I am very very bad at building forts out of sheets.
I barely get it up and somewhat stable, and then Lucy wants to climb on top of it. And then Emma gets upset that half of it caved in. And then SHE wants to climb on top of it. And then I take it all down and say that we’ll try again tomorrow.
And then hope that they forget I said we’d do it again.
What is it about being under a sheet/blanket/whatever that makes kids so happy?
I went to Pinterest and found a few ideas on how to make forts out of sheets, so I guess I better get to practicing. And buying clothespins.
Even though the SUN finally came out and is super bright and fabulous, it was still a little too chilly to take Lucy outside with her residual cough on Tuesday. So we were all having some serious cabin fever. After building a really awful fort that lasted all of about 4 minutes before it fell down [seriously, I need a tutorial or something], the girls were still whiny and bored.
I really wanted to wash every piece of linen we have used for the past week to try to de-germ our house, so I pulled out the trusty roll of wrapping paper that a neighbor left behind when they moved, taped a big hunk of it to the floor and threw a couple buckets of crayons down with it.
Emma’s newest obsession is tracing her feet and hands, and then measuring them with a ruler. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE having a 4-year old?
Lucy just wants to eat the crayons. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE having a 1-year old?
And then Emma exclaimed that she was “exhausted” and that she wanted to tape it to the door so daddy could see it as soon as he got home.
So that’s what we did.
And then Lucy discovered that she wasn’t sitting in my lap and needed to remedy that ASAP.
Another successful 12-minute activity.
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Remember my afternoon with Emma? Well, I have been wanting to do the same with Lucy, but her cold has made things … difficult. So instead, I spent 30 minutes with her a couple of days ago before we had to go pick up Emma from preschool.
Yes, she ate a banana and a clementine within a 30-minute period of time. No, this is not unusual.
all images edited with VSCO presets Fuji 800Z+
I had a post started this morning, and it was talking about how much better Lucy is feeling, and how we had a pretty good weekend together. But then she got all chest-rumbly again, and she had a hard afternoon.
I made onion cough syrup.
With onions.
I read about it here, and I thought it would be the perfect solution.
I gave her two doses yesterday, and it wasn’t so bad. But then this morning, I tried to give her the 3rd dose right before her naptime. She cried and gagged … I smelled it and threw up. So the onion cough syrup is not the solution for us right now.
But I do think it has potential. Just maybe not while I’m pregnant? I think I’ll try it with sweet onions next time.
Anyway, still just running the humidifier 24/7 and pushing fluids like crazy. Hoping she feels much better tomorrow.
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Magical.
we never put a gate up at the bottom of the stairs when Emma was a toddler. either she didn’t have much interest in the stairs or I had the time to chase her up and down 247 times a day or she listened when I told her to stay downstairs or she learned to walk up and down them at an early age.
but I finally had to order and install a downstairs gate.
let me show you why.
up.
down.
up. with the addition of the always beautiful drool goatee.
down.
up.
with a small break to climb on top of the chubby picture-taker.
this happens constantly. daily. many many times.
we had to get a gate.
all pictures taken with Canon 50D + 50mm 1.8 and processed with VSCO presets
I hope you like these kind of posts, because that’s what I’m about right now … and throughout 2012. spending more time with the girls – capturing the everyday without sweating the small stuff – cleaner edits – less talking – more sharing of the normal.
