Saturday, May 14, 2016

Allergies and Eardrums

Going to try to seriously catch up here.

Poor kiddos, they both have ear infections. Peanut is able to shrug his off with a nightly dose of Tylenol but Almond's eardrum burst :( We've had quite a few miserable days and nights. Maybe hopefully last night was the last? 5 wakeups from her, and Peanut woke up early. So tired, so many bad nights in a row.

The good news is other than one really awful day, she's mostly happy during the day. She's pulling to standing like a pro, still pretty shaky about cruising. But give her your hands and she'll waddle around for 20 minutes until collapsing if you let her.

Last night Peanut had a school party, he danced like a mad man. He was really shy at first, he doesn't have a whole lot of friends at school - he's my dreamer, always lost in his own little world. But once he warmed up and the kids started whipping around their glowsticks like lightsabers, he was willing to engage kids. Which was sweet to see. Almond enjoyed the first half of the the dance party, but she was tired and the floor was cold to crawl on. But we handed her back and forth to keep her entertained and Peanut also won a big thing of sidewalk chalk. Of course when we showed him that he was upset that he didn't win one of the cooler toys.... oh well, he'll enjoy it. He got a little interested when we reminded him he could draw all the planets with that many colors.

They play good sometimes, but now he's getting upset when she wants to play with him and he's got something special. Also he's getting jealous that she has toys that he's not supposed to play with. He likes to use her toys to make calderas for volcanoes.

Right now Peanut is building his wooden train tracks on the big table down here in the playroom. Next to his giant block volcano and multiple lighthouses. Up high away from Almond. He doesn't like that now she can get up to his train table. We'll find some fun stuff that can go up there the next few months before we can trust her not to just automatically dismantle everything he sets up.

We had our yearly village wide garage sale trip the beginning of the month. We did fairly well, got lots of clothes for both kids, though a lot of what I found for Peanut were 6-7. So a little big right now. Well, a lot for the 7, heh. We found her the table pictured above, as we gave our old table to E when he was a baby. And now Baby N can enjoy it, and that's cool. This one is quiet but glows, so that's a nice quiet change. Peanut picked out some space books, some cars and a tank. Gma picked up a few toys for Almond to play with at her house and we got her a pink rocking horse. In a month or so she's going to love that, once she gets more steady on her feet. Still missing a few things, but we have all summer to find them. Of course I spent the last two weekends not garage saling as things have just seemed pretty hectic. Like today, I was exhuasted earlier, everything got crazy at lunchtime because we were trying to get Peanut to the library for a lego party, and of course all of us ate different things today.

For Mothers' Day, the three of them went off on a bike ride to give me a little time to myself. Got some project type stuff done and a little rest in, it was nice, and apparently the kids did really well so it can happen again (and again and again...).

I think that's pretty good for an update. She's napping again now as I type this up, and I have to fold laundry and finish cleaning the kitchen. With her ear she may not nap long, hopefully I can prolong it if she wakes up early though. Keep your fingers crossed for me, if nothing else that I get stuff done today.


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