- File this under “things I now know that I wish I didn’t”: If your order at Lands’ End is more than $200, you pay a flat rate for shipping.
- But I did get really good deals on parkas for the kids, hopefully to fit each of them for the next two winters. Although I could not find a “boys” sale parka I liked for AM, so I wound up with a “girls” one for him. In green. I figured why not, seeing as how I bought Miss M’s parka in yellow (excuse me, “honey gold”) fully intending that he will wear it when she outgrows it. What are the styling differences at this age, anyway? Just the zipper on the opposite side? It’s not like a 3T parka is going to come with a pocket to secret away a lipstick and a tampon!
- I seem to have survived a week of preschool vacation. Barely. But whoo-hoo!
- Honestly, last week would have been a wash anyway. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (if I were adhering to the school “health policy”) would have been sick days, and Friday surely would have been a snow day.
- AM’s progress in speech therapy is, well, slow. He says “more” now, and “in” (sort of), but it’s a struggle to get him to focus beyond the toys.
- He did appear to imitate one of his little friends saying her sister’s name the other day. Her mom–my neighbor, who knows almost as much as Taxman about the current ins and outs of my life–was here when he did it and she (all 39 weeks pregnant of her) just about fell off the couch in surprise. I spent the next two days attempting to get him to repeat it.
- The most fascinating thing about therapy for me is that he totally knows the score. As in, he can walk all over the grad student, but when her professor pops in to offer advice, he snaps to attention. Looks her right in the face, tries to imitate her facial movements. Then she leaves and he goes back to his own agenda: “Cars, cars, I want more cars!” How he understands the power balance in that relationship I have no idea. But clearly he was not born yesterday.
- Am I a crappy mother because I don’t cut Miss M’s grapes? (And only cut AM’s if he’s going to be wandering around with them instead of eating them directly in front of me?) She bites them. I don’t let her have chewing gum or hard candy, if that changes your opinion. I ask because I saw a kid who’s over four years old having her grapes cut for her. And this was with everyone sitting around the table, including Taxman (the EMT).
- Finally, I have to link to the funniest thing I have read lately: Amalah‘s description of pregnancy hunger. Language is R-rated, if you care about that sort of thing, but it is beyond hysterical. Excellent riff on Girl Scout cookies included. (CCW, in case you have extra boxes to sell?)
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So that you don’t buy more than necessary from CCW (is that possible???), you do have GSC coming your way sometime in March. 🙂 Flavors are still a surprise, although I think you can guess most of them (and yes, there is more than one box).
taxman, yes buying cookies from me is possible b/c i would ship them if Kate really wanted some of the yummy cookies.
The troop sold about half of the extras at Kroger yesterday. Tomorrow we will sell at the grocery again. Of course, I had to do all of the counting and recounting and recounting of the money to ensure that I had the deposit and extra cash correct.
If you’re getting cookies in March, I suggest the Lemonades. I don’t like lemon flavored things but these cookies are divine.
Sounds like AM is doing exactly what a kid his age would do at therapy. How can one focus on trying to force words when there are toys?
If you are a bad mother for not cutting grapes then I mist be horrible because I feed Nonami all sorts of things that are probably a choking hazard. Do jelly beans qualify as safe?
It sounds like Am is doing what my grandson did in speech therapy. It is only the b eginning…and now he is three and is hard to shut up. It isn’t always clear, but he was almost nonverbal a year ago.
And the cars, that is what J’s interest always was too. He was all about the cars!
–Interestingly, I also learned about Lands’ End’s $200 policy last night. I think my order was just under, though the helpful popup was crying More! More! Keep shopping!
–If there was a great little hidden pocket in a 3T parka, it would be for rocks. And then you’d wonder why your kid is so heavy every time you pick him up. Have I told you about the time I found a hunk of brick in SG’s backpack?
–AM’s therapy insight is very interesting. Do you suppose the grad student notices? It seems like s/he might learn something about setting a tone for his/her clients to be more productive.
–I think slow but steady improvements in speech are a good thing to settle for.
–Four is probably too old to need grapes cut, but on the other hand the thing that makes you a good Ema is that you know your own child and her grape-biting proclivities. And maybe the other family knows their own child’s tendency to jump up and dance with a whole grape in her mouth, or maybe they had a scary choking incident and have a touch of PTSD about it. Or maybe they’re just paranoid.
Hah! I would be Madeleine’s paranoid parent. I chalk it up to being a slightly older mom (36, to my 2 year-old). Amelia DOES tend to just shove things in her mouth without biting/chewing, but when her cousin who is 8 months younger knows to bite grapes, I start to worry that I’ve done something wrong. (worry is also chalked up in my book to being a mom at 36.) But then when I notice that Nana feeds Amelia whole grapes, and her daddy gave her peanuts when I ran to the car for her apples while we were at a steakhouse, and so I realize I am just paranoid apparently. So I would guess that the 4 year-old’s mother is paranoid and I would not question your parenting skills on this one at all.
The Lands End catalog never used to distinguish between girls and boys style outerwear unless it was specifically girly. It does annoy me that the website insists on categorizing *everything* (although some seems to show up both ways.
And we only ever cut (and peeled) grapes for the under 2 set.
As far as the therapy accomplishments – knowing the score is always primary 🙂 and if he is capable of doing it (any random sound), he’ll eventually do it more often, although repeating on demand is often a power struggle issue – can you tell we’ve been there?