Monday, January 31, 2005
Snow, looking for a dog, and Anna's bottle
We had a great snow on Saturday. Why great? It came down overnight, was perfect sledding and snowball snow, and melted by Saturday evening. Pierce and I went out and sledded in the backyard when a good portion of the snow had already melted (Pierce didn't want to go out in it in the morning). We built a snowman that was about 4 feet tall and literally "used up" all the snow in the backyard -by-the-way, making a 4' snowman when you're 37 is a lot harder than making one when you're <15 years old (oh, my aching back). By the end of the day the only snow left in the yard was the snowman.
Nora's Mom was kind enough to watch the kids for us so Nora and I could visit several pet adoption sites and start looking for a dog. Nora and I had both agreed that this was only an exploratory visit; we had no intentions of bringing a dog home yet. Easily said -Nora and I both melted for a couple of the dogs. We'll look again next week. We're both starting to get pretty excited about adding a dog to the household and we know Pierce and Anna will love it (we haven't told them we're looking, so make sure you keep our secret).
We had a great playdate with our friends the Deavers Saturday evening. The kids were terrific with no (memorable) meltdowns. Suzzane made an excellent pork roast that Pierce gobbled up and asked for seconds -a true first for him. I think we'll have to get the recipe. We finished up by making Sundaes (sp?) and we all staggered around for the rest of the evening with full bellies.
Anna doesn't take a pacifier or suck her thumb. Instead she uses a bottle. She's very resistant to drinking from a regular or sippee cup and insists on going to bed with a bottle. Anna is very headstrong and has proven our match in terms of trying to "pursuade" her to our way of thinking. This weekend we moved to the incremental step of giving her a 4-oz bottle with only about an ounce of water in it for bedtime. Anna both begged and demanded a "big" bottle and more water but actually settled for what we gave her and slept well through the night. Put a tick mark in the small victories category for Nora and me.
Some notable quotes from the past few days:
I asked Pierce a question to which he responded with a rambling non-answer. I asked, "Pierce, did that make any sense?". Pierce's response, "No, that made no sense at all".
Pierce (from out of the blue): "I have an extrordinary thought...". Extrordinary!? What 4-year old uses "extrordinary" in a sentence?
While playing cards with the Deavers Anna came over to keep me company. She read off the cards in my hand, "there's a 10, and a 3, and 5, and 6...". She was right about every single card. I think Suzzanne and Brook's jaws hit the floor.
We took Pierce and Anna to the gym with us Sunday morning. When we pulled into the parking lot Anna started to cry and demanding that we go "bye bye". We dropped them both in the kid's center and worked out for about an hour. When we picked them up Anna told us "that was fun!"
-Eric (Dad)
Nora's Mom was kind enough to watch the kids for us so Nora and I could visit several pet adoption sites and start looking for a dog. Nora and I had both agreed that this was only an exploratory visit; we had no intentions of bringing a dog home yet. Easily said -Nora and I both melted for a couple of the dogs. We'll look again next week. We're both starting to get pretty excited about adding a dog to the household and we know Pierce and Anna will love it (we haven't told them we're looking, so make sure you keep our secret).
We had a great playdate with our friends the Deavers Saturday evening. The kids were terrific with no (memorable) meltdowns. Suzzane made an excellent pork roast that Pierce gobbled up and asked for seconds -a true first for him. I think we'll have to get the recipe. We finished up by making Sundaes (sp?) and we all staggered around for the rest of the evening with full bellies.
Anna doesn't take a pacifier or suck her thumb. Instead she uses a bottle. She's very resistant to drinking from a regular or sippee cup and insists on going to bed with a bottle. Anna is very headstrong and has proven our match in terms of trying to "pursuade" her to our way of thinking. This weekend we moved to the incremental step of giving her a 4-oz bottle with only about an ounce of water in it for bedtime. Anna both begged and demanded a "big" bottle and more water but actually settled for what we gave her and slept well through the night. Put a tick mark in the small victories category for Nora and me.
Some notable quotes from the past few days:
I asked Pierce a question to which he responded with a rambling non-answer. I asked, "Pierce, did that make any sense?". Pierce's response, "No, that made no sense at all".
Pierce (from out of the blue): "I have an extrordinary thought...". Extrordinary!? What 4-year old uses "extrordinary" in a sentence?
While playing cards with the Deavers Anna came over to keep me company. She read off the cards in my hand, "there's a 10, and a 3, and 5, and 6...". She was right about every single card. I think Suzzanne and Brook's jaws hit the floor.
We took Pierce and Anna to the gym with us Sunday morning. When we pulled into the parking lot Anna started to cry and demanding that we go "bye bye". We dropped them both in the kid's center and worked out for about an hour. When we picked them up Anna told us "that was fun!"
-Eric (Dad)
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