April 23, 2009

• This morning I was in drying my hair and Rosie came in to tell me that the rug and towels from the dryer were dry.  I told her thanks and didn’t think anything else about it.  When I went to the laundry room to put the wet load in the dryer I found she had already taken out the towels and put the wet load from the washer into the dryer and pressed the start button.  How awesome is that?   Three and doing laundry.  I then told her to put the next load in, showed her how to put the soap in and she got that one going too.  I guess it’s never too early to learn housekeeping tricks.  Some other Rosieisms:

  “The ticken burna my tonk.” – The meat was spicy and burned her tongue.

  “We watch Harry Potter and the Harry Stone in seca-minute. ” – We are going to watch Harry Potter soon.

  “Wes…him don’t look like Wes no more.” – After Weston got a buzz cut.

  Yesterday morning Rosie and Serra were reading a Mickey Mouse book.  Rosie likes to point out which character she and Serra are in everything we read.  – “Serra, I’m Mickey, you’re Goofy.”  To which Serra gets a little annoyed.  “No I’m Minnie!”-  “No, you’re Goofy.”  This is one of the ways Rosie excels in pushing Serra’s buttons. 

  So after a few days of no computer I am back up and running with a new system, the new Windows 7 (which is fantastic), and the newest photoshop.  I have been able to recreate some of the lost documents from my fried harddrive in much more efficient programs. We have a computer genius friend that built a system for someone who then decided they didn’t want it so I got the whole thing for $300 with all new software etc.  It’s great…and really fast.  Like I mentioned before we took parts from both our old systems and put together a system with games and school stuff for the kids.  We thought Serra would be the only one for now that would get use out of it but low and behold Rosie is a whiz.  She plays a game called Animal Genius and seems to know how everything works.  It’s fun to watch her work the mouse and keyboard like a champ.  I think kids are born knowing this stuff nowadays.  We got it up and running yesterday afternoon and the kids haven’t asked to watch TV once.  They have almost as much fun watching each other play as playing themselves and so far have been really good about taking turns. 

  I have moved their bedtime from 8:30 to 8pm.  It seems like they don’t really get to be until 9:30 and I am ready to go to bed by 10 which gives me no quiet time in the evenings.  I thought by moving it to 8pm we might get a little extra time at night to unwind.  (If only Wes would cooperate…he is down usually by 10pm and that is with a single nap around noon) I swear my kids just don’t need sleep like the rest of us.  They were good about staying quiet last night but still didn’t go to sleep until around 9:30.  It may take a few days to get used to it.  Hopefully, it will work out.  On a bedtime note…I decided after weeks of trying to get Weston to sleep in a crib it was not going to happen.  He hates the crib and gets soooo mad when he wakes up and finds himself there.  So I found a cute and inexpensive toddler bed and he has been in there for almost a week.  He goes down fine and usually wakes up once.  After going back down again he sleeps until 5-6 am then comes and finds me and crawls into bed and sleeps a few more hours.  I am willing to make the compromise of a few cuddle time hours in the morning instead of the all night kick sessions we had before.  He likes to go into his room during the day and read books in his cute little bed.  I think it was the confinement of the crib that he hated. 

  Weston had his 15 month checkup last week and is measuring and weighing in the 80% all around.  He is 26.7 pounds and is 32 inches long.  His head size is 18″ I think.  Anyway, overall he is healthy.  One of my concerns was the wrinkly spot on his head that is left from his major goose egg in January.  I asked about it and got a slightly disturbing answer.  When he hit his head that hard, even though it didn’t bust open, the injury is the same underneath.  What is left after it heals is scar tissue underneath that changes shapes and moves around as he grows.  So, who knows what it will look like in few years.  My baby was damaged.  It made me feel bad.   It sure does make for expressive frowns though. 

  Today is one of those days where I have lists of things I’d like to accomplish but have zero energy.  I think I could crawl back in bed and sleep all day with no problem.  I think I’ll get the essentials done and then lay down.  That is why there is still no pictures….essentials people.  Soon though…I hope.

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