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Journal of a North American Celtic Bobtail
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| Because it made me giggle. Which is a mixed thing, given that I have managed to strain my rib muscles while being sick.
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| | Tags: | sick | | Subject: | Sick | | Time: | 09:23 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://pics.livejournal.com/celticdragonfly/pic/0004d5cg) sick |
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| Household full of sick people. BLAH. Jamie first on Tues, Maggie and me last night, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) selenite today. Maggie says last night was her Worst Night Ever. I do believe she's right. | | comments: 2 bits of chatter or Talk to me! |
| | I guess selenite is going through the old Girl Genius files - he pointed out that this one would make a fun icon, and I decided he was right. | | comments: 2 bits of chatter or Talk to me! |
| It's Birthday week here at the Gallagher-McDaniel household.
Maggie turned 7 on Monday. She's a great girl. We're very proud of her. Also, she did GREAT at school - her report card was wonderful, and she got a medal for academics and another for citizenship (good behavior).
And today Alanna is two. I told her that this morning, and she told me "No!" How very two. She's doing great. I love getting full sentences out of this girl. "Hey, Mama! Look! You have a nose!"
Miles just did height and weight measurements on the girls. Maggie is 53 lbs, 46". Alanna is 33.2 lbs, 35.75".
Below the cut are height and weight charts for Alanna. Yeah, we haven't been bothering with those in the months between 1 and 2, but it still shows you the general range. Pretty consistent.
Their party is tomorrow!
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| | The saga of phone problems continues. Now they're saying it's an internal wiring problem. We do actually have a phone connected to the outside world now. In the laundry room, where the phone/modem comes in. Only there. And given that we keep running loads and tend to keep the door closed, I may not hear any calls. But at least I can check voicemail now and then. | | comments: Talk to me! |
| It seems to be an Alanna Cute Day.
After we didn't nurse Sunday morning, and she didn't ask to nurse yesterday morning, I was starting to think we'd hit weaning, but she wanted to nurse this morning. So we had a lovely session in the big bed, interspersed with hugs, kisses, and talk. It's so sweet when she reaches out her arm around my neck to pull me down for a hug. She even sang to me some at one point.
Then we came downstairs. The bigger kids are slowly waking and getting up. I was in here, and heard the fridge sound, and then Alanna came in with a cup of water to proudly show me, "Look, Mama! Drink of water!" Yes, she's learned to use the fridge water dispenser all by herself.
Then I found out a bit later - after she'd brought me FOUR kid cups of water, and I was telling her no, stop, keep using that same cup - she'd lined up about 8 more kid cups of water along the edge of the kitchen table.
Oh well... it's just more dishes for the dishwasher today. She's so proud of what she can do. | | comments: 2 bits of chatter or Talk to me! |
| FYI - we are currently having problems with our phone service. Like, we don't actually have any right now, on the land line, and aren't sure how long ago it went out, and can't get to our voicemail. Cell phones are still okay.
HOPEFULLY the internet connection will stay up.
We are having the whole thing looked into and worked on. | | comments: 2 bits of chatter or Talk to me! |
| | Tags: | injury | | Subject: | Owie | | Time: | 05:06 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://pics.livejournal.com/celticdragonfly/pic/0002fbdy) sore |
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| So - yesterday was marvelous. Today, life is still good - but it hurts more. I went to get the kids up this morning, and then went to yank the pressure gate away from the doorway of the room. The top half came away, and the bottom half stuck, and as I yanked on it I lost my balance, and dropped it and fell forwards. I landed on my left knee and my right shin - with my shin landing on the metal bar that goes across the top of the gate.
Ow. There was much screaming. The guys came running to help. After some time, I ascertained that I did not think it was fully broken at least. They got me to a bed and selenite ended up taking Maggie to church without me. I think there's a chance I've cracked the bone. But - we could go spend a lot of time and money at the ER, lots of hassle, and they could x-ray it and tell me if it was or not - and then they'd tell me to keep off it, elevate it and ice it frequently, and take ibuprofen. And I can tell me that.
So I'll be staying off it as much as I can. | | comments: 2 bits of chatter or Talk to me! |
| Yesterday was selenite's and my tenth wedding anniversary. I am pleased and thrilled. I was scared when we started out, and it took a leap of faith to try, but I am so glad we did. We have a wonderful life, we've worked hard at building what we have together, and we're determined to keep tending it.
fordprfct took the kids yesterday to give us a date day. We went out for a light lunch, and then went to the Kimball Museum for their exhibit on Art and Love in Renaissance Italy. That was an enjoyable ramble. We eschewed the little audio tour devices in favor of reading the placards ourselves and quietly discussing things. We kept being reminded of some of the more impressive pieces of SCA court presentations we've seen.
After that we went out to the movies and saw the current Star Trek movie. We enjoyed it very much, had a great time - he'd stayed fairly unspoiled on it and I had almost totally - and then went out to dinner together to have a fun time snarking about it and ripping it to bits over all the various casting choices (good and bad), plot holes, technobabble holes, sins against biology, and a serious discussion about the disturbing trend of Star Trek in 2009 being rather *less* feminist than the original series.
This sort of thing is why we've long since switched from the traditional "dinner and a movie" to always doing it "a movie and then dinner", it's lovely to have the chance to discuss it fresh in our minds. We ate at the Melting Pot and it was GOOD.
All in all, a beautiful day in wonderful company. selenite, I love you. It's been a wonderful 10 years, and I look forward to the next 10 too. | | comments: 5 bits of chatter or Talk to me! |
| | Rorik was fussing just now, and I followed him over to see him looking at his water bowl, with two magnet plastic letters dumped in it. He gave me an indignant look. I fished them out and gave him fresh water. Then I realized - Alanna's watched Sesame Street, she's seen the bits with Grover as a waiter, and she was trying to make alphabet soup for the cats. | | comments: 1 bit of chatter or Talk to me! |
| In a month we have two family birthdays coming up close together - Maggie's 7th and Alanna's 2nd.
I know there are going to be family members asking me what they would want, so I figured okay, I'll put a post up.
Maggie has become a little bookworm. It's amazing. She wants to read in bed every night, and spends a lot of her time with her nose deep in a book. The apple has not fallen far from the tree.
She's been particularly interested lately in the American Girl books. She has the the basic set of the Kirsten books, and she has the first book of the Kit series. She really wants more. I know she wants the rest of the Kit books, she's been asking for those. There are some ancillary Kirsten books she doesn't know about. Looking through the other series, I'd probably also pick Josefina (we gave those to a classmate for her birthday, so it'd be interesting for her too), Addy, and maybe Kaya. Heck, any of the historical characters would be interesting for her. She's just soaking it up*.
Sure, she'd be interested in the dolls, too, but I think the books are a higher priority. And less expensive. It seems the books are best priced on Amazon, but the dolls significantly better on the American Girls website, if anybody really wants to get her a dolls-and-books set - yeah, she'd probably go wild about that. I did put together a wishlist on Amazon for her for some of the books - it's here
http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/25HKV60Y4EXSK
Alanna is really enjoying Sesame Street, and particularly likes Big Bird. I'd love to get her more Sesame Street to watch. They have one season recorded on Miles' video box, and the Old School DVDs. I *wish* we could get more of the "old school" stuff - the kids AND the adults like that better than the newer stuff. But other Sesame Street videos could be nice for her. Please not Elmo stuff, that gets on the adults' nerves. She likes the musical stuff, too, likes to start singing with them. I made an Amazon list of some of what looked like she'd most enjoy it: http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/3N6BEY0A3NXJ6
I hope this is helpful for the relatives.
(*She was recently asking me about Fiddler on the Roof, was that a true story? I explained about how it wasn't exactly true, in that the people were made up, but it was about a place and time and people that were a lot like that. Like the Kirsten books. Then she wanted to watch it again, and was shushing Jamie and telling him how this was about history and she was really interested!) | | comments: 4 bits of chatter or Talk to me! |
| I had a lovely Mother's Day weekend. On Saturday, after I got up early with the kids, ![[info]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) selenite took them over a couple hours later and let me go back to sleep for a bit. Ahhh. The whole family went out for a late lunch for me - figuring Sunday would be way too crowded, and Saturday midafternoon shouldn't be bad. Sadly, Mimi's, where I wanted to go, was VERY crowded. We ended up at Outback which was just opening. Still a nice meal. Afterwards we went over and played Rock Band for a while, which I hadn't done in way too long. Sunday they gave the mothers carnations at church, and we brought in two stuffed animals for Teddybear Sunday, when they collect stuffed animals and then donate them to a program for helping abused children. The big kids gave me cards they made in Sunday school. And later in the day selenite gave me an World of Warcraft in-game pet for Mother's Day - a cute bear cub. | | comments: 1 bit of chatter or Talk to me! |
| Okay, now I have a Dreamwidth account.
Any of you on LJ who also have Dreamwidth - please come comment on this over at DW, please, so I can find you.
Also, I'd love more comments from those of you experienced with the DW site. Particularly - is there any way to scoop up all my previous LJ stuff and move it over there?
EDITING crossposted post - apparently it does not automatically link it back to the DW site, does it?
http://celticdragonfly.dreamwidth.org/ | | comments: 3 bits of chatter or Talk to me! |
| | I'm beginning to think that I should just tell anybody who wants to give Jamie birthday presents this year to send him a ream of paper. The constant request "Can I have a piece of paper, please?" That boy just loves to draw and draw and draw. | | comments: 5 bits of chatter or Talk to me! |
| Tonight there's a 90% chance of rain. Tomorrow rain likely, may be heavy in the morning.
The yard is going to be muddy and soggy.
So - needs must, we had our Easter Egg hunt this afternoon.
Alanna took part, but didn't really get it yet - no big surprise there. She ran around with her bucket some, and Maggie helped her, and hey, she found the chocolate bunny lollipop, and that was what she wanted. She opened it up and was saying "choc!" She knew what this was about.
Sadly, she dropped it down a water pipe before she'd eaten much of it.
Maggie and Jamie had a great time. fordprfct took video of it. We'll see if he can get the editing software installed and get it uploaded so we can share it. | | comments: Talk to me! |
| There are a couple of things I want but have not been able to find. So I shall post about it and see what you all amaze me with.
The first is - my new wallet is marvelous, but doesn't have a section for pictures. I want to have my family pictures with me. I'm trying to find something that will let me. The photo frame section in the drugstore had something called "brag books" which are meant to hold lots of pics - but for 4x6 size. I want something the equivalent of a brag book for wallet size. Surely it must exist.
The other thing I want probably doesn't exist - I want shoes with the footbed of a birkenstock and the warm fuzzy cuddlyness around the rest of the foot of an Ugg. | | comments: 5 bits of chatter or Talk to me! |
| Okay, this isn't going to mean anything to most of my flist, but some of you will know.
I have my black war bear! Eeee! And it was FUN! | | comments: 2 bits of chatter or Talk to me! |
| Alanna is making SO much progress!
She now says the name of everyone in her family. She'll tell you where they are, too - "Over THERE!" and she points.
She's starting to count - "one, two, three, four, five, six, eight, nine, ten!" Well, she has the one-syllable numbers.
She's also starting to know her alphabet. I was sorting laundry in the nursery and she came in, picked up the M magnet on the floor, held it up to me, and said "M!" Then she did it with "O!"
I'm very pleased and proud of her. | | comments: 2 bits of chatter or Talk to me! |
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