On Friday we had plans to go swimming with Tracey and Lucian, we had a quiet morning so we could save up our energy. I had put Holly down for a nap at 2:00 but it was more like 3;05 when she fell asleep, I was luckily able to transfer her down into the car and car seat without waking her and planned to let her sleep until the last possible minute. We arrived and were all waiting to get in chatting, Taggard and Isla where there also, and then after a few other mom’s arrive we notice there is a sign on the door saying it is closed.
Well several of us had been here last week when it was closed and we were all told there would be class today, so we were quite upset and not ready to leave. We decide to call the aquatics program, by this time there are maybe 15 parents, and we find out there was a football game. Well we don’t understand what that has to do with swim class, when the parking lot seems void of any students so we continue to protest and the Aquatics Director says she will come talk with us. By the time she arrives there is a mob of about 30 angry moms. Apparently the High School uses the locker rooms on game day, but we are all woman we protest, well the away team uses the girl’s locker room, well the game doesn’t start until 7:30 we continue, well it was the decision of the High School Athletic Director.. OK so on the phone we are again calling him to complain.
In the end, we all left and didn’t get to use the pool. It turns out that the team won all of their games and made the playoffs, so this was an added game and no one new until Tuesday that there would be a game. We were still unclear why a game in the evening would prevent us from using the pool earlier in the day, some of us lingered until after 4:00 and there still didn’t seem to be much of a crowd, and we would have been happy to swim without the use of the locker room, but for that day it was too late. Several of us left messages for the Athletics Director, as he didn’t answer his phone, and the Aquatics Director took down all of our names, phone numbers and email addresses and said she would let us know by email in the future if there were other classes cancelled.
We were disappointed. I asked Tracey if she wanted to go to Tumble and Tea to play, but she was worried about traffic getting back into the city and didn’t stay. So Holly and I headed over on our own. By this time she had woken from her nap and since I never woke her to swim she had been sleeping over an hour, and she was full of energy and ready to play.
I dropped her off onto the play mat and got myself strawberry lemonade and she was happily crawling and climbing around. She made a bunch of friends right away. First was will, a 9 month old who was hanging out with her. After he left she played by herself for a bit and then she was adopted by Tatum, her new “Older Sister” Tatum advised me she had lots of practice taking care of babies because her little brother was now 2, but he isn’t as much fun as a baby anymore. Tatum played with Holly for quite a while, she would bring her toys from all over the café, and line them up for her, help her climb and sit her up when she fell, and she would also show her how to work the toys and got down on the ground and played with her. It was quite adorable, and gave me a chance to flip through my magazine.
Holly is getting really good at the toy that has 5 creatures, and 5 “knobs” you flip a switch, push a button, turn the dial, and the creatures pop open. When we last played with this Holly basically chewed on it and tried to hit the creatures. Now, I opened each one and she was able to close them, as a matter of fact she was pretty obsessed with this. Tatum would show her how to “open” them by flipping a switch or turning the dial, this was a little advance for her, although she would do this occasionally, however every time they were all opened she would go down the line and shut them all. Much more advanced from last week when she was playing with it.
After Tatum left, Henry came to play. He was born on March 5th 5 weeks early; he had jaundice and dropped weight down to 4lb 6oz. So now he is 7 days older then Holly and he weighted a whopping 20lb 9oz. I couldn’t believe it. He was very big. But like Will he did not crawl or stand yet. So he sat playing with toys, and Holly was a bit of a bully, he would pick up and play with a cube and then she would climb over to him and take it. He didn’t mind and once she had it she gave it back to him, she thought it was a game like every toy he picked up he was handing to her, I mean, that’s what Tatum was doing right…
Henry’s mom was encouraging her, as apparently he just started daycare at a home center and he is afraid of the other children and cries all day not eating or napping. He is the youngest there, the next oldest is 11 months and then 2 years old, so I can see why without other kids his same age the older kids can be scary. He seemed to really like holly, perhaps because his mom was nearby eating her dinner, or maybe just because Holly was technically littler then him, even if she was the one climbing all over him. Once, when she was being particularly boorish and on top of him he started tapping her in the head, not hard, and not different from what she was doing to herself a month ago, but she did not like that. Good for Henry to stand up for himself, she back away and sat looking at him and let him keep his toy, and then gave me the pouting face and cried. I of course picked her right up, gave her a kiss and she was as good as new trying to play with Henry some more.
We hung out until about 6:30 and then picked up daddy. When we got home we ate some more sweet potatoes and this time with rice cereal mixed in, which I forgot to mention she also had for lunch, she ate about 2/3 of the container and I am trying to feed her twice a day now when I can, once around noonish and then again around 7:00 ish when Joel gets home. She didn’t like it as much with the rice cereal, but she did finish it.
We read her a story and put her to bed about 9:30, she was rather wiggly, so I didn’t think it would stick because she fell asleep in the car on the way home and had an hour nap, but it did. We had talked with Tracey and Lucian about maybe going swimming in the morning, if they could make it by 10:00 but they left us a message that it was going to be too early for them. So Mommy slept in all the way until noon, and Daddy spent the morning playing with holly. Today for lunch she had Blueberry, pear and oat, which she seemed to like, she ate it all up, the amount I set aside for her anyways, and Daddy had Cauliflower for Lunch, and so he grinded up some for holly, which I will give her tonight for dinner, so stay tuned to see how that goes. We are off to Costco to get some more Formula and other things.
Back from Costco, we were there for only 90 minutes, but it is the new hell mouth and time there moves slowly, Joel swore it had been 3 hours. I got a new “T-Drive” it’s an external 1 Terabyte Drive, and I think I might be able to restore the data from the old one, so now I have a reliable replacement, and we got some Christmas gifts and a lot of food. I was amazingly able to fit everything into the freezer, but I still have to make room for the Turkey we are getting on Monday But I am going to try and talk Joel into Brining it, so then I won’t have too. Well off to find some pictures to include in this post, don’t forget to check out Flickr,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vczdavis
On Friday we had plans to go swimming with Tracey and Lucian, we had a quiet morning so we could save up our energy. I had put Holly down for a nap at 2:00 but it was more like 3;05 when she fell asleep, I was luckily able to transfer her down into the car and car seat without waking her and planned to let her sleep until the last possible minute. We arrived and were all waiting to get in chatting, Taggard and Isla where there also, and then after a few other mom’s arrive we notice there is a sign on the door saying it is closed.
Well several of us had been here last week when it was closed and we were all told there would be class today, so we were quite upset and not ready to leave. We decide to call the aquatics program, by this time there are maybe 15 parents, and we find out there was a football game. Well we don’t understand what that has to do with swim class, when the parking lot seems void of any students so we continue to protest and the Aquatics Director says she will come talk with us. By the time she arrives there is a mob of about 30 angry moms. Apparently the High School uses the locker rooms on game day, but we are all woman we protest, well the away team uses the girl’s locker room, well the game doesn’t start until 7:30 we continue, well it was the decision of the High School Athletic Director.. OK so on the phone we are again calling him to complain.
In the end, we all left and didn’t get to use the pool. It turns out that the team won all of their games and made the playoffs, so this was an added game and no one new until Tuesday that there would be a game. We were still unclear why a game in the evening would prevent us from using the pool earlier in the day, some of us lingered until after 4:00 and there still didn’t seem to be much of a crowd, and we would have been happy to swim without the use of the locker room, but for that day it was too late. Several of us left messages for the Athletics Director, as he didn’t answer his phone, and the Aquatics Director took down all of our names, phone numbers and email addresses and said she would let us know by email in the future if there were other classes cancelled.
We were disappointed. I asked Tracey if she wanted to go to Tumble and Tea to play, but she was worried about traffic getting back into the city and didn’t stay. So Holly and I headed over on our own. By this time she had woken from her nap and since I never woke her to swim she had been sleeping over an hour, and she was full of energy and ready to play.
I dropped her off onto the play mat and got myself strawberry lemonade and she was happily crawling and climbing around. She made a bunch of friends right away. First was will, a 9 month old who was hanging out with her. After he left she played by herself for a bit and then she was adopted by Tatum, her new “Older Sister” Tatum advised me she had lots of practice taking care of babies because her little brother was now 2, but he isn’t as much fun as a baby anymore. Tatum played with Holly for quite a while, she would bring her toys from all over the café, and line them up for her, help her climb and sit her up when she fell, and she would also show her how to work the toys and got down on the ground and played with her. It was quite adorable, and gave me a chance to flip through my magazine.
Holly is getting really good at the toy that has 5 creatures, and 5 “knobs” you flip a switch, push a button, turn the dial, and the creatures pop open. When we last played with this Holly basically chewed on it and tried to hit the creatures. Now, I opened each one and she was able to close them, as a matter of fact she was pretty obsessed with this. Tatum would show her how to “open” them by flipping a switch or turning the dial, this was a little advance for her, although she would do this occasionally, however every time they were all opened she would go down the line and shut them all. Much more advanced from last week when she was playing with it.
After Tatum left, Henry came to play. He was born on March 5th 5 weeks early; he had jaundice and dropped weight down to 4lb 6oz. So now he is 7 days older then Holly and he weighted a whopping 20lb 9oz. I couldn’t believe it. He was very big. But like Will he did not crawl or stand yet. So he sat playing with toys, and Holly was a bit of a bully, he would pick up and play with a cube and then she would climb over to him and take it. He didn’t mind and once she had it she gave it back to him, she thought it was a game like every toy he picked up he was handing to her, I mean, that’s what Tatum was doing right…
Henry’s mom was encouraging her, as apparently he just started daycare at a home center and he is afraid of the other children and cries all day not eating or napping. He is the youngest there, the next oldest is 11 months and then 2 years old, so I can see why without other kids his same age the older kids can be scary. He seemed to really like holly, perhaps because his mom was nearby eating her dinner, or maybe just because Holly was technically littler then him, even if she was the one climbing all over him. Once, when she was being particularly boorish and on top of him he started tapping her in the head, not hard, and not different from what she was doing to herself a month ago, but she did not like that. Good for Henry to stand up for himself, she back away and sat looking at him and let him keep his toy, and then gave me the pouting face and cried. I of course picked her right up, gave her a kiss and she was as good as new trying to play with Henry some more.
We hung out until about 6:30 and then picked up daddy. When we got home we ate some more sweet potatoes and this time with rice cereal mixed in, which I forgot to mention she also had for lunch, she ate about 2/3 of the container and I am trying to feed her twice a day now when I can, once around noonish and then again around 7:00 ish when Joel gets home. She didn’t like it as much with the rice cereal, but she did finish it.
We read her a story and put her to bed about 9:30, she was rather wiggly, so I didn’t think it would stick because she fell asleep in the car on the way home and had an hour nap, but it did. We had talked with Tracey and Lucian about maybe going swimming in the morning, if they could make it by 10:00 but they left us a message that it was going to be too early for them. So Mommy slept in all the way until noon, and Daddy spent the morning playing with holly. Today for lunch she had Blueberry, pear and oat, which she seemed to like, she ate it all up, the amount I set aside for her anyways, and Daddy had Cauliflower for Lunch, and so he grinded up some for holly, which I will give her tonight for dinner, so stay tuned to see how that goes. We are off to Costco to get some more Formula and other things.
Back from Costco, we were there for only 90 minutes, but it is the new hell mouth and time there moves slowly, Joel swore it had been 3 hours. I got a new “T-Drive” it’s an external 1 Terabyte Drive, and I think I might be able to restore the data from the old one, so now I have a reliable replacement, and we got some Christmas gifts and a lot of food. I was amazingly able to fit everything into the freezer, but I still have to make room for the Turkey we are getting on Monday But I am going to try and talk Joel into Brining it, so then I won’t have too. Well off to find some pictures to include in this post, don’t forget to check out Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/vczdavis
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