This was part of the Valentine’s gift we got from Rolo and her school yesterday. They said they tried and tried to get a sweet smile before giving into the fact that this is who she really is. I framed it for work but not before I crudely took a picture of a picture to share here.
Rolo has an admirer at school. He’s a smoocher. The snot exchange is shudderworthy and I feel like I need to make it clear to her that she can tell him no. But really, who can blame the little guy. She’s irresistible.
Us! Here’s why.
Rosalind rarely wakes up at night anymore, but when she does she is usually entirely confused and fairly inconsolable. More whiny than truly upset. Sometimes we just pull her into our bed and try to take the lazy way out, but she doesn’t actually like to sleep with us. She flips and turns and jostles and kicks and talks to herself, and never goes back to sleep until one of us finally puts her back in her own bed. So two nights ago, she woke up pretty early in the night and I slept in her bed for about a half hour. Seemed to work. Then a few hours later, she woke up again and whined. And whined. So Sergio checked on her and put her back under the covers and came back to bed. She stayed awake. I went in and covered her back up and told her it was time to stop whining and go back to sleep. And then more whining. So Sergio went in and was very stern. This is a last ditch effort, but it usually works. No luck. I told him to give her some tylenol in case her congested nose was bothering her and then he brought her to our bed. Kicking, talking, jostling, etc. I took her back to bed and told her to go to sleep or…who knows the particular threat, I was asleep. I did have the fleeting thought that we had forgotten to turn her humidifier on, but never actually turned it back on. Since she finally went back to sleep on my last attempt, I didn’t think about it again. Until the next morning when Sergio and I figured out how much Rolo must really rely on the humidifier.
She’s a nose-bleeder! (LIke her daddy)
This is valuable information moving forward. To make matters worse, when she saw the pillow she apologized for making a mess. So we felt about an inch tall. It’s safe to say that she got candy for breakfast and her humidifier turned as high as it would go at nap time.
And just for something other than gore, here are some pictures of Rosalind helping with dishes (making a doll out of the dish brush) and playing in Dad’s vest.
Meeting Santa for the second time with the cousins and sitting in a total tv coma while watching animated Grinch.
I’m sitting at the Jr. High basketball games, sort of watching my cheerleaders. Don’t get me wrong, I watch them intensely during stunts and halftime performances, but it’s two minutes left in the 4th quarter of the girls game, so…eh. If I’m being totally honest I would tell you that if I only had headphones I would be watching tv. Coach of the Year!
Four days left until the start of my Christmas break. That’s what makes my job awesomer than yours! Unless you are also a teacher, of course.
We are super behind on Christmas cards. So behind we haven’t begun. Here are some other pictures from our phones. Maybe I’ll be better at posting now that I remembered the password to our blog. Here’s hoping.
We pass this brown spot in a tunnel every time we take a walk. Rosalind pointed out that it’s ” a big doggie!” I would never have noticed.
Dinner was great and we considered trying some black Friday shopping this year. Instead we took advantage of the FAO Schwarzonline black Friday sale and now we’re in bed before nine. Pretty good day.
Now that it’s thanksgiving night, here are some sort of Christmasy pictures.
Um, hello. I can’t think of anything to write about lately. You may have noticed. Let me think….
Nope, nothing. We work, come home, cook, play, watch tv, put Rolo to bed and follow close behind. Oh, there’s something. Rosalind is officially off the pacifier. Has been for about three weeks. I know that is a good thing on many levels. Unfortunately, it has come at the expense of her wonderful sleeping habits. She no longer knows how to put herself to sleep or go back to sleep when she wakes up in the middle of the night. So bedtime has become a fiasco and she sneaks into our bed by 1:30. Actually, she has stayed in her bed the last two nights but bedtime still stinks. We read and sing like always and when the lights go out she suddenly has a tummy ache and needs water, then she wants us to lay with her, then she wants to tell us, “guess what?” followed by…all kinds of silly stuff. It’s sweet but aggravating. Anyway, that’s the newest development. The only other thing I can think of is that I took Sergio to work with me on Veteran’s Day since he was off. He talked to my students about some criminal law that might relate to them. It was highly entertaining for me to watch their faces when they learned just how illegal some things are. They would be hopeless in interrogations.
We cleaned and carved 4 pumpkins last night, we tried on our way too big witch tights, we declared we don’t like the skirt mama made and no longer want to be a witch, we made caramel apples, and we made homemade goo. Pretty awesome Halloween so far, as long as she’ll still be a witch on Monday.
