Sunday, January 21, 2007 by Amy
So did I forget to mention that we got a vacuum cleaner a couple of days ago? This is really big news for us, since we've been without one since we moved to the Springs. Avery absolutely loves the thing and I'm sure she would hop on and ride it around while I vacuum if I let her.
I also bought cloth diaper covers yesterday online. I can't wait for them to come. I got some Bummis Super Snap covers, which are exactly like the Whisper Wrap, just with snaps. I also got some Stacinator So Simple which snap at the sides. I bought some Bummis Whisper Pants which are just the pull-up Gerber-type, but they're nylon not vinyl so they breathe. I didn't want anything with velcro, but I was tempted by the Bumkins wraps with Dr. Seuss prints, so I got one Green Eggs and Ham print and a One Fish Two Fish print. They also have flaps on the inside front that keep the diaper from creeping up, and that's a problem that we have, so we'll see if it works. Ooooh, now I just have to wait.
Riley's Holiday Program at school was cute, but very long. It would have been better if Riley didn't stand there and pick her nose for at least half the program. At least she used a tissue. She didn't do anything, which is really aggravating since she sang me "Jingle Bells" in the car so I know she knows it. She did shake the bells, but that's it. She participated a little bit with the two French songs (Riley has a French teacher? Who knew?). I think I am going to request a meeting with her teachers because Riley is totally different in school than she is at home. She acts like a complete mute dummy at school, and I'm not happy with that. She really needs to be challenged and they can't let her get away with playing shy and stupid. So there, Riley. I'm on to you!
Yesterday I remarked to Rudi that Avery really gave Riley the "stink-eye" and Riley busted out laughing and couldn't stop. She thought "stink-eye" was the funniest thing she ever heard. She also called me "little buddy" and "stink-fest" at Barnes and Noble. Speaking of Barnes and Noble, we were there the other day and Riley brought her doll stroller and Tweety Bird animal and a boy started to play with it and Riley wanted it back, so I told her to ask the boy if she could please have her stroller back. He didn't answer (he was about 4 yrs old) so she asked again and he didn't answer, so I asked him and he didn't answer. So then I get up to forcibly take it from the little brat and he moved away when I got up. So I made some comment about children left in the kids section without a parent to watch them. Just then I see his father move into my view and he's freakin' BLIND! So I guess the kid figured out that he can do whatever he wants as long as he doesn't make noises to give him away, hence the silence. Then a grandmother (not a really old one) was trying to get one of the Thomas engines onto one of the train cars and the magnets kept repeling, which to most people in the universe (including Riley when she was one year old) means just turn the car around. But the grandmother couldn't figure it out so she put the engine aside like it was broken. Good lord!
Then I go back to Starbucks because it got a juice before and now I really need a coffee and they tell me that a dog just bit a child in the face right there at the counter. I told them that I would have killed the dog with my own bare hands right there in Starbucks if it had bitten MY child. The manager, the one who I knew in Maryland, was like "totally, me too!" I really like animals, but now that I have children, I really want dogs to be leashed, and not on a twenty foot leash, that doesn't count. And why do they need to be in Starbucks? There not people, people! And I can't stand how people take dogs out in public and say "well, my dog doesn't like children" like that's a good excuse. Then don't take them around children! Or better yet, euthanize the nasty little beasts! There are plenty of people who don't like children, and hopefully they simply don't have any, but they don't go around biting children. So just because they're dogs, they're allowed to bite children. I swear, we're turning into a Retard Nation.
Secretly watching Avery play by herself is really funny. The things that she tries to do and the activities that she thinks are fun...it's like watching her brain form right in front of your eyes.
Ah, it's snowing again, so I guess we're not going anywhere. There's not enough on the ground right now to prevent us from going anywhere, but it's snowing pretty hard still and I don't want to go out and get stuck later. And of course, since I was tired of looking like an unfit mother who always takes Riley to school without a hat, mittens, and snow boots, I left her snow boots at school. I didn't think we'd need them. Poo. So we can't go play in the snow either.
Riley just asked me "Do you know what my favorite creatures are? Dinosaurs! They're creatures, you know!"
I also bought cloth diaper covers yesterday online. I can't wait for them to come. I got some Bummis Super Snap covers, which are exactly like the Whisper Wrap, just with snaps. I also got some Stacinator So Simple which snap at the sides. I bought some Bummis Whisper Pants which are just the pull-up Gerber-type, but they're nylon not vinyl so they breathe. I didn't want anything with velcro, but I was tempted by the Bumkins wraps with Dr. Seuss prints, so I got one Green Eggs and Ham print and a One Fish Two Fish print. They also have flaps on the inside front that keep the diaper from creeping up, and that's a problem that we have, so we'll see if it works. Ooooh, now I just have to wait.
Riley's Holiday Program at school was cute, but very long. It would have been better if Riley didn't stand there and pick her nose for at least half the program. At least she used a tissue. She didn't do anything, which is really aggravating since she sang me "Jingle Bells" in the car so I know she knows it. She did shake the bells, but that's it. She participated a little bit with the two French songs (Riley has a French teacher? Who knew?). I think I am going to request a meeting with her teachers because Riley is totally different in school than she is at home. She acts like a complete mute dummy at school, and I'm not happy with that. She really needs to be challenged and they can't let her get away with playing shy and stupid. So there, Riley. I'm on to you!
Yesterday I remarked to Rudi that Avery really gave Riley the "stink-eye" and Riley busted out laughing and couldn't stop. She thought "stink-eye" was the funniest thing she ever heard. She also called me "little buddy" and "stink-fest" at Barnes and Noble. Speaking of Barnes and Noble, we were there the other day and Riley brought her doll stroller and Tweety Bird animal and a boy started to play with it and Riley wanted it back, so I told her to ask the boy if she could please have her stroller back. He didn't answer (he was about 4 yrs old) so she asked again and he didn't answer, so I asked him and he didn't answer. So then I get up to forcibly take it from the little brat and he moved away when I got up. So I made some comment about children left in the kids section without a parent to watch them. Just then I see his father move into my view and he's freakin' BLIND! So I guess the kid figured out that he can do whatever he wants as long as he doesn't make noises to give him away, hence the silence. Then a grandmother (not a really old one) was trying to get one of the Thomas engines onto one of the train cars and the magnets kept repeling, which to most people in the universe (including Riley when she was one year old) means just turn the car around. But the grandmother couldn't figure it out so she put the engine aside like it was broken. Good lord!
Then I go back to Starbucks because it got a juice before and now I really need a coffee and they tell me that a dog just bit a child in the face right there at the counter. I told them that I would have killed the dog with my own bare hands right there in Starbucks if it had bitten MY child. The manager, the one who I knew in Maryland, was like "totally, me too!" I really like animals, but now that I have children, I really want dogs to be leashed, and not on a twenty foot leash, that doesn't count. And why do they need to be in Starbucks? There not people, people! And I can't stand how people take dogs out in public and say "well, my dog doesn't like children" like that's a good excuse. Then don't take them around children! Or better yet, euthanize the nasty little beasts! There are plenty of people who don't like children, and hopefully they simply don't have any, but they don't go around biting children. So just because they're dogs, they're allowed to bite children. I swear, we're turning into a Retard Nation.
Secretly watching Avery play by herself is really funny. The things that she tries to do and the activities that she thinks are fun...it's like watching her brain form right in front of your eyes.
Ah, it's snowing again, so I guess we're not going anywhere. There's not enough on the ground right now to prevent us from going anywhere, but it's snowing pretty hard still and I don't want to go out and get stuck later. And of course, since I was tired of looking like an unfit mother who always takes Riley to school without a hat, mittens, and snow boots, I left her snow boots at school. I didn't think we'd need them. Poo. So we can't go play in the snow either.
Riley just asked me "Do you know what my favorite creatures are? Dinosaurs! They're creatures, you know!"