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For Some Reason…
I keep getting cute pictures of Sadie and Henry together, like these…
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Speaking of Favorites
Valerie adopted this dress that was a hand me down from her cousin, and wears it constantly the same way Sadie wears the one from her grandparents.
Not very practical, but cute, and she apparently loves playing that she’s a princess.
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Sadie’s Favorite Outfit EVER
To the point where it gets washed, she wears it, when dirty it goes in the laundry, soon as it’s clean she wears it again. It’s the perfect birthday present, and apparently a style she adores.
Speaking of things Sadie likes, she’s almost obsessive in her love of old Betty Boop cartoons. That’s likely what she was watching when I saw her laying on the floor in what I considered an older kid pose that made me grab the camera.
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Eating At The Table
As mentioned previously, Henry has joined us at the table, and after about a week it seems to have stuck. In fact, he thought it was high time. It’s as if he’s always sat there.
It’s a little crowded, and tricky when the girls are eating something he can’t have, but we’ve done pretty well.
It’s astonishing just how much he loves chili, which in the last incarnations doesn’t seem to have bothered him at all. Other than spices and maybe brown sugar, that’s not a surprise, and any problem should have been modest anyway. More concerning is that one of us touched him without washing peanut butter off our hands and he got temporary, fairly dramatic hives where the presumed skin contact with peanut butter happened.
He has tried dried papaya with no apparent problem. Forget what else there’s been new. He thinks pasta is the greatest, even plain. Oh, he’s been eating a lot of homemade applesauce and some slivers of peeled Macintosh apple. Gave him slivers of raw carrot the other day. If I buy hot dogs (decent all beef ones, checking ingredients), he eats an entire one as part of a meal now.
We had an excess chicken breast thawed the other day, so I boiled it to make chicken salad the next day. Since he can’t have mayonaise, I made him some with canola oil, plus celery salt, garlic powder and poultry seasoning, which I also used in the other batch. He demolished a thick half-sandwich and it was sad I’d not saved him extra. I’ll have to try the oil trick with tuna, if there’s a sale and I can restock it. Looks like it’s one of those foods that’s gone up lately. The amount of oil is enough to moisten and make it act like it would with mayo binding it, but not enough to make it seem oily. Like an invisible binder.
More pictures sometime today, probably. Need to do stuff. It’s a weird day because I had a not-interview at 4:30 AM. That is, it was a see the operation and if you’re not scared then come apply for this part time, wee hours distribution center job. I napped subsequently, but not well. When Deb gets home, I’ll run down and apply, then it’s a background check, interview some morning at 2 AM, and presumably starting after that. Time to feed the kids, start a pot roast for supper in the crockpot, and do some other things that’ll feel useful.
I scanned in two of Sadie’s latest drawings…
The top one is me handing her a lollipop.
The second one started as a blank on which I had written “Henry” and drawn a circle, before whatever interrupted my session with him. Starting with the circle, Sadie drew, left to right, herself with a pink sippy cup with a pink lid, Valerie with a pink cup with a purple lid, Henry with a blue cup with purple lid, Deb with a blue cup and me with a yellow cup. She drew the grass and our blue house, sun and blue sky, and, having seen me draw “m” birds exactly once when I’d have told you she was paying no attention, a bunch of birds. I think the rest was practice making letters, the extent of which I’d not noticed until I scanned it.
She’s done some cool stuff on the computer, more patterns and shades and stuff than identifiably drawn items, but mostly that gets blown away without being saved. I made her copies of these and put them on their computer (we have them sharing a single one now, rather than the overkill of three or even two, after Henry killed Sadie’s and Valerie’s started dying a natural death) so if she wants she can modify them there, or be inspired by them. She’s excited. I suspect Santa has in mind the possibility of a kid’s easel kind of thing for her this year, but we’ll have to see.
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The Little Ones
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Being Four
I’ll be interested to see how much it sticks, but last night I taught Sadie about digits, how every number is made up of 0 through 9, how to count to 100, and about using fingers as a math aid. She was fascinated.
That second picture made me think of my paternal grandfather so strongly I went and found one to include here (no larger one, had to size up as it was).
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Valerie On Lap
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Tabletop Boy
Henry was proud of himself for having climbed on the table to play with Sadie’s new dominoes. Scary, huh?
Time flies! It was four years ago today that Sadie arrived reluctantly among us. She was sooo much younger a year ago. It’s amazing.
Happy birthday Sadie Rose!
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“I Cutest”
Good picture for this exchange today.
Me: “You’re the cutest!”
Valerie: “I cutest!”
I had to take Henry to the ER this evening. As far as we can tell, he is allergic to eggs. He ate far and away his largest serving of eggs so far, scrambled, at noon. He was reacting full-blown about the time Deb got home. We gave him Benadryl, and it no more than slowed it some this time. This is what he looked like after we got home:
This is extreme, but yeah, we aren’t kidding about the sensitivities and allergies. Morton Hospital was awesome. I drove him over there and we got right in. They gave him prednisone, and we have to give him Benadryl every six hours until it subsides and another dose of prednisone if needed about 6 PM tomorrow. We are to call the doctor Monday and arrange allergy testing, now that he’s over a year old. It took no time, and he mostly had fun and charmed people. As I type this, it’s finally starting to recede a bit.
Update:
Um… recede in places. His belly is massively worse.
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Henry Scales Table
Last week I caught Henry climbing onto one of the kitchen chairs, so naturally I grabbed the camera to document it, arriving in time for his proud arrival onto the chair. From there he tried for the table, which was actually easier. The goal was apparently my niece’s computer.
Valerie removed her shoes and socks in the car, then insisted on carrying her shoes in herself. I was allowed to have her socks.
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Henry Adventures
Taking Henry to he 1 year checkup and shots today, notwithstanding Mitt Romney’s best efforts…