Saturday, May 30, 2009

Scientific Outline of My Thoughts

  • Shavuos was great! Gedalya ate the eiruv on the first day, but otherwise it was nice. :)
  • Zusha's tooth is barely holding on. I told him it can fall out when he's home, in cheider, or outside with me. I warned him that there might be a little blood. He looked at me in terror. I comforted him by saying that it won't hurt, and will be just a little blood from the tooth and not from a booboo. That night, he ran out of bed in a panic, "I have blood!" (He didn't and I sent him back to bed.) Then later, "My tooth fell out!!" (It didn't and I sent him back to bed.)
  • It won't get warmer than 80 degrees for at least two weeks. That's great, because I will be able to use all the long sleeved shirts for the kids that we don't normally have much of a chance to use because of the sudden weather change that usually takes place.
  • I've been trying to teach Adel to wave when I say "Hi" for about a week. Yesterday she actually opened and closed her fingers slowly during a "Hi" session. She still needs to concentrate very hard to do it, but pretty soon she should be waving! :P
  • Cheider is almost over, and I'm really excited for the summer!
  • I'm giving up on headbands for Adibaby. They all leave a mark on her poor little kepele.
  • I put Gedalya in underwear and let him figure things out on his own. He is fully trained when he's not wearing anything and fully untrained when he wears something on his tushie. The first few days there were only misses. Then we had some hits, but still mostly misses. Now he's doing it right most of the time.
  • At the park I heard one woman say to another about her baby, "He's so big and round. He looks just like you!" :blush: That didn't sound exactly right.
  • Gedalya just "got" bike pedaling. He is riding around the center wall of our house nonstop. Zusha parroted him and kinda got it as well. The last time we went out with the bike was September and neither of the boys were able to ride it. I foresee lots of bike days this summer. The only issue is how to get to the park with the bike and two kids, one baby and a stroller. They aren't so good on it as to be able to ride to the park. Maybe on Sundays Hillel can watch Adel and I'll go with the boys, the bike and no stroller.
  • Today on the way home I had Adel in the wrap, and the boys were stacked up in the stroller. A frum man, in his fifties or so, looked at Adel, then at the stroller and said, "Oh, my, there are several more in there!"

6 comments:

  1. awesome! yea on Gedalya! you must be thrilled. Chedva is finally B"H amazing also.

    nice about the bike! with training wheels? how big is it? my kids have a trike, and i think someone in the family wanted to send a scooter to SS. we'll see...

    that comment from the yid is funny.

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  2. ps. you don't want to pull the tooth?

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  3. It's a small bike with training wheels. Zusha hasn't been able to grasp the concept of pedaling. The pedals don't move when the wheels turn, so after one turn of the pedals, the bike comes to a stop unless the kid pushes hard enough the first time for them to clear a second cycle.

    He got it for his 2nd birthday and couldn't even reach the pedals. The inlaws insisted he ride it and forced him when he didn't want to (and couldn't!) So he began to hate it and refused to try. At each visit they'd coerce him to try it an he resented the bike more and more.
    But now that G rides it, the bike won back Zusha's love. :)

    They have a scooter, too. Gedalya likes it better than Zusha as well.

    I don't want to pull it- why should I? It's not bothering anyone. I'll give it time.

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  4. hey, i ain't saying to pull it! LOL. i don't have a clue what i will do with the girls when we get there...i was personally so annoyed with the wiggling that i eagerly would try to speed the process along the second one of my teeth felt loose.

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  5. I do tell him to wiggle it with his tongue, and he came home yesterday from his friend's house with a much looser tooth than he left home with. He told me he ate an apple there, so it figures. :)

    I'm afraid to pull- I read online that the root must be completely dissolved, and if it's not, a piece might remain. *shudder*
    No thanks.

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  6. hmm, that's good info to know. i'm glad i made it unscathed through my tooth-pulling years. i remember once hiding behind a rocking chair for hours working on a loose tooth. haha.

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