Sleepy Girl

Deb has Henry for his four month appointment and some shopping afterward.  We need something for Val to bring her up to par with Sadie.  The baby will be four months Friday and weighed in at 16 lbs today.  He’s huge!  It’s so cute how excited he gets when he hears the Beatles.  He’ll enthuse about other songs, even sing along, but he can always tell a Beatles song and is over the top for them.

I’ve been bouncing between the computer, trying to do some money-related things, but also some normal surfing, especially while I ate, since grease on the mouse is cool, and mainly the kitchen, doing dishes and cleaning.  Sadie spent an extended time in the office being cuddly, during which I realized I was no longer hearing any sign of Valerie.

After a bit I went looking and, sure enough, our girl who won’t nap is fast asleep on our bed with a pillow pulled over her.  There’s a reason we call her a “pillow turtle.” I shushed Sadie, added a blanket, and tried to keep Sadie quiet and in the kitchen by giving her pens and some fresh paper at the table.  She has already put the pens away and is mothing me.  I need to go back to trying to get the place significantly cleaned while Deb is gone, with Valerie napping as a bonus.  The idea is for it to be pleasant for her to come back to, apart from we both needed to put in an intensive effort anyway.  We’ve been telling the kids for three days that we could put up the tree but their stuff would have to be picked up first.  Thursday we’re having company, so there’s that too.

I also need to go through the fridge and cabinet and process food.  We have stuff that needs to be frozen or used, and we’re too broke to throw away food.  I was thinking of trying my hand at making meatballs for a change, since I have a 6.5 lb pack of hamburger to use some of for supper and freeze the rest.  That’ll bring us up to 30 or so patties in the freezer, at 3 or 4 per relevant meal.  We’re pretty much planned out through the next several days, come to think of it.  Two meals of pasta over two days.  A turkey in the fridge thawing that might be cookable Thursday for company, or Friday and something else simpler for company.  From there it’s turkey and turkey soup, with Christmas dinner at my sister’s Sunday.  I plan to buy a ham for Christmas here and that will make several meals, frozen and immediate, between big dinner, sandwiches, pea soup, and eggs.  We found we can get a ham steak and portion it into bags in tiny cubes.  It can go straight from the freezer to scrambled eggs.  I’ll do that with some of the big ham, for eggs and for future soups.

But I digress.  The sleeping Valerie is just the cutest thing.  Even cuter than Sadie behind me quietly breaking into a plastic portable file box that contains stationary supplies, calculators, toys (like a Slinky), knick knacks, stickers, tools and whatever, then applying stickers to the furniture while narrating about Pooh stickers.  Even cuter than the fact that both girls pronounce “pencil” as “penwah” instead.  Exchange with Sadie the other day:

Me: Sadie, say pen.
Sadie: Pen!
Me: Say sill.
Sadie: Sill!
Me: Pen.
Sadie: Pen!
Me: Sill.
Sadie: Sill!
Me: Say pencil. Pen sill.
Sadie: Penwah!

Oh well, I tried.  I’m pretty sure sometime she does stuff like this intentionally to be cute or difficult.

Sadie is the one who could really use a nap, far more than Valerie, who slept through better.  It’s starting to look like some of the monster-looking things she draws populate Sadie’s nightmares.

1. Wow.  My daughter is 16 months and she weighs all of 20 pounds.  But then, she’s on the petite end of the growth chart.

   Posted by Josh  on  12/19  at  09:23 AM  from  Georgia
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