Movies we saw: Star Wars IV A New Hope, Forest Gump (Katie liked the part about life being like a box of chocolates)
Some books Katie read: Diary of Anne Frank, Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Li looked at Material World to see how other cultures live.
Everyone listening to Tales of My Father's Dragon. Waiting for the book to come in also.
Katie peeked at The Baby Book (reading sections on growth).
Kana loves so many books...most of which we have upstairs on a bookshelf. She enjoys reading them at night in bed and has her three favorite Clifford books for when she sits on the potty. She used to look at Pippi in the South Seas while on the potty, but now that one is not in the bathroom anymore. She always wondered why the father looked like he was crying on the back cover of the book. We began reading it to find out, but only got halfway through that book and she lost interest. It had been read at bedtime, so everyone heard it if they weren't busy reading themselves, but we haven't finished it as of yet. Kana generally has her favorites which she chooses over and over. She likes the I Can Read and Dr. Seuss books alot. Li still likes Sue Snue, esp the ending where she says "I know what I'll do, I'll just be myself, my whole self and not you. etc, etc...that WHOLE page is SO Li too!
Feb 1 - Sunday - Jim went into work for his first time during the weekend, despite feeling not very well. Katie went with him, partially to make sure he didn't pass out or need help as he still felt ill. Kana, Li and I watched Li's old videos he made...so cute and funny! Kanoa slept when we watched. Think this evening was when Jim's diahrea began...and it lasted for a week!!!
Feb 2 - Monday - I totally forgot about it being Groundhog Day! I usually remember this. There was that groundhog in PA (Puxatauny Phil or something like that) that always used to be on the news. Up here in Maine, guess they don't hear about that particular groundhog!! Besides, the whole groundhog day should be about March 2nd since it is so much colder and longer of a winter in general! That being said/written, I have been noticing that the forsythia bushes and weeping willows are ripening up to a yellowish brown. They must be getting ready for spring and blooming! Yeah!! Also - Jim stayed home this whole week! (Well, he tried going in on Thursday thinking the diahrea ended, but it didn't after all and Mary was very uneasy with him possibly spreading sickness, so home he came halfway through Thursday. We were glad to have him home again!! Jim said maybe he will ask work if they will let him work at home once a week. But he won't ask until busy season is over in April sometime.)
Feb 3rd - Tuesday - Li had tennis today at the MRC at 10:45am to 11:30ish. This was the second of four sessions at the MRC offered free to homeschoolers. We got there a little late, but still with plenty of time for the class. Li's age group began on 1/27 and Katie's age group will start in mid-February. We knew some of the families participating. Carolyn's Sierra, the Speno boys, and this other family's kids I know took it too. Kana decided to just watch. Met some new families too. Katie went home again with the Speno's and stayed the whole day. I mean, literally the whole day. We didn't see her until after nine pm! After cleaning, organizing as a mother's helper, she had fun baking cookies and hanging out! She is putting the fifteen dollars she earned helping out toward her mushing trip.
Feb 4th - Wed - Didn't go to homeschool group. Don't know what we did this day. Probably took it easy since we went out yesterday. And I am still not feeling that well. Neither is Jim. Li seems fine. Katie so-so. Kana had the virus sometime this week...forget which day...but just the diahrea part. Jim ended up dry-heaving as he had not been eating since Sunday night. Ugh...
Feb 5th - Thursday - Jim went into work, but came home in the early afternoon (see above for more details on why).
Feb 6 - Friday - Visited Rosie and Matt for a bit. I got the diahrea this evening. It only lasted this night and a little the next night.
Feb 7th - Saturday - Think I remember going out a little one of these days in spite of my having diahrea Fri and Sat nights. What did we do? I can't remember!!! Go to the library?? Took Li to Strike Zone late in day on Saturday?
Feb 8th - Jim worked. The kids and I built a snow fort.
Here's Kanoa all bundled up after we came in.
Feb 9th - Monday - Here's Kanoa again.
Was this the day the kids played school? It usually works out fine or at least goes well for a good long while. But this time there were rewards to earn and a prize box and it led to upsetness. Li had karate. I took him and Jim picked him up. He missed five weeks in total. Called Mr. Andrew to find out how the time period of Li attending karate is affected. He said he does keep track of attendance and will let us know when we end but that he didn't have the computer system in front of him as it was being fixed. Whatever he missed will just be added on. I think he will go until April then since he started in Septemember and we paid for six months. Well see. Li asked me to fill out the good deed sheet so he can earn a stripe on his belt. I agreed and told Mr. Andrew we'd be doing that. (So NOT what *I* wanted to do...but will do it because Li asked. Although it doesn't fit in with what I think is important...we do good deeds just to do them because it makes us feel good, not to earn something. But maybe Li needs to process this all and I really know and trust that Li will eventually understand that...and he may even already, but he just wants to get a stripe. So, I will trust Li either wanting a stripe or still learning about why one would help someone else..either way, I will help Li out by filling out the form and trusting him. Below I will write the ten things that Li does by helping out...(will add this soon.))
Feb 10th - Tuesday - Li had tennis again for the third time. Lots of kids were not there. Sickness? It is that time of year.. Even only Matt came with just Leo as Josiah and Ben and Rosie had the beginnings of a cold and were trying to take it easy and not pass it around. Katie did not go with them due to their colds. Sierra came home with us and had lunch and played on the Wi, made up clues for tomorrow's scavenger hunt and sledded and played with the snow fort outside.
All the kids got along well and had fun!
Kana and I made soup because not only would it be good for us, but because of Rosie's and the boy's colds. She loved to stir!
Then at 5pm we left for the Rockland library for a new (different than before) book club. The discussed Diary of a Wimpy Kid and gave out Bull Run books. Li participated because they had pizza.
Feb 11th - Wednesday -
Went to homeschool group for the first time!
Kara and Quinn and Carolyn helped me so much getting out of there! Kids had fun doing the scavenger hunt. Katie and Sierra were excited to put up their clues and Katie was like a drill sargent getting everyone to line up to organize the whole thing...funny to watch. Carolyn cracked up at how she got the boys to line up. I believed it, although I wonder if it is any reflection of me ...I don't wish to come across like a drill sargent...is this about me at all or is it my own self-centered universe I tend to see? Maybe it is just about her and her personality, not any modeling I ever do. Or maybe it is from Katie watching me teach ballet? (See, I still see things my kids do as reflections of me sometimes! Can I let it go? Should I let it go? Is it sometimes a reflection of us and how we model? You bet it is sometimes! Just not always.) The crafts everyone brought were not as big a hit as we thought they would be. Lost our blue kids scissors there. Hope we get them back as I am constantly losing the kids scissors in our house. We should have about four or 5 pairs, but I only know of two (the yellow and blue). And now they both are gone. 2/12/09 - Thursday - Went to storytime. Got there a little late...like by 10:20ish. But we stayed until noonish and had a nice time. Ibby is getting married. She could have her own Nanny show! I hated that I brought that up in front of Amy and Ibby as their comments were about how if the kids on the show were really THAT out of control, it is because of the parents and they are doomed! Oh well, I meant well when I said that she could have her own show because I hear how nicely she exchanges communication with the kids. She was negiotiating, not dictating. But I need to remember to just not even bring up that show at all as whatever people comment on seems to bother me. And I know that is *my* issue, but no sense bringing up something that aggravates me.
2/13/09 - Friday - Played Sorry! with Li at the table. Kana was off doing something else and can't recall what Katie was doing. I took Li to the Strike Zone and dropped Katie off at the Y. Ran into Benta and Ana in the Y parking lot. Emma was at swimming lessons...Li was dissapointed as he wished to see her. Emma had received Li's package and loved it. Benta said she sent him something back. Katie wasn't ready by 5:15pm and I was fretting that baby might wake up. Li went in to find her. After they came out, we picked up pizza at Megunticook Market. Spoke to Jene. Nice conversation. Wish we could really see her and visit with her! The kids watched a premiere show of Pokemon and then an hour of Star Wars The Clone Wars from 9-10pm. I was with baby who was a little gassy/crying. But he calmed down much much easier than the previous few nights. Phew! What time did we end up in bed? Hmmm. 11pmish? Yes, it was because Jim and I and baby ended up by ourselves downstairs and King of the Hill was ending and Jim caught the beginnning of Family Guy when I went upstairs. We both like King of the Hill much better than Family Guy now. Has some little lessons in it and has more of a story to it. Wait! Last night I do now remember Katie saying an individual "Happy Valentine's Day" to everyone and then Kana following suit, so it was a few minutes after midnight when we *went* to sleep.
Photo from 2/13/09 of Li and Kana sucking on lollypops.
Photo from 2/13/09 of Katie on the computer.
2/14/09 Saturday - Today was the Hope Winterfest. Wanted to go, but decided it was too windy and might not be a good idea to walk on snow and ice with Kanoa. Glad Makana and I stayed home because Jim said he fell twice on the ice! Hardly anyone was there this year he said. He and Okie thought that the poor attendance was due to a lack of advertising. Okie had gone with Keely and they all met there.
There were tons of goodies for sale and since there were not alot of people (and because Li was such a nice young boy the ladies said), Li bargained for loads of sweeties and baked goodies. He came home with a couple of bags of cookies and such and told Makana he felt bad she couldn't come, so he bought these for her (some? all?) and asked if she'd share them. She thanked him and said she would. But later he changed his mind. Daddy bought her a giant cookie at French and Brawn when she asked for it as he heard Li tell her she couldn't have one of his cookies. Glad Jim did that. Photo of Li sledding at the Hope Winterfest.
2/16/09 - Kanoa in bouncy seat in bathroom (where he sits while I shower sometimes).
2/16/09 - Kana likes to line up things in the bedroom while I nurse and dress Kanoa. Funny, I remember all the kids going through the "line up things" phase. Neat!
2/16/09 - Katie took the camera and had fun making Katie expressions/faces with it!
2/16/09 - Katie took this picture of Kanoa and me.
2/16/09 - Kanoa sleeping in his warm woolies. Notice the stuffed animals lined up near him?
2/16/09 - Photo of "Puppy," Katie's beloved stuffed animal that she's had since she has been two! Thank you so much Jen! It was the best surprise ever!!
2/16/09 - Li's favorite stuffed animal that Katie and I handmade for him years ago so he'd have a special animal like "Puppy."
2/16/09 - Kana's "Beary" - her favorite stuffed animal.
2/16/09 - "Katie's little pillow" that she so generously lets me use every night. I could not sleep as well without it!
2/19/09 - Katie and Kana wanted to put make-up on Kana. I said "Okay, but just a little" as I didn't want it to get rubbed off in the house and I didn't want Kana to have to scrub it off as that is sometimes difficult for all of us (sometimes it takes a long time and I didn't want to take a chance of her getting sore trying to rub it off..and seemingly simple things are just harder to do with a baby). But this was the end result. They did have fun and Katie helped Kana take off the make-up. Don't recall if I ended up helping or not.
Saturday 2/21/09: Katie, Li and Jim visited Lindy and Edna Pendleton's home and kennel in Lincolnville, ME. Lindy is extremely passionate about his dogs, the Iditarod (has been going to Nome for years now) and mushing in general. He was kind to let us visit on his birthday and shared his love of the sport and the dogs with Katie, Li and Jim. We met Lindy a few years ago at the Ecology Fest at Merryspring (although we were just another family checking out the dogsleds and dogs - he wouldn't remember us - but maybe that is what started the interest in dogsledding?). Lindy makes and sells dogsleds too. They met his grand-daughter whom Li enjoyed playing with. Katie was excited to show us the dog booties he gave her that belonged to famous mushers. They can not be washed and still have doggie imprints and such on them.
Photo of Katie at Lindy Pendleton's kennel being kissed by two dogs at once.
9/22/09 Sunday - HUGE snowstorm. Power went out around 10pm. Still had dinner dishes out! Ick! Can't flush, heat and water shut off. We lasted until the morning when we decided to go to the Country Inn (with Fred the frog) where there was power. Took us all day to decide and pack and such. Had to do it before it got dark. Rosie called. Told her what we were doing. They ended up coming to the hotel too and we had a blast swimming (not me or Kanoa or Rosie, but everyone else) and watching movies and eating and hanging out. The power came on at 7pm. Oakie was kind enough to drive by our place to check that our lights were on. But since we were already checked in and settled and since the power might have gone back out, we thought we'd stay put for the evening. It took much of Monday the 23rd to get resettled. Could you believe that Penobscot Pension Services still had employees come in to work on Monday morning?! All employees were let go after noon though "to dig themselves out" Jim was told. He got docked a day of work though since he didn't go in. I don't get that because he has been working weekends and overtime into the evenings. How come he was charged a day of vacation? Will he get comp time?
2/23/09 - Monday after returning home from the hotel. Jim took these photos.
2/24/09 - Tuesday - I took these photos because of the humongous icicles and remaining heavy snow against the beautiful, clear, blue sky!
2/24/09 - Tuesday - Katie had been following the lego directions to a couple of Li's lego kits. Here is one of the constructions she was in the process of building.
2/25/09 - Wednesday - Still heavy snow sticking to the trees. Just beautiful! What a storm!!
Kanoa - Noticed clear drool - just a bit - coming from his mouth earlier this week (6 wks old). Then noticed a little more - a stream of drool - later this week (still 6 weeks old). And again - today I think - just a wee bit of clear drool. Could this be the very beginning of teething?
On Sunday 2/15/09 I was waiting upstairs for Kana to poop and was mesmorized by Kanoa's sleep smiles - and I even saw and heard him laugh!! Wow! Smiles, esp upon waking. He still looks at the border along the top of our ceiling and I told Katie that some people say babies might be seeing the angles. Katie liked that idea and says it often. He smiles at whatever he sees up there too. Told him to say hello to great-grandma for me! Cries - about 7pm or later it begins - gas? tired? poop not ready? We walk, try laying him on my tummy, try rocking...the Dr. Sears gassy baby hold works the best. He calms down for a bit, nurses desparately and then may cry more. Eventually he likes to be carried upright and finally falls asleep by holding or nursing. Katie and Wolfie think he often smells like throw-up. I never notice really. Used to it? Maybe I smell like it too!
Li - 1. Playing Magic with him a few times a week. Love how I can lay in bed on my side and even nurse or hold baby while playing on the floor to play this game! And it just means so much to Li! Have taken Li to the Strike Zone about three times so far so he can play or shop there. One day it was just him, baby and me and we got to play. (And that conversation with mom led to thoughts of what my kids are learning. With Magic, Li is learning to read more and add and subtract positive and negative numbers...pretty cool! And it is because he wants to and it is fun!)
2. He helps himself to making whatever food he wants - even cutting and toasting and buttering bagels by himself! (There is a huge crumbly mess which I end up grumbling about initially as it is sometimes hard to clean it up immediately if Kanoa cries to be held. Then when I am able to clean it up, I realize how grateful I am that Li can and does get his own food - what a blessing!! How self-sufficient he is!
3. Asked Li how he wanted us to try to get his attention when he is very involved on the computer or playing a DS game or watching TV, etc. He said to say his name and "simply" tap him on the shoulder. (I asked him this in front of Jim while they were sitting at the table because Li had taken another plate of eggs after I just cleaned up and Jim was frustrated that Li had not heard him - once again - when Jim asked him if he was done with the eggs - which he did several times, but got no reply. Pick anything though...when Li is into something, it is hard to get his attention! Jim said that twice earlier he resorted to turning off the computer moniter to see if he could get Li to answer him. When Jim told me he was having trouble getting Li's attention and sounded very annoyed and frustrated, I began to feel bad and upset too. I felt for a moment that we needed to do something to regain control and regretfully I said to turn off the screen if he had to. That's when he said he did twice already. Immediately I realized that was not right to do to anyone, was not a good thing to model and was rude. Also, we wouldn't treat each other like that. I think that perhaps we only even think of turning off the monitor when we feel powerless and insignificant/ignored/"less than" and that it might behoove us to just ask Li for a solution so we can work together to solve this family conundrum. Whoa! And so now we will try Li's solution.)
4. Li is so thoughtful of a person...full of thought and has reasons for everything. I just love him and who he is So much!
5. We were playing Magic today and Li was being so nice with Kanoa. I told Li that he would be a good daddy someday. He said he might not have kids, but if he did, he would let them do whatever they want. He'd "give them like a hundred bucks and take them to the fair."
6. Li mailed Emma Jordan, his girlfriend, a package earlier this week (on Monday 2/9). He just received a package back from her today (Saturday 2/14/09) and now wants me to give him her phone number to call her so he can tell her he got it and will mail her another package.
Need to get off here and get the phone number for him now. Li left Emma a message on her answering machine two times. First message: "Hi. It's Li. Your boyfriend." Hung up all flustered. Second call was more conversational and regular. Phone cluncked and didn't hang up easily. We laughed (in a good way, not at Li) and I said, "See what love does!" His whole message and mannerism was so sweet and cute! So was the beautiful card Emma made for Li and the note about his package "making her day." Li hasn't seen Emma since they swam together that day at the Y this past fall just before her dad died suddenly - so sad!!! He marveled how much she grew as her photos look so different. He tried calling again today (Sunday 2/15/09), but got the answering machine and hung up.
Katie - 1. Conscious of what she wears. Still doesn't always comb her hair, but much more than in the past few years. When she does brush/comb her hair, she puts that fragrant (to put it kindly) green apple smelling detangler on that mom sent to her. Then she does care about her hair and sometimes comments about how shiny it looks. I worry about the chemicals we breathe in though. Need to get her a California Baby detangler so I don't worry about the chemicals so much.
2. Might think a boy is nice and cute, but not much interest in them as "boyfriends."
3. Is really trying to earn money and save money for her trip.
4. Got along so nicely with Keli'i last night.
5. Has been renting Li's Spore Creatures Nintendo DS game. Katie really loves it.
6. Loves to hold Kanoa - asks and does so while standing sometimes (I am a little uneasy with her holding him while standing, so she only asks or I offer sometimes...with a please be careful, hold him tight and be sure his head doesn't go to far up your shoulder because it is the heaviest part of his body and he could go right over your shoulder...etc. Geez, I do fret aloud!).
7. Katie watches him while I shower most days - that is *her* special time and she lets the others know it! They all vie for time with Kanoa.
8. Is upset Keely says her Dad says baby's smiles are gas. (We know they are smiles. Read to Katie from The Baby Book about smiles and naysayers to help support that they are smiles and feelings of goodness/feeling right.)
9. Feels like I criticize her and that she can't please us and cries because this is upsetting. (This happenned last night - can't recall what it was, but recall apologizing as I realized she was right.)
10. Talking to Mom on 2/14/09 made me think of jotting this down: This week, some things I remember that Katie did were:
- practicing multiplication tables (she didn't like how Erin and Keely said that they knew their 18 times tables and felt insecure because she doesn't know hers as good as she wants to..so she practiced. Turns out Keely doesn't know her 18 times tables either. I wonder if Erin really does anyway..not that it matters..but I wonder if that was said just to make whoever said it feel better than others or if it was said to make Katie feel bad about herself with respect to knowing them. Geez, the things people do to one another...why can't we all try to build each other up and celebrate when one knows something instead of thinking poorly about oneself and taking anything personally. Okay, okay, I too have to work on that...but that is one of my thoughts and goals.)
- Also she is writing a story and incorporating family, friends and interests from her life into it. She is changing names though and is writing it as if it is a diary. Interesting.. because she read the Diary of Anne Frank at the beginning of this month and just a few days ago went to the library book club in Rockland and heard about Diary of a Wimpy kid. Connections, connections....
- She is also constantly calculating how much money she has saved for her trip and how much more she needs and many what if scenarios. She was so pleased to get Valentines Day cards with money in them because it will help her have more to pay for her mushing adventure coming up. Jim and I gave her the twenty bucks we got to help too.
11. She does nose to nose with Kanoa. THAT is what bothered me the other night and ended up with her crying...it was that she did nose to nose with Kanoa and then complained she had a stuffy nose and post nasal drip and thought she was coming down with a cold. Something along those lines.
12. Calls Kanoa "Baby Boobookins."
Laurie (me)
1. Katie heard Keely talk baby talk to Kanoa, so does that sometimes... "I Wuv You" she'll say for example. I can't stand baby talk because I feel it demeans the babies and I just hate her copying someone else. I want Katie to not copy Keely and to not do/say something *I* think is belittling to my baby. Am I controling or what!! I know, I know - I need to work on letting her go through her own process just like I do for Li. Why do I find it harder to accept Katie's stages and trying on of things in life? Maybe because I don't expect her to go through them as much? Why not? She has every right to try on different personalities and we all get alot of what and how we say things from hearing and imitating others. Especially when we are young and look up to someone else. Heck, even adults do it. I still find that I pick up voice inflections from different people or use phrases I like that others use...sometimes consciously, sometimes not. Anyway, I will be more aware of being understanding and accepting in this department. I will still let my feelings be known - I hate baby talk and do think it is annoying to me when I hear others talk to babies like that. However, I will let her be herself and not ask her to please speak in a regular voice, etc. And now since I wrote this all out, I will realize why I must tolerate it: because I love Katie and accept her and that this baby talk is how *she* wants to speak. And this is okay and between her and Kanoa - and heck, he doesn't care! And I guess since she only sometimes does it and the rest of us don't, he won't grow up thinking that is how you talk. Besides, even I do some baby talk when I say "diapies" instead of "diapers". Guess it is a control thing with me.
2. I check Kana and Jim in bed to make sure Kana is safe (breathing, has some sort of cover, even half covered, and that she is not rolled upon and is mostly vertical and not by the edge of the bed). Once in the middle of the night I didn't like the positioning and was afraid Jim might roll over on Makana and so I brought her in bed with me and she cried and I had to nurse Kanoa and therefore wasn't much of a consulation to her. I think I reacted this way because I was freaked out by the story Carolyn told me (a friend of her friend in Hawaii just had her baby girl sufficated by rolling off of her father and the father was so tired or something he didn't realize the baby rolled off!! Horrors!!)and I was overtired which makes me even more safety conscious...over safety conscious. Later that same night Makana woke up and said she was going back to Daddy's bed. I had some more sleep and felt comfortable with her going back and knew I had over-reacted. Ahhhh - what a lack of sleep can do when I am feeling nervous already about them being on the other side of the room.
3. Spoke to my mom on Saturday night 2/14/09. Told her I just got my Maine Provisional Teaching Certificate and could now do homeschool evaluations and that Buzz, the head of the whole state of Maine, said all he needed was a letter with the student's name stating that they "made progress over the past year." My mom was horrified! She asked in an upset tone, "How will you know if they learned all the things they would have learned if they were in school?" I said they won't learn the same things that they'd learn if they were in school and that they'd learn different things. She said "I know." I explained the basic regulations and said likely I would talk about the various subject areas but emphasized that I was pleased because now I knew what I needed to include on my evaluation letter, know I can do any grade and that it was simple to do. She for some reason was not pleased. I think she wants to be sure all kids are learning the right things, whatever that might be. Perhaps what is taught in school. Sarcastic thought: Perhaps she might like to get certified to make sure all the people growing up are learning properly...her kind of properly as I think she feels only *she* (or someone who she would determine a proper evaluator) could do a proper evaluation and make sure every learner is learning *right.* Oh brother. Jim says she'll never get it. I don't know that she'll ever see eye to eye with me on many issues, but I love her nonetheless. Always...no matter how annoying I feel sometimes at her indirect or direct criticisms.
Makana - 3 1/2
1. Gets tired during afternoon and I think could use a nap. Took one one day this past week and she was in a good spirit the rest of the day. If only she'd do that most days! Has fallen asleep in the car twice this week for a short time.
2. Out grocery shopping with Jim. They "do good together," says Jim.
3. Makana does NOT like washing her hands, especially after using the bathroom. Suppose I should put some hand wipes in there and she would probably love using them! I'll get on that. Just wish it wasn't so expensive. However, better her have clean hands and I spend an extra two to three bucks a week or so rather than have her have potty seat hands, etc.
4. Calls Kanoa her "little one." She totally reminds me of my grandma (Mary Jane Farrell Pomanowski) when she talks to Kanoa because of her voice inflection and just how she is with the baby in general. So interesting! Especially when she says, "Awww, you little one!" I can just hear Grandma now! Grandma used to call people "Little Tikes" as well as things like "little ones". Mostly it is Kana's mannerisms when she talks to him affectionately.
5. Makana said on Saturday 2/14/09 that she'd marry Kanoa if he was a grown up.
6. Sometime during the week before 2/14/09, Makana asked me if I'd marry her. I said I would. She said that she thought I'd not and that I'd marry Kanoa because he was cuter. (So I guess there is some jealousy or perhaps she really thinks he is very cute!) I told her that I have the best of everything because they are both my children and that is even better. (Meaning they will always be a part of my family and I love them both so much and I didn't have to choose one over the other.)
7. Kana likes to line things up. Coins, Cards, whatever. Interesting.
8. While we were at Planet Toys waiting for Katie to be done exercising at the Y on Friday (because the Strike Zone was crowded with "Friday Night Magic" tournament people), she played with baby dolls - 4 of them - and a wooden high chair and made beds for the dolls and rooms with various toys. She plays upstairs by making rooms/houses for her stuffed animals by lining up the two stepstools, books, toys etc to make a space for them. Just today (Sunday 2/15/09) to feed her interest in baby things, I brought up and put together my old doll rocking cradle. She is enjoying it.
9. Daddy and Kana talk alot about the "real" Santa and now Kana wonders if Daddy is the real Santa. Then she said that the real one lives in the North Pole. And she says that Daddy took her to see him (the "real" one - the one they went to see in Rockland). But Jim still jokes with her about him possibly being the real one. (I don't like this as I feel like that is lying and teasing and condensending to her intelligence and might cause distrust despite it being just a joke/fun to Jim, but that is their relationship and they seem to laugh about it...so I am trying not to intervene with too many comments and my opinions).
Wolf - In the book The Gink there is this page with Horton the Elephant on TV with a frantic expression. Horton's promanent (sp?) chin and sparkling eyes totally remind me of Jim. The chin only when he makes a certain face though. But every time I read the book, I see that page and think of Wolfie.
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