Learn how to tie knots the easy way.

With all this talk of vomit, dizziness, fevers, and aprons you are probably ready for another topic.

Well, here it is. Ankle warmers. New trend in the 4-year-old set. Well, the 4-year-old set named C4 anyway.




Yes, that is just a second pair of socks tied around her ankles. She's even put a pair on Q2. I guess I won't show her what a "real" pair of ankle warmers and leg warmers that we wore in the 1980s were like ....

This is for Papa

Sorry, 5 days late. But we were thinking of you!!

Wrong

I can't believe it ... I thought today was going to be a vomit-free day ...

Finally ...

Finally! The girls are better. Ooops. C39 is down. I think he's been asleep about 9 of the last 12 hours. And fell out of bed once.

Three girl night.

Last night I babysat for a 3-year-old girl friend of Q2 & C4 ... she's in the babysitting co-op and a very sweet child. But three girls was a little too much for me. But, the good thing is it gave me an excuse to tell Q2 that she just needed to stay in bed while I dealt with T3 (and I couldn't stay there).

Actually, bedtime went fairly smoothly, and Q2 was fine being left alone once I gave her a box of tissues.

C4 attempted to stay up until T3 left, but failed around 8:20 when she finally fell asleep. Phew. Because I'd promised her I'd read more to her if she was still up when T3 left.

After I went to bed though Q2 started her nightmares: "No, don't throw it away!" (talking about me recycling her multitudes of drawings?) and "No, that's not my Dinosaur! I want MY dinosaur!" Two nightmares I didn't think we'd encounter, too much recycling and wanting but not getting a giant reptile type thing.

Three apron day

How did I get so productive, you ask? Nobody threw up, I retort. And the girl who woke at 4:30 AM also took a 2.5 hour nap. Oh, that and two of the aprons had already been started.

Here are the aprons ...

C4's apron ...

(C4 also wants a large C on the top of the apron like Q2 has on hers. But, she put it on before I could do it. Tomorrow, maybe.)


... and a mommy/daughter apron pair that I just love. I made every mistake in the book on the daughter apron one because at 5:00 tonight I just decided, hey, that mommy apron needs a daughter apron to go with it and here's how I'll do it. Oops, nope. Gotta rip that out. Ooops, forgot to do that. Ooops, didn't get the bias tape on real well, better rip and sew again. Seriously, if I'd even stopped and planned for 5 minutes it would have been better. But finally I did it. And I love the pair.


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Also today my mom reminded me that it is good for kids to have a little discomfort, and I know that, but it is good to be reminded. So, Q went to bed tonight without me sitting in the room. She spilled water on herself and needed to be dried once. She unzipped herself and needed to be zipped once. She came out of the room twice. A little crying/whining. But that was it. I reminded her that there was just one of me and I needed to be where I could hear both girls ... not in her room. She bought it, enough, I guess!

Constructive criticism received and acted upon, CHECK! Let's see if I can keep this up ...

Talking about volcanos

They like to talk about volcanos. C4 was wondering why the people of Pompeii left all their stuff when Vesuvius erupted (We kind of glossed over the fact that many of them died and were buried along with their stuff, so that wasn't an issue), and I tried to explain how if our neighbor's house was a volcano, and it erupted C39 & I would grab C4, Q2, and evacuate so we'd be safe.

C4 then got stuck on the idea that we needed to take ALL HER DOGS and STUFF.

But quite smartly Q2 said "We'll got to Safeway and we'll be SAFE!"