Monday, December 6, 2010
Doodle is in love!
Doodle is completely, head over heels in love...with a plastic snowman. You know those blow form snow men that were so popular in years gone by? Yeah, I think she's going to marry one. Specifically, the one in our garage. Andy found someone on craigslist giving one away so we picked it up yesterday. Andy showed him to Doods through the car window and she thought it was pretty cool. Then we had to go to Lowes and she wanted to see him again in the trunk of the car. She did not, however, want to sit in her car seat after that so we decided to put him in the back seat with her. She kept trying to hold his hand and talk to him no matter how many times Andy told her that it wasn't going to talk back. She didn't care one bit, she just kept trying. When we got home, she stood talking to him the entire time that Andy and I emptied our groceries out of the trunk. When we tried to go inside, she started to cry. So, we told her to give him a hug and tell him goodbye. Well, once she realized that she's actually a little bit bigger than he is, she started walking inside still hugging him. It didn't go well. She couldn't really walk around his chubby features but she wasn't about to put him down. We did finally tear her away from him and get her inside where she seems to have forgotten about him for the moment. I was going to take pictures of the happy couple today but taking a nap seemed way more important since I woke up at least once every hour last night. Oh, and it got really cold out there! I put on fleece pajama pants when I got home from work just before three this afternoon and I've been avoiding the weather ever since. Maybe tomorrow I'll go get some pictures. (If I can get clothes on Doodle, that is. She just doesn't get that it's too cold to run around in just her diaper.)
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Back by popular demand...
Ok, since you have all decided to check in the last couple of days (FINALLY) and found nothing new, here is a very quick update for today.
Doodle pooped in the tub. Yup, for the third time in her life, she pooped in her own bathwater. Luckily, she was standing up when it happened so it wasn't too bad but as soon as she saw the poop floating in there, she freaked out. Andy took care of the clean up for me because it was making me gag. He's such a good Daddy and husband! Hopefully, tomorrow she does something better. Actually, I just thought of something better to write about but it will have to wait for tomorrow so I can document it with some pictures. Let's just say that I think I've met my future son-in-law! :o)
Doodle pooped in the tub. Yup, for the third time in her life, she pooped in her own bathwater. Luckily, she was standing up when it happened so it wasn't too bad but as soon as she saw the poop floating in there, she freaked out. Andy took care of the clean up for me because it was making me gag. He's such a good Daddy and husband! Hopefully, tomorrow she does something better. Actually, I just thought of something better to write about but it will have to wait for tomorrow so I can document it with some pictures. Let's just say that I think I've met my future son-in-law! :o)
Thursday, September 16, 2010
New habits
Doodle has developed a whole host of new, adorable habits as of late. Here's a sampling:
Grabbing your hand, telling you "Walk", and then dragging you to wherever it is she wants you to go.
Alternative to the above, motioning you towards her and saying, "C'mon!"
Laying down on a pillow and pretending to sleep complete with fake snoring.
Yelling "BABEEEE" when she wants someone's attention. (Because that's how she seems to refer to herself.)
Taking off her diaper....a lot. I think she's started doing it every time she pees if she's not wearing pants to keep her from it. At least she throws it in the garbage can, though.
When she knows she's about to get in trouble, stopping what she's doing and saying, "HI" while giving the cheesiest grin known to man. She's trying to be disarming and succeeds sometimes.
Unzipping zippers. (There goes that safety precaution to protect the contents of my purse and the diaper bag!)
Pointing and saying, "Teeth" when she wants to brush her teeth (which is anytime she sees her toothbrush)
Putting on any shoes she can find. She kept trying to put on a pair of boots that were about 4 sizes to small and Andy said she looked so pathetic every time that we bought her a pair of rain boots that actually fit her. She's so funny running around the living room in her diaper and yellow rain boots with a monkey's face on them!
Turning off the tv, putting her hands together and resting the side of her face on them, and saying "Nigh nigh" when she's tired.
And yesterday, she laid herself down on the couch with her head on a pillow, pulled the blanket up over herself, and went to sleep all by herself for a nap. I couldn't believe it when I checked on her. She was way too quiet so I became concerned. The kid who NEVER sleeps alone had tucked herself in. It was amazing! And it gives me hope that she will one day be able to sleep by herself. She has the skills, now we just have to work on her putting them to use more often.
Grabbing your hand, telling you "Walk", and then dragging you to wherever it is she wants you to go.
Alternative to the above, motioning you towards her and saying, "C'mon!"
Laying down on a pillow and pretending to sleep complete with fake snoring.
Yelling "BABEEEE" when she wants someone's attention. (Because that's how she seems to refer to herself.)
Taking off her diaper....a lot. I think she's started doing it every time she pees if she's not wearing pants to keep her from it. At least she throws it in the garbage can, though.
When she knows she's about to get in trouble, stopping what she's doing and saying, "HI" while giving the cheesiest grin known to man. She's trying to be disarming and succeeds sometimes.
Unzipping zippers. (There goes that safety precaution to protect the contents of my purse and the diaper bag!)
Pointing and saying, "Teeth" when she wants to brush her teeth (which is anytime she sees her toothbrush)
Putting on any shoes she can find. She kept trying to put on a pair of boots that were about 4 sizes to small and Andy said she looked so pathetic every time that we bought her a pair of rain boots that actually fit her. She's so funny running around the living room in her diaper and yellow rain boots with a monkey's face on them!
Turning off the tv, putting her hands together and resting the side of her face on them, and saying "Nigh nigh" when she's tired.
And yesterday, she laid herself down on the couch with her head on a pillow, pulled the blanket up over herself, and went to sleep all by herself for a nap. I couldn't believe it when I checked on her. She was way too quiet so I became concerned. The kid who NEVER sleeps alone had tucked herself in. It was amazing! And it gives me hope that she will one day be able to sleep by herself. She has the skills, now we just have to work on her putting them to use more often.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Dante's Inferno has nothing on a McDonald's Playplace
I'm baaaaack!! Ok, so I took a lot longer to get back to blogging than I meant to but Doodle's been teething (with her last set of teeth, YES!) and been very clingy as of late. We're still not through with this set of teeth but I have managed to find some time to upload pictures from my phone so that I have something to share.
Yesterday, Andy, Doods, and I took a trip up to Viera to check out Hobby Lobby. For those of you unfamiliar with the area, Viera is where I used to work about 20 miles up I-95 from our place. We were almost home when our car just died. Thankfully, it didn't happen on the interstate but at the light to turn off the interstate exit ramp. We were coming to a stop and the car just quit. Andy and I looked at each other and I said, "Did the car just stall?" It most certainly had and we were stuck. Andy tried to start it and then pushed it off the road and tried some more. No luck! It would turn over but nothing beyond that. He did some investigating and found that there was a broken wire in some part between the spark plugs and the distributor cap (I think, I'm so non car savvy that it's ridiculous). Anyway, he thought he could fix it easily and called for a friend to come take him to the auto parts store down the road. Since we didn't think it would be a great idea to drive around with me and the baby in the backseat of his friend's Mustang, Doods and I walked to McDonald's to get something to drink and cool off. She'd been sleeping in her carseat the whole time and it was very hot out so we were worried about her being overheated. So, we went to Mickey D's and got some sweet tea and a hot fudge sundae and went out to the play area to eat, drink, and cool off. Doods wanted nothing to do with the hot fudge sundae but drank what seemed like a gallon of sweet tea. As she sat watching the kids running around, she got very antsy to go play.
Her first stop was a small area off to the side of the much larger climbing structure. It had a little piano like toy, an alligator to sit on, and a huge Happy Meal box to play inside with gears to turn. Really, it was quite a random little area but it made me happy because she couldn't get anywhere where I would have to climb up after her and the bigger kids were mostly ignoring it. The big kids weren't really looking out for little munchkins as they chased each other and one of them yelled "Oh, crap!" repeatedly. Not something I wanted Doodle getting into the middle of at all. So, she played in there for a while. One little boy about her height did come in (I think he was probably closer to three years old though because his speech was much clearer than Doodle's but they were the same height because my child is gargantuan) and Doodle had to copy everything he did. When he leaned against the wall, she leaned against it right beside him. When he went into the big ole Happy Meal, she was poking her head in to join him. It was cute really and demonstrated that she is on target developmentally because most kids her age still participate in parallel play (doing the same thing beside but not with other kids) as opposed to actually playing together.
Then she found the tunnel. Oh, she loved the tunnel and I loved it because it was still separate from the rest of the play place. She would go in one end and as it curved so she couldn't see me from the end she entered, she'd start yelling for me so that I would poke my head into the other end. She must have run through that thing about six time straight. And she would have kept going if I hadn't seen Andy and his friend walking back from our car to his friend's car at the gas station next door. Bad sign because that meant they weren't driving our car which meant that it still wouldn't start. We ended up having it towed and found out the timing belt had broken. It will take about eleven hundred dollars to fix that and replace the water pump since they will already be in there and fix a broken motor mount and blah blah blah. We're very lucky that it didn't break on the interstate and we're hoping that since we were at a stop it didn't ruin any other engine components.
Here are a couple pictures and some video footage of our trip to hell, er, McDonald's Playplace.
This is the piano thingy. She had fun banging on the keys but I think she enjoyed it even more when and older boy can and played. She was dancing up a storm to his tuneless banging. Then she tried to play with him and he didn't like it very much. But really, he was at least 10 and way to old so I kind of let her run him off. Oops!
Doodle loves McDonald's sweet tea. She really is a true Southern girl at heart when it comes to that. Of course, she loves anything that comes in a cup this big. You should see her with a Route 44 cup from Sonic. It's true love!
Here she is climbing through her tunnel. Well, until some girl comes and tries to climb in with her and I have to rescue my child. The video cuts off kind of abruptly but the girl that climbed in with her got out on her own without me really having to do anything. I think once she saw that I wasn't going to make Doods stop having fun she decided to go back to the big climbing part.
This is a bonus video because I uploaded the wrong one to YouTube the first time. How I got them confused, I'm not sure. This is a video from some time last fall of our dogs, Charlotte (the bigger black and white mutt) and Brenna (the smaller all black Dachshund/Chihuahua mix), wearing their snow boots. They were for when we went to Pennsylvania last winter. We never used them but it was hilarious watching Brenna try to walk while wearing them.
Yesterday, Andy, Doods, and I took a trip up to Viera to check out Hobby Lobby. For those of you unfamiliar with the area, Viera is where I used to work about 20 miles up I-95 from our place. We were almost home when our car just died. Thankfully, it didn't happen on the interstate but at the light to turn off the interstate exit ramp. We were coming to a stop and the car just quit. Andy and I looked at each other and I said, "Did the car just stall?" It most certainly had and we were stuck. Andy tried to start it and then pushed it off the road and tried some more. No luck! It would turn over but nothing beyond that. He did some investigating and found that there was a broken wire in some part between the spark plugs and the distributor cap (I think, I'm so non car savvy that it's ridiculous). Anyway, he thought he could fix it easily and called for a friend to come take him to the auto parts store down the road. Since we didn't think it would be a great idea to drive around with me and the baby in the backseat of his friend's Mustang, Doods and I walked to McDonald's to get something to drink and cool off. She'd been sleeping in her carseat the whole time and it was very hot out so we were worried about her being overheated. So, we went to Mickey D's and got some sweet tea and a hot fudge sundae and went out to the play area to eat, drink, and cool off. Doods wanted nothing to do with the hot fudge sundae but drank what seemed like a gallon of sweet tea. As she sat watching the kids running around, she got very antsy to go play.
Her first stop was a small area off to the side of the much larger climbing structure. It had a little piano like toy, an alligator to sit on, and a huge Happy Meal box to play inside with gears to turn. Really, it was quite a random little area but it made me happy because she couldn't get anywhere where I would have to climb up after her and the bigger kids were mostly ignoring it. The big kids weren't really looking out for little munchkins as they chased each other and one of them yelled "Oh, crap!" repeatedly. Not something I wanted Doodle getting into the middle of at all. So, she played in there for a while. One little boy about her height did come in (I think he was probably closer to three years old though because his speech was much clearer than Doodle's but they were the same height because my child is gargantuan) and Doodle had to copy everything he did. When he leaned against the wall, she leaned against it right beside him. When he went into the big ole Happy Meal, she was poking her head in to join him. It was cute really and demonstrated that she is on target developmentally because most kids her age still participate in parallel play (doing the same thing beside but not with other kids) as opposed to actually playing together.
Then she found the tunnel. Oh, she loved the tunnel and I loved it because it was still separate from the rest of the play place. She would go in one end and as it curved so she couldn't see me from the end she entered, she'd start yelling for me so that I would poke my head into the other end. She must have run through that thing about six time straight. And she would have kept going if I hadn't seen Andy and his friend walking back from our car to his friend's car at the gas station next door. Bad sign because that meant they weren't driving our car which meant that it still wouldn't start. We ended up having it towed and found out the timing belt had broken. It will take about eleven hundred dollars to fix that and replace the water pump since they will already be in there and fix a broken motor mount and blah blah blah. We're very lucky that it didn't break on the interstate and we're hoping that since we were at a stop it didn't ruin any other engine components.
Here are a couple pictures and some video footage of our trip to hell, er, McDonald's Playplace.
This is the piano thingy. She had fun banging on the keys but I think she enjoyed it even more when and older boy can and played. She was dancing up a storm to his tuneless banging. Then she tried to play with him and he didn't like it very much. But really, he was at least 10 and way to old so I kind of let her run him off. Oops!
Doodle loves McDonald's sweet tea. She really is a true Southern girl at heart when it comes to that. Of course, she loves anything that comes in a cup this big. You should see her with a Route 44 cup from Sonic. It's true love!
Here she is climbing through her tunnel. Well, until some girl comes and tries to climb in with her and I have to rescue my child. The video cuts off kind of abruptly but the girl that climbed in with her got out on her own without me really having to do anything. I think once she saw that I wasn't going to make Doods stop having fun she decided to go back to the big climbing part.
This is a bonus video because I uploaded the wrong one to YouTube the first time. How I got them confused, I'm not sure. This is a video from some time last fall of our dogs, Charlotte (the bigger black and white mutt) and Brenna (the smaller all black Dachshund/Chihuahua mix), wearing their snow boots. They were for when we went to Pennsylvania last winter. We never used them but it was hilarious watching Brenna try to walk while wearing them.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
A little time off from blogging
So, I took a little time off from blogging because real life kind of got in the way. The past couple of weeks have been busy for me with work because I've had to take up the comp shop again while the girl who took over from me went on vacation. I'd be annoyed with this if her vacation wasn't to go see her husband who just came home from serving overseas. Yeah, can't argue with that one at all. (For those of you who don't know, I used to do the comparison shop for my store. I would download a list each week onto a PDA and go to the dark side AKA Walmart and compare the prices on the list. Some weeks the list was about 700 items. The past three weeks, it was over 1,000 each week. That's a lot of comp shopping. And I can't get it all done in one day because it's mind numbing. And I took Doods with me and she can't deal with being in the stroller for more than a couple hours anymore. It was easy peasy when she was four months old and would sleep, wake up for a bottle, and then sleep some more while I did it. Now I spend more time trying to keep her happy than I do actually comp shopping. So I conned, er, convinced another girl who needed hours to take it over. Thank you, Bobbi!!!) I also had to work two overnight shifts last week which has thrown off the entire household's sleep schedule. Completely thrown it off to the point where Doodle decided to finally wind down and go to sleep last night at about 4:30 am. Yeah, not fun for any of us. Now we are focusing on getting everyone to sleep at normal times and not having major meltdowns in the process. Wish us luck!
And my camera is broken so I have to use pictures and video from just my phone. Luckily, I have a very good camera on my phone. But, since I haven't had time, it just hasn't happened. So, expect some fun stuff coming up in the next couple of days. Doodle is a stinker and a goofball and I've got some cute pictures of her lately so I'll upload them soon. But for now, it's time to try to get our sleep cycles back in the right rhythm and get her settled down for bed. Sweet dreams!
And my camera is broken so I have to use pictures and video from just my phone. Luckily, I have a very good camera on my phone. But, since I haven't had time, it just hasn't happened. So, expect some fun stuff coming up in the next couple of days. Doodle is a stinker and a goofball and I've got some cute pictures of her lately so I'll upload them soon. But for now, it's time to try to get our sleep cycles back in the right rhythm and get her settled down for bed. Sweet dreams!
Monday, August 23, 2010
Quick note
Ok, I'm always begging for comments on here but I just changed the setting so that you don't have to have a Blogger or gmail account to comment. So, anybody can leave some Doodle love! Of course, I just ask that everyone is nice and leaves their real name if they leave a comment. Ok, that's all. Carry on with your day, especially Ashley who is at this moment in labor with my newest little cousin, Colton! Can't wait for Doods to have a cousin nearby that is close in age! Ok, so they'll be able to play better in a couple of years, but still, it's closer than Carrie and her new little brother or sister all the way in Pennsylvania!
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Spaghetti Dinner
Friday night, Doodle and I had spaghetti for dinner. I gave Doodle her plate fixed the way I always fix spaghetti for her. A little sauce, the noodles cut up into about one inch pieces, and lots of cheese. She was content with that until I sat down to eat my spaghetti. My long, curled up strands of spaghetti that had to be twirled around a fork and slurped up. Suddenly, she was no longer content to eat off her plate anymore. Or with her little toddler fork. My plate, my food, and my fork all became hers. So I figured the best thing I could do was document it for all to see. She was really cute trying to figure out who to eat the noodles as they kept sliding off the fork and hanging out of her mouth. I was just glad that I don't like a lot of sauce on my pasta or she would have been a ginormous mess! (And according to my spell check "ginormous" is indeed a word and spelled correctly. Who would have known??) On to the pictures with a couple of bonus pictures at the end just because I can!
Her initial technique was to feed herself with her right hand while holding the fork as a prop in the left.
Then she tried the fork out. So far, so good, she got a piece of spaghetti on it!
Oops, still need some help to get the whole piece into the mouth. Notice the piece stuck to her chest. I'm sure the got fed to the dogs eventually!
Ah, there's a good mouthful! The fork has now moved to the other hand to be used as a prop.
She decided to eat some of the sausage off her own plate but couldn't quite give up my plate. See how she's protectively placed her hand on it. She's just waiting for me to try to take it away.
Here you can see the fork I got to use while she eats with my fork. I could have gotten another adult sized fork but I figure since she still can't wash dishes and I'd end up having to clean it (or put it in the dishwasher really, but it's still an extra step), I'd just make do with the little Take and Toss fork.
Such concentration!!
Here I managed to get my fork back because she wanted help. Of course, her technique at eating off a fork that Momma is holding isn't quite the same as when she holds it herself.
This is the best "after" shot I could get. As I said earlier, I'm glad I don't like a lot of sauce on my pasta. She was just a little orange around the mouth, chin, cheeks, and nose. None in the hair, thankfully, because she HATES having her hair washed. Actually, it's the rinsing she hates by why split hairs. (Hahaha, I'm so punny!)
This has nothing to do with our dinner but I thought it was funny. Doods helped me load a case of bottled water into the fridge. See them all on the bottom shelf behind her?? Well, apparently, it wore her out so she had to take a rest right there in the refrigerator.
And this one for two reasons. One: see how tall she is! She can open doors with lever handles.(Don't worry, Granma and Granpa, we always keep the front door locked so she can't open it.) Pretty soon we're going to have to put door knob covers on all doors out of the house. Two: see how smart she is!! She has the key to our van and she's trying to unlock the door with it. I guess watching us unlock the door at our apartment for those seven months had a bit of an impact on her because we only use the garage door opener now.
Her initial technique was to feed herself with her right hand while holding the fork as a prop in the left.
Then she tried the fork out. So far, so good, she got a piece of spaghetti on it!
Oops, still need some help to get the whole piece into the mouth. Notice the piece stuck to her chest. I'm sure the got fed to the dogs eventually!
Ah, there's a good mouthful! The fork has now moved to the other hand to be used as a prop.
She decided to eat some of the sausage off her own plate but couldn't quite give up my plate. See how she's protectively placed her hand on it. She's just waiting for me to try to take it away.
Here you can see the fork I got to use while she eats with my fork. I could have gotten another adult sized fork but I figure since she still can't wash dishes and I'd end up having to clean it (or put it in the dishwasher really, but it's still an extra step), I'd just make do with the little Take and Toss fork.
Such concentration!!
Here I managed to get my fork back because she wanted help. Of course, her technique at eating off a fork that Momma is holding isn't quite the same as when she holds it herself.
This is the best "after" shot I could get. As I said earlier, I'm glad I don't like a lot of sauce on my pasta. She was just a little orange around the mouth, chin, cheeks, and nose. None in the hair, thankfully, because she HATES having her hair washed. Actually, it's the rinsing she hates by why split hairs. (Hahaha, I'm so punny!)
This has nothing to do with our dinner but I thought it was funny. Doods helped me load a case of bottled water into the fridge. See them all on the bottom shelf behind her?? Well, apparently, it wore her out so she had to take a rest right there in the refrigerator.
And this one for two reasons. One: see how tall she is! She can open doors with lever handles.(Don't worry, Granma and Granpa, we always keep the front door locked so she can't open it.) Pretty soon we're going to have to put door knob covers on all doors out of the house. Two: see how smart she is!! She has the key to our van and she's trying to unlock the door with it. I guess watching us unlock the door at our apartment for those seven months had a bit of an impact on her because we only use the garage door opener now.
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