Daycare Kids!
24
Aug 2009
The kids in my daycare are cracking me up today!
There is a little boy I watch that just turned 2! He is starting to talk more and more, which is really exciting! One of his favorite things are cars. Only, whenever he says the word “car”, he combines the first part of car and the last part of truck. The end result is a word that sounds like “cawk”, which is not a pleasant word to hear. Right now he is walking around the house saying, “more cawk, more cawk!”. It doesn’t matter how many times I try to teach him the word car, he still wants “more cawk”. It is especially humorous when we have visitors or are out of the house!
There is also a little girl in my daycare that has a new baby sister! She is very very proud of this, and loves her new sister very much. However, I think she may have be harboring some subconscious feelings of resentment. Last week I got a new 1-year old baby in my daycare and she does not like this baby. The first couple of days she would be in the middle of playing, and then just walk over and hit the new baby on the head! This week she has resorted to “accidently” dropping blocks right next to the babies head. Hopefully they are keeping a close eye on her with her sister!
Also, why is it that when kids say something to you in a quiet voice, and you tell them you can’t hear them, they decide to speak in an even quieter whisper?! Every single kid I have watched has done this! It is infuriating! The more I try and speak louder so they will understand that I cannot hear them, the quieter they speak, until they are just mouthing words at me! I think next time I am going to try talking back to them in a whisper and then maybe they will speak louder since they cannot hear me! I will report back on my findings of this scientific study.
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Good News Gorillas!
21
Aug 2009
I am writing this blog from my laptop!!! It is working!!! The only issue is the battery does not seem to be holding any charge, but as long as it is plugged in there seems to be no problems! YEAH!
On a side note, Today I was driving down the road with my cell phone on my lap, when it slipped and fell on the floor of the car. Now, normally this would be no big deal. I would simply bend down quickly and pick it back up. Well, I attempted to do just that, but quickly realized that my ability to quickly bend at my waist is gone. I tried and squirmed, but my big belly was completely in the way. I ended up having to drive all the way home with my cell phone sliding all over the floor, hoping it wouldn’t end up under the brake pedal. I made it home safely none the less!
Also, I am so excited because today I finally bought some stuff for Rocky!! I had this great coupon for JC Penney’s, so I went and they were having a great clearance on baby clothes! I got Rocky 5 outfits, 2 onesies, and 4 pairs of shorts all for 19 bucks! Plus, all the clothes are super cute! I added this to the staggering 3 onesies and 2 pairs of socks and 1 pair of little baby leg warmers I already had for him, and now I am on my way! It is finally starting to feel like we are getting ready! Zane and I have a giant countdown in our kitchen, and today it says 79 days until Rocky! We are so excited!
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Bad News Bears.
18
Aug 2009
A cup of water was spilled on my laptop today. I will not go into details, as I know the person responsible feels horribly, but needless to say it is a sucky thing. I am typing now on an old computer we have that runs ridiculously slowly, it is also sits on a desk and I usually prefer to do my blogging sitting on the couch watching bad reality TV. I will try to make this blog interesting none the less.
It is amazing to me how attached I am to my laptop. Everything I need is on it, my address book, my pictures, email, calendar (which I never use), tons of documents and lists. What did I do before I had a laptop? And a bigger question, what did we do before we had the internet?
My parents just got high-speed internet last month and they love it. Atleast, we think they do. No one has actually heard from them since that day, but I do get occasional notices on Facebook that my Mom has harvested her crops in Farmville, so I assume they are okay. Mom and Dad, if you are reading this, we love you and we will talk to you again once the excitement wears off.
When my Mom first got an email address at work she started forwarding me every single one of those chain emails people usually delete. You know, the ones that say “Forward this email to 9 friends or your dog will bite you” or something along those lines. Only, my Mom did not have nine friends that had email, so she just forwarded me the email 9 different times. Needless to say, she is yet to get bit by a dog.
Now, just because I usually use this blog to vent about a lot of things that have me stressed, tonight I have 5 things for you that I am Happy about!
#1-My daycare has the perfect number of kids that allow me to make enough money and still be able to transport Zane to and from School and Gymnastics! They also all get along and are around the same age and Super Fun! Yeah!!
#2-One of my dear friends is getting married next weekend and I found a dress that does not make me look like a huge beached whale!! YEAH! Plus, I get to go to Lockwood for the wedding and see my Family, including my wonderful Sister! Double Yeah!
#3-Rocky will be here in 12 weeks!!! Triple YEAH! Zane and I made a calendar to count down the days, 82 and counting…
#4-I don’t have anything to do this weekend except relax! Yeah!
#5-Zane’s new teacher told me today that he is Wonderful and she loves having him in her class! I know she probably says that to everyone, but it made me smile! Yeah for Zane! (who also did a headstand for over 2 minutes today, but I made him stop, that cannot be good for his brain..)
Lots of Happiness here, even with a wet laptop!
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The Colony…Or Why I Would Never Make It On A Reality Show
17
Aug 2009
Tonight Ian and I watched this new reality show on the Discovery Channel called The Colony. Well, really Ian was watching it and I was rolling around on the living room floor trying to find some way to pop my back, but the show was on at the same time so I got the basic gist of it. Basically, the show sets up a mock global catastrophe and then tests to see how a group of regular citizens would rebuild society. They have to find shelter, food, water, and protect themselves from all sorts of different scenarios. Now, keep in mind this regular group of citizens included an electrical genius, a martial artist, and the token naked, balding old guy. On a side note, does every reality show have to have an old guy that gets naked? Is it really necessary? As a society, is that something we enjoy in our reality TV? I really think its time we take a stand and let the networks know that this is not something we find appealing.
So this group is faced with all sorts of “real” scenarios. Random people keep showing up at the shelter banging on the walls at night, which of course causes everyone to jump out of bed and freak out. Now, this is where I realized I would never make it on a reality show. If that was me, I would simply tell everyone to calm the heck down. WE ARE ON A REALITY SHOW. What are the people banging on the walls really going to do? Go back to bed. Everyone is also very concerned about running out of food and water. Well, If it was me I would simply follow the camera men. They must be eating and drinking somewhere. There was also a whole situation involving figuring out how to get electricity so that could see in case there was an emergency at night. Now, obviously we had no problem seeing when the camera men were filming you at night the night before, so I am guessing we are not talking about solid darkness here. At some point things always start to get really hard on the people involved, there is a lot of crying and screaming and complaining. Well, guess what? You can go home. The world did not really get blown up by a nuclear attack. You are in a warehouse right outside Los Angeles. The second things started to get hard, or they ran out of Spaghettios I would say see ya! I would just ask one of the camera men to borrow his cell phone and call a cab.
Now, that being said, I did actually enjoy the show. It is an interesting thing to think about. Are any of us prepared for the type of global catastrophes this show is trying to create? It really does make me think. Do I have enough cans of Spaghettio’s on hand to survive if there was a real crisis?
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Do you think she is mad because she can see what he is drawing?
15
Aug 2009
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This Week
14
Aug 2009
So, this morning My Sister told me that she thinks my playing Mafia Wars is interfering with my Blog Posting. So, I pulled out my M16 and shot her.
Only in the game, of course.
Really, this week has just been swamped! I have lots of new kids starting, which I am so grateful for! I have been working all week on figuring out how I am going to be able to get Zane to school, back from school and to gymnastics and back from gymnastics while I have all the other kids with me. I ended up having to take less kids than I am actually licensed for and I had to let 2 kids go since the times they were here did not work out. I feel like there is a Mini-Van in my future. This is not a good feeling.
Zane is simply loving First Grade. However, he did already have a situation that he is dealing with. He shares a table with one of his good friends that we LOVE. However, this good friend is very talkative, and surprisingly, Zane is very serious in class. Yesterday he told me that the teacher had to tell his friend to stop talking a couple times, and one of the times she included Zane in the request. Zane is having none of that. He HATES getting in trouble, and he told me he does not want the teacher to think it is him talking when it is not. So last night he decided that he was going to tell the teacher he wanted to be moved. Well, he must of spent last night really thinking about it, because this morning he decided he was going to give his friend one more chance. If his friend was talking, he was going to ask him to please stop because it was very distracting. Zane said if his friend would not listen, he was going to talk to his teacher at Snack Recess about moving desks. I thought this was a very grown-up decision Zane made and I was very proud of him.
I made the rookie mistake of eating a Chimichanga from a Taco Truck and seriously regretted that choice. My stomach is finally starting to forgive me. I, however, will never forgive Ian for picking a Taco Truck for his birthday dinner. Is that a dig at my cooking skills?
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First Grade Report!
12
Aug 2009
Zane’s first day of First Grade went Awesome! He gets to share a table with one of his best friends from Kindergarten, he got a popsicle and there are three recesses! His only complaint was that they didn’t do any science today, but I told him I was sure they would do it soon! He said that they wrote about what they did this Summer, and drew a picture. He drew himself swimming! He said he really likes his teacher, and got to play with some of his other best friends at lunch.
So, I thought I had explained to Zane about eating lunch at school, but I guess I failed. About a half hour after Zane got home, he asked me if it was time for lunch! It was past 3! I reminded him that he had lunch at school, and he seemed very confused. He said it was too short for him to eat his food. According to the contents of his lunchbox, it was only too short for him to eat his sandwich, not his snacks. I tried to explain that lunch recess is actually a lot longer than his earlier recess, he probably just didn’t realize because he was playing. I told him there is plenty of time for both, and tomorrow he should sit and eat all his lunch before he goes to play and he will see that there is PLENTY of time! It will be funny to see if he actually eats his lunch tomorrow, especially after the whole camp lunch debacle we had last week!
I am really excited for Zane! I think he is going to have a great year, once he figures out all of this eating lunch at school business!
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Happy Birthday Ian!
12
Aug 2009
Today is Ian’s Birthday, but you are not allowed to make a big deal about it at all. In fact, it is better to not even MENTION it. In fact, I should not even be making this post, but since I know Ian never reads my blog, I think I am safe. Since you already had to read a horribly sappy, mushy post on our Anniversary about how wonderful I think he is, I will simply say Happy Birthday Ian. I love you.
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Hello First Grade!
12
Aug 2009
Zane started First Grade today! Last night we went down to the school to find out who his teacher is going to be and which of his friends are going to be in his class! We got really lucky because Zane’s new teacher was the only one having an Open House so the parents and kids could meet her! Zane got to see his classroom and his teacher and it really helped him not be nervous at all this morning! He even has a few of his friends from Kindergarten in his class, so he is Happy! I realized this morning that boys are much easier than girls! I remember my sisters and I always making my mom take us school clothes shopping every year before school started, and we had to have EVERYTHING new, new lunchbox, new backpack, clothes, everything. The only thing Zane wanted was new shoes, because his no longer fit, and a new lunch box, because his was falling apart. We will eventually have to buy him new pants when it gets colder, but for now he was perfectly happy in his shorts and t-shirts he already had. He just wanted to wear his star wars shirt. Boys are so easy.
Here is a picture of him this morning, and then one from the first day of Kindergarten for comparison. He is so big!
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Dreaming My Life Away
11
Aug 2009
I have always had really vivid dreams at night. I can remember being 5 years old and having a dream that I was in my version of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory and waking up horribly disappointed when I wasn’t really there. Even today I constantly wake up still in a fog, half believing that I still am wherever my dream took me. Pregnancy has really brought my dreams to a whole new level! A what-the-heck is going on, am I going crazy kind of level!
I keep having the same reaccuring dream. The first time I dreamt that I went into my Midwife’s Office for a Doctor’s appointment and she told me I was in labor and needed to get to the hospital right away. I tried to explain to her that I was only 23 weeks along, and that it was way too early. Plus, I didn’t feel like I was in labor. She told me No, your labor is going to start any minute! You have to get to the hospital! Next think I know, I am in the hospital having the same conversation with a Doctor. I keep trying to tell anyone that will listen that it is way too soon, but no one is listening to me! Everyone keeps insisting it is time, and that my labor is going to start any minute! I woke up before things could get very far, but the whole thing left me kind of unsettled. I had different versions of this same dream on and off over the next few weeks.
The last time I had the dream, the same thing happened, everyone insisted it was time, and no one would listen to me when I said it was way too early! Only this time, I actually gave birth! Rocky was born, and I actually saw him! He looked just like a regular baby, only really really small, since you know, it was so early. The weird thing was, I went home and left him at the hospital and when I went back to visit him he was in a fish tank. Thankfully it had no water.
As if those dreams were not bad enough, I have also been having the type of dreams every pregnant woman wishes for. The one where your partner no longer things you are Awesome, and has decided to just leave. Ian loves when I have those dreams and wake up unexplainably mad at him. It is not so much the leaving me part that gets to me, its the fact that, in the dreams, he is not even remorseful. He is just kind of like, see ya. Like it is no big deal.
Along with the crazy dreams has come a sense of panic. The other night, after being woken up at 3 in the morning by a broken sprinkler, I somehow managed to convince myself that I had wrote a 700 dollar check and had forgotten about it. This of course put me in panic mode and I was not able to get back to sleep for over 2 hours. The fact that I did not know who I had written it to, or the bigger fact, THAT IT DID NOT EXIST, did not matter. I laid awake for over 2 hours stressing about something that did not exist.
What is the deal? Do all pregnant women have these crazy feelings? Are my dreams trying to tell me something? Is Rocky going to live in a fish tank when he is born tomorrow after Ian leaves and I write large checks and then forget about them? Where is Zane during all this craziness?
I miss the Willy Wonka Dreams.
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Too Much Going On!!
9
Aug 2009
There is just too much going on here at the Graham House~
Last week Zane had camp, which pretty much took over our entire lives! I will make a post soon all about it, but just know it was one of the best things ever in his entire life! He starts school on Wednesday so we are trying to get everything ready for First Grade! I don’t think I am ever going to be ready for Zane to actually be in First Grade…
I have 3 new kids starting this week! YEAH!! I am really excited because I was able to find kids all around the age group I wanted! Now I am just trying to get my schedule prepared and figure out how we are going to manage the dropping off and picking up of Zane now that I have found more kids! Between school and gymnastics, Zane needs his own chauffeur. Transporting the kids to pick him up is going to be a challenge, but I refuse to get a mini-van! Maybe when I am 30… (or atleast have more than 1 kid)
I am just about done with my 6 month of pregnancy, and I am really feeling it. I have been sleeping very little and just generally sluggish and slooooowwwwwwww. I did however find the most perfect Maternity dress that I LOVE! This never happens, even when I am not pregnant! I have 2 weddings in the next month (not my own) and I am stressing on how to not look like an overly tired beached whale.
I am currently working on a post about all of my pregnancy dreams. I do not mean aspirations, I mean actual dreams I am having at night that are freaking me out! Also, I am unleashing my list of 30 things I want to accomplish before I turn 30 soon! I plan on blogging my way through the whole list, so it should be fun! Stay Tuned!
XO
heymae
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Party Invite!
5
Aug 2009
Is it just me or is the guy throwing the party really rude?!
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Coincidence? or More?
5
Aug 2009
A conversation that took place between my Sister Rachel and Myself:
Rachel: “Hey, Pat Green is playing at the Senator next week, do you want to go?”
Me: “I do not even know who that is”
Rachel: “You know, Pat Green, the singer”
Me: “You mean Al Green? Is he even alive?”
Rachel: “No, Pat Green, he is a country singer, you know Pat Green?”
Me: “I have no idea who that is”
Rachel: “You know, he sings that song, (singing) ‘You came upon me wave on wave’”
Me: “I have never heard that song”
Rachel: “Yes you have, (singing again) ‘You came upon me wave on wave”
Me: “You keeping singing it is not going to make me have heard it. I have never heard that song in my life.”
Rachel: “Yes you have! You need to listen to the radio, I am sure they will talk about it”
Me: *Reaches and turns on the Radio*
Immediately this is what we hear, “Next week Pat Green at the Senator Theater! (singin) “You came upon me wave on wave…”
**Stunned Silence**
Me: “I guess you were right”
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Oh Sugar Sugar
5
Aug 2009
Today I had the test that every pregnant woman looks forward to from the time they find out they are pregnant. That’s right ladies, the Glucose Test! AHHH YEAHHHH! For those of you that have no experience with this test, I will try to explain the joy of it. First off, you cannot eat anything sweet before you go, and the test is kind of sensitive, so they really suggest you either eat nothing or plain toast. YUM! That is what every pregnant woman wants for breakfast. Then you hungrily drive to the nearest lab where they give you this ridiculously sugary water drink. Now, when I was pregnant with Zane it was simply sugar water. This time I was given the choice of Orange or Fruit Punch. I was feeling a little feisty, so I went for the Fruit Punch. Then you must drink the entire bottle in 5 minutes. I can only describe it as freezing cold kool-aid with three times the sugar. Once you are able to gag that down, you then must sit there in those oh so comfortable waiting room chairs for one hour. Now, I don’t know about other pregnant women, but I have a hard time sitting comfortably on my couch for an hour, let alone a hard chair. Honestly though, sitting by myself in peace and quiet reading magazines for an hour was not what I would consider a punishment. After my hour was up, which went by entirely too fast, my blood was drawn and I was on my way home. Hopefully my body had no problems breaking down the sugars, because I heard that if you fail this test, you have to take it another one where you get, oh i mean are forced to sit by yourself in peace and quiet and read magazines for THREE hours! Oh the horror.
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