November 26, 2009
The CD player in our Honda has been out of order for a while now. It will take a CD, but just make a disturbing flapping sound and sit there. Which is a problem, because, especially on eight-to-ten-hour drives, being able to put on some appropriate mood music for the girlies can come in very handy. So, yesterday, we took matters into our own hands.
There are instructions on the internet for disassembling your car. With photos. So Craig removed the top dashboard piece, the one with the air vents in it. And the case around the gearshift, and the “not an ashtray”, and the pop-lid storage thingy, and finally, (finally!) the control console. Read more...
November 19, 2009
So Lucy likes to take down the spices (and extracts, and colored sugar) from the spice rack and smell them. This is usually a harmless passtime, which possibly develops her sensory awareness, so usually I let her be. There have been a couple of spills (sesame seeds come to mind), but, as I say, it’s all usually harmless.
So yesterday, I noticed Lucy pouring the orange sugar from the bottle into the bottle cap and eating it. I questioned her, and she denied eating it. I warned her that the things on the spice rack go in foods, but aren’t very tasty by themselves. (Not true of colored sugar, but it was a general statement.) I walked away. Read more...
November 18, 2009
Craig: “Lucy, why are you so intense?”
Lucy: “I’m not intense!”
Craig: “Yes, you are!”
Lucy: “I’m not in tents, I’m right here!”
November 16, 2009
My heart is broken. The six (and only six) oranges left on the tree we planted last year are gone. We weren’t really expecting any the first year, so we were really excited when we had a ton of buds, then hundreds of tiny green oranges, which diminished slowly until eight were left. Two split and we removed them. And when I went to check the one that had started to turn yellow this morning, they were all gone. Even the ones in a bunch that I contrived a pvc-and-rag contraption to hold up since they were too heavy for the little orange tree branches. Read more...
November 13, 2009
Before I forget, (since I’m not keeping track of all this anywhere else!) Samantha has a new tooth, which we noticed a couple of days ago. Bottom, left of the two front ones. And she now loves to walk, and wants to start writing. Sigh.
November 13, 2009
Today’s lesson: how the bread machine works. Including discussion of the heating element, the rotary motion of the mixing paddle, basic and more elaborate bread ingredients, etc. The bread machine then got a good scrubbing. What subject does that go under? : )
November 10, 2009
This is the email I received from one of our senators today:
“Dear Friend,
I was outraged when I found out the Obama Administration wanted to give Guantanamo Bay detainees the H1N1 vaccine while millions of Americans – including pregnant women and children – are still waiting to get the H1N1 vaccine because of massive shortages. Read more...
November 7, 2009
Lucy got some new blocks while we were in Texas, and has been quite busy with them. Her favorite constructions so far are all sorts of towers, the taller the better.
I think I learned how to turn the pictures and forgot. Sorry.
November 7, 2009
Ok, it’s a couple of days late, but that was so that I could get the pictures up. I can’t believe she’s a year old already! I had to go back and re-read her birth story as part of the celebration.
We had broccoli pasta and apples and squash, both of which Samantha could eat and really, really enjoyed.
We had apple pie instead of cake, since she can’t have eggs. (There are eggless cakes we like, but the pie is really good!)
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November 4, 2009
Sorry, everyone, for the long silence. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks, and I promised myself I wouldn’t write until I could be reasonably sure I wouldn’t be immediately interrupted. We spent most of last week in Texas, because on October 21 my father passed away. Even though we knew he had cancer and this was possible, it was not expected at the time or in the way that it happened, so it has still been a bit of a shock. Read more...
