September, 2007

Kenny asked me to write this one for him, as he has still not learned to type... It's not easy being Two. When you're having fun doing stuff, people tell you, "It's time to go!" and when you say you don't want to, they pick you up and carry you away anyway.   And when you're in the yard with a wiffle ball and throw it as hard as you…

We bought Kenny a "big boy bed" several weeks ago, and after much ado, it finally arrived today!   It arrived minutes before nap-time, and though I had garnered every possible necessity in order to allow him to sleep in it from moment one, wouldn't you know that I neglected to get anything to go between the mattress and the bed itself.   Duh.   I knew I didn't want…

Goodnight Gorilla, by Peggy Rathmann Kenny discovered this unusual and captivating book a few weeks ago when we were vacationing in the Outer Banks.   It must have been left by a family before us, and I hope that they, whomever they are, were crushed to find it missing and have already  bought another copy by now, because this one is a keeper! When we first began reading it, I…

Casey is home, after only sixteen hours in the hospital.   He is watching Monday night football and eating a mountain of pasta and meatballs.   Thank goodness no overnight stay at the hospital! He did not actually have the surgery we had planned for today, and  that was a possibility we were prepared for.   Without getting too detailed, when the cardiologist inserted the catheter into Casey's heart, they…

Casey's surgery is rescheduled for tomorrow morning.   We have to leave the house at 4:30 AM (yikes!), and won't know until we get there what time he'll actually go under.   My parents are staying over tonight to be with Kenny all day tomorrow, and possibly into tomorrow night. I'm not the complete bundle of nerves that I was the first two times the surgery was scheduled, but that…

We took Kenny to his first USNA football game today (46 - 43 win over Duke!).   We had been invited as guests up to a friend's suite, and as there were lots of families with kids, Kenny was pretty happy to roam around and meet and greet everyone who would talk to him.   But before the first quarter was up, he settled himself in the front row corner…

The Newly Non-Drinking Girl's Guide to Pregnancy: Advice and Support for surviving 40 weeks without a cosmopolitan, by Jackie Rose and Caroline Angel RN, Phd.   Published by Sourcebooks, Inc. 2007 "From Drinking for one to eating for two..." is how this often hilarious, occasionally serious book begins.   If you're like me, you enjoy a glass of wine with dinner, or a martini when you've escaped on an elusive…

Here at MommyBlog headquarters (aka, the  desk I share with my husband), I am often asked to read and review books and post the reviews on my website.   I haven't done too many so far, mostly dur to moving back and forth across country, and to a certain small boy who did not start taking naps until he was 14 months old.     Ah, but he's consistantly napping…

Dudley is entering day 24 with a cone on his head.   What should have been a torturous 10 days has turned into over three weeks.   For a dog that lives to run, walk and curl up into small spaces, this is the ultimate imprisonment.   And last night, we hit a new low for him when we finally left him downstairs to sleep by himself, instead of bringing…

Though it's hard to complain to be back, as it's a quintessential early fall day here on our little creek off the Chesapeake Bay... 68 degrees, sunny and breezy, flocks of birds flying overhead and the occasional renegade fishing boat heading out under the bridge. Our week in the Outer Banks was wonderful, and it flew by!   Kenny loved every moment of ultra-attention from both sets of grandparents, and…