She's Gotta Have 'em

I took advantage of a sale to replenish our stock of cold breakfast cereal. Jade and Logan had a terrible time deciding which cereal to eat and finally settled on Kellogs Pops. Aeris, strong-minded little girl that she is, pointed and babbled until I clued in that she wanted what they were having. Immediately she was hooked. Mind you, she's tried a lot of cold cereals, some sweetened, and she's never reacted this way. If I even try to pour any other cereal into her bowl, she screams and shoves it away. "Pops!" she yells. Keep in mind, she has about a fifteen word vocabulary, and "Mom" is not included in that list. This afternoon, after having had three bowls of Pops for breakfast, and a full lunch, she was walking (pushing the walker) through the kitchen when she noticed the pantry was open. SCORE! She crawled in and pointed and babbled. I, playing dumb, picked her up to see if she would grab up what she wanted (if she even knew what she wanted). She reached up to the boxes of cereal and picked out the Pops from the six boxes of cereal tightly packed on the shelf, some of which are even the same bright yellow and similar in size. She knows her Pops and she's gotta have 'em!

Yup, It's Reality

Several seasons ago I watched a full season of the Bachelorette (Trista & Ryan anyone?) . I got fairly caught up in the romance of it all. I watched the one after that as well (Andrew Firestone). How disappointed I was when he and the girl he chose broke up. Such a tragedy, REALLY! Since then I've given it up. I couldn't bear to spend several weeks becoming attached to these people and their happiness only to have them break up after the show ends. I know. I'm pathetic. Why would I care so much.

Anyway. I caught the last 15 minutes of the latest Bachelor run last night. Yeah. This is what life really is like in a house full of girls all fighting over the same guy. It was quite the cat fight, followed by a run to the bathroom by one of the girls who was just so sick of it all. Fake and lame! My apologies to anyone who may love this show. I practically ran gagging to the bathroom myself.

All in a day's work

We're right in the middle of the emptying EVERYTHING out of the cupboards, off shelves, out of drawers stage with Aeris. It's such a crack-up because I remember my other two enjoying the same past-time. So I just laugh, and try not to leave her alone in a clean room.

Growing up too fast

Today was Nate's day off. He planned to pop some corn and settle the kids in the basement to watch Prince Caspian while I taught my piano lessons this afternoon. Well, Logan begged to play with his friend Matthew instead. Jade had an activity for church. Is this the future? I thought we had a few more years before the kids had so many other goings on to have time to sit and watch a movie with dad. Hopefully this won't be the norm.

Breaking the Habit

My little Logan has been sucking his thumb for quite some time. In fact, he was caught sucking his thumb by the ultrasound technician during my pregnancy with him. Apparently many children give up thumb sucking on their own before their third birthday. I watched, and hoped, but his third birthday came and went and he was sucking his thumb as much as ever, day and night, not showing any signs that he would ever quit willingly. Well, Logan will turn 5 next month. When I took him to the dentist in December I told him we were ready to try any method necessary to kick the habit. He told me about an appliance cemented into the top of the mouth. Within a couple of weeks the habit is gone. The advantage of the appliance method is that it's stuck there even in the middle of the night when he'd suck his thumb without realizing it. It cost a pretty penny of course, but I'd recommend it highly. It's called a Bluegrass appliance. He whined a little the first night about wanting to suck his thumb, but hasn't complained since. He's had some trouble with food sticking in it, but taking small bites seems to help. We'll leave it in for a couple of months, just to make sure the habit is completely gone.