. Jacob had gone all the way downstairs, in the dark, gotten a cup and filled it up with water. The only problem was that it was too full and he couldn't pick it up out of the sink. Wow! 2 years old and independent all ready. The potty training game, he is not so keen on though. I thought I'd try again next week.
Rob just got back from DragonCon with some crazy pictures. I think he had a good time. He came home tired from the long drive, but I think happy overall. He and Jacob are currently giggling on the bed. I think Rob wants to play a video game. Jacob loves to watch him and laughs every time Rob dies. He thinks it's hilarious!
Well I'm off to make Rob a sandwich or something to snack on. Have a great Labor Day weekend. We'll be doing something fun tomorrow.
Beth is doing well in school. She wants to start the homework now! I'm not so sure that she will be quite as enthusiastic as soon as it really starts. We shall see. Beth is so happy, and loves to play with her little brothers, most of the time. She's always looking for more opportunities to make a new friend.
Jacob is doing well. He is becoming quite independent. I woke up one night this week to him crying. At first I thought it was the new neighbors since the cry sounded far away. But I got up to investigate. Jacob wasn't in bed. So I listened and realized the cry came from downstairs. Jacob had gone all the way downstairs, in the dark, gotten a cup and filled it up with water. The only problem was that it was too full and he couldn't pick it up out of the sink. Wow! 2 years old and independent all ready. The potty training game, he is not so keen on though. I thought I'd try again next week.
Rob just got back from DragonCon with some crazy pictures. I think he had a good time. He came home tired from the long drive, but I think happy overall. He and Jacob are currently giggling on the bed. I think Rob wants to play a video game. Jacob loves to watch him and laughs every time Rob dies. He thinks it's hilarious!
Well I'm off to make Rob a sandwich or something to snack on. Have a great Labor Day weekend. We'll be doing something fun tomorrow.