* A new thing is to hide in a closet or under furniture and yell' Haves anybody seen Evelyn?!?!?!" and then we run around trying to find her and she giggles the whole time so it's never a real mystery where she is, then she pops out and yells" HERE she is!!!" and then we tickle her.
*I just had a friend ask if she still wanted to play "Restaraunt" and I had to admit that I was serious about my ban and we just don't play that anymore. No, we now play "STORE", this is where Ev grabs one of her gajillion bags or baskets and fills it up with anything and everything that she can find and then you have to check her out, with beeping or you have to start all over, and then she pays and you start all over again.... Last night she wanted to know if Papa could build a "moving table" for this game and THEN she wondered where we could get a bag holder with plastic bags. Someone help.
*She had such a fun time with all of her cousins this weekend. Little bits of the kids only playing keep coming out. She will tell astory, like say, about Aden getting shot and sliding down the wall and then she will alugh and laugh. (yes we have fake guns around here for the kids to play with we are old school like that)
*She has taken on saying "yepppur" just like her Grandma and she likes it when you tell her that she sounds like Grandma when she says it.
*At Goblins in the Garden, she took her bag and ran off with her big cousins. After the second stop, she was trick or treating solo- for the first time. As we were driving home she asked "are you proud of me for getting candy all beside myself?". We were.
*The tie-dyeing almost did her in. She was seriously put out that we were ruining perfectly good white shirts. There were tears and all. She eventually came around but she did fret the whole time the shirts were in the dye.
*She just counted from 1 to 28 the other day, with no help and no mistakes.
*Her favorite board game right now is Mancala, she just loves moving those beads around. I am thankful for a break from Hi Ho Cherry Oh and Candyland.
*This weekend at her Aunt Jenny's her favorite food was Jenny's black and orange pinwheel cookies- she must have eaten at least 12- with in an hour
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Weekend Of Halloween Fun
We had what was a fantastic weekend. Leslie's sister Rae came up our way and we came together at his sister Jenny's house for some eating and talking and playing and tie-dying and eating and trick or treating.
I will mostly let the pictures speak for themselves because I could not possibly go into how great everything was. The food was fantastic and Rae made some Halloween themed snacks for the kids. Jenny took us to Holden Arboretum where she works, for Goblins in the Garden and some of the things that she helped create for the festivities there were better than what old Martha S. herself could have put out (really Jenny). I loved watching Scott and Aden doing their boy stuff while the girls played sisters and built Fairie Houses. I loved hearing Scott drilling Les on Godzilla facts and characters. I loved making tie-dyed pumpkin shirts for each kid. I loved the bbq ribs. I loved that Jeff had to bring along rabbit ears so as not to miss the Buckeyes game.
It was such a weekend that The Bean slept 15.5 hours last night, woke up this morning, ate two granola bars and fell back to sleep for another hour and 15 minutes!!! Though, Scott HAS had an undue influence on her, last night at her dinner she said "Papa do you know about Cheese Godzilla?"
...2 hours later... I have been trying and trying to get some pictures loaded up but, it's one of those days where blogger is messing up, Slide is messing up and my computer is having hiccups. I am going to try again tomorrow so I don't need to try and find a Xanax for my nerves before the day's end.........
I will mostly let the pictures speak for themselves because I could not possibly go into how great everything was. The food was fantastic and Rae made some Halloween themed snacks for the kids. Jenny took us to Holden Arboretum where she works, for Goblins in the Garden and some of the things that she helped create for the festivities there were better than what old Martha S. herself could have put out (really Jenny). I loved watching Scott and Aden doing their boy stuff while the girls played sisters and built Fairie Houses. I loved hearing Scott drilling Les on Godzilla facts and characters. I loved making tie-dyed pumpkin shirts for each kid. I loved the bbq ribs. I loved that Jeff had to bring along rabbit ears so as not to miss the Buckeyes game.
It was such a weekend that The Bean slept 15.5 hours last night, woke up this morning, ate two granola bars and fell back to sleep for another hour and 15 minutes!!! Though, Scott HAS had an undue influence on her, last night at her dinner she said "Papa do you know about Cheese Godzilla?"
...2 hours later... I have been trying and trying to get some pictures loaded up but, it's one of those days where blogger is messing up, Slide is messing up and my computer is having hiccups. I am going to try again tomorrow so I don't need to try and find a Xanax for my nerves before the day's end.........
Your Signature Is Needed
Okay, I could never explain the situation like this Mama. So you can read her entry here....
http://miles2mia.blogspot.com/2008/10/important-stuff-here.html
The summary is that the Hague Convention, long referral times and new regulations from China are stacking up against adoptive families who have been waiting MONTHS and MONTHS to see the faces of the daughters of their dreams. This is too much.
If you could please take the time to sign this petition it would help. It only takes about 2 minutes and I know that every signature is needed.
Help us get these girls home.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/adoption-for-all.html
My thoughts are with every single one of these families, I can only imagine the frustration and heart wrenching terror this must instill. And dealing with this NOW after the tainted milk , the new regs, the renewals on the paperwork, the updated homestudies, the long , long wait. I am filled with anxiety for each of them.
http://miles2mia.blogspot.com/2008/10/important-stuff-here.html
The summary is that the Hague Convention, long referral times and new regulations from China are stacking up against adoptive families who have been waiting MONTHS and MONTHS to see the faces of the daughters of their dreams. This is too much.
If you could please take the time to sign this petition it would help. It only takes about 2 minutes and I know that every signature is needed.
Help us get these girls home.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/adoption-for-all.html
My thoughts are with every single one of these families, I can only imagine the frustration and heart wrenching terror this must instill. And dealing with this NOW after the tainted milk , the new regs, the renewals on the paperwork, the updated homestudies, the long , long wait. I am filled with anxiety for each of them.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Oh Yes Dan......
I have read the Twilight Series (well I am waiting for a copy of the fourth one) and I love it. It's written for teens so you don't have to read it and worry about all of the amoralistic, toothy vampire sex like when you read Anita Blake. This gives you the calorie free version of dark twisted love for the un-dead. Right up my alley. For a very short while I was like "Angel who? EEEEEDDDDWWAARRDDD!!!!" but have since recovered my Joss Whedon sensibilities and have relegated the Undead Hawtness that is Edward to number three on my list of corpses I could... well, you know.... For those interested, Angel is no. 1 and Spike is no 2 and number 4 right after Edward, is Michael from the Lost Boys (technically Michael was only ever a partial Vamp because he never partook of the blood but it was close). OH! And then there is Jean -Claude, no HE may be number three and then..... Maybe I have issues, I blame it all on my Mother.
Watch link please.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1GbukZnl1Y
I fear that the kid playing Edward in the movies may be over doing the tight faced, take me serious I'm Dead face a bit much but, we'll see. My Mom and I are going to be right in the audience of giggling teens and tweens when this puppy opens.
Also if you have no idea who Angel , Spike or Michael or Jean-Claude are, well let me know and I can provide a reading and watching list to get you up to speed. That is all.
Watch link please.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1GbukZnl1Y
I fear that the kid playing Edward in the movies may be over doing the tight faced, take me serious I'm Dead face a bit much but, we'll see. My Mom and I are going to be right in the audience of giggling teens and tweens when this puppy opens.
Also if you have no idea who Angel , Spike or Michael or Jean-Claude are, well let me know and I can provide a reading and watching list to get you up to speed. That is all.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Evelyn Gave Me Hell
Well, not hell but a rough day. It's just her being , you know, four and me being you know, 35. We happened to be out and about when she decide it was time to once again , test Mama's resolve. I brought her home and put her down for a nap and then fumed. And fumed.
As part of my decompression ritual, I got on-line to read the blogs of others (hey no laughing it works for me). So I was reading and reading and I came across the blog of a family that just picked up their daughter on Sept 17 in China. I watched a video of this tiny little girl. Now that I have my daughter from China and I know a bit about her, I can watch those videos with a different slant. I used to watch them and look at the mothers and how happy they were and how cute the baby's were and I couldn't get enough. Now I watch and I still see those things, but I also see the fear and absolute confusion of the baby's. I see how they are wondering about these people and worrying about what has just happened to where they used to live. I see the pain that they will be experiencing for a time.
So I have this daughter that started off that alone and afraid and now she can give me hell. That's pretty cool. I have this bright and vibrant , tiny girl that is no longer shell shocked. This diminutive figure that can put her hands on her hips and give me some 'tude. That's pretty cool too. I'll take it. It means that she is a "normal" four year old and we are just like any other family. It means that the love Leslie and I have for her has drowned out everything bad and she can toss some attitude our way and know that she is still loved and with us at bedtime. She knows that and THAT is what's cool.
That little one I watched today will be fine, Her parents are doing the right thing. When families come together through adoption, it's a miracle. One day that little girl will look at HER Mom and she will mouth off and that will mean that she is okay , that they are all okay, and that too is cool.
So I will take some bad mouthing and stubbornness because in the end it's what I always wanted.
As part of my decompression ritual, I got on-line to read the blogs of others (hey no laughing it works for me). So I was reading and reading and I came across the blog of a family that just picked up their daughter on Sept 17 in China. I watched a video of this tiny little girl. Now that I have my daughter from China and I know a bit about her, I can watch those videos with a different slant. I used to watch them and look at the mothers and how happy they were and how cute the baby's were and I couldn't get enough. Now I watch and I still see those things, but I also see the fear and absolute confusion of the baby's. I see how they are wondering about these people and worrying about what has just happened to where they used to live. I see the pain that they will be experiencing for a time.
So I have this daughter that started off that alone and afraid and now she can give me hell. That's pretty cool. I have this bright and vibrant , tiny girl that is no longer shell shocked. This diminutive figure that can put her hands on her hips and give me some 'tude. That's pretty cool too. I'll take it. It means that she is a "normal" four year old and we are just like any other family. It means that the love Leslie and I have for her has drowned out everything bad and she can toss some attitude our way and know that she is still loved and with us at bedtime. She knows that and THAT is what's cool.
That little one I watched today will be fine, Her parents are doing the right thing. When families come together through adoption, it's a miracle. One day that little girl will look at HER Mom and she will mouth off and that will mean that she is okay , that they are all okay, and that too is cool.
So I will take some bad mouthing and stubbornness because in the end it's what I always wanted.
Billy Bones Here....
Mom is busy today and I thought I would jump on the old innernets and tell you all about my day from cat hell yesterday. So mostly cats cant type but I do have 23 toes so, that helps.
Okay. Yesterday. It started off bad when The Mom Person forgot to give me my special meaty delishous food (even though I tried to remind her by winding about her feet and saing "food food food"). Then I was stepped on! Right in the kitchen! Secondly all of the humans were outside and I was made to stay inside with closed windows (prisoner much?) Okay, then to distract myself from my prison state and to keep track of how many circuits of the house I make, I went into the attic (thank The Dad Person for that ladder thing being left down) and I got this cool black dirt allover my feet and I walked around. It was really cool to see my footprints allover. I thought so anyway but then The Mom Person saw them and went around wiping them all away, I mean she even got the ones that I left on the walking board over the fireplace and off of the window ledges and off of the couch (there are a few on the basement floor that she didn't see- heh heh). THEN THEN - they picked me up and..... well, The Dad Person held me still while The Mom Person WIPED ALL OF THE BLACK STUFF OFF! I tried to tell them that I wanted it there and I had to put all of those prints back because I was running an experiment but, they kept cleaning so I tried to bite them- that was a bad idea, the humans don't understand what I call Teeth Talk.
Fine. Then they were dressing the Little Squeaking One and I needed into her drawer to check on her clothes and see if they had enough of my hair on them and then maybe take a nap, but you know what? That small one was squeaking at The Mom so fast that The Mom forgot about my Drawer Inventory and my tail got hurt in the closing if that drawer! Then as The Mom Person was making food on the hot top for the humans I tried to remind her again about MY food, but, well, she stepped on me again! What a day. Sometimes I worry about these humans.
I have to admit here that The Mom did make things up to me- eventually. I did get my good food, plus a snack, then she brought out my special furry blanket and I laid there and let her give me a massage so she wouldn't feel so guilty-- she's only human afterall. I'll probably stay with them but it was close for awhile.
Billy Bones
Okay. Yesterday. It started off bad when The Mom Person forgot to give me my special meaty delishous food (even though I tried to remind her by winding about her feet and saing "food food food"). Then I was stepped on! Right in the kitchen! Secondly all of the humans were outside and I was made to stay inside with closed windows (prisoner much?) Okay, then to distract myself from my prison state and to keep track of how many circuits of the house I make, I went into the attic (thank The Dad Person for that ladder thing being left down) and I got this cool black dirt allover my feet and I walked around. It was really cool to see my footprints allover. I thought so anyway but then The Mom Person saw them and went around wiping them all away, I mean she even got the ones that I left on the walking board over the fireplace and off of the window ledges and off of the couch (there are a few on the basement floor that she didn't see- heh heh). THEN THEN - they picked me up and..... well, The Dad Person held me still while The Mom Person WIPED ALL OF THE BLACK STUFF OFF! I tried to tell them that I wanted it there and I had to put all of those prints back because I was running an experiment but, they kept cleaning so I tried to bite them- that was a bad idea, the humans don't understand what I call Teeth Talk.
Fine. Then they were dressing the Little Squeaking One and I needed into her drawer to check on her clothes and see if they had enough of my hair on them and then maybe take a nap, but you know what? That small one was squeaking at The Mom so fast that The Mom forgot about my Drawer Inventory and my tail got hurt in the closing if that drawer! Then as The Mom Person was making food on the hot top for the humans I tried to remind her again about MY food, but, well, she stepped on me again! What a day. Sometimes I worry about these humans.
I have to admit here that The Mom did make things up to me- eventually. I did get my good food, plus a snack, then she brought out my special furry blanket and I laid there and let her give me a massage so she wouldn't feel so guilty-- she's only human afterall. I'll probably stay with them but it was close for awhile.
Billy Bones
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