November update ;)
Dec. 4th, 2012 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanYes, I know it's December. But I thought that instead of typing out a whole actual update ;) that I would just copy-paste in a selection of my Facebook posts from November. The primary purpose of this is for me to not lose all the "funny things the kids said/did/wrote" once they scroll too far down my Facebook page. Also, it's a way to preserve my "day in the life" type entries, which I'm not copying all of here, just a selection. There might even be one or two of you who might enjoy reading these....
November 7 (day after election)
Driving to school this morning, I excitedly updated the kids on the election results. I told them that two or three more states had voted in favor of marriage equality, and said, "Now that makes EIGHT whole states where gay people can get married!"
Silence. They stared at me in disbelief, and perhaps disapproval. Only eight? Out of fifty?! their little faces seemed to say. It's all about perspective.
The progress is fantastic. But we still have a lot of work to do.
November 11
Me: "Isaac, your bed, get in it."
Isaac: "Okay."
(Isaac goes in the bedroom and jumps on top of Ruthie in her bed)
Me: "Isaac!!"
Isaac: "What? I just seized my sister."
Me: "Well stop it right now."
(I go in the other room)
Ruthie: "Aahhh! He's seizing me!"
(I sit down at my computer)
Isaac: "You're putting this on Facebook, right?"
Busted!!
[...]
Ten years ago today I got my first positive pregnancy test. TEN YEARS!!!! I seriously cannot believe it has been that long. I shall forever mentally associate that day with the scifi convention I went to that weekend, where I shared a hotel room with [Melissa], met several "Farscape" actors, danced the Imperial Death Macarena, and spent the entire time valiantly trying to pretend that I wasn't obsessing over the possibility that I might be pregnant. Good times.
November 18
Ruthie has spent the entire morning making holiday gifts for family and friends out of construction paper, tape, and markers. She has created some really amazing stuff based on her understanding of what her loved ones like! I'm continually in awe of her creative capabilities. I shall say no more, since several of those recipients-to-be may read this. :)
November 19
Yesterday Isaac asked me how well I thought I would do in an imaginary competition that he dreamed up, whereby you would have a piece of double-sided tape stuck to the outside of your mouth (taping your mouth shut), and then a Peppermint Patty unwrapped and placed on the other side of the tape, right under your nose, and you would have to sit there smelling its delicious smell (he knows that Peppermint Patties are among my favorite candies) and not rip the tape off and eat it.
me: "Well, what would be my incentive to resist? What's my motivation?"
Isaac: "Ten thousand dollars!"
me: "Wow, I could probably resist a lot for that much money. But wait, how long would I have to go?"
Isaac: "Until everyone else gives in."
So upon further questioning, he envisions a scenario whereby a bunch of people are competing together in this fashion, and the winner is the one still left with a patty taped to her mouth when everyone else has ripped the tape and devoured the candy. LOL. Where do they come up with this stuff?
[...]
Another Isaacism from this weekend: He tells me that "other than the dad and the magic," Ron Weasley's family is a lot like ours. Because it has a mom, a boy of about Isaac's age, and a little sister. Me: "But aren't there also a bunch of older brothers?" Isaac: "Oh yeah...."
[...]
Tomorrow I have to take Grover cat to the vet, where he has to be sedated for his exam (because he has, ahem, "behavioral issues"). So, no food or water for him from now onward. That means no food or water for Tribble either, and she is not pleased. I may have to lock Grover up briefly and give Tribs a bedtime snack.
November 20
Grover cat survived his day at the vet, getting sedated so they could do his physical exam, shots, claw-clipping, and dealing with some awful mats that had formed in his fur. When I arrived to pick him up and bent down to look at him through the little window in the cat carrier, he hissed at me. ;) I took him home and let him out, and he was pretty woozy and couldn't walk straight (I tried so hard not to laugh) and couldn't jump up onto the bed at first. But he had a bite to eat and then managed to get onto the bed, and then I went to pick up the kids, and when we came home again, he got on my lap and was very affectionate. So I guess I'm forgiven. ;)
November 21
The other day we went and got Isaac the Nintendo 3DS (handheld gaming console) that he had been saving up for. He is very happy. He was bouncing up and down as the guy was ringing us up in the store, and the guy was like, "He's excited." Ya think? LOL.
I had told Isaac that if he saved $100 then I would pay the difference, and if he agreed to get a pre-owned one at Gamestop then I would also buy him one game. Not much use having the 3DS and no games. ;) So he got Mario Kart, and he's asking everyone to give him GameStop gift cards for December holiday gifts so he can buy more games. He had actually saved more than $100 so he had enough to also buy a case for the thing, to protect it in case of dropping or banging around etc.
I think this was a great experience for him, his first time saving up for a large purchase. Teaching kids about money can be tricky in this day and age. (Of course, he wants to play the dang thing every minute of every day, but I'll be setting some limits....)
November 22
Ruthie: "Mama, did you hear that?"
Me: "What?"
Ruthie: "Did you hear that?"
Me: "What?"
Ruthie: "Did you hear that?"
Me: "What?"
Ruthie: "Oh, never mind."
Me: "No, did I hear what?"
Ruthie: "Nothing! Did you hear total silence!"
Me: "No, definitely not. In this house?!"
November 26
Dangit! I jotted down two funny Ruthie-isms from this morning, but the little piece of paper seems to have fallen out of my pocket. Let's see if I can remember how they went.
1. Following a discussion of the fact that every body part on Grover-cat is bigger than the corresponding part on Tribble-cat:
Ruthie: "The one part that's bigger on Tribble is her heart."
Me: "Oh, I don't know, Grover has a pretty big heart."
Ruthie: "Because Tribble's heart is in the shape of a can of cat food."
Me: (LOL) "Well, she does love her food."
Ruthie: "And her ribs are shaped like the lid."
2. Ruthie climbing on her chin-up bar: "Look at me, I'm in outer space!"
Me: "Wow, I didn't know you could get to outer space so fast."
Ruthie: "Yep!" (jumping down)
Me: "While you were up there in outer space I noticed that you didn't have any shoes on."
Ruthie: "Oh! No one in outer space would ever dare to wear shoes!"
[...]
Last night I was holding Ruthie's arms out in front of her while steering her to the bathroom.
Me: "Zombie Ruthie is coming to brush her teeth!"
Zombie Ruthie: "Uhhhhh!! Brains!"
Me: "Zombie Ruthie is doing the gangnam style dance!" (as I make her hands do the horse-riding motion)
Ruthie: "Noooo!"
Me: "Oppan zombie style! Heyyyyy, zombie ladies!"
Ruthie: "Heyyyyyy, sexy zombies!"
Me: "I don't know about that."
Ruthie: "Heyyyyy, sexy braaaaains!"
November 28
We were in the car listening to "We Will Rock You" on the radio. After it ended, of course, it segued directly into "We Are The Champions."
Isaac: "What, are they playing nothing but Queen today?"
Me: "Nah, they always play these particular two songs together. They sort of go together as a set."
Ruthie: "Like Q and U!"
Ruthie has been learning about Q and U in school, and finds lots of similar "things that always go together" in daily life... :)
November 29
Me: "Ruthie, why do you have socks on your hands?"
Ruthie: "I'm pretending to be a squid."
Me: "Oh, a squid, of course. Silly me. ...Why are you pretending to be a squid?"
Ruthie: "Because Squidward."
Then she put on tights and made me safety-pin a second pair of tights to them so it would look like she had four legs....
November 30
Ruthie to the cat: "Aww, who's a cute little kitty?"
Me: "Me!"
Ruthie: "You're not a kitty. And you're not cute."
Me: (pretending to cry) "Waah! She doesn't think I'm cute!"
Ruthie: "Well, your belly is cute."
I guess that'll have to do.
I also went back and did one of these for October, back-dated. It's here. Not sure how much patience I'll have for going back much further than that, but we'll see....
November 7 (day after election)
Driving to school this morning, I excitedly updated the kids on the election results. I told them that two or three more states had voted in favor of marriage equality, and said, "Now that makes EIGHT whole states where gay people can get married!"
Silence. They stared at me in disbelief, and perhaps disapproval. Only eight? Out of fifty?! their little faces seemed to say. It's all about perspective.
The progress is fantastic. But we still have a lot of work to do.
November 11
Me: "Isaac, your bed, get in it."
Isaac: "Okay."
(Isaac goes in the bedroom and jumps on top of Ruthie in her bed)
Me: "Isaac!!"
Isaac: "What? I just seized my sister."
Me: "Well stop it right now."
(I go in the other room)
Ruthie: "Aahhh! He's seizing me!"
(I sit down at my computer)
Isaac: "You're putting this on Facebook, right?"
Busted!!
[...]
Ten years ago today I got my first positive pregnancy test. TEN YEARS!!!! I seriously cannot believe it has been that long. I shall forever mentally associate that day with the scifi convention I went to that weekend, where I shared a hotel room with [Melissa], met several "Farscape" actors, danced the Imperial Death Macarena, and spent the entire time valiantly trying to pretend that I wasn't obsessing over the possibility that I might be pregnant. Good times.
November 18
Ruthie has spent the entire morning making holiday gifts for family and friends out of construction paper, tape, and markers. She has created some really amazing stuff based on her understanding of what her loved ones like! I'm continually in awe of her creative capabilities. I shall say no more, since several of those recipients-to-be may read this. :)
November 19
Yesterday Isaac asked me how well I thought I would do in an imaginary competition that he dreamed up, whereby you would have a piece of double-sided tape stuck to the outside of your mouth (taping your mouth shut), and then a Peppermint Patty unwrapped and placed on the other side of the tape, right under your nose, and you would have to sit there smelling its delicious smell (he knows that Peppermint Patties are among my favorite candies) and not rip the tape off and eat it.
me: "Well, what would be my incentive to resist? What's my motivation?"
Isaac: "Ten thousand dollars!"
me: "Wow, I could probably resist a lot for that much money. But wait, how long would I have to go?"
Isaac: "Until everyone else gives in."
So upon further questioning, he envisions a scenario whereby a bunch of people are competing together in this fashion, and the winner is the one still left with a patty taped to her mouth when everyone else has ripped the tape and devoured the candy. LOL. Where do they come up with this stuff?
[...]
Another Isaacism from this weekend: He tells me that "other than the dad and the magic," Ron Weasley's family is a lot like ours. Because it has a mom, a boy of about Isaac's age, and a little sister. Me: "But aren't there also a bunch of older brothers?" Isaac: "Oh yeah...."
[...]
Tomorrow I have to take Grover cat to the vet, where he has to be sedated for his exam (because he has, ahem, "behavioral issues"). So, no food or water for him from now onward. That means no food or water for Tribble either, and she is not pleased. I may have to lock Grover up briefly and give Tribs a bedtime snack.
November 20
Grover cat survived his day at the vet, getting sedated so they could do his physical exam, shots, claw-clipping, and dealing with some awful mats that had formed in his fur. When I arrived to pick him up and bent down to look at him through the little window in the cat carrier, he hissed at me. ;) I took him home and let him out, and he was pretty woozy and couldn't walk straight (I tried so hard not to laugh) and couldn't jump up onto the bed at first. But he had a bite to eat and then managed to get onto the bed, and then I went to pick up the kids, and when we came home again, he got on my lap and was very affectionate. So I guess I'm forgiven. ;)
November 21
The other day we went and got Isaac the Nintendo 3DS (handheld gaming console) that he had been saving up for. He is very happy. He was bouncing up and down as the guy was ringing us up in the store, and the guy was like, "He's excited." Ya think? LOL.
I had told Isaac that if he saved $100 then I would pay the difference, and if he agreed to get a pre-owned one at Gamestop then I would also buy him one game. Not much use having the 3DS and no games. ;) So he got Mario Kart, and he's asking everyone to give him GameStop gift cards for December holiday gifts so he can buy more games. He had actually saved more than $100 so he had enough to also buy a case for the thing, to protect it in case of dropping or banging around etc.
I think this was a great experience for him, his first time saving up for a large purchase. Teaching kids about money can be tricky in this day and age. (Of course, he wants to play the dang thing every minute of every day, but I'll be setting some limits....)
November 22
Ruthie: "Mama, did you hear that?"
Me: "What?"
Ruthie: "Did you hear that?"
Me: "What?"
Ruthie: "Did you hear that?"
Me: "What?"
Ruthie: "Oh, never mind."
Me: "No, did I hear what?"
Ruthie: "Nothing! Did you hear total silence!"
Me: "No, definitely not. In this house?!"
November 26
Dangit! I jotted down two funny Ruthie-isms from this morning, but the little piece of paper seems to have fallen out of my pocket. Let's see if I can remember how they went.
1. Following a discussion of the fact that every body part on Grover-cat is bigger than the corresponding part on Tribble-cat:
Ruthie: "The one part that's bigger on Tribble is her heart."
Me: "Oh, I don't know, Grover has a pretty big heart."
Ruthie: "Because Tribble's heart is in the shape of a can of cat food."
Me: (LOL) "Well, she does love her food."
Ruthie: "And her ribs are shaped like the lid."
2. Ruthie climbing on her chin-up bar: "Look at me, I'm in outer space!"
Me: "Wow, I didn't know you could get to outer space so fast."
Ruthie: "Yep!" (jumping down)
Me: "While you were up there in outer space I noticed that you didn't have any shoes on."
Ruthie: "Oh! No one in outer space would ever dare to wear shoes!"
[...]
Last night I was holding Ruthie's arms out in front of her while steering her to the bathroom.
Me: "Zombie Ruthie is coming to brush her teeth!"
Zombie Ruthie: "Uhhhhh!! Brains!"
Me: "Zombie Ruthie is doing the gangnam style dance!" (as I make her hands do the horse-riding motion)
Ruthie: "Noooo!"
Me: "Oppan zombie style! Heyyyyy, zombie ladies!"
Ruthie: "Heyyyyyy, sexy zombies!"
Me: "I don't know about that."
Ruthie: "Heyyyyy, sexy braaaaains!"
November 28
We were in the car listening to "We Will Rock You" on the radio. After it ended, of course, it segued directly into "We Are The Champions."
Isaac: "What, are they playing nothing but Queen today?"
Me: "Nah, they always play these particular two songs together. They sort of go together as a set."
Ruthie: "Like Q and U!"
Ruthie has been learning about Q and U in school, and finds lots of similar "things that always go together" in daily life... :)
November 29
Me: "Ruthie, why do you have socks on your hands?"
Ruthie: "I'm pretending to be a squid."
Me: "Oh, a squid, of course. Silly me. ...Why are you pretending to be a squid?"
Ruthie: "Because Squidward."
Then she put on tights and made me safety-pin a second pair of tights to them so it would look like she had four legs....
November 30
Ruthie to the cat: "Aww, who's a cute little kitty?"
Me: "Me!"
Ruthie: "You're not a kitty. And you're not cute."
Me: (pretending to cry) "Waah! She doesn't think I'm cute!"
Ruthie: "Well, your belly is cute."
I guess that'll have to do.
I also went back and did one of these for October, back-dated. It's here. Not sure how much patience I'll have for going back much further than that, but we'll see....
