18 Month Checkup

So we went to the doctors this morning. It was a fun day of getting measured (Alice barely made it in the lying down baby measuring bin) followed by pooping while we waited for the doctor. Yeah, smart me left the diaper bag in the car, all I had was a spare diaper. So we used some wet paper towels and warned the doctor.

Alice needs to eat either more cheese or yogurt to get enough calcium for the day.

She also has above average verbal skills. Aparrantly its pretty typical for kids her age to have about 5 words mastered. Now, a few of her words are only said if prompted, like Duck and Cat. And only for pictures of them, an actual cat or dog invokes growly noises. But yeah, thats what happens when you are at home all day with Mommy and Mommy doesn't like to be alone, talk talk talk.

Also, based on the rudimentary test, she does not have Autism. Go her.

The people that bought the place across the street are moving in. They have moved a trailer full of stuff twice now. Plus smaller things in cars. Maybe I will even go introduce myself and take them a plate full of fruit. Nothing is better on a hot summer day than cold berries and melon. Might I add, the cantelope we bought was surprisingly yellow, but oh so stinking sweet. Yum, its like eating candy. Summer produce is awesome.

Now if only my tomatoes would start turning red.

Birthday Concert

So for my birthday, my twin and I were going to go to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Concert. They are on some midwest tour, and it was the only date in Kansas City. Plus, come on it was our birthday. The plan was to leave the man and kid at home and enjoy good music together.

Then Rachel got a hot date. (Well, maybe sort of lukewarm, but its still a date.) So she gave me the two tickets and said to get a sitter and take Daniel.

So I did. My friend Jennith came and hung out with Alice and had fun.

Daniel and I left around 6, drove to a very packed Sprint Center and went in. Our seats were easily accessible from the entrance, which was nice. We were there early enough we didn't have to crawl past a pile of people, and our row wasn't even completely full.

Then the choir came out. It seemed like it would be exciting. Daniel had heard MoTab once before live. He told me they were amazing. I had only been to an open rehearsal time in the Tabernacle once. Yes they were very good, but lets face it, it was a rehearsal. Nothing like a concert.

The concert began and I had instant disappointment. It wasn't like most choir concerts. I was sure they sounded amazing, but we were in the nosebleed section, so I couldn't see mouths even moving. Plus they had huge speakers amping the sound. It was like playing a CD with a really bad far away photo to look at while watching.

Needless to say, it was less than spectacular. If we go the next time they are in town, we will spring for the expensive tickets.

I admit we left during intermission. It wasn't that I didn't want to stay, but the benefits of leaving and missing traffic were far greater than the benefit of staying to the end, and waiting an hour to get out of the downtown KC area before going home to a really tired baby and the sitter.

We did get some Sonic before going home though. Not that it kept me up. I was asleep before Daniel got back from taking Jennith home and picking up on sale chocolate milk.

On a totally random note, Daniel was so tired when he got back that he came inside put the milk away and fel asleep on the couch without even turning the car off. He was woken a few hours later by the neighbor getting home from work to tell him the car was on. Talk about a blonde moment.

Alice loves bran flakes

So I discovered something strange today. For the second day in a row Alice has stolen some of my bran flakes over her super sugary Captain Crunch (ok its the cheap brand, but you get the idea). She even got mad at me for eating out of my own bowl. I ended up tossing most of her cereal while she ate quite a bit of mine.

She even wants the box of cereal as a snack.

Strange no?

Then I figured out her strange love of them in a totally gross way.

I thought she was picking her nose, but she was shoving little bits of bran flakes into her nose. What the heck.

She even sneezed and out came a piece of bran flake. They are off limits unless they are in a cereal bowl with milk now.

Who knew bran flakes would need regulated like this.

Long Term Memory Loss

Daniel: Honey when did your temple recommend expire?
Rebecca: I don't know, May?
Daniel: Huh. Well there is one here that doesn't expire until June of next year...of course it says Rebecca Cook.
Rebecca: stares blankly
Daniel: I guess its the same member record number so you could still go in and say 'Yeah I'm Sister Cook, that's me.'

Temporary lack of last name memory. Cause when we got married, Daniel became a Smith.

Also temporary lack of date reading and understanding what a 2 year recommend is. Or maybe Rebecca just thought there were 2 years between 2008 and 2009.

It happens.

(posted jointly because clearly one of us is not enough to function)

Couch Update

So Daniel called NFM during his lunch break about our couch of doom.

The said they would have to send a different repair guy, and it wouldn't be until July 3rd.

He told them that was not acceptable.

Monday they will be delivering a new couch.

Daniel also has to call back and make sure they are going to put on new guardsmen fabric care (fabric stain repellant).

Lets hope that we just got a lemon of a couch. They will just repair the one they take away properly, and sell it in their discount section. We will have a couch for my birthday party.

Thank goodness some of that stress is gone. Now, I just have to clean my house again, and move everything out of the dining room and living room to make it so the movers can move in a new couch and take away the old one.

Fun times, fun times.

We got our Couch Fixed...

That ellipse is because, well you see, its not even 10 PM and the couch is broken again. In fact, it was broken within an hour of the repair guy leaving. You see, the little bracket he added to the side of the piece that had been detached from the frame....




The screw marks you can see in the second picture, thats where the bracket was attached to that piece of the frame.

Nebraska Furniture Mart's repair people only come to Lawrence on Thursdays.

If they don't fix it absurdly next time, I will be rather pissed. I am already pretty annoyed. The sales lady didn't explain we were looking at bottom of the line furniture when we bought it. The repair guy implied it was total crap, since it didn't even have any metal brackets, and supposedly they all come with them.

Well, looks like we will be using this 1 year warranty. A whole stinking lot.

I will be sitting on a chair dreaming of a fixed couch. Maybe we will even give some ultimatums, cause this is total crap. I am super bummed out.

Sugar Snap Peas!

Last night it rained 3 inches in our backyard. This morning I did some weeding and picked our first sugar snap pea crop of the year. There were SIX! I mock my excitement when i saw some big enough to pick. There were 2 ones that needed picked and I picked a few more just to have more than 2.

For the record, sugar snap peas are not so sugary raw. Alice will take a bite of the pea then spit it out, and shove the pod at my mouth. I am the disposal for all things yucky you know. I don't mind that much, its better than cooking 6 little pea pods. Plus, she keeps going back for more bites, so maybe she will eat them all anyway.

Also, I think I am going to delve into the world of flannel boards. There are pages you can print from old Friend magazines online, and with not too much work I can print, color, cover in mailing tape and iron onto interfacing. I am thinking a cute framed flannel board to put above Alice's play table, and a small plain one for travel. It sounds like a better church activity than some, and maybe they will even become a part of FHE. You know several months ago we had FHE. Even if it was just a read this lesson thing. We have become slackers.

That is all (currently) frequently written in blog.