Two quick quotes
Demand: "There's a party in my butt!"
Happy...well, ok, he doesn't really talk but that's the point. As of now he has two real words "mo" (more) and "hi" (hi). For everything else he says "Dada". At first we thought he was talking about daddy. Yesterday, first thing in the morning he was saying "Dada" but daddy had gone to work so I though the was looking for him. Then he saw a cell phone and said "dada". Ok, I thought, he does have a phone a lot. Then he saw the coffee pot and said "DADA!", that makes sense too I thought. Now we realize that "Dada" means "look at that" and he sure sees a lot.
The description of this video 'dared me not to cry' and I thought, "You haven't met this heartless woman." Well they were right, its a crier. All parents of young children should watch it though. It will get me through the next few weeks.
Gift of an Ordinary Day
The Sloths
Lazywife, Mr. Sloth, Demand, Prophet, Rooster, and King
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Maybe Tomorrow
Homeschooling Benefit Number #1:
If it doesn't work for you that day you can wait another day.
I had promised Demand that I would start teaching her to read today completely forgetting that we had a packed week.
Today: 10am lab @ doctors
11am tour of the Capitol & then lunch
after nap teach Demand
I dreaded even going to bed last night because I knew what chaos would greet me today. In retrospect, I had no idea. Happy was up at least five times to nurse. He had been doing so well for a week but was teething again and he nurses like crazy when he's teething. Demand didn't get to sleep until after 10:30pm, she wet the bed around 5am, and was up around 8am.
My big plans had been to get up around 6am and get ready before anyone woke up but after the sleepless night I slept in until 7:30am before finally dragging myself to the shower. From then on it was insane. I hadn't gathered clothes for anyone, I had lunches to finish packing, quarters to gather for parking (I had to do a money transfer with Demands piggy bank)and your usual 'trying to get out the door' nonsense like having a three year old that moves like molasses.
After much moodiness on my part and judging on Mr. Sloths, we promptly left at 9:30am (on time). Of course it's snowy and windy today. It added to the fun twenty minute drive across town for the a five minute appointment. Next it was to the Capitol! I parked where I thought was close parking but 'little did I know' it 'twas not.
I started pushing Demand in the stroller while carrying Happy through head on blizzard conditions after coughing up $3 in quarters for the meter. It was the equivalent of four block walk and the sidewalks weren't shoveled so it was even harder. Finally we made it, met with our Catholic Home School Group and had a lovely tour. Lunch was in another building, involving another walk outdoors...in the opposite direction of our car. Lunch was quick since the clock was ticking on our meter.
The walk back to the car was miserable. Miserable!! Snowing, extremely windy, uphill for about a 1/4 mile. Demand was walking and I cannot blame her for crying. A couple of times I heard her crying out to the wind to "Stop!". When we finally got to the car, after a ten minute walk and Demand falling on the ice, I still had to drag the stroller through three feet of snow for about ten feet. Demand was beside herself, actually we all were.
Home we went. I'm sure you've guessed but now that I was in no condition to start teaching Demand how to read. Thankfully she's forgotten about it for now, maybe we'll try and squeeze it in tomorrow morning.
The rest of the week is as follows.
Tonight: Shop/clean/prep for 'Mom's Night Out' party tomorrow
Tuesday: Demand has a class at 12:45pm other than that its getting ready for the party.
Wednesday: CCD at night
Thursday: I lead small group Bible Study from 9:30-11:45; Drag kids to the doctors again at 4pm.
Friday: Book Club meeting @ 8pm, thankfully not at my house!
Of course in all my business I have to find time to actually do my Bible Study lesson, plan for CCD and start reading the book club book for next month since it's 450 pages.
(Sigh) Is dinner ready yet?
If it doesn't work for you that day you can wait another day.
I had promised Demand that I would start teaching her to read today completely forgetting that we had a packed week.
Today: 10am lab @ doctors
11am tour of the Capitol & then lunch
after nap teach Demand
I dreaded even going to bed last night because I knew what chaos would greet me today. In retrospect, I had no idea. Happy was up at least five times to nurse. He had been doing so well for a week but was teething again and he nurses like crazy when he's teething. Demand didn't get to sleep until after 10:30pm, she wet the bed around 5am, and was up around 8am.
My big plans had been to get up around 6am and get ready before anyone woke up but after the sleepless night I slept in until 7:30am before finally dragging myself to the shower. From then on it was insane. I hadn't gathered clothes for anyone, I had lunches to finish packing, quarters to gather for parking (I had to do a money transfer with Demands piggy bank)and your usual 'trying to get out the door' nonsense like having a three year old that moves like molasses.
After much moodiness on my part and judging on Mr. Sloths, we promptly left at 9:30am (on time). Of course it's snowy and windy today. It added to the fun twenty minute drive across town for the a five minute appointment. Next it was to the Capitol! I parked where I thought was close parking but 'little did I know' it 'twas not.
I started pushing Demand in the stroller while carrying Happy through head on blizzard conditions after coughing up $3 in quarters for the meter. It was the equivalent of four block walk and the sidewalks weren't shoveled so it was even harder. Finally we made it, met with our Catholic Home School Group and had a lovely tour. Lunch was in another building, involving another walk outdoors...in the opposite direction of our car. Lunch was quick since the clock was ticking on our meter.
The walk back to the car was miserable. Miserable!! Snowing, extremely windy, uphill for about a 1/4 mile. Demand was walking and I cannot blame her for crying. A couple of times I heard her crying out to the wind to "Stop!". When we finally got to the car, after a ten minute walk and Demand falling on the ice, I still had to drag the stroller through three feet of snow for about ten feet. Demand was beside herself, actually we all were.
Home we went. I'm sure you've guessed but now that I was in no condition to start teaching Demand how to read. Thankfully she's forgotten about it for now, maybe we'll try and squeeze it in tomorrow morning.
The rest of the week is as follows.
Tonight: Shop/clean/prep for 'Mom's Night Out' party tomorrow
Tuesday: Demand has a class at 12:45pm other than that its getting ready for the party.
Wednesday: CCD at night
Thursday: I lead small group Bible Study from 9:30-11:45; Drag kids to the doctors again at 4pm.
Friday: Book Club meeting @ 8pm, thankfully not at my house!
Of course in all my business I have to find time to actually do my Bible Study lesson, plan for CCD and start reading the book club book for next month since it's 450 pages.
(Sigh) Is dinner ready yet?
Friday, January 22, 2010
Phoning It In
Today I'm phoning in this parenting business. To be honest I've phoned it in most of the week but I was sick the other days. Today I have no excuse. Since the kids were happy I let them play downstairs until 10:15 before I finally dragged everyone upstairs to get dressed. Still happy I let them play while I half heartedly took a bath. If I'm honest with myself I'll admit that taking a bath was my excuse to be alone so I could read more of my Book Club book. This month I am reading "Mariette in Ecstasy" by Ron Hansen. It's fantastic and I can't put it down. It says a lot for the book since I rarely enjoy fiction. Next month we're reading, "Joan of Arc" by Mark Twain. I'm equally excited but it seems as though the other women in the bookclub were one step ahead of as I'm too far on the waiting list to get the book from the library. Guess I'll have to buy that one.
So now I sit here in a sweatshirt and jeans with my hair combed just enough to put in a ponytail. The only times I've worn a sweatshirt all year has been in the evenings when I'm in my jammies. The kids are dressed but I wouldn't say they are "public ready". Demand is wearing her beloved Paris shirt (owned before we went to Paris) and it is most definitely a summer shirt. Happy is wearing clothes I don't care for but fit and since I have no intention of leaving the house with them today I went for it. Neither are wearing socks but seeing as Demand will take them off anyway, I just decided to let it go altogether.
Money has been really tight around here so we are trying to empty our freezer and pantry as much as possible before getting any groceries. We've done really well but I definately need to buy some food today. For breakfast the kids had toast and Demand had hot chocolate and Happy, his beloved orange juice. I just had my usual one cup of coffee even if it was left over from yesterday. I thought I had lunch and dinner planned but I hit a few snags. I planned grilled cheese for lunch and broccoli soup for dinner. We only had four pieces of bread so Mr. Sloth and Happy had grilled cheese, Demand had a quesadilla and I found some of my squash soup in the freezer. As I made lunch I started to gather the ingredients for dinner only to find that we don't have the frozen veggies I usually need for broccoli soup, but we do have fresh broccoli, carrots, and spinach so it looks like that's what we are having. I knew finding chicken stock wouldn't be a problem since even as a last resort we have bouillon cubes, but I was lucky and found some home made stock in the freezer along with some left over dinner rolls from Christmas.
I told Mr. Sloth at lunch that while I'm proud of us for being so creative the past week or so, this pregnant lady needs to head to the grocery store. I still can't go hog wild but we need some basics and some fillers. For example, Happy has been refusing cheerios for breakfast and yesterday I refused to fulfill his desire for french toast so instead he got hummus on bread... Babies should never have garlic breath, lets just make that clear right now.
Happy refused a morning nap today so hopefully he'll head down early this afternoon and with equal hope I pray that Demand keeps up her impressive streak of napping as well. If all is calm I shall finish my book, perhaps start my Bible Study lesson and practice some reading lessons for Demand. That is if I don't surrender to the fluffy cloud of down that taunts me from upstairs.
As I said, I'm phoning it in today.
So now I sit here in a sweatshirt and jeans with my hair combed just enough to put in a ponytail. The only times I've worn a sweatshirt all year has been in the evenings when I'm in my jammies. The kids are dressed but I wouldn't say they are "public ready". Demand is wearing her beloved Paris shirt (owned before we went to Paris) and it is most definitely a summer shirt. Happy is wearing clothes I don't care for but fit and since I have no intention of leaving the house with them today I went for it. Neither are wearing socks but seeing as Demand will take them off anyway, I just decided to let it go altogether.
Money has been really tight around here so we are trying to empty our freezer and pantry as much as possible before getting any groceries. We've done really well but I definately need to buy some food today. For breakfast the kids had toast and Demand had hot chocolate and Happy, his beloved orange juice. I just had my usual one cup of coffee even if it was left over from yesterday. I thought I had lunch and dinner planned but I hit a few snags. I planned grilled cheese for lunch and broccoli soup for dinner. We only had four pieces of bread so Mr. Sloth and Happy had grilled cheese, Demand had a quesadilla and I found some of my squash soup in the freezer. As I made lunch I started to gather the ingredients for dinner only to find that we don't have the frozen veggies I usually need for broccoli soup, but we do have fresh broccoli, carrots, and spinach so it looks like that's what we are having. I knew finding chicken stock wouldn't be a problem since even as a last resort we have bouillon cubes, but I was lucky and found some home made stock in the freezer along with some left over dinner rolls from Christmas.
I told Mr. Sloth at lunch that while I'm proud of us for being so creative the past week or so, this pregnant lady needs to head to the grocery store. I still can't go hog wild but we need some basics and some fillers. For example, Happy has been refusing cheerios for breakfast and yesterday I refused to fulfill his desire for french toast so instead he got hummus on bread... Babies should never have garlic breath, lets just make that clear right now.
Happy refused a morning nap today so hopefully he'll head down early this afternoon and with equal hope I pray that Demand keeps up her impressive streak of napping as well. If all is calm I shall finish my book, perhaps start my Bible Study lesson and practice some reading lessons for Demand. That is if I don't surrender to the fluffy cloud of down that taunts me from upstairs.
As I said, I'm phoning it in today.
Monday, January 18, 2010
One little, two little....
THREE little Slothlings!!!
Mr. Sloth and I were excited to find out that we have another on the way this past New Years Eve. Sorry for the cryptic message in my last post, but Mr. Sloth hadn't gotten around to telling two of his siblings yet and since they read the blog I wanted them to hear it from him not the "interweb".
To answer your first two questions.
Yes, this was planned.
and
No, this is not a European baby.
In fact I'm not far along at all but we like to tell people early so we can get as many prayers as possible and if we do lose a baby we at least had the pleasure to share the joy of new life.
The next question is always, "How are you feeling?"
It's strange for the most part I don't feel pregnant at all. I never get morning sickness but I usually get extreme exhaustion. I'm just starting to feel tired but mostly just at night. I can definately eat anything but somethings like, red meat, don't sound the most appealing. So all in all things are good.
For weeks Demand had insisted that I my belly was getting bigger and I had a baby in my belly. I kept correcting her, because at the time I wasn't, so she was very confused when we told her I WAS pregnant. At first she just nodded and smiled but five minutes later she bent down, looked at my belly and asked excitedly, "Momma, you got a baby in your belly?? You go to the hopistal (hospital)??"
Happy is already jealous. He's back to nursing like a newborn and it doesn't help that I'm a pushover. He woke up around 10:30pm last night and wanted to nurse. I tried to comfort him but he smelled so good I had to walk away. After an hour I finally gave in and brought the cuddle bug into bed. I think it's because he's had a cold and always seems to be teething. I don't want to torture him if he's hurting but, again I'm a push over for that baby smell.
Right away, Mr. Sloth, Demand, and I all decided we wanted a girl. Since Happy will be really close in age to this baby we feel bad for Demand so we thought a sister would help. Then then other day I saw her putting her Cinderella slippers on Happy and thought, "That kids needs a brother".
Looks like we have a busy couple of years ahead of us!! ;)
Mr. Sloth and I were excited to find out that we have another on the way this past New Years Eve. Sorry for the cryptic message in my last post, but Mr. Sloth hadn't gotten around to telling two of his siblings yet and since they read the blog I wanted them to hear it from him not the "interweb".
To answer your first two questions.
Yes, this was planned.
and
No, this is not a European baby.
In fact I'm not far along at all but we like to tell people early so we can get as many prayers as possible and if we do lose a baby we at least had the pleasure to share the joy of new life.
The next question is always, "How are you feeling?"
It's strange for the most part I don't feel pregnant at all. I never get morning sickness but I usually get extreme exhaustion. I'm just starting to feel tired but mostly just at night. I can definately eat anything but somethings like, red meat, don't sound the most appealing. So all in all things are good.
For weeks Demand had insisted that I my belly was getting bigger and I had a baby in my belly. I kept correcting her, because at the time I wasn't, so she was very confused when we told her I WAS pregnant. At first she just nodded and smiled but five minutes later she bent down, looked at my belly and asked excitedly, "Momma, you got a baby in your belly?? You go to the hopistal (hospital)??"
Happy is already jealous. He's back to nursing like a newborn and it doesn't help that I'm a pushover. He woke up around 10:30pm last night and wanted to nurse. I tried to comfort him but he smelled so good I had to walk away. After an hour I finally gave in and brought the cuddle bug into bed. I think it's because he's had a cold and always seems to be teething. I don't want to torture him if he's hurting but, again I'm a push over for that baby smell.
Right away, Mr. Sloth, Demand, and I all decided we wanted a girl. Since Happy will be really close in age to this baby we feel bad for Demand so we thought a sister would help. Then then other day I saw her putting her Cinderella slippers on Happy and thought, "That kids needs a brother".
Looks like we have a busy couple of years ahead of us!! ;)
Friday, January 15, 2010
Busy, Busy
I just want to start off by saying, if you are a sibling of Mr. Sloth and you do not live in the metro area...you should call him. Just trust me. (But don't call during a work day or he'll get frustrated.)
Life carries on here at the Sloth home. We're starting to get more of schedule now that things are settling down. I'm still alternating between a house that is trashed and one that is spotless so nothing has changed there. I have definately discovered that if I can have everyone's clothes picked out and ironed the night before it makes the whole next day go a heck of a lot smoother. Better yet, if I can get up, showered, dressed, and coffee-ed before I have to deal with the kiddos life is grand indeed.
Demand lives a rigorous life. The first time someone makes the "socialization" comment to me about homeschooling our children I shall laugh in their face. Demand has more social gatherings and a politician. She has at least one to two playdates a week. She has two short classes a week for religious education(since we're not homeschooling yet I'm not counting those). And in the next few months she must have at least 1-2 dozen field trips planned.
For example, here is her schedule two weeks from now.
Monday: Tour of the State Capitol (homeschool group)
Tuesday: Good Shepard (Preschool Catechesis)
Wednesday: Playdate while Mr. Sloth and I teach CCD
Thursday: Bible School while I'm in Bible Study
Friday: We almost always have a playdate on Fridays.
That's just one week. There have been countless other trips we've just had to pass on for now. There has been swimming once a month, nature trips once a month. In March we heading to the Planetarium. What's even better is we haven't done any of the "Winter Cabin-Fever" back up plans that we keep in our back pocket. We could always head to the Children Museum, the Zoo, Aquarium, the free zoo with indoor botanical gardens. And we can do most of this for free or at least discount.
It's a good thing homeschooling only takes about an hour a day because we won't have time for much more. I'm really looking forward to a Valentine's Ice Skating Party. There will be an exchange of Valentine's and everything. I was hoping to do something fun for her that day so this is exciting.
Anyway, out of time. Until we meet again.
Life carries on here at the Sloth home. We're starting to get more of schedule now that things are settling down. I'm still alternating between a house that is trashed and one that is spotless so nothing has changed there. I have definately discovered that if I can have everyone's clothes picked out and ironed the night before it makes the whole next day go a heck of a lot smoother. Better yet, if I can get up, showered, dressed, and coffee-ed before I have to deal with the kiddos life is grand indeed.
Demand lives a rigorous life. The first time someone makes the "socialization" comment to me about homeschooling our children I shall laugh in their face. Demand has more social gatherings and a politician. She has at least one to two playdates a week. She has two short classes a week for religious education(since we're not homeschooling yet I'm not counting those). And in the next few months she must have at least 1-2 dozen field trips planned.
For example, here is her schedule two weeks from now.
Monday: Tour of the State Capitol (homeschool group)
Tuesday: Good Shepard (Preschool Catechesis)
Wednesday: Playdate while Mr. Sloth and I teach CCD
Thursday: Bible School while I'm in Bible Study
Friday: We almost always have a playdate on Fridays.
That's just one week. There have been countless other trips we've just had to pass on for now. There has been swimming once a month, nature trips once a month. In March we heading to the Planetarium. What's even better is we haven't done any of the "Winter Cabin-Fever" back up plans that we keep in our back pocket. We could always head to the Children Museum, the Zoo, Aquarium, the free zoo with indoor botanical gardens. And we can do most of this for free or at least discount.
It's a good thing homeschooling only takes about an hour a day because we won't have time for much more. I'm really looking forward to a Valentine's Ice Skating Party. There will be an exchange of Valentine's and everything. I was hoping to do something fun for her that day so this is exciting.
Anyway, out of time. Until we meet again.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Touche'
I have no real update for you but since you're willing to read this blog I thought I would give an update on the Sloth home.
Demand is turning a lot of new corners. She's proving to be rather intelligent, however she is still three and has her quirks. For example. When we came home from our trip she asked if she could sleep in underwear not nighttime diapers. We decided to support her decision even though we knew what the outcome would be. It's a 50/50 chance every time she goes to sleep.
Well one morning she quietly snuck into our room (as is usual) and we were pleased that she had stayed dried all night. She then climbed into the family bed, soon Mr. Sloth and Happy headed down for breakfast while she and I slept in. An hour later I was dressing Demand and realized that she was all wet. The following conversation occured.
"Did you go tinkles?"
"yes"
"You went tinkles!?"
"yes"
"When??"
"In your bed."
(Mr. Sloth and I in unison) "Demand we told you, you needed to keep the bed dry."
"You said I needed to keep MY bed dry"
So disturbing. Ok, feast on that for a while.
Demand is turning a lot of new corners. She's proving to be rather intelligent, however she is still three and has her quirks. For example. When we came home from our trip she asked if she could sleep in underwear not nighttime diapers. We decided to support her decision even though we knew what the outcome would be. It's a 50/50 chance every time she goes to sleep.
Well one morning she quietly snuck into our room (as is usual) and we were pleased that she had stayed dried all night. She then climbed into the family bed, soon Mr. Sloth and Happy headed down for breakfast while she and I slept in. An hour later I was dressing Demand and realized that she was all wet. The following conversation occured.
"Did you go tinkles?"
"yes"
"You went tinkles!?"
"yes"
"When??"
"In your bed."
(Mr. Sloth and I in unison) "Demand we told you, you needed to keep the bed dry."
"You said I needed to keep MY bed dry"
So disturbing. Ok, feast on that for a while.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Europe and Stuff
Well, Mr. Sloth still needs to get me OUR pictures but I do have Obscure's pictures so how about we start there.
Here's a link to some of our pictures. Hopefully the captions are self-explanatory.
http://picasaweb.google.com/overtheline/SlothsInEurope?authkey=Gv1sRgCNeh27nSxdvORw&feat=directlink
If I haven't said before. Our trip was great. Don't get me wrong, traveling with two small children is just as hard as I thought it was going to be, but all the challenges traveling with children bring are worth the family experience. The look on Demands face when she saw the Eiffel Tower was priceless. She was jumping up and down. Nothing can take that away from us. She now points out everything she saw on her trip that she sees in pictures, etc now. She remembers EVERYTHING, even minute details we barely remember. Tonight at dinner she recounted how Mr. Sloth and Obscure played chess in the lobby of our hotel in Florence while I put Happy to bed.
Would Mr. Sloth and I loved to have gone alone. Yes!! But what a family experience. I hope it's the first of many to come. Enjoy the pictures. I'll try and keep them coming. More stories too!!
Here's a link to some of our pictures. Hopefully the captions are self-explanatory.
http://picasaweb.google.com/overtheline/SlothsInEurope?authkey=Gv1sRgCNeh27nSxdvORw&feat=directlink
If I haven't said before. Our trip was great. Don't get me wrong, traveling with two small children is just as hard as I thought it was going to be, but all the challenges traveling with children bring are worth the family experience. The look on Demands face when she saw the Eiffel Tower was priceless. She was jumping up and down. Nothing can take that away from us. She now points out everything she saw on her trip that she sees in pictures, etc now. She remembers EVERYTHING, even minute details we barely remember. Tonight at dinner she recounted how Mr. Sloth and Obscure played chess in the lobby of our hotel in Florence while I put Happy to bed.
Would Mr. Sloth and I loved to have gone alone. Yes!! But what a family experience. I hope it's the first of many to come. Enjoy the pictures. I'll try and keep them coming. More stories too!!
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