Will the REAL June 11 please stand up?
AND ROTATE CORRECTLY??? SHEESH.
This is what Maisie loves to play with. Greg's poker chips. Ok, she's in bed, and they are still on the floor. ACK!
Thursday, June 11, 2009
June 11, 2009
As I went to snap the day's picture tonight...my camera told me "No CF card". So I went to grab it--I knew exactly where it was. At the end of this cord:
So I pulled it from the couch crack in which it was residing, and heard a thump. The cord came out without the gizmo at the end, which has my CF card. So I peered underneath the couch. Nope. Stuck my hands in between the cushions. Nope. Somehow it is INSIDE the couch! So...until Greg is released from Maisie's clutches, and then feels like doing search and rescue inside the couh...I'm without a camera. Bummer.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
June 10, 2009
So since Calvin is such a hungry little feller, and we tried rice cereal a while back that was NOT well received...today we tried avocado! I think some even went in! He was still smiling afterward, so I think it was successful.
I have a hard time getting him to smile for the camera. Once I put that big thing in front of my face, he's curious. Not smilie. I must look funny with a camera in front of my face. Here, GREG must look funny. I was feeding Calvin, Greg was being cameraman.
Monday, June 8, 2009
June 8, 2009
And this is what I did with the bag o' irises. I found a bare spot in my yard and planted a patch! Ok ok. I MADE a bare spot in my yard for them. I only pulled out a billion orange poppies for this bare earth. I will likely have to yank them out again next spring so they don't choke out the irises.
And....toying with the idea of entering Calvin in a photo contest, showing off his cloth diapers. Getting this far was no easy task. The term "action shot" is questionable at this age. His arms and legs are in constant motion! He runs 100 miles IN PLACE during the day!!!
June 7, 2009This is my small bag full of irises. I took this bag FULL of irises to Gramma's house, and I brought it home FULL of irises. (this is called denial)
It's Maisie's Dora the Explorer plastic tote bag by the way. Perfect size for flower transport. First the tulips. Now irises. Maisie was a little concerned when she saw it sitting by the car. I had to promise I would bring it home!
Friday, June 5, 2009
June 5, 2009
Ran outside to catch some pics of fabulous clouds during the thunderstorm this afternoon. But Maisie was "helping" Papa again, and I caught a few really cute shots of her. The scariest, though, is the one that Dad sent me from his camera. Maisie. Standing on ladders. One foot on each ladder. About 3 rungs up. YIKES.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
June 4, 2009
Calvin hung out in his high chair while I made dinner tonight, Maisie was in the tub scrubbing the mud and dirt off. He's a little short yet, sometimes only his eyes peek out over the tray of his high chair...tonight he had company, his mini crinkapillar was entertaining him and kept him happy for a good 20 minutes before Greg had to rescue him!
Today I declared war on the weeds in the tomato portion of my garden. I put newspaper down and then the old compost dirt over that. I had to have help, since the wind picked up after I'd done about 1/4 of it, and newspaper was blowing all around. I asked Maisie to stand on the edges of the newspaper but she insisted on laying down on them. So then I had to wiggle the "food dirt" in over the top of her and around her. Food dirt? That's Maisie's term for the compost. Since she takes our compost bucket out to the compost heap every once in a while, she knows that the dirt there is made up of food: Food dirt.
After we put both kids in bed tonight, I was walking down the hall and saw this sunset through the bedroom window!
June 3, 2009
Ever since Papa's return from Indy, he has been coming to our house daily to work on the new shop. Maisie does her best to help him. He took this picture--apparently he is teaching her to hammer nails!
While he was getting his ladder ready for the days' work, she instructed him to go ahead and get our ladder out of the "cat shop" so that they "could each have their own separate one". Yikes!
June 2, 2009
What a good sleeping day today! Calvin slept on our bed for a 3 hour nap while Papa babysat. Then Greg fed him a big fat bottle, and tried some tummy time. Instead of doing tummy time, Calvin fell asleep! After dinner I woke him up to feed him again, and afterward, this is what happened!!
Sleepy baby! But SO CUTE!
May 31, 2009
Another attempt at the kite picture. Not even going to try to claim that Maisie was flying it. She lasts about one minute, then hands it off. We were outside with Dad--Mom had just come back from Alaska and was running on 24 hours of no sleep-she finally just sat down on our couch after dinner and fell over!
Saturday, May 30, 2009
May 30, 2009
Maisie and Calvin and I spent the day outside--it was a beautiful day! Maisie swam in her pool a little bit. Calvin was relaxing on a beach towel, until the sun dropped and his shade went away. I got an umbrella to shade him, and Maise was ON him. She wanted that umbrella so badly. I told her to go find her little play one, and she ran into the house to try to find it, but couldn't come up with it. So she came out with another towel. "Put this on him!" Not so into sharing today.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
May 25, 2009
Maisie wanted to help feed Calvin!
I'm so totally frustrated by breastfeeding. It's crazy how something that is supposed to be SO natural can be SO difficult.
Calvin had seemed really hungry, very frequently for several weeks, and his doctor was unimpressed by his weight gain. He is still under the percentiles for children his age--he's created his own percentile--he's gaining and he's gaining steadily, just slowly. So because I feel like Calvin is always always hungry, I wondered if my milk is not giving him what he needs. I don't think he should need to nurse that frequently. So since we've started giving him formula, he seems like a different kid. He's sooo happy! I did have my TSH tested, and I think the results show it's pretty normal--within normal range. So maybe I just make skim milk, and Calvin wants whole. I don't know. It's frustrating. He's still nursing many times a day, but he's also drinking plenty of formula.
May 24, 2009Bathtime! Actually, we've taken to giving Calvin showers--he just comes in with whichever one of us is bathing at a convenient time. He quickly grew too long for the sink in our bathroom, and the sink in the main bath is too low and small--it's time to get the sponge with the baby shape cut out of it!
He really relaxes in the shower. He closes his eyes and snuggles in. When I hold him up into the water, he "boiled shrimps" me. Curls up into a ball and closes his eyes, hee! Today after this picture, he decided he was hungry and started HOWLING. I couldn't get out of the shower fast enough!
May 23, 2009
Ahhhh....sibling love. Calvin sacked out on Greg and Maisie--I caught an ok shot of Calvin, but then Maisie leaned in and gave him a kiss. Sweet.
I have to get these moments on record and write about them, because I'm sure that soon enough we'll be hearing, "HE'S TOUCHING ME!!!!! HE'S ON MY SIDE! HE'S OVER THE LIIIIIIIINE!!! MOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!"
I can't wait.
Friday, May 22, 2009
May 20, 2009
My mother in law gave me this sunshine. It was on the fence at our house in the Gig. I think those hands are supposed to be for bird seed. *shudders* I do NOT put bird seed in there!!! No sense in attracting MORE of those nasty things. Maisie would share what happened during our lunch picnic the other day....but I won't. He now lives by our back door.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
May 16, 2009Today's final product. Fancy pants tomato cages filled with Mom's carefully tended tomato plants. Now we just have to figure out how to get water to them!
We are wiped. Grandma Dena came at 10 this morning to sit under Calvin for us--worked like a charm! He was an angel for her--she sat in a lawn chair right by where I was working and Maisie had a blanket down and spent maybe 1/4 of her time there. She did a lot of running around the yard today in the sunshine. While I prepared dinner, she fell asleep on the couch. After Greg and I dined alone we put her to bed. She's gonna be some kind of hungry in the morning!!!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
May 13, 2009
Calvin is 4 months old! (and a little bit)
We nearly had to use the rhinoceros again. I searched the house twice before I found Hobbes. Tossed behind the couch. Good grief. Apparently when I tell Maisie to clean up the living room, she makes a pile behind the couch. Hobbes wasn't alone...
May 11, 2009
Calvin seems hungry ALL.THE.TIME. I wind up nursing him every hour during the day! Greg decided maybe he should try rice cereal to see if he might stay filled up a little while longer.
It didn't go over well, and we haven't tried again....Thank goodness he sleeps through the night. But during the day he makes up for all the nighttime eating he misses!!!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
May 10, 2009
We are back home. Calvin is eating a lot more, recently. He sleeps through the night, but during the day, he wants to eat very frequently. Greg gave him half a bottle while I was in the shower tonight, and then when I got out, I nursed him for a while. He's been sleeping on my lap ever since. He's such a sweet little bundle--his legs are froggied and his little foot is perched on my lap.
I know he could probably sleep in his very own room in his very own crib. But I guess I'm resisting...I love these cuddles!
May 9, 2009
We spent Mother's Day in Gig Harbor with Greg's family.
Right before this picture, Maisie asked me where Beeper was...I told her he was probably in his computer room. I told her she should probably go check, and beep him! Apparently she did, because shortly after, he came out and beeped her back. Which is what had happened right before I took this picture. Peals of laughter. :)
May 8, 2009
It seems that I JUST took this photo--of the tractor driving the other direction than the rows are now! Where does time go? There is already corn growing in this field! The stalks are probably 3 inches tall-kinda hard to see them in this photo. I hope it's sweet corn. Apples on 3 sides and corn across the street? Heaven.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
May 4, 2009
Hey Buddy! Is that a little smile in there? YES! We didn't get too many once we pulled the camera out, but we were getting some during dinner, while he was swinging.
But some of the greatest smiles are followed by blood curdling shrieks and hollers. Diaper changes. Sheesh. You'd think we were using PINS. And missing!
May 2, 2009How is it May already?
Today started off pleasant enough. Then it rained. By the time I got home, the rain clouds had blown away, and there was a slight breeze. Maisie got a kite for her birthday, and she'd been dying to try it out! So she and Greg took it out and launched in the back 40. She kept it up for maybe 10 minutes, then held it out to us and said, "Here. I'm done." Hee! This is a horrible picture, but I couldn't very well lay down in the dirt like I needed to. So here I'm going for the basic idea...
Friday, May 1, 2009
April 30, 2009
Maisie's interpretation of a starfish. In my bed. Early. Notice that I am no longer in it. It's either barnacle or starfish. When Greg is still in bed too, she is barnacled on my back. When Greg gets out, he pulls her off me and then she starfishes. Either way, I crawl out in search of coffee...
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