For dinner, Elijah ate:
-a plate of pasta half the size of his head
-some ground beef
-a banana
Monday, August 31, 2009
100th Post - with pictures!
This is my 100th post to this blog o.O We'll see how awesome I can make it ;)
As promised: I got the Applewood Smoked Salt from Gypsy Hill Foods. They were at a local farmer's market yesterday. Their beer pub cheese dip is amazing, too. And the bacon ones. And I got a one-serving package of dehydrated potato soup, too, which Elijah and I will have for lunch sometime this week.
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If you can't tell by my lack of enthusiasm, I'm still groggy. I was awakened out of a dream about gerbil-buying--the pet store woman in the dream told me that she wouldn't buy a cage for gerbils, she would go with a large aquarium, because, and this was important: She held up a vial of live crickets to me and in the dream I said, "Oh yeah!" and we discussed the merits of crickets for gerbils as food and exercise. I woke up thinking, "Do you really feed crickets to gerbils? I can't remember." (Yes, you do.)
Anyway, I woke up at the wrong part of the sleep cycle, and I can't seem to shake it. I promise some day I'll write one of these posts without being exhausted, or at least without complaining about it :p
I was going somewhere with that but I can't remember what. Hmm.
Oh! Oh yeah. I was going to say: By the time I got to breakfast, between the grogginess and the low blood sugar, I couldn't figure out what to eat. Nevermind that I eat the same thing every morning, for exactly that reason: Cheerios with cream and milk. It's relatively non-offensive, even with low blood sugar, and it doesn't require any preparation. So that's what I eat, so I don't have to make a decision.
Except this morning there was also pizza.
I ended up using GoogleFight to make the decision (I would have used a coin but that would require deciding which items went with heads and which with tails), and learning what I already knew: The Internet talks about pizza way more than it talks about Cheerios.
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I need more high-quality educational baby videos, can anyone recommend any? I'm getting tired of Baby Signs (although it's good) and would like to start alternating what we watch.
We don't watch them all day, but we try to watch Your Baby Can Read once in the morning and once in the evening, and one other thing (right now, Baby Signs or Baby Einsteins My First Signs) in the morning as well.
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Learn new skills with the click of a mouse - Interesting. A school in NC is doing an online learning thing that is much cheaper than online college courses... I may try it some day to see if I could keep up with online courses.
And Scientists have taken an image of a molcule's skeleton (sort of)--pretty awesome :D
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"That's a lot of toys, Mama."
I put the entire livingroom toy basket in the playpen.
It's a lot of toys ;)
We found a turtle!
This is his new favourite nursing position. It's easier on my back, strangely enough.
As promised: I got the Applewood Smoked Salt from Gypsy Hill Foods. They were at a local farmer's market yesterday. Their beer pub cheese dip is amazing, too. And the bacon ones. And I got a one-serving package of dehydrated potato soup, too, which Elijah and I will have for lunch sometime this week.
---
If you can't tell by my lack of enthusiasm, I'm still groggy. I was awakened out of a dream about gerbil-buying--the pet store woman in the dream told me that she wouldn't buy a cage for gerbils, she would go with a large aquarium, because, and this was important: She held up a vial of live crickets to me and in the dream I said, "Oh yeah!" and we discussed the merits of crickets for gerbils as food and exercise. I woke up thinking, "Do you really feed crickets to gerbils? I can't remember." (Yes, you do.)
Anyway, I woke up at the wrong part of the sleep cycle, and I can't seem to shake it. I promise some day I'll write one of these posts without being exhausted, or at least without complaining about it :p
I was going somewhere with that but I can't remember what. Hmm.
Oh! Oh yeah. I was going to say: By the time I got to breakfast, between the grogginess and the low blood sugar, I couldn't figure out what to eat. Nevermind that I eat the same thing every morning, for exactly that reason: Cheerios with cream and milk. It's relatively non-offensive, even with low blood sugar, and it doesn't require any preparation. So that's what I eat, so I don't have to make a decision.
Except this morning there was also pizza.
I ended up using GoogleFight to make the decision (I would have used a coin but that would require deciding which items went with heads and which with tails), and learning what I already knew: The Internet talks about pizza way more than it talks about Cheerios.
---
I need more high-quality educational baby videos, can anyone recommend any? I'm getting tired of Baby Signs (although it's good) and would like to start alternating what we watch.
We don't watch them all day, but we try to watch Your Baby Can Read once in the morning and once in the evening, and one other thing (right now, Baby Signs or Baby Einsteins My First Signs) in the morning as well.
---
Learn new skills with the click of a mouse - Interesting. A school in NC is doing an online learning thing that is much cheaper than online college courses... I may try it some day to see if I could keep up with online courses.
And Scientists have taken an image of a molcule's skeleton (sort of)--pretty awesome :D
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"That's a lot of toys, Mama."
I put the entire livingroom toy basket in the playpen.
It's a lot of toys ;)
We found a turtle!
This is his new favourite nursing position. It's easier on my back, strangely enough.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Salt, Teeth, and Cats
It was my intention, when I finally got to settle down to nurse Elijah to sleep, to write about the day, which involved the farmer's market, the grocery store, pizza, a migraine, and plenty of surprisingly calm family time, but I'm afraid that all I've ended up with to say is: Applewood smoked salt. On cucumbers. Try it. Now.
And I'd give you a link to the guy I got the smoked salt from if I'd been smart enough to bring the label (and thus url) in here with me.
And there'd be brand new pictures of the babyface, too, except I wasn't smart enough to bring the camera with me either.
So you'll have to wait till morning.
G'night.
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(There was all that cranky throwing of soup spoons and sippy cups of Ovaltine at dinner, though, that was finally only quenched with an old leftover jar of butternut squash babyfood. There's one new tooth and possibly some others that are trying to break through, and they seem to be really bothering the poor boy.)
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Oh! And when watching the Your Baby Can Read video this evening, when they got to "nose", Elijah touched his nose :D When they were showing the other kids touching their noses, that is--not just when he saw the word on the screen. Not yet.
But when he sees the word 'cat', he gets very excited and says, "Ka!"
And I'd give you a link to the guy I got the smoked salt from if I'd been smart enough to bring the label (and thus url) in here with me.
And there'd be brand new pictures of the babyface, too, except I wasn't smart enough to bring the camera with me either.
So you'll have to wait till morning.
G'night.
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(There was all that cranky throwing of soup spoons and sippy cups of Ovaltine at dinner, though, that was finally only quenched with an old leftover jar of butternut squash babyfood. There's one new tooth and possibly some others that are trying to break through, and they seem to be really bothering the poor boy.)
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Oh! And when watching the Your Baby Can Read video this evening, when they got to "nose", Elijah touched his nose :D When they were showing the other kids touching their noses, that is--not just when he saw the word on the screen. Not yet.
But when he sees the word 'cat', he gets very excited and says, "Ka!"
Highlights of today:
-handing the flower woman at the farmer's market the rest of the money I had and asking for a bouquet of whatever that would cover (got a very nice yellow and purple bouquet)
-getting a purpley-reddish curtain panel for $3 that is currently being very pretty in the livingroom
-Elijah finding a toy cat at Safeway and saying, "KA!" and then actually carrying it around all day after we bought it
-handing the flower woman at the farmer's market the rest of the money I had and asking for a bouquet of whatever that would cover (got a very nice yellow and purple bouquet)
-getting a purpley-reddish curtain panel for $3 that is currently being very pretty in the livingroom
-Elijah finding a toy cat at Safeway and saying, "KA!" and then actually carrying it around all day after we bought it
Friday, August 28, 2009
I wish I had some precooked bacon.
Today is one of those days where blinking hurts, I'm dropping everything, and walking by the "gingerbread spice" scented reed diffuser makes me gag. Usually, I love that thing--it makes my hallway smell like cookies!!--but today. Ugh. Not today.
So I'm trying to coast until naptime, and maybe I'll feel better after we sleep some more.
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Naptime didn't help.
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We have lately been having the best lunch ever: EasyMac with a handful of four-cheese blend and some bacon bits; mushrooms sauteed in butter and olive oil; masala naan; and Ovaltine. Elijah doesn't like the naan, but he LOVES the mushrooms and the Ovaltine, and quite likes the EasyMac.
(One day I will make real mac and cheese.)
First the water... then the Ovaltine... it's so awesome!!
And time to tease the dog!
And this is because there aren't enough blurry cameraphone breastfeeding shots on this blog.
So I'm trying to coast until naptime, and maybe I'll feel better after we sleep some more.
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Naptime didn't help.
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| From Elijah |
We have lately been having the best lunch ever: EasyMac with a handful of four-cheese blend and some bacon bits; mushrooms sauteed in butter and olive oil; masala naan; and Ovaltine. Elijah doesn't like the naan, but he LOVES the mushrooms and the Ovaltine, and quite likes the EasyMac.
(One day I will make real mac and cheese.)
First the water... then the Ovaltine... it's so awesome!!
And time to tease the dog!
And this is because there aren't enough blurry cameraphone breastfeeding shots on this blog.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Dear man with the rottweilers,
When your beautiful but massive rottweiler slips his collar and commences attempting to nibble on my eight pound white mop dog, it is polite to say, "Sorry." after you've regained control of your Goliath. It is not polite to simply walk away.
Coyote
PS. When I said, "Sorry!" as you made your escape, I didn't really mean it.
PPS. It took ten minutes for me to stop shaking.
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Remmy is in the playpen with Elijah, because there are Cheerios. Elijah is mostly ignoring him, because there is Baby Sign on the DVD player.
Elijah smells of miso. He has a belly full of miso and rice.
I had the best idea ever, at dinner: Miso in the sippy cup. He drank a bowl and a half that way.
I wish I had a video of him tasting wasabi. It went something like this:
"... >.< ! . ....... :D Hahahahahaha! :D More!"
When your beautiful but massive rottweiler slips his collar and commences attempting to nibble on my eight pound white mop dog, it is polite to say, "Sorry." after you've regained control of your Goliath. It is not polite to simply walk away.
Coyote
PS. When I said, "Sorry!" as you made your escape, I didn't really mean it.
PPS. It took ten minutes for me to stop shaking.
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Remmy is in the playpen with Elijah, because there are Cheerios. Elijah is mostly ignoring him, because there is Baby Sign on the DVD player.
Elijah smells of miso. He has a belly full of miso and rice.
I had the best idea ever, at dinner: Miso in the sippy cup. He drank a bowl and a half that way.
I wish I had a video of him tasting wasabi. It went something like this:
"... >.< ! . ....... :D Hahahahahaha! :D More!"
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