Month: January 2009

Cupcakes are the Devil

So when we make a cake, I get a piece, a big one granted, and I eat it.  And then I am good for the day.  Sometimes I will grab another for a midnight snack, but cakes last a while around here.  I can eat it in fork sized bites and feel satisfied after a nice big piece with chocolate icing.  Cupcakes are another matter altogether.  You (or I at least!) can eat one in two bites and then you dive in for another in 5 minutes.  We made 24 cupcakes yesterday, and we have  5 left.  19 cupcakes gone in 24 hours.  My estimate:  Seporah 2, Felicity 2, Mommy 5.  You do the math.  Cupcakes are the Devil.

Here I Am, Love Me

                        


(Seporah loves this song)

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Life has been oh so busy so I haven’t had a proper post in a while. And I really did intend on having a post about Seporah on her birthday. But anyways, I’m only 4 days late. Can you believe she’s already 3 years old? It’s insane, but it’s sounds so much nicer to say I have a 1 year old and a 3 year old rather than 1 and 2. Anyways, she is now 39 inches, 35 pounds, 86 percentile for height and weight and quite comfortable in 4T clothing.

The most pressing issue with her is her speech. She babbles all day long like there’s no tomorrow. She has a decent size vocabulary, but she will not put words together, she does not make sentences. Example; “lasdgh aglka dhglhs drink. alkfjl kadg;aldgj cup. lkahdgsh vlhadgk No! Juice! askjgya oisaeyt ag Please! alifh dih ga Thank you! ahg ahgiah gfa hdfglkhgk.” She’s always been a tad behind vocally, but she babbled so much we always assumed she’d catch up. However I was like no more of that. So she’s getting to see a speech therapist for evaluation (also an audiology evaluation just to make sure she can hear, but I’m pretty sure she hears me as clear as a bell).

Other than vocally (and the potty) she’s right on target. She expects the world to revolve around her, she’s never met a stranger, and expects everyone to love her and give her their undivided attention. ”Here I am, Love me!“ would be her personal motto. She’s very physical, loves to run and jump and dance all day long and she’s incredibly strong. She’s very opinionated and knows what she wants, taking no substitutes.

(As if you didn’t know) Trains are her absolute favorite thing at the present moment. Followed by dogs, fish and ducks. Favorite TV show-Little Einstein, then Winnie the Pooh and Backyardigans.

She really can’t get away from music at this house and has developed a serious love for it. She’s an awesome little rocker. She’ll play any instrument she can get her hands on and if there’s none available, the floor works really well as a drum. If she likes a song, she starts dancing, moving and shaking and tells everyone to ”Dance!“ right along with her.

Lately she’s become slightly more girly. I’ve been able to put dresses on her the past month. I think this is due to Miss Karen’s influence, painting nails and having proper dress up clothes and jewelry at her house. I’m now hopeful I’ll have someone to go get pedicures with in a few years.

In the past 6 months or so she’s also become a picky eater. Which is somewhat crazy since Seporah use to eat whatever we put in front of her, literally, bell peppers, vegetables, lamb, casseroles, anything (well except green beans, she really has always hated those). Now, somehow or another she lives on top ramen, sandwiches (called wunches, a cross between lunch and sandwiches), apples, oranges, and milk. It’s mildly annoying.

She has about a bazillion toys, but her favorite? Dad’s iPod Touch. She so wants her very own, but I’m like, hey if I don’t get one of my own, you sure don’t get one of your own. We’ll just have to share with Daddy.

Seporah also couldn’t get away from books at this house. We literally have 300 board books alone. She will sit for an hour while you read to her one after another. (tangent: it’s always been this way since she was a little baby and when we were at the Doctors and he asked if we read to her, I actually got a little angry even though it was a valid question since we read to her soooooo much) (oh and tangent 2: Felicity not so much about the books, I’m hoping she’ll grow to appreciate a good story, but the difference between the 2 of them and their reactions to books is quite wide).

Things she doesn’t like? Scary movies and socks without shoes.

Seriously? How can you not love this big girl?

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Märia Started it – Part 1

Since she did it, I figured I would write what I am reading, or have read recently.

  Ask me any time what I have read recently and I will probably say I have read Ender’s Game.  I probably have read it 300-500 times, and I know between reading it and listening to it on audio book, I ingested it at least 20-30 times in 2008 alone.  The story surrounding the book is interesting… I saw it on a book shelf at a book fair in Beeville Texas the last week of school at FMC elementary school when I was in the 4th grade.  I looked at the book all week long, from Monday to Friday, and wanted it all week long.  I think it was $4, but I didn’t have that kind of money in the 4th grade, and I knew my dad wouldn’t have it, or at least I was afraid to ask for it.  Anyway, I am not proud of this, but on Friday, as they were packing up the Scholastic Book Fair, I snuck it under my shirt and ran off.  While I am ashamed of this particular action, I cannot say I regret it.  The book has shaped my life and philosophy on it.  Many many things in my life would have been very different without this act.  

The book is the exploration of a series of games set up to make leaders out of children.  Ender is my number one hero (followed by Jack Bower!) and we would all do well to emulate his empathy and wisdom.  

Which leads to the most recent book I have read.

  While there have been many sequels to Ender’s game, and a parallel series, Ender in Exile is the first direct sequel to Ender’s game, in that it picks up directly after the surprise ending in the first book.  After having read Ender’s Game hundreds of times, I didn’t know what to expect of a direct sequel.  It almost screams “sell out” at this point, like the author needed a good holiday book to make some money.  That was my initial fear at least.  I couldn’t have been more wrong.  I should wait to say this until I have read it more than once, and may alter my opinion, but it may very well be better than Ender’s Game, and I can’t say that lightly.  It more than fleshes out Ender’s character – it tortures his character to show what he is made of, and he comes out a man, having been a boy in my mind for 15 years.  

I have run out of time for now, but will continue later with 2 other books I read in December 2008, and concluding with what I will be reading in January – February 2009.  Happy New Year!