Hmmm, well it's been a long time again. I meant to write on Tuesday, but then I got distracted with homework and Tommy and family history and cooking, etc., etc., etc. Tommy's new thing is popping his lips open kinda like a fish. He smiles really big when someone does it back with him. Today he was sitting by big storage tub of jumbo Legos and realized that he couldn't reach the Legos very well. So he stood himself up, butt sticking out and wobbling side to side, and fished out some blocks. He was very good at entertaining himself for a long time so that I could play the piano. We had the house all to ourselves today; Shad, Vern and Levi were helping someone move, and Pris and Ruth were at the seminary activity in Kearney.
I've been getting fed up with the cooking situation for a while. I cook every day. They don't eat leftovers if I say we're having leftovers. Nope, they just have popcorn or microwaved chicken tenders with chips. I've been especially having a hard time with Levi, who doesn't really eat much besides popcorn, Lucky Charms, chips and Poptarts. Occasionally he'll actually like something I make. So I made pasta with shrimp scampi tonight because that's something he's liked before. Let's say it one more time: I planned this meal because he LIKES it. In the past, he's had second helpings. Granted, he picks out the shrimp and doesn't eat any vegetable side dish I make. Today, he didn't like it. THERE WAS NOTHING DIFFERENT ABOUT IT!!! But he didn't like it. Didn't recall having liked it before. Maybe he liked it before because it didn't have shrimp in it. Nope, it had shrimp in it before. So guess what happened to the mound of uneaten pasta on his plate? It went into the trash when he got up to clear his place. I think this is the last straw. I'm through. I don't give a crap what they eat anymore. I'm fed up, burned out, DONE!
On a happier note, Shad got a job yesterday. He starts Monday. He'll be working with septic tanks and is excited. We're thrilled for this job. It's a great working environment, Shad will be able to work with his hands and learn a lot, and the pay is excellent and they'll give him a lot of raises. The employers are excited to hear that Shad is looking for this to be more than temporary. We're also excited because we found another house that we love. It's bigger, better and cheaper than the other one we liked. We're looking forward to having paychecks so that we can make an offer!
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Shakin our heads to How to Train Your Dragon
The past two weeks have been fun and eventful in small ways. Tommy likes being able to feed himself graham crackers and such rather than being handed bite-size pieces. He makes a fantastic mess, but I love seeing him so happy with his food. He was really funny a couple weeks ago. I set him on the floor to play with toys. I thought I had sufficiently removed hazardous objects and computer cords from his area, but he found a caramel Hershey kiss that I missed. He ate it.
Luckily we were able to dig the foil wrapper out of his mouth before any damage could be done with him trying to eat it.
Last week Tommy learned to stick out his tongue on Sunday. He now spends a lot of his time unconsciously slipping his tongue out, or consciously blabbing it around with someone who will do it back. Then on Monday (a week ago) he started shaking his head back and forth. It doesn't seem to mean "no," although it's cute when he does coordinate it with questions. Mostly it's just something he does to play and be silly. Or dance. He'll shake his head in response to me shaking my head at him, or to music. It's cute to see him sit on the floor and shake his head to a movie score and his whole little body moves with it! He enjoys saying, "mamamamamamamamamama" and "dadadadadadadadada" a lot. Smart kid, he seems to know which sounds apply to which parents. We sure love hearing it:)
On Tuesday last week, Tommy pulled himself up on the couch. It was sure exciting but he hasn't done it again since. We drove to Colorado that day as well. Shad's mom was going to have her friend to her taxes and ours. We decided to ride along for a visit and to go to the temple. We got to see my family, Dan and Ryan, Mark and Robyn, and go to the temple. It was a very productive trip for only a day and a half. We were there Tuesday night to Thursday morning.
We're still waiting hear back from a guy, Larry, on a potential job for Shad. All he's told us is to be patient, and that Shad's at the top of the list of candidates. Comforting, but we want more!
I am addicted to the soundtrack from How to Train Your Dragon! As good as the movie is, the music is better and the movie wouldn't be what it is without the score. It is AMAZING. It plays through my head all the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IBlQj2U5kU It gives me chills!
I have all the tracks compiled into a playlist on youtube and Tommy and I shake our heads to it while I try to decipher my crap Russian assignments. Is it bad to want to kill my Russian instructor? Probably yes. But I sure wish the dean would hurry up and email me back so I can find some justice without her death. She keeps giving us online discussion topics that don't correlate with what we're learning in our textbook chapter. In the last unit we were learning about articles of clothing and size/condition/color adjectives. The discussion topic was about our family members, their ages and how much older or younger they are than me. That is unit 5 and we were on 2! I don't have time to try and learn an additional chapter for her stupid discussion. And this time it's even worse: the discussion topic isn't even IN the textbook. AT ALL! If she wants me to go to a translation website, type in English and click a button to translate it into Russian, I can sure do that. But I think my time and learning would be much better spent if she would just ask me to discuss languages and nationalities like we're supposed to in this unit. I don't care how she justifies her crap topics, it wasn't laid out in the unit overview of what we're studying and learning.
Luckily we were able to dig the foil wrapper out of his mouth before any damage could be done with him trying to eat it.
Last week Tommy learned to stick out his tongue on Sunday. He now spends a lot of his time unconsciously slipping his tongue out, or consciously blabbing it around with someone who will do it back. Then on Monday (a week ago) he started shaking his head back and forth. It doesn't seem to mean "no," although it's cute when he does coordinate it with questions. Mostly it's just something he does to play and be silly. Or dance. He'll shake his head in response to me shaking my head at him, or to music. It's cute to see him sit on the floor and shake his head to a movie score and his whole little body moves with it! He enjoys saying, "mamamamamamamamamama" and "dadadadadadadadada" a lot. Smart kid, he seems to know which sounds apply to which parents. We sure love hearing it:)
On Tuesday last week, Tommy pulled himself up on the couch. It was sure exciting but he hasn't done it again since. We drove to Colorado that day as well. Shad's mom was going to have her friend to her taxes and ours. We decided to ride along for a visit and to go to the temple. We got to see my family, Dan and Ryan, Mark and Robyn, and go to the temple. It was a very productive trip for only a day and a half. We were there Tuesday night to Thursday morning.
We're still waiting hear back from a guy, Larry, on a potential job for Shad. All he's told us is to be patient, and that Shad's at the top of the list of candidates. Comforting, but we want more!
I am addicted to the soundtrack from How to Train Your Dragon! As good as the movie is, the music is better and the movie wouldn't be what it is without the score. It is AMAZING. It plays through my head all the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IBlQj2U5kU It gives me chills!
I have all the tracks compiled into a playlist on youtube and Tommy and I shake our heads to it while I try to decipher my crap Russian assignments. Is it bad to want to kill my Russian instructor? Probably yes. But I sure wish the dean would hurry up and email me back so I can find some justice without her death. She keeps giving us online discussion topics that don't correlate with what we're learning in our textbook chapter. In the last unit we were learning about articles of clothing and size/condition/color adjectives. The discussion topic was about our family members, their ages and how much older or younger they are than me. That is unit 5 and we were on 2! I don't have time to try and learn an additional chapter for her stupid discussion. And this time it's even worse: the discussion topic isn't even IN the textbook. AT ALL! If she wants me to go to a translation website, type in English and click a button to translate it into Russian, I can sure do that. But I think my time and learning would be much better spent if she would just ask me to discuss languages and nationalities like we're supposed to in this unit. I don't care how she justifies her crap topics, it wasn't laid out in the unit overview of what we're studying and learning.
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