Monday, January 15, 2007 by Amy
Okay, so I wrote this and kept it up on the computer and now it's a new day and I want to make a new post, so this one will be posted without pictures for now...
Like a complete retard, I bundle the kids up in the 0 degree weather, clear the snow off my car, warm it up, shovel the driveway so I can get out, put gas in the car, and drive Riley to school only to discover that it's Martin Luther King Jr. Day and schools are closed. Arg. So that was a long car ride for nothing at all.
Riley has her appointment at the ophthalmologist (ha! I didn't even need to spell-check that word for once! I'm learning!) tomorrow afternoon. I'm really eager to figure this thing out. In a completely unscientific test yesterday night, I took all of Riley's red and green crayons out of the box, about fifteen crayons in various shades. I gave them to her and told her to put the red ones in one bucket and the green ones in another. She put two red crayons in the green bucket, all the others, both red and green, in the red bucket. Seems just a little bit strange. Then I take away the green crayons and give her red and blue and she puts all the blue ones in the blue bucket first and then the ones that "are not blue" she puts in the red bucket. I looked online and only .64 percent of girls are colorblind, so the chances are really slim. If she's not colorblind, then maybe they'll have suggestions on how to teach her the difference, or something else that may be wrong. It just doesn't seem right to me. I'm usually the "don't worry about it" type of parent, which directly clashes with Rudi's "give them medicine for the smallest thing and take them to the doctor at the drop of a hat" style of parenting. But something is definitely wrong and if it's not red-green colorblindness then it has to be something else. Or maybe she's just red-green colorstupid. Who knows.
Ah, what to do today. I know I want to go to Joann Fabrics and check out some possible fabric for a baby wrap, although I'm not optimistic that I'll find something suitable. I just don't want to pay a whole butt-load of money for a wrap that someone essentially just hemmed up the ends on. It's not like they require extensive seamstress experience to make these. Man, I am so cheap...
Avery is walking so much today. She walked clear across the house into the kitchen just now. That had to be at least two dozen steps. Way to go!
Rudi is out at the Y today for the first time in several days. To be fair, he has had a pretty bad cough and the Y closes too early on Saturdays and Sundays for him to get there after work. So he's off the hook for now...
Yesterday I made some delicious tarragon chicken with apples. I got a new healthy-eating cookbook on the bargain table at Barnes and Noble. I made pork medalions with cherries a few days ago. They were both yummy. Almost all the recipes involve meat with fruit, so we'll see how long it is before we get sick of the combination, but for now it's interesting. I really have a pork addiction right now.
Rudi has his doctor's appointment on Thursday, so we'll see if he'll be on insulin or not. I hope they were just trying to scare him. Although they've tried that before and it didn't really work. He just really needs some hard education. Yesterday, he took his blood sugar before he ate dinner and it was 120, which is not normally a bad reading, but he hadn't even eaten yet.
Like a complete retard, I bundle the kids up in the 0 degree weather, clear the snow off my car, warm it up, shovel the driveway so I can get out, put gas in the car, and drive Riley to school only to discover that it's Martin Luther King Jr. Day and schools are closed. Arg. So that was a long car ride for nothing at all.
Riley has her appointment at the ophthalmologist (ha! I didn't even need to spell-check that word for once! I'm learning!) tomorrow afternoon. I'm really eager to figure this thing out. In a completely unscientific test yesterday night, I took all of Riley's red and green crayons out of the box, about fifteen crayons in various shades. I gave them to her and told her to put the red ones in one bucket and the green ones in another. She put two red crayons in the green bucket, all the others, both red and green, in the red bucket. Seems just a little bit strange. Then I take away the green crayons and give her red and blue and she puts all the blue ones in the blue bucket first and then the ones that "are not blue" she puts in the red bucket. I looked online and only .64 percent of girls are colorblind, so the chances are really slim. If she's not colorblind, then maybe they'll have suggestions on how to teach her the difference, or something else that may be wrong. It just doesn't seem right to me. I'm usually the "don't worry about it" type of parent, which directly clashes with Rudi's "give them medicine for the smallest thing and take them to the doctor at the drop of a hat" style of parenting. But something is definitely wrong and if it's not red-green colorblindness then it has to be something else. Or maybe she's just red-green colorstupid. Who knows.
Ah, what to do today. I know I want to go to Joann Fabrics and check out some possible fabric for a baby wrap, although I'm not optimistic that I'll find something suitable. I just don't want to pay a whole butt-load of money for a wrap that someone essentially just hemmed up the ends on. It's not like they require extensive seamstress experience to make these. Man, I am so cheap...
Avery is walking so much today. She walked clear across the house into the kitchen just now. That had to be at least two dozen steps. Way to go!
Rudi is out at the Y today for the first time in several days. To be fair, he has had a pretty bad cough and the Y closes too early on Saturdays and Sundays for him to get there after work. So he's off the hook for now...
Yesterday I made some delicious tarragon chicken with apples. I got a new healthy-eating cookbook on the bargain table at Barnes and Noble. I made pork medalions with cherries a few days ago. They were both yummy. Almost all the recipes involve meat with fruit, so we'll see how long it is before we get sick of the combination, but for now it's interesting. I really have a pork addiction right now.
Rudi has his doctor's appointment on Thursday, so we'll see if he'll be on insulin or not. I hope they were just trying to scare him. Although they've tried that before and it didn't really work. He just really needs some hard education. Yesterday, he took his blood sugar before he ate dinner and it was 120, which is not normally a bad reading, but he hadn't even eaten yet.
