Peonyiana: March 2003 Archives

This and that

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This and that

Finally made it to Tiny Tots Funfit this morning -- the class has been cancelled, Friday after Friday, because of the weather. We have missed as many classes as we have attended (four.) Hambet did much better this morning -- we met the teacher early and asked her to show him her tape player. That seemed to help -- he still burst into tears as soon as the tape went on, but the tears only lasted through the first half of the Hello Song, and he participated happily in every activity after that.

One of the other little boys comes with his daddy, who looks like he might serve our country by jumping out of airplanes. It's cute to see this big tall soldier playing the games and being so patient with his little boy.

Afterwards we stopped by the grocery store (milk, fish, Cinnamon Puffins, maple syrup.) Lunch; bill-paying; discovery that stickers and address labels are very interesting to two-year-olds.

Down in one of our comments boxes, Katheryn had some questions about HTML -- talk about the myopic leading the severly myopic! Anyway, for those who are interested, I have learned buckets from Annabella's HTML Help. Her site is very clear and simple. Her color palettes are great -- you just click on the color and she gives you the color name or hex code, as well as showing you what the color looks like as a background color and as a font color. I've added a link button to her site -- it's down there at the bottom of our links.

Time to tidy up and start thinking about dinner. Friday evening arrived so quickly!

The Friday Five

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1. What was the last song you heard?
The "Good-bye Song" at Hambet's Tiny Tots class this morning.

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
Does video count? then it would be "Signs" and "Monsters, Inc." In the theater? "Possession" and "The Fellowship of the Ring."

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
Other than groceries and developed photos? Ummmm...... ummmmmmmm...... Mothers' Manual by Father A. Francis Coomes. A recipe binder, a pizza stone, and a greeting card for a wedding present.

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
Scan photos. Measure my garden patch and plan the garden. Start reading The No-cry Sleep Solution (Elizabeth Pantley). Go to Mass on Sunday..

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
Hambet; my good friend (on the phone); my husband (on the phone); the lady at the bank (on the phone); the checkout lady at the grocery store.

Little things

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Little things

Hambet had a good checkup this morning. He's chugging right along on his height and weight (25th and 5th percentile) curves. The doctor did not tell me I was crazy when I produced my little spreadsheet of words, which now has 229 entries and is still an undercount. (Today's new word: "robot.")

The little adventurer has noticed that I have a stash of chocolate revel bars in the freezer door, and has figured out how to push a chair over to the freezer, open the freezer, and help himself. He has not figured out yet that chanting "cookie, cookie, cookie" during the expedition is a good way to get busted.

Dylan has paid us the compliment of a permalink -- thanks! He links to a nice NRO article on Mr. Rogers, written on the occasion of Mr R's retirement.

Thanks also to Brasilianista Aspirante for her permalink!

Back to the routine

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Even long weekends are never long enough. (My husband took advantage of "liberal leave" on Friday.)

Today: laundry, finishing folding and ironing last week's and starting this week's wash. Squandered naptime fetching the mail, searching for a misplaced book, answering an email. Took some film to Best Buy to be developed. I hate, hate, hate Best Buy and normally never enter that store, but if you get your film processed there you can order triple prints (one set of Hambet's birthday pictures for me and one set for each grandma). You can in theory, anyway; none of the truant middle-school students staff seemed to know how to fill out the envelope to actually order the triple prints (there is no box to check.) I hope the lab understands my written instructions (I want the triple prints for $9.99.)

Getting reprints out to the grandmas is sometimes a real chore. For a while I was mulling over buying a photo-quality printer, but since I would have to print more than 200 photo reprints to break even (not counting paper and ink) I figured I would just keep doing it the old-fashioned way, especially since home printouts do not last as long as regular photos. My old DeskJet prints well enough for "everyday" reprints.

Hambet has a checkup tomorrow and I suspect the doctor will ask me how many words he knows. So -- I'm such a geek -- I sat down and entered all the words I could think of into an Excel spreadsheet and learned how to use COUNTA to count them. So far I'm up to 182 (including animal sounds such as moo, quack, woof woof, bloob bloob, and oink.)

Pansy's weather pixie is wearing the same coat all the time, while mine has an ever-changing ensemble. This is exactly the reverse of real life -- Pansy is much more stylish; I am fashion-impaired.

I keep looking out at the back yard and wondering when the snow is going to melt. I want to really plan my garden this year, with graph paper and all that, but I want to measure my existing patch first. I really, really, really want to grow rhubarb this year, but even if I succeed I won't be able to harvest until next year.... Last year was my first time planting a garden. I had great success with lettuce and basil, middling results with tomatoes. I had problems with blossom end-rot until I took my grandma's hint and started putting eggshells in the garden.

Time to start supper. Tonight it's meatballs (Swedish if I have the ingredients, with spaghetti otherwise.)

UPDATE: 202 212 words on the vocabulary list. Husband is late coming home from work and needs a ride home from the train station. This will totally derail dinner. I might let someone else do the cooking tonight.


Di Fattura Caslinga: Pansy's Etsy Shop
The Sleepy Mommy Shoppe: Stuff we Like
(Disclaimer: We aren't being compensated to like this stuff.
Any loose change in referral fees goes to the Feed Pansy's Ravenous Teens Fund.)


Pansy and Peony: The Two Sleepy Mommies



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