blargh...weekend update and the such
Dec. 11th, 2006 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanSurvived the chorus concert -- barely. In retrospect, possibly I should have sat out this year. (And definitely should have skipped the after-concert dinner/party, given how tired the kids were, sigh.) I just had too much on my mind and wasn't able to really enjoy the concert. It did go very well (according to everyone), but I was distracted and my singing was definitely not up to par.
I was sort of focused on/obsessing about the fact that it was longer than Ruthie and I had been separated for quite a while. It was six hours, but really, we spend 4 hours apart at least once a week, so it's not THAT much more really, and she was fine, and I was fine (except for some boobular discomfort). And I knew it would be fine, but I obsessed over it anyway. This bodes ill for me returning to work. :( This sentence shall serve as a placeholder for a lengthy post about Ruthie being my last baby and me feeling melancholy about same and wanting to hold onto her babyhood as long as possible.
Other miscellania from the weekend:
On Saturday, after![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
metafrantic's birthday dinner, we went to the chocolate party chez teddywolf and tigerbright, which as always was a lot of fun, and Meta and sandykidd seem to have made some new friends which is always cool. Sunday, we got up early, dropped Ruthie off with grandma, and Isaac and I went to the bagel store where we got 30 bagels for Meta, then rejoined grandma and Ruthie to bring same to Meta, along with the 30 socks that I had gotten him as a gag gift. (I was hoping to come up with something a little cooler to get him 30 of, but socks was the best I could do. I suck.)
Isaac is rapidly increasing his repertoire of words that he can spell (with fridge letter magnets) without any help. I'd say it's up to about 10-15 now. He also has a few words that he can recognize on sight, notably his name, my name, and "the." He's starting to recognize sounds and patterns, telling me, for example, that the words "lanyard" and "bread" are alike because they both end in D, or that "wiggle" and "table" are alike because they end in LE, and so forth. He's getting good at our game where we talk about what is left when you remove letters from one word to make another (e.g., if you want to make "bread" and you take the B out of "bagel", it leaves "agel"). Also this morning I was putting some stuff into a plastic bag that said Market Basket on it (this is a grocery store chain near us) and he told me unprompted that it said Market Basket. Do you realize what this means? My child can read! I'm so impressed. I mean, it's not like he's ready to pick up a book and read it to me, but looking at a set of letters and telling me what they spell counts as reading, dammit.
As for Ruthie, yesterday she actually crawled for the first time! She only went a short way, but still, it counts. And she did it again several times today. She also figured out how to get from on her belly / all fours to a sitting position. AND, yesterday she cut her first tooth. A few months ago I posted here that she had cut her first tooth, but that turned out to have been a false alarm; her upper teeth were visible through the gums but had not actually broken through. They are still there, visible but not through; but now she has one on the bottom that is actually through. If you run the back of your fingernail over her gums, you can feel it going clicky clicky.
Still to come: an update on the heating situation.
I was sort of focused on/obsessing about the fact that it was longer than Ruthie and I had been separated for quite a while. It was six hours, but really, we spend 4 hours apart at least once a week, so it's not THAT much more really, and she was fine, and I was fine (except for some boobular discomfort). And I knew it would be fine, but I obsessed over it anyway. This bodes ill for me returning to work. :( This sentence shall serve as a placeholder for a lengthy post about Ruthie being my last baby and me feeling melancholy about same and wanting to hold onto her babyhood as long as possible.
Other miscellania from the weekend:
On Saturday, after
metafrantic's birthday dinner, we went to the chocolate party chez teddywolf and tigerbright, which as always was a lot of fun, and Meta and sandykidd seem to have made some new friends which is always cool. Sunday, we got up early, dropped Ruthie off with grandma, and Isaac and I went to the bagel store where we got 30 bagels for Meta, then rejoined grandma and Ruthie to bring same to Meta, along with the 30 socks that I had gotten him as a gag gift. (I was hoping to come up with something a little cooler to get him 30 of, but socks was the best I could do. I suck.)Isaac is rapidly increasing his repertoire of words that he can spell (with fridge letter magnets) without any help. I'd say it's up to about 10-15 now. He also has a few words that he can recognize on sight, notably his name, my name, and "the." He's starting to recognize sounds and patterns, telling me, for example, that the words "lanyard" and "bread" are alike because they both end in D, or that "wiggle" and "table" are alike because they end in LE, and so forth. He's getting good at our game where we talk about what is left when you remove letters from one word to make another (e.g., if you want to make "bread" and you take the B out of "bagel", it leaves "agel"). Also this morning I was putting some stuff into a plastic bag that said Market Basket on it (this is a grocery store chain near us) and he told me unprompted that it said Market Basket. Do you realize what this means? My child can read! I'm so impressed. I mean, it's not like he's ready to pick up a book and read it to me, but looking at a set of letters and telling me what they spell counts as reading, dammit.
As for Ruthie, yesterday she actually crawled for the first time! She only went a short way, but still, it counts. And she did it again several times today. She also figured out how to get from on her belly / all fours to a sitting position. AND, yesterday she cut her first tooth. A few months ago I posted here that she had cut her first tooth, but that turned out to have been a false alarm; her upper teeth were visible through the gums but had not actually broken through. They are still there, visible but not through; but now she has one on the bottom that is actually through. If you run the back of your fingernail over her gums, you can feel it going clicky clicky.
Still to come: an update on the heating situation.
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