Friday, March 19, 2010
Going fishing
The cat was having a lot of fun watching Nate's fish the other day, and it reminded me of something my niece, Evelyn, asked the last time she was here. She asked if Nate was growing fish for the cats to eat. Hee hee.
Meagan's first aquarium
The other day, Meagan tried to put a toy fish in one of Nate's aquariums. When he wouldn't let her, she got really sad, so Nate suggested she make her own aquarium. They found this plastic bin, and Meagan went around the house collecting stuffed animals that might go in an aquarium. She's got two alligators, an octopus, a seahorse and a jellyfish. Quite the collection.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
A little bit of Meagan
Yesterday morning, Meagan woke me up at 7:00am, and said that she was hungry. She went away, and I fell asleep again. About an hour and a half later, she came back and crawled into bed with me. Her hands were sticky. I asked her what she'd been doing, and she said she ate some ketchup. I went to the kitchen, and sure enough, there was the bottle of ketchup on the table. Yum, yum.
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Meagan has been going around for a while saying that when she gets a little bit bigger, then she can go to school. Ever since we told her and Bethany about just Mommy and Daddy and Sean going to the airport to go look for a new house, she's amended her statement. Now it's when she gets a little bit bigger, she can go to work and then she can go to school and then she can go to the airport and get on an airplane. I have no idea where the work part came from, but she's sure excited to get bigger.
Apparently today, though, she decided she's big enough. Just as Bethany's bus pulled up, she came running up the stairs (barefoot) and announced that she was going to school with Bethany. She was so sad when I wouldn't let her go; she sat in my lap for probably ten minutes crying. I'm definitely going to have to send her to preschool next year.
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We're having serious trouble getting the kids to listen to us lately, so I've decided to start some obedience charts. They get a sticker for doing what I ask the first time I ask. If I have to ask repeatedly, no sticker. When they fill up a row, they get a small treat. When all their rows are filled, they get a toy. I had some errands to run this afternoon, so Meagan was with me when I went to the store and got the bribes for the charts. I got a couple of My Little Pony Ponyville sets. They have a couple of these sets already, and love them. They have lots of little pieces to them, so I was hesitant at first to get any, but they've been fairly good about not scattering them all over the house. Anyway, Meagan thought I was getting them for her birthday, and she was very sad when I wouldn't let her open them.
While we were at the store though, I called her "punkin". She said, "I'm not punkin. Punkins are those orange things." So I said, "I know you're not a pumpkin, but sometimes I call you that, just like I sometimes call you 'dear' or 'honey' even though you aren't made of honey." She replied, "I'm not made of honey, I'm made of Meagan." It made me laugh, even if she didn't get what I was saying.
Tonight just before bedtime, I introduced the obedience charts. Bethany was so excited to start, she wanted to run off and put her pajamas on before I was even done explaining. (They sat and looked at the ponies for a few minutes before I started explaining the charts). Then when I was done, she ran off and got her pajamas on without me even telling them to. They came and brushed their teeth the first time I asked, they actually sat still and paid attention during scriptures and got right in their beds when I asked them to. It was a wonderful bedtime, the best we've had in ages. All told, they each got four stickers. I promised them each another one in the morning if they would go right to sleep and not talk. Lately, they've been up talking for an hour or more before going to sleep, which is part of what is making Meagan so cranky. Tonight, though, it's been blissfully quiet. It's wonderful. I know the novelty will probably wear off soon, but hopefully they will stay with it for several days at least. If not, then they can just keep looking at the ponies I bought without being able to play with them.
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Meagan has been going around for a while saying that when she gets a little bit bigger, then she can go to school. Ever since we told her and Bethany about just Mommy and Daddy and Sean going to the airport to go look for a new house, she's amended her statement. Now it's when she gets a little bit bigger, she can go to work and then she can go to school and then she can go to the airport and get on an airplane. I have no idea where the work part came from, but she's sure excited to get bigger.
Apparently today, though, she decided she's big enough. Just as Bethany's bus pulled up, she came running up the stairs (barefoot) and announced that she was going to school with Bethany. She was so sad when I wouldn't let her go; she sat in my lap for probably ten minutes crying. I'm definitely going to have to send her to preschool next year.
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We're having serious trouble getting the kids to listen to us lately, so I've decided to start some obedience charts. They get a sticker for doing what I ask the first time I ask. If I have to ask repeatedly, no sticker. When they fill up a row, they get a small treat. When all their rows are filled, they get a toy. I had some errands to run this afternoon, so Meagan was with me when I went to the store and got the bribes for the charts. I got a couple of My Little Pony Ponyville sets. They have a couple of these sets already, and love them. They have lots of little pieces to them, so I was hesitant at first to get any, but they've been fairly good about not scattering them all over the house. Anyway, Meagan thought I was getting them for her birthday, and she was very sad when I wouldn't let her open them.
While we were at the store though, I called her "punkin". She said, "I'm not punkin. Punkins are those orange things." So I said, "I know you're not a pumpkin, but sometimes I call you that, just like I sometimes call you 'dear' or 'honey' even though you aren't made of honey." She replied, "I'm not made of honey, I'm made of Meagan." It made me laugh, even if she didn't get what I was saying.
Tonight just before bedtime, I introduced the obedience charts. Bethany was so excited to start, she wanted to run off and put her pajamas on before I was even done explaining. (They sat and looked at the ponies for a few minutes before I started explaining the charts). Then when I was done, she ran off and got her pajamas on without me even telling them to. They came and brushed their teeth the first time I asked, they actually sat still and paid attention during scriptures and got right in their beds when I asked them to. It was a wonderful bedtime, the best we've had in ages. All told, they each got four stickers. I promised them each another one in the morning if they would go right to sleep and not talk. Lately, they've been up talking for an hour or more before going to sleep, which is part of what is making Meagan so cranky. Tonight, though, it's been blissfully quiet. It's wonderful. I know the novelty will probably wear off soon, but hopefully they will stay with it for several days at least. If not, then they can just keep looking at the ponies I bought without being able to play with them.
Friday, March 12, 2010
"I am a sad face"
The other day, Meagan just burst out crying in the middle of dinner. When we aksed why, all she would say was, "I want to cry, I am a sad face."
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Recent creations
This is the quilt I made Meagan for Christmas. I know I told a few of you about it, and I meant to post pictures forever ago, but I'm just now getting around to it.
Meagan calls this her "horsie blanket". It was a lot of fun to make, and didn't take as long as I thought it would. All the horses are machine appliqued, and I even did the quiliting myself. For a first try, it went pretty well, even if there were several puckers on the back. If you look hard at some of the close-ups, you can see some of the quilting--there are clouds in the sky and flowers to either side of the pony. There's more in the grass, but you can't really see it. I even wrote "for Meagan" in the grass of one of them. I wonder if she'll ever notice? The only hand sewing I did was the eyes of the ponies. Hand sewing is not my forte. Each eye is a different shape and size, and one even looks Chinese. Oh well. I guess it gives them character. I think my favorite is the white pony with the green mane.
Meagan calls this her "horsie blanket". It was a lot of fun to make, and didn't take as long as I thought it would. All the horses are machine appliqued, and I even did the quiliting myself. For a first try, it went pretty well, even if there were several puckers on the back. If you look hard at some of the close-ups, you can see some of the quilting--there are clouds in the sky and flowers to either side of the pony. There's more in the grass, but you can't really see it. I even wrote "for Meagan" in the grass of one of them. I wonder if she'll ever notice? The only hand sewing I did was the eyes of the ponies. Hand sewing is not my forte. Each eye is a different shape and size, and one even looks Chinese. Oh well. I guess it gives them character. I think my favorite is the white pony with the green mane.
This is a quilt I put together for a machine quilting class, that got cancelled because of the snow. Since it was more or less for practice, I didn't want to go out and buy a bunch of fabric, so I mostly used what I already had on hand, leftover from other projects. There are pieces from Pamela's wedding quilt, Bethany and Cedric's planet blankets from last year, coloring bags I made for my niecs, and other stuff. It was fun to put together. Each set of circles is made from complementary colors. It's just the quilt top right now, and it might be a while until I finish it, because I tore apart my sewing area today. We took a bunch of stuff to storage, in an effort to make our house look less cluttered for when we put it up for sale in about a week and a half. So I have no more sewing desk and my machine will shortly be boxed up. *Sniff*
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Meagan's dental saga is done
Meagan's major dental problems are hopefully done for a great long while now. We took her to a pediatric dentist last month, who scheduled her fillings at Dayton Children's today. It was done at the hospital because they put her under anesthesia for the procedure. It was much easier on her than the last dentist, who bodily held her down and broke a tooth in the process.
I took her in a little after 10:00. She wasn't supposed to have anything to eat after eight o'clock the night before, so she fussed a bit when I didn't let her have any breakfast. I expected her to fight me more on that, but she was actually okay. When we got there, they took us back to a little waiting room, where she was checked in and had vitals taken, that sort of stuff. A nurse gave her a coloring book and some crayons. It was really cute, because she kept saying she was going to take the coloring book home to her sister.
The procedure was scheduled to start at 12:15, but the previous surgery in the room before her took longer than expected, so hers was late starting. When they were ready for her, they gave her some medicine to swallow. I don't remember what it was exactly, but it was supposed to help ease the separation from the parents and calm her down until the anesthesia was given. It made her a little silly. We were coloring together, and there were some letters on the page, and all of a sudden she started talking about "m's", and whacking her stomach, saying there were "m's" in her tummy. I asked her if she meant M&M's, but she said, "No, there are m's in my tummy," and burst out laughing. It was pretty funny.
While she was gone, I had a couple of hours to kill. I mostly sat and watched TV and knitted. It was rather relaxing. I didn't even feel guilty for just sitting around, like I would have, had I done it at home.
After the dentist was done, she came and talked to me. She showed me some x-rays they'd taken, a couple of which were of her cleft. She's missing a tooth there, and the x-ray doesn't show an adult tooth, either. Eventually we'll have to do something about that. The x-rays showed her adult teeth coming in in a few places--it was kind of weird to see. The dentist said she was kind of advanced in that respect, her bottom front teeth are already loose. They will tighted up and loosen over the next several months, but she expects those front teeth to fall out within six months to a year at most. That's kind of early. The dentist also found one extra cavity that we didn't know about--it was between two teeth, so really had had a total of five cavities. They put some sealant on several of the teeth to hopefully help prevent any more. We also floss her teeth daily now. Hopefully all that will help us to not have to do this again.
They did take longer to bring her back to me than I'd expected, though. The procedure was supposed to take about an hour, and then she was supposed to go to an observation room for an hour to wake up, and then they were supposed to bring her back to me, but it was longer than an hour after the dentist came in to talk to me. A nurse told me she was disoriented and started thrashing around as she started to wake up (which is pretty normal), so they gave her some pain medication and she fell asleep again. When I did see her again, she was still a bit groggy, and still had the IV in. It was all wrapped up so at first I thought she had a cast on for some weird reason. She really did NOT like the IV, and kept trying to take it off. I managed to distract her with the TV and other things until they were ready to take it out, but she was really glad to get it out. She kept saying that she wanted to go home. She told me she wanted some water, so they brought her a sippy cup with apple juice (water apparently makes kids throw up after anesthesia), but she hardly touched it, and still wasn't happy. As soon as we left the hospital, and started driving away, she drained the cup. I think she was more eager to get home than to drink before. Once she got home and ate some food, she was pretty much back to normal. I don't think she remembers much of anything, because when she's talked about it, all she's said is that she went to the hospital, and got a pink sippy cup and a coloring book for her sister (which she really tried to give to Bethany, but Bethany didn't want it). We're glad it all went so well, and that she's cavity-free now.
I took her in a little after 10:00. She wasn't supposed to have anything to eat after eight o'clock the night before, so she fussed a bit when I didn't let her have any breakfast. I expected her to fight me more on that, but she was actually okay. When we got there, they took us back to a little waiting room, where she was checked in and had vitals taken, that sort of stuff. A nurse gave her a coloring book and some crayons. It was really cute, because she kept saying she was going to take the coloring book home to her sister.
The procedure was scheduled to start at 12:15, but the previous surgery in the room before her took longer than expected, so hers was late starting. When they were ready for her, they gave her some medicine to swallow. I don't remember what it was exactly, but it was supposed to help ease the separation from the parents and calm her down until the anesthesia was given. It made her a little silly. We were coloring together, and there were some letters on the page, and all of a sudden she started talking about "m's", and whacking her stomach, saying there were "m's" in her tummy. I asked her if she meant M&M's, but she said, "No, there are m's in my tummy," and burst out laughing. It was pretty funny.
While she was gone, I had a couple of hours to kill. I mostly sat and watched TV and knitted. It was rather relaxing. I didn't even feel guilty for just sitting around, like I would have, had I done it at home.
After the dentist was done, she came and talked to me. She showed me some x-rays they'd taken, a couple of which were of her cleft. She's missing a tooth there, and the x-ray doesn't show an adult tooth, either. Eventually we'll have to do something about that. The x-rays showed her adult teeth coming in in a few places--it was kind of weird to see. The dentist said she was kind of advanced in that respect, her bottom front teeth are already loose. They will tighted up and loosen over the next several months, but she expects those front teeth to fall out within six months to a year at most. That's kind of early. The dentist also found one extra cavity that we didn't know about--it was between two teeth, so really had had a total of five cavities. They put some sealant on several of the teeth to hopefully help prevent any more. We also floss her teeth daily now. Hopefully all that will help us to not have to do this again.
They did take longer to bring her back to me than I'd expected, though. The procedure was supposed to take about an hour, and then she was supposed to go to an observation room for an hour to wake up, and then they were supposed to bring her back to me, but it was longer than an hour after the dentist came in to talk to me. A nurse told me she was disoriented and started thrashing around as she started to wake up (which is pretty normal), so they gave her some pain medication and she fell asleep again. When I did see her again, she was still a bit groggy, and still had the IV in. It was all wrapped up so at first I thought she had a cast on for some weird reason. She really did NOT like the IV, and kept trying to take it off. I managed to distract her with the TV and other things until they were ready to take it out, but she was really glad to get it out. She kept saying that she wanted to go home. She told me she wanted some water, so they brought her a sippy cup with apple juice (water apparently makes kids throw up after anesthesia), but she hardly touched it, and still wasn't happy. As soon as we left the hospital, and started driving away, she drained the cup. I think she was more eager to get home than to drink before. Once she got home and ate some food, she was pretty much back to normal. I don't think she remembers much of anything, because when she's talked about it, all she's said is that she went to the hospital, and got a pink sippy cup and a coloring book for her sister (which she really tried to give to Bethany, but Bethany didn't want it). We're glad it all went so well, and that she's cavity-free now.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Funny kids
This is Sean's new favorite funny face. The more you laugh, the more he does it.****
Bethany watched me putting my makeup on this morning and said, "Mommy, you're not supposed to color on yourself!" My bad.
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Later, I was playing Mario Kart with Bethany, but after eight races, I was tired. I told Bethany I wanted to take a break. She said, "Okay, Mom, you sit back and take a break until you are done breaking."
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