Since the holidays were a very busy time for us, the stories have taken a back seat on the priority list for a while. Well, I could blame the holidays, or I can blame the 1st trimester of a pregnancy. You can choose the reason that works best for you!
Last year we bought Peyton her own little Nativity scene, it is the Little People one and it is really adorable. Only according to her it is an "Activity Scene". No amount of correcting was going to change that, so we just let it go. BUT, I have a Nativity scene that I put out in front of the tree and that, according to her is a "Nit-tivty set". Go figure. It could possibly be the fact that she can play with her set to her hearts content and may have been threatened to within an inch of her life if I were to ever see her even thinking of touching mine.
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Along with the 1st trimester of a pregnancy comes this life-sucking tiredness. I have likened it to a parasite just sucking everything out of you and leaving you completely drained mentally & physically. And that is only after swapping a load of laundry. An all day affair? By-pass drained and pass right on through towards delirious.
Peyton was great, most days about coming upstairs and laying down with me while I slept off the latest wave of nauseousness. I stress "most days" because there were the ones where I would say "It's time to go up and lay down for some *quiet time*, I'll turn your shows on." To which she would reply "Yeah, right. How about you have *quiet time* and I get to have a treat?"
My future hostage negotiator in training.
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How about the fact that she only eats mayo on her turkey sandwiches when there is snow on the ground. Seriously. I couldn't make this up even if I wanted to. Case in point, we got home from school today and I got everything out for her to make her sandwich except the mayo. I turn around to see her digging in the fridge for it. I asked her what she was doing and she replied "Ummm...it snowed. Putting mayo on my sandwich." Go ahead and imply the "DUH!" It wasn't spoken, but I can guarantee you it was thought.
And you can't sneak the mayo on to the sandwich if there is no snow on the ground. She will not eat the sandwich if you do.
OCD party of 1, your table is now ready.
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Along with being 4&1/2 comes this new found attitude of "I'm 4 now and (fill in the blank with a random thing) was from when I was 3." Apparently when you are 4, this makes you big man on campus around the house. When she asks for her shows while eating lunch after school, it goes something like this: "Can I have my shows please? But not PBS Kids, that is for the mornings and when I was 3. I don't like my 3 year old shows anymore because I am 4 now."
4 year old shows=Disney Channel and new shows such as Hannah Ba-Tanna & Wizards of Wizardly Place.
3 year old shows= PBS Kids & Nick Jr. Gone are the days of Word World, Super Why, Little Bill, and The Wonder Pets.
I can neither confirm nor deny that I might like Disney better and may have watched a Hannah Ba-Tanna movie one night while home alone. Since nobody was here, I guess that means I didn't since nobody saw me. Right?? RIGHT!
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We are back into the full swing of things now that the holidays are over, and this means that routine has once again settled in at 812. The fact that I feel human again, now that the 1st trimester is over, helps greatly too. Working on getting Christmas photos up on here and on Facebook. One of these days...One of these days.
