I love emptying my pockets at the end of the day of all the objects SB bestowed upon me: pebbles, tiny pieces of paper, puffs, crumbled leaves, acorn tops...it makes me smile that she finds me worthy of such treasures.
We finally started brushing her wild hair and she now will take the brush and try it on me. Yes, she may use the wrong side of the brush, and she has given me a few good whacks in the head, but it's awful cute playing beauty salon with her.
I feel guilty that I haven't come up with some stupendous idea for Kurt's Christmas present. He wants "nothing" so I got crafty instead and it's not turning out as well as I'd hoped. First of all, it's difficult to find time to work on my project between baby time and him lurking around all the time. I'm almost done but I guarantee I will be blowing on glue to dry tonight at 12:30AM. There is glitter too. Glitter is highly underrated. He keeps finding it in my hair and thinks I am dressing up as a stripper for him this Christmas. Um no. Maybe for Kurt's birthday. Not for the birthday of our Lord and Savior. That would be wrong.
We tried crayons for the first time today. She liked pounding them into the paper in pointillist fashion. Very Seurat. We'll continue to cultivate her artistic talents. Her piano lessons are progressing nicely. I was brushing my teeth the other morning and heard a perfect C chord from the living room. She's got skills. Kurt heard it too and thought it was me. Move over, Jackie Evancho, our girl can sing AND accompany herself.
I am procrastinating right now. I have a zillion things to do. So, perfect time to sit down and blog, right? I need to go fix Kurt some lunch. He actually ventured to the mall this morning (2 days before Christmas!) to look for a jacket for me. Now he's started his conference call marathon for the day. Again...guilt over my lame Christmas presents this year so I better go and at least feed the poor guy...
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
O Kitchen Tree O Kitchen Tree
Well I don't know what happened but I blinked and it's the middle of December. As I type this there are bona fide snow flurries flitting about outside. I guess having a late Thanksgiving throws me off, but it's Dec 12 already and we just got the tree up tonight. After much debate over where to put the tree, or even whether it should go up at all since we've got a crazy 17 month old on our hands with an hankering for shiny forbidden objects, we decided to put it in the kitchen. The kitchen is a no-baby-roaming zone. She either sits in her highchair or she's being held, so we figure that would be the safest place for the tree and still allow us to enjoy it.
I also managed to order 2 sets of Christmas cards this week. Now if I get them out in the mail it will really be impressive. That was about all the productivity I could muster this week. Our house got hit with a cold and all three of us were feeling not too great. SB actually didn't seem to feel bad but her nose was running and she decided not to nap at all. This is always a small crisis for me as her naptime is my precious few hours to get a few things done and recharge for the afternoon. She tends to get a little cranky if she misses her nap, but Mommy gets REALLY cranky if SB misses her nap. You'd think after 9 months of full-time mommyhood I'd be a pro at multi-tasking with baby in tow, but I'm not. I find it hard to get much done at all when she's awake and on the move. I segregate my tasks and errands into two categories, baby-friendly and not baby friendly, with a sub-category of "baby-friendly but it may take 3 times as long to get it done" like folding laundry, for example. SB is very helpful with the laundry. She loves to snatch underwear and parade around the house with it. Sometimes on her head. Quite hilarious, but after I finish folding what's left of the clothes in the basket, I have to to a round-up of all the pilfered items, usually located in her toys or under the coffee table.
I haven't really started much Christmas shopping yet. I haven't the slightest idea what to give Kurt this year. Any ideas, people? We're not getting carried away with gifts for each other, or for baby, either. I ordered a nifty SB-sized armchair from Crate and Barrel. She'll get a kick out of it and be able to use it for a few years at least. I got her the Hallmark Tinkerbell ornament since she was such a fine Tinkerbell for Halloween this year. That's about it so far. I have a feeling Grandma may go a little nuts this year...every time I talk to her she's either shopping or just returning home from shopping. SB is still at the stage where the container is way more interesting than what's inside. Grandma bought her these cute little handmade finger puppets over Thanksgiving, and she fell in love with the brown paper shopping bag they were in. She carried the bag around all weekend like a little purse, picking up anything she could find and placing it in the bag. Then dumping the bag. Then refilling the bag. You get the idea. Good times. So maybe some empty brown bags for Christmas? Or a cardboard box? I think she's be delighted.
Ta-Da!
Please note the dazzling display of lights outside our window in the backyard. Kurt Griswold was busy this morning getting our reindeer up. They move. And the "snow" lights twinkle. Fab-u-lous.
I also managed to order 2 sets of Christmas cards this week. Now if I get them out in the mail it will really be impressive. That was about all the productivity I could muster this week. Our house got hit with a cold and all three of us were feeling not too great. SB actually didn't seem to feel bad but her nose was running and she decided not to nap at all. This is always a small crisis for me as her naptime is my precious few hours to get a few things done and recharge for the afternoon. She tends to get a little cranky if she misses her nap, but Mommy gets REALLY cranky if SB misses her nap. You'd think after 9 months of full-time mommyhood I'd be a pro at multi-tasking with baby in tow, but I'm not. I find it hard to get much done at all when she's awake and on the move. I segregate my tasks and errands into two categories, baby-friendly and not baby friendly, with a sub-category of "baby-friendly but it may take 3 times as long to get it done" like folding laundry, for example. SB is very helpful with the laundry. She loves to snatch underwear and parade around the house with it. Sometimes on her head. Quite hilarious, but after I finish folding what's left of the clothes in the basket, I have to to a round-up of all the pilfered items, usually located in her toys or under the coffee table.
I haven't really started much Christmas shopping yet. I haven't the slightest idea what to give Kurt this year. Any ideas, people? We're not getting carried away with gifts for each other, or for baby, either. I ordered a nifty SB-sized armchair from Crate and Barrel. She'll get a kick out of it and be able to use it for a few years at least. I got her the Hallmark Tinkerbell ornament since she was such a fine Tinkerbell for Halloween this year. That's about it so far. I have a feeling Grandma may go a little nuts this year...every time I talk to her she's either shopping or just returning home from shopping. SB is still at the stage where the container is way more interesting than what's inside. Grandma bought her these cute little handmade finger puppets over Thanksgiving, and she fell in love with the brown paper shopping bag they were in. She carried the bag around all weekend like a little purse, picking up anything she could find and placing it in the bag. Then dumping the bag. Then refilling the bag. You get the idea. Good times. So maybe some empty brown bags for Christmas? Or a cardboard box? I think she's be delighted.
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