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[Jun. 2nd, 2006|09:50 pm] |
Mandy! ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) faerieface!!
Awww thanks for the lj nudge. That was very sweet of you. You, of all people, probably have the least time to read to begin with!! *hugs*
Things have been so crazy around here with baseball season I just really don't have the energy. We are on the go-go ALL the time!! Actually T has a baseball tournament in Winnipeg this week-end so we're in the city all day Saturday and Sunday and it's supposed to be hot. Friday seems to be our only day off but today we had 2 b-day parties to attend! *whew* I'm completely wiped.
With what you guys have been going through, I've made sure that I've been at least keeping up with little Prince Eliott and his family. I'm going try and find the will to find time to at *least* journal some of the important stuff...stuff I don't want to forget or occasions that I need to vent. Everyone needs a good one of those every once in awhile.
Thanks for the nudge sweets, it made me smile. (lj mail goes to my hotmail box which I only check occasionally...want to make sure I keep our family e-mail spam free, hence the tardiness in my reply!) *hugs* |
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| Thank God!! |
[May. 29th, 2006|08:30 am] |
They found her!!
She was found yesterday evening 1.6km away from where she disappeared. In a field sleeping. (Rob's team was to be paged if she had been found because they were off duty at that point but there was no page, we thought she was still missing.)
I am so happy and relieved, it really didn't look good for her but she's alright. The poor thing. What she must have been thinking and how scared she must have been.
Rob still thinks it odd that she wasn't found during their search because the alfalfa fields are only 1 ft high right now and a toddler should have been obvious...especially with their shoulder-to-shoulder search.
She also must have been left for longer than 5min. unsupervised. I wonder how long it would take a toddler to wander 1 mile?
Anyhoo, she's found and that's all that matters. *big, big sigh*
Mike Aporius/Winnipeg FP |
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[May. 28th, 2006|08:50 pm] |
The toddler still hasn't been found and things are looking grim. It made the evening news on CKY Winnipeg today.
Still baffled and upset about it. How can a little one just seemingly disappear into thin air?
Holding my baby girl in a different light today. |
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[May. 28th, 2006|10:35 am] |
Rob came home at 5am this morning.
The baby still has not been found. Her name is Kaitlyn.
Rob's completely baffled by it. There IS a river that runs through the colony and the Hutterites searched 1 mile up and 1 mile down the river and there was nothing. The squad did another search along the river. It was quite a struggle to get to the river's edge and Rob figures there's NO way a toddler could have done it, Tate couldn't have done it. By the time he left this morning, search and rescue squads from Winnipeg and Brandon came out, the sky was orange where the search was taking place. EMS lights, flashlights, spot lights. I can't remember if Rob said there was close to 200 people, or that there were 200 Hutterites involved from one colony and other colonies joined in the effort to find Kaitlyn (sp?). The search dogs were brought out but had a hard time finding trails because there were too many people. All vehicles were searched, machine sheds, work sheds, houses, fields etc.
Rob fears it's either 1 of 2 horrendous things...she either drowned in the lagoon type ravine that was close by but still somewhat difficult to get to (not as difficult as the river). Or that she was taken from somebody on the colony and, god-forbid, raped/murdered. Things just don't make sense to him, too many irregularities.
This little girl was visiting from another colony for the week-end. That they KNOW. There's too many conflicting stories, almost sounds like they're trying to prove that she WAS being watched and not left unattended rather than giving the correct info that they NEED. The 'sitter' who was watching her said she left the 2y/o playing in the yard and went into the house to get something for the baby to eat or to watch her through the window and within 5min max she was gone.
How far can a 2y/o go in 5min max? Some say she was riding a tricycle and other's say she wasn't. There has yet to be a trike found anywhere on the colony.
The "Zodiac" (inflatable search boat) is out there right now and I'm assuming they'll be searching the ravine for a body.
Wish there was better news. I'm still praying for her. Outside kidnapping is unlikely and they say that NO vehicles have left the colony around the time she went missing.
Well WHERE is she?!!! It was a freaking shoulder-to-shoulder search around the farm!
At this point they're still searching and won't stop until she's found. She has to be on the colony...somewhere.
When I know more, I'll type it here. |
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[May. 27th, 2006|11:09 pm] |
Sad and sick to my stomach.
Rob was called out to a search and rescue for a 2 year old in a village 15min. away.
I wanted to go along so bad, to help, to do something. *Thinking of the poor mother who isn't holding her baby right now.*
The call was around 8pm.
I called Rob at 9:30pm to see who (we tend to know everybody in this area) lost the baby and assumed the baby would have been found, 'cause Rob did answer his phone.
A little Hutterite, 2 year old girl. She's been missing since 5pm and they still hadn't found her.
My heart is breaking in so many ways, I can't even describe it. Maybe because she's close to Julia's age and also because I had a scare with Tate yesterday. (Rob took him uptown and forgot to let me know that he had him. After finally finding where he was, I sobbed.)
The weather was hot today. 5pm...at least it was cooling off. The sky was getting pretty dark around 9pm and my fear was that it would start raining and storming...which it has.
I prayed hard that the baby had/has been found and is not out in this weather right now. I just can't bring myself to phone Rob again, what if the news is devastating or the baby still hasn't been found?
Being on a farm, I fear that she may have drowned in a dug-out, fell in a well, caught in machinery etc. I also fear that she may have gotten herself locked in a vehicle and with the hot weather...it'd be tragic.
Being on a colony, the Hutterites probably initiated their own search and when that failed, outside help was called in.
I can't sleep knowing there's a little girl out there, in this weather. Maybe it's worse than that.
I want to phone Rob so bad, but I just can't do it. The lightening and thunder are pretty bad right now. I wonder how Rob is handling it, he sounded pretty upset.
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| *pulls hair out* |
[Apr. 15th, 2006|02:36 pm] |
I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want a fence!! We are the only family with a swing set on our street and it's driving me insane having all the neighbourhood children here all the time. Is it wrong for me to feel this way? Part me thinks I should just chill...that I should be proud to have our house THE house that all the kids want to play at. But in the same breath, I'd like to be able to just have my OWN kids playing together in our yard. Yesterday, there were kids playing on our swing set that I don't even KNOW and none of my kids were even outside!
There's a crap load of kids on our deck as I'm typing this. But what do you do? Tell them every other day that they can't play here *today*. Or do you just talk to the parents and say you'd really like it if the kids didn't come over unless they're invited first....there's just too many kids??
A few are very young and I'm annoyed that there is no parental supervision, it shouldn't be on my hands to keep an eye out on children that are not mine. My kids are not to leave our yard or play in other yards without permission first, and even then it's only the house directly next door that they are allowed to play because I don't like the parents of the other kids.
A fence would be the answer but at the same time that $2G could be spent on other things that we wanted to do to the house this summer. I wish we lived out of town... |
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| Another one of THOSE days. |
[Apr. 15th, 2006|11:44 am] |
I could just cry.
Somedays it feels like, no matter how hard I try to do good, I just get pooped on. It never fails.
Julia's moving out today...out of my room and into a room of her own. I spent the morning cleaning out Tate's room and getting things ready. I still have to shampoo the carpet and then I can start moving her stuff in.
It is just beautiful out today and I put Julia into one of her new Gymbo outfits I bought NWT off of eBay. I cute little skirt and matching top.
As I cleaned out the room, she could hear the neighbour mowing his lawn and wanted to look out the window. I pushed her 'nursing chair' to the window so she could look out and Tate joined her. Next thing I heard was Julia kind of crying/whining and I turned back to find her hanging off of one finishing nail by her shirt. Tate had moved the chair away from the window while Julia was still trying to look out with her hands perched on the sill. So her NEW shirt now has a huge rip/hole in it. I just about started crying right then and there. Why can it never be the old stuff, it's always the new stuff getting broken around here. *big sigh* I need a breather.
I found 2 identical shirts on eBay and I hoping that nobody else wants them so I can get one for cheap. If it's just another $10, I'm fine with that, knowing that calms me some. Just been a busy week-end spring cleaning and stuff...it's hard when you have a 1y/o following your every step...un-doing what has been done. |
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| Mud puddles. |
[Apr. 11th, 2006|09:00 am] |
Looks like we got some rain last night. Tate's going to have a blast in the mud puddles!
Both Tate and Julia are sick with colds. Julia's nose started running today and she coughed the entire night last night. It's getting more barky, hopefully it doesn't get too bad.
I can't believe she's almost 15mths. I might take her down to get weighed but as of right now, on our scale, she weighs between 22 and 22.5lbs and is 31??" I forget, I'll have to measure her again. I can't believe how much she's slimmed out, from the huge chunky monkey she was. And for her being only 22lbs she still got a LOT of chubs going on, lol. We're still nursing like crazy, she drinks small amounts of water out of a cup. Her nursing schedule is usually....4am, 8am, 10am, 12:30pm, 4pm, 6pm and 8pm. Still a LOT but my supply isn't huge, and I have no idea why. It really went downhill when she gave up her night feeds.
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Yesterday, we forgot about T's ball practice so he missed it. Oops. He has another one on Thursday. Still no news on when Gage starts ball. SIL, Calgary, e-mailed me the other day and I just could not believe what activites her kids are involved in!! Megan is 4 and is in swimming lessons, soccer, ballet, skating lessons, starting gymnastics, and in the fall, she'll be starting ringette!! Their son, Dev, is almost 2 and takes swimming lessons, lol. Kids around here aren't eligible to start sports and stuff until age 5 and I have no plans starting Tate until that age anyway, the only thing my kids started younger is skating lessons. What is too much? What is considered OVER scheduling?? |
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| Beautiful day today. |
[Apr. 10th, 2006|01:31 pm] |
Gorgeous day today!! High of 20C which is just perfect! Mmmmmm.
Just got back from T's dental appt, he had one tooth pulled and sealants put on his 6yr molars. Man, we need dental coverage, it's starting to get expensive, especially with braces looming in the near future. T's teeth are very crowded on the bottom and they'll be doing selective extractions as his permanent teeth come in to make room. It was his first ever 'dental' needle. He cried some but handled it well considering how scared he was, the extraction was nothing but the pressure from the pulling made him panic a bit.
(I remember having my first c/s and I, nor Rob, could believe the amount of pressure it took to push T down so he could get pulled out. I was bruised for a few days and couldn't laugh without feeling like my chest was going to cave in, not to mention the fact that I felt like I couldn't breathe. The Dr/nurse?? was using her forearms and her feet were OFF the ground! Didn't hurt at the time, just after the freezing wore off.)
T wanted to keep his ugly tooth and the assistant put it in a neat little tooth box for him to take home, he then got to chose 2 stickers and 1 toy. On a scale of 1-10 he said the experience was a 5...but he still doesn't want to go back. His next appt. is in Sept for another cleaning.
From there we headed over to Walmart to buy Easter treats...and boy did we. I won't even write the junk I bought, it's embarassing. Julia got a "ba-ow"-ball which she saw and got excited about, I hope she forgets about it by Sunday, and of course, a little bit of chocolate. Bought a couple of white t-shirts to go under her summer dresses when it's not hot, hot out and a pair of white Ked-like slip-ons.
Julia started hacking again yesterday evening. At first, I thought she maybe inhaled a bit of water but it continued on through the night, on and off.
I got my 2wks notice at work of Friday, lol. I laugh because I knew it was coming. The store barely makes enough to pay our wages so they'll probably be closing on the 23rd. Not 100%, but pretty likely. As much as I loved the $600/mth spending money, I'm REALLY looking forward to spending the entire summer home with the kids....swimming, playing and having fun. I might apply as a teacher's assistant in the fall, depending on many things, all temporary. Rob's been pushing me to upgrade and complete certain courses I need to get into nursing school. There's an RN course that's going to start going around again and everyone thinks it'd be silly for me to miss taking it this time. It's something I've wanted to do for years, and I'm certainly not getting any younger. Maybe I'll do just that, pick-up a few courses and work on them during the summer. A few years ago I finished 40S physics in 2mths with a 92% average. Not shab. Time to look ahead. |
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| Mmmmmm... |
[Apr. 7th, 2006|01:40 pm] |
Smelling some beautiful Easter lilies. She gets quite fascinated with the little stamen in the middle.
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| Blustery day. |
[Apr. 6th, 2006|08:52 pm] |
My throat's still sore but only on the right side now. It's a weird sore now, it only hurts when I swallow and it's more like a lump/bruise type pain...painful nonetheless.
Julia, Tate and I went for a walk this morning and decided to check out the local thrift shop. I've never been in there but have dropped off a lot in past years. I was just plain curious about what they had. And...I was NOT impressed at all, I couldn't believe how awful most of the stuff was eg. a wind up baby swing that was stained so badly I wouldn't touch it with a 10ft pole...they were asking $15!! There was so much yucky stuff, it gave me the willies.
Headed down to the library to visit MIL and the girls. MIL REALLY liked Julia's new 'do', says she really looks like a little girl now. It was so windy and the wind was cccccold, not to mention the blowing dirt/dust.
I've been trying to think about what to get Julia for Easter this year, not that she'll be into it, but I'd like to get her *something*. A new book and.... of course a piece of chocolate. Heck, a piece of chocolate would make her MONTH!!
The boys usually just get candy and a few odds and ends. I asked T if the Easter bunny could just leave him a basket this year instead of having to hide everything and he said "Mom! That's the best part!!" LOL I guess the Easter bunny will continue to hide things.
Julia's still not eating much. I'm beginning to think it's her toddler appetite waxing and waning...normal stuff. She had a bit more for dinner tonight but she just doesn't want to eat the serving sizes we're used to her eating though she did seem to be in a better mood today.
We signed the boys (T and Gage) up for baseball on Wed. T is now in minor ball!! Wow!! It's 'fast ball' too with a lot of travelling. Gage is still in the little guys league...for 3 more years...thank god!! Not sure what we're going to do when we have two in minor ball...and one in little league. Trying not think about it.
T's first practice was actually on Tues, his coach wanted to get a head start on the season. T's team is made up of some very talented kids, I think they'll do very well this year and in the coming years. It's something T LOVES! What I didn't know is that the coach this year is an old NHL hockey player, played for the Chicago Blackhawks. His boy, Zach, has been on T's team since K. The coach is very competitive and I sometimes dislike how he pushes his son but T really likes him. Not sure when Gage starts ball but we should know within the next week. |
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| First hair cut! |
[Apr. 6th, 2006|10:11 am] |
Well, not quite a HAIR cut but a BANGS cut. As sad as I was cutting the 2" off, I'm ok with it. I just completely gave up trying to keep clips in her hair, not to mention it's a choking hazard. It really wasn't worth the fight and the girl is VERY stubborn and persistent. Oy!!
She looks so much older now.
She was a miserable little thing last night...teething? Not sure but she cried a LOT and I was getting so frustrated with her...angry. She hasn't eaten much in the last 2-3 days, she FINALLY drank about a 1/2 cup of water yesterday, she's trying to give up her morning nap. It's been lovely around here. She also figured out how to take her pants off. For the love of god, can't it just be one thing at a time?!! The other day I had her dressed to go out with her jacket and touque on...I went outside to grab her stroller, came back in to find her jacket lying on the floor along with her hat. She does zippers very well. We finally made it out the door only for her to repeatedly upzip her jacket all the way uptown and back. I no longer think she's stubborn like her mother, she's stubborn like my mil!!
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Last summer/fall I tried Huggies washcloths on Julia, LOVED the scent but she broke out in a rash when we used them. Yesterday, in the mail, I got a sample of Huggies liquid baby wash, it smelled so yummy, mango/shea butter. We gave it a go and she woke up this morning with the same bloody rash. I wonder what she's sensitive to??? We use other scented products with no prob. *shrugs shoulders* She also has been getting some eczema on her legs in the same skin fold on each side. We used the sample of Elidel the Dr gave us and it cleared it up in no time. |
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| Throat is killing me. |
[Mar. 31st, 2006|11:04 pm] |
After the insanely long wait at the lab, my test results came back negative for strep. Which is great, though I was kinda hoping it was strep because relief would be in the near future. My throat is an angry red but there's not much he can do...don't drink cold stuff just things at room temp??!! I have NEVER heard that before!
So yeah, I'm still in pain and can hardly swallow...nothing helps. How long can a killer sore throat last, this is day 11 for crying out loud.
My crazy girl learned how to climb kitchen chairs all by herself today, we're officially in trouble now! What a stinker, she's learning so many new 'physical' things so quickly this week. Throwing balls, kicking balls, climbing onto the couch, trying to STAND UP on her ride-on toy, somersaults etc. She did another perfect somersault this evening but landed on one of her toy eggs and hurt her back, poor thing. She made it sound like it hurt quite a bit.
We might head to the city tomorrow, I don't know. Easter stuff to buy and I'd like to get a head start on T's summer wardrobe. I also have to go through the boys clothes and hand down the ones to the younger boys. It's gonna get REAL expensive around here when they decide that hand-me-downs are passe. All Julia needs is a white pair of capris/shorts and a denim pair....then she's good to go.
Waiting for the Robi to kick in so I can hit the hay without waking Julia up with my coughing. Hmmmmm. *cough cough* |
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| Friday, sore throat. |
[Mar. 31st, 2006|09:21 am] |
My butt is going to the Drs this morning to get my throat swabbed. Its been killing me for 11 days, yesterday it was so bad my neck and left ear ached.
I had my tonsils taken out when I was 15 and just assumed I wouldn't get nasty sore throats again.....the regular stuff that comes with a cold but not THIS. When I was pg with Tate I was pretty sick with the flu and a month later my throat still hurt, not very painful but it was sore....saw the Dr and it was strep, 2 days on antibiotics and it was gone. I'd prefer not to be on drugs but I'd rather check it out now than waiting another 2 wks.
Bought Sucrets for the throat and Robitussin for my cough yesterday. The Sucrets didn't do a damn thing except make my tongue kinda numb and the cough stuff actually really helped during the night last night. Coughed my guts out this morning though.
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T had a blast at the Moose game and would love to attend more. He said it was sooo much better than the Goldeyes Baseball game Rob took him to last summer which was long, boring and dang hot! He also brought home a Moose puck (a mascot throws them out to the crowd). T also mentioned he was quite amazed with how the MTS centre transforms from a concert hall to a hockey arena so fast.
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Somersaults!! Julia did 3 perfect somersaults yesterday, out of the 15 or so she attempted. I'm super impressed. She is such tomboy....I think. She loves hockey sticks, balls, trucks and wrestling. Maybe it's just what she's been exposed to. |
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| The moose. |
[Mar. 29th, 2006|11:20 pm] |
Rob got called out to a 2-semi highway accident the other day. A man driving one semi blacked out and side swiped another semi while driving a curve in the road. Nobody was hurt but another car ended up in the dith trying to avoid the chaos. Rob directed traffic.
Turns out (I found this out today) that the man who blacked out is the husband of the lady I work with!! I had no idea and neither did Rob. Dianne was pretty shaken when she found out but is just relieved her hubby is ok. Her dh has been sick with a chest cold since December and, while driving, had a coughing attack which caused him to pass-out. He ended up losing his job over the accident and has no idea why he's still sick. He's had chest x-rays that were clear and I'm sure he has had blood work done but they have no answers. I just hope this job loss won't affect them too much, they just bought a new vehicle.
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Tate, Julia and Rob headed to the city this afternoon to pick-up the DVD system (for the van) which has been in repair FOREVER!! I think it actually works this time too. Rob also needed to drop by the radio station and pick-up all the free goodies he won. The boy is addicted to phone-in radio contests....and he wins a lot too.
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Rob took T to a Manitoba Moose hockey game in the city this evening....from listening to the radio, the Moose won 4-3 against Toronto. They're not home yet but it's killing me to hear how the game went and if T enjoyed himself. I'm sure he loved it, he loves everything he and his dad do together. |
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| Wagon wheels. |
[Mar. 28th, 2006|09:01 pm] |
Still feeling pretty dang tired with this cold. Annoying, I feel like I have junk in my chest but not every cough clears it out... I continue coughing until it does. Lovely.
For the last few days I've been thinking about buying a wagon. Last summer we took the kids to the zoo and I saw a young family with the coolest wagon. It looked to be solid wood, with pneumatic tires and a nylon?? canopy. It really looked like a smooth ride, not to mention neat. While Googling I came across similar wagons but they're either quite expensive or moderately so.
This one is $209CND, it's nice but the Canadian flag motif is bound to get tiresome. I'd prefer a solid color canopy.
With our gravel roads and the amount of time we spend walking in the spring/summer (not to mention the groceries I could pack in the thing) I'm thinking it'd be a great purchase. Julia would have a nice, comfortable place to nap, places like the zoo and The Forks would be much easier to navigate, the sun shade during hot summer days etc. Our stroller really bites and rather than buy a new one... I think I'd get much more use out of a wagon.
We'll see.
Julia has been getting a bit dehydrated these last few days. My supply has been dropping, as I'm slowly trying to wean her, yet she'll only drink minimal amounts from a cup. I really don't know what I should do. This can't be healthy for her yet she's been doing this for a few months now. How do you deny your baby the one thing she's accustomed to and comforted by? Something needs to give. As much as it'd kill me to have her completely weaned right now, I'd feel a tremedous relief to have her soaking her diapers again. Could always try and increase my supply, again...but I think I'd need to rent a pump to help. *pulls hair out*
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My silly girl LOVES her tunes. From the inconsolable 'car' baby who would only calm down to Green Day's "When September Ends", to the toddling child who stops dead in her tracks when she hears one of her favorite songs.
During lunch today she did just that, stopped in her tracks and made a weird face. I asked her if she was pooping and she took off to the livingroom and stood there, motionless, listening to her song on TV. Oh and what a song, lol. Julia's 2 fav songs right now are:
"I Write Sins Not Tragedies" - Panic! At the Disco
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"You're Beautiful" - James Blunt (T will serenade her with this and she loves it!)
It is just too funny to see her sooo absorbed while those videos are playing. Definitely her father's child. |
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| Bowling in Shilo. |
[Mar. 27th, 2006|11:16 am] |
Worked all day Saturday. Sunday we all headed out to the Canadian Forces Base in Shilo for a 'High-Low' bowling tournament. Gage and T represented our town which was neat...Gage was low and T was high (bowling averages). They didn't do so well compared to other teams but Gage had a very good 3rd game. MIl/fil drove out to watch T and Gage too....I'm glad SOMEBODY got to watch our boys bowl.
Oy, oy, oy, this will be the last time we take Julia to a tournament....until next year. It was so hard to watch my boys play, she just wanted to go, go, go. Finally, during the last game, Rob took her out to the van to try and get her to sleep. The girl managed to get out of taking a nap ALL day!!
It was really neat to be on an army base, seeing tanks and soldiers, the base has so much in the way of small family appeal, even a golf course....potential soldier appeal? The boys thought it was VERY cool.
Julia's new word...."gitch". She thinks everything small and made out of fabric must be "gitch". I shouldn't be surprised, there ARE a lot of gitch in this house. |
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| 6 pearly whites! |
[Mar. 23rd, 2006|09:28 am] |
Forgot to mention that 4 days ago Julia got her 6th tooth! My kids are all late teethers, they lose their teeth late too.
She ended up hacking a lot last night from 12-12:30am which is so hard to hear. But she seems fine this morning. Still not 100% sleeping through the night...but has come a long way....usually wakes around 5am and then goes back down 'til 8am. Not bad. The weird thing is... I feel MORE tired now than I have in the months when she was waking 2-3x. Why?!! |
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| A few things. |
[Mar. 22nd, 2006|08:56 pm] |
Seems eveybody is catching colds. Mine started a few days ago with a scatchy throat, the dry cough started yesterday along with a burning/painful throat and my voice is starting to go. My sinus', amazingly enough, are normal.
Julia's cough has subsided which leaves her suffering from a runny/sore nose.
Gage wasn't feeling well Saturday after supper....he threw-up a short while later and was fine after that. *whew* Not sure what that was all about, he does that from time to time.
T's class went on a field trip today to the WSO (Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra) and then to the IMAX theater. He had a great time but found the symphony fairly boring...he's in gr4, is that surprising?
Yesterday was Gage's parent/teacher interview and he's doing super. I'm super impressed and shocked at how far he's come. Last year we were concerned that he may have some difficulty in learning how to read, he seemed somewhat behind...even in recognizing letters. As of this term, he went from barely reading to "consistently exceeding grade level expectaions"! I am SO relieved and amazed how he just suddenly boomed in that area. We really weren't expecting this to happen. He's doing great in all areas and only has issues with how he can "work and talk at the same time which distracts other students". That is SO NOT a male trait! LOL
T's report card was the regular perfect nerdy card...all 4's (consistently exceeds...) EXCEPT in the areas of social/emotional development. This has been an ongoing thing since K, and I'm just cuffuzzled as to how to remedy it. We've tried so many things...it's frustrating. His p/t interview is Friday morning, maybe I'll get some advice.
Julia's booming in the language department, she'll try to say anything you ask her to and has built up a small vocabulary, and what she comprehends just blows me away. She even knows which shoes/boots/pants etc belong to who. She saw one of the boys trying to unlock the bathroom door with a toothpick a few days ago. She found a toothpick on the floor yesterday, went to the bathroom door and tried to pick the lock (she couldn't quite reach). When she wants to go down for a nap she takes me to the door, leading upstairs, and then goes down without a fuss. People that come over can't believe it when they see her doing this.
We're also starting the introduction to the whole potty thing, it'll be awhile before we start but I'd like to get her acquainted with things. She does pee when I ask her too....she squats, makes a "psssss" sound (you can tell that she's pushing) and then she just pees. She thinks it's the coolest thing. When she's running around naked and doesn't need to pee, she'll stop many times and 'push' until she does. The boys think it's hilarious, they'll bring out her potty chair, (she won't sit in the seat) she'll take the whole seat/top off and climb in, squat and pee in the base instead. I'm thinking she'll be another early one. *knocks on wood*
Maybe we're crazy to 'potty teach' so early but if it works, why should I wait until they're __ age? Just like learning the ABCs, most kids won't learn them 'til after 3 but there are many 2y/o who know the song.
It's weird that I feel the need to justify WHY I teach my kids early, almost like it's bad. Too much 'potty' reading in the journals lately, lol. |
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