In a recent post, I complained that my kids don’t watch enough television.? Well, it doesn’t happen often, but today we managed to get all three to watch at the same time.? They held this position for only 15 or 20 minutes, but it was great while it lasted.
Thing 1 and I were at a window table at Starbucks.? He was enjoying his chocolate milk and cookie.? I had my blueberry muffin and grande green tea.? We were watching the cars in the busy parking lot go by, as the first snow of the year came down.? I guess it was a reflective moment in the mind of a four year old.? Out of the blue he remarks:
“There are too many girls in the world.? We need more boys.”
Then he took a sip of his chocolate milk.
By “world”, I think he was referring to his pre-school class, which happens to have more girls than boys.?
I just found this very fun site which finds celebrities who look like you. Here is the look-alike match for Thing 2. The personality is a pretty good match, too!
I’ll be posting celebrity look-alikes for the rest of the clan soon…
Thing 2 often wakes up in the middle of the night, stands up in his crib, and cries until someone comes to his room. As soon as we leave the room, he starts again, until we usually break down and take him into our bed so we can get some sleep. Recently, we decided this pattern has to stop, so we let him “cry it out” one night. For two hours. When I went to get him in the morning, this is what he cheerfully said:
Thing 2: There’s no piggy!
It took until after breakfast for me to realize what he meant. A couple of months ago we went to a fall festival at a farm. They had tractor rides, pumpkins, a petting zoo, and two of the absolutely biggest pigs you’ve ever seen. There were also pig races.
Thing 2 loves animals , especially farm animals, as long as they are toys or on TV. In real life, he is terrified of dogs, cats, squirrels, birds, cows, and, yes, pigs. For several days after the trip, he kept saying “The piggies are going to get me!” when we went into the garage or basement. And I would tell him “There’s no piggy”.
Incredibly, after this one cry-it-out-for-two-hours episode, he no longer screams during the night.? I guess he just needed to make it through the night once without the pig getting him.
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When Thing 2 stopped using his high chair, over a year ago, we were happy to get it out of the kitchen. They were always climbing on, pushing, or bumping into it, and it freed up some much needed space. I should have given it a good cleaning before moving to the basement storage room. But, I figured I could just clean it the next time we needed it.
That next time was this weekend, when Thing 3 had his first attempt at solid food. That is, if you can consider rice cereal solid food.
Before we could get those adorable pictures above, I had to deal with what happens when you leave food on a high chair for a year. All that nasty-baby-stuff, which gets into every nook and cranny of the chair, turns into even-nastier-impossible-to-get-off stuff.
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Every parents knows the misery of the yearly trip to the mall to see Santa. Waiting in a long line of hyperactive kids. Your kids start crying the minute they sit in Santa’s lap. Then, you have to waste money on pictures of kids with tears all over their faces.
Well, here‘s a better way. Why not have Santa come to you? You schedule a time for Santa to call your kids on the phone. They will be amazed that he knows so much about them. Of course, you could just have your Uncle Bob do the same thing, but then you won’t get a CD recording of the call. And, can you really trust Uncle Bob not to tell your kids they’ll be getting the loudest, most expensive gift in the world?
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the next class of products to be infected with recall-itis. Studies have shown that antibacterial soap is no better than regular soap and water when it comes to stopping bacterial growth. And, they could lead to super germs that are resistant to antibiotics.
A ban on antibacterial products would be huge. But what I’m more concerned about are these super germs. We have every antibacterial product you could imagine – soaps, wipes, toys – so my house is probably ground zero for super germs.
Read more on super germs…
