Weekend (Long)
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lesliepearSaturday Alan and I went shopping. Went to Gymboree, Macy's and Sears. Managed to get the wrong size socks in Gymboree (but exchanged them before I left the mall). The manager recognized the vintage gymboree outfit he was wearing. She said people thought the old stuff was too colorful. I think the current boys stuff looks like business casual myself :( Got some stuff at Macy's and Sears, including some cute socks - 3 different blue cat patterned ones and a cookie monster pair (I wanted Elmo, they didn't have him). Came home, went out for fruit to make fruit salad, and then later went to our friend's for dinner.
Our friend's son was his (usual) clingy self, he just likes mommy and daddy. Alan was his social self, smiling and happy to play with toys and EAT! He did like our friend's talking toys the best, didn't seem to get the ride on ones (Jeff is 18 months old, Alan is 13). Alan also seems to have a good memory for where things are, he found his way to and from the playroom quickly. (He'd last been there over the summer and I don't he crawled then). At one point, he crawled right over Jeff to get to something and then when he came back for the talking toy, Jeff scooted out of the way as if he didn't want to be crawled over again :)
Sunday morning we gave Alan one of our favorite Portuguese sweet rolls with raisin. He ate most of it, and left the rest of it in crumbs in the bed (do not feed 13 month olds rolls in bed, they don't eat over a plate!). Later a friend came over to work on our shower. We're regrouting it to get rid of nasty mold. It probably will need retiling someday, but we should be moved out by then. We finally agreed to ditch the shower doors - so we ended up going to Lowes to get supplies and look at doors. When we got back, DH got ambitious and stuck in 4 tiles (to replace cracked ones) by himself (Alan and I napped). He's not handy, so I'm proud of him. Another friend came by later and we had dinner (mostly veggies, Alan loves sugar snap peas - he eats them like spagetti!) I also finally got my coupon pile clipped and sorted. I wish I knew someone with a Shoprite who uses Enfamil, the cash register gave me a zillion of those coupons just as Alan was done with formula.
Oh, the coolest thing. As we were leaving Friday night, Mike was putting Jeff to bed and said goodnight. Alan waved and said "nite-nite". Our friends heard that. We were all impressed, he's never said that and in context no less.
Our friend's son was his (usual) clingy self, he just likes mommy and daddy. Alan was his social self, smiling and happy to play with toys and EAT! He did like our friend's talking toys the best, didn't seem to get the ride on ones (Jeff is 18 months old, Alan is 13). Alan also seems to have a good memory for where things are, he found his way to and from the playroom quickly. (He'd last been there over the summer and I don't he crawled then). At one point, he crawled right over Jeff to get to something and then when he came back for the talking toy, Jeff scooted out of the way as if he didn't want to be crawled over again :)
Sunday morning we gave Alan one of our favorite Portuguese sweet rolls with raisin. He ate most of it, and left the rest of it in crumbs in the bed (do not feed 13 month olds rolls in bed, they don't eat over a plate!). Later a friend came over to work on our shower. We're regrouting it to get rid of nasty mold. It probably will need retiling someday, but we should be moved out by then. We finally agreed to ditch the shower doors - so we ended up going to Lowes to get supplies and look at doors. When we got back, DH got ambitious and stuck in 4 tiles (to replace cracked ones) by himself (Alan and I napped). He's not handy, so I'm proud of him. Another friend came by later and we had dinner (mostly veggies, Alan loves sugar snap peas - he eats them like spagetti!) I also finally got my coupon pile clipped and sorted. I wish I knew someone with a Shoprite who uses Enfamil, the cash register gave me a zillion of those coupons just as Alan was done with formula.
Oh, the coolest thing. As we were leaving Friday night, Mike was putting Jeff to bed and said goodnight. Alan waved and said "nite-nite". Our friends heard that. We were all impressed, he's never said that and in context no less.
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Date: 2003-11-24 08:37 am (UTC)Ours were frozen
Date: 2003-11-24 08:42 am (UTC)Re: Ours were frozen
Date: 2003-11-24 08:50 am (UTC)Re: Ours were frozen
Date: 2003-11-24 08:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-24 09:07 am (UTC)We (http://www.supercoolperson.com/photogallery/view_photo.php?fileName=/images/teddy/lion_book.jpeg&searchDate=2002-02) do not agree.
Neither do I
Date: 2003-11-24 09:34 am (UTC)I'm on a yahoogroup where people collect the older boys stuff. some people have quite the collection!
See Alan here
Date: 2003-11-24 09:36 am (UTC)(The right hand photo is Alan at 5 months!)
Re: See Alan here
Date: 2003-11-24 11:26 am (UTC)He was wearing a red outfit with yellow, blue, and green patches. He had a red and yellow stripped beanie. The jacket literally looked like it was made from five different colored jackets cut up and reassembled!
A little boy, probably around four years old said, "Look mommy - a baby clown!"
When I said above that "we do not agree" - I didn't mean that the stuff wasn't colorful - just that it wasn't too colorful for MY kid! :)
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Date: 2003-11-24 10:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-24 01:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-24 03:47 pm (UTC)One of the first "shockers" was when he was between 2 and 2&1/2, he was building a car out of his blocks. He stopped, pondered it for a few seconds and says "Look, that's a BEAUTIFUL car." :D