I’ve been thinking about getting some bath paints for K but keep going back and forth because I just don’t know if she will really use them. So I thought giving her colored shaving cream at bath time might be a good test, and it was. She seemed really interested when I first introduced them but was over it fast. Pouring water is much more fun at this time in her life..apparently.
What I did learn is that you don’t want to use gel food coloring. I made a few colors with the liquid coloring and a few with the gel coloring and the gel will stain. It didn’t seem to stain the tub but it did stain my skin. Maybe you don’t care if you child gets out of the bath multi-colored, I do.
I will wait a few weeks and then try this activity again. Well maybe that’s not true, I may make a green bath day for St. Patricks day!
Kaili took a two hour nap today. Thursday are SO much better than Tuesdays. Last Tuesday was the second in a row where she was a royal pain. Cranky and defiant. My friends, I fear we are entering the terrible two’s.
She is also entering a stage where she afraid of noises and is super jumpy. I know it’s an age appropriate fear but it’s kind of a pain in the ass. She has gotten over her fear of being sucked down the drain in the bathtub and exchanged it for running to me in fear every time a motorcycle or an airplane goes by. People, we live near an airport.
The latest issue of Parenting had some great parenting advice and I thought I would share a few of them with you, because I like you.
~”The surest way to make life difficult for your children is to make it too easy for them. Prepare the child for the path, not the path for the child. -Betsy Brown Braun
~”When your kids are older, they will not remember that you went out once in a while-but you will.” Elisa D.
~”When you’re really angry, pretend someone is watching and judging you. It will force you to stay ultra-calm.” Allison McDonald
~”When it comes to raising children, your grandparents philosophical advice will be spot-on. Their medical advice will be terrible.”
Kaili is starting to make animal sounds, this means we are moving in the right direction. Her speech teacher advised us to take another 6 week class instead of one on one therapy since Kaili’s language is progressing.
I have been waiting for the weather to warm up before I did this activity. I am not cool with a mess in the house, go figure. I kept my classroom clean too, just saying.
Cloud dough is a a smooth and moldable dough made with only 2 ingredients, flour and baby oil. I made a small batch since it was just for Kaili.
Combine 4 cups flour and 1/2 cup baby oil and mix well. I used my hands but I imagine a pastry cutter would work even better.
I put a few different items for her to manipulate on a tray.
Then we took it out into the warm sunshine. The weather is amazing!
Practicing blowing out candles. She has a birthday soon.
She sat outside and played with this for a good amount of time. Enough time for me to get some sun and read a few more pages of my book.
My birthday month has started out pretty nicely. I got caught up on some much needed gossip with some great ladies, had lunch with my bestie, ate cupcakes, read cookbooks, finally saw Argo and predicted the Oscar wins with ease 😉
Old Town
cutest lunch date.who you calling an ass? Ass.Best gift ever. Hot mess in a box.funny facesLoves the neighbors fishnew cookbook love.
I know this guy, he is an amazing athlete, cute, funny, kind and his heart is huge. The problem is, the world doesn’t know him….yet. This is where I ask you for help. I want you to share this post with all of your friends and family. Or better yet, send it into your favorite talk show {Ellen}. This is what I just sent her. Feel free to copy it or write up your own. Either way, help me get his name out there. I promise, it will be worth it.
Kaili loves her uncle David
“David Wagner, you don’t know his name but you should. He is the number 1 Quad wheelchair tennis player in the world! He doesn’t get the shouts out he deserves. Gold, Silver and Bronze medal winner from Athens, Beijing and London. He is as humble as they come and cute to boot.
He was hurt at the age of 21. Playing frisbee on the beach in CA. a wave jackknifed him landing him head first in the sand. Paralyzed from the chest down, he has overcome the impossible. He currently resides and trains at the Olympic Training center in Chula Vista Ca, he is the only wheelchair resident there.
He travels all over the world playing in tournaments, talks to children at different schools out of the goodness of his heart and holds a yearly wheelchair tennis camp for children with physical disabilities in Oregon.
David is a star, a role model, a friend and an world class athlete. I would love to introduce him to Ellen and the world.
David wants to start his own charity for children with disabilities but doesn’t know where to start.. So here I am, writing you, asking for help. Please help me recognize this amazing man who could be down with despair but chooses to be the best he can with what he has and wants to help others. Help me let him know how amazing he is.”
Some women, {me now} don’t mind sharing the daunting process of getting her ovaries plumped up with daily injections and then going through the painful process of having a needle poked into those same ovaries to remove the multiple eggs she made. Other women,{me then} have a very a hard time coming to grips with the fact that she couldn’t make a baby the old-fashioned way and announcing that to friends and family is very hard to do. Infertility is an extremely stressful thing to go through, more so when miscarriages are involved {that is my opinion}. When you do decided to let people know why you aren’t pregnant yet they want to be supportive but a lot of the time they don’t know what to say. You end up hearing things like ” you two just need to relax, go on vacation. It will happen” or ” maybe it’s just time to give it a rest, God has a plan and he only gives you what he knows you can handle” Oh, so I should just get over my life long dream to be a mother? Suck it up and get over how sad and depressed that would make me?- (smack hand on forehead) Awesome advice! Thanks I feel so much better now!! These things are usually said by people who had sex without a condom and got pregnant without trying. Ugh, I hate those people.
But I was very lucky to become pregnant, stay pregnant and leave the hospital with my sweet child, and the whole process has made me a much stronger person. I don’t know if there is anything harder than accepting infertility. However these days doctors and technology are amazing so that makes it a little easier. I just wish it was easier for women to talk about. It shouldn’t be a shameful thing{even though it sure feels like it}.
Thinking about all this put a vision in my head. My daughter at 9 years old wants to know about the “birds and the bee’s”. I sit her down for the talk, maybe it goes like this” Well dear, it happens in a doctor’s office where daddy performs the “secret handshake” in a fluorescent lit room while mommy lays naked from the waist down, legs spread and another man…” Too much? How about:”When a MasterCard and a doctor love each other very much…” Moms and dads feel free to send your children to me when the time comes. I will be happy to teach them where babies come from!
The Art of Thyming 