Kyle, Pam and Shay left today. And Matt and Margo too! All of us are feeling kind of down here- it was so nice to have them here. Shay and Bright chased each other around almost every night until they had worn themselves out. Then they shared a bath together most nights. Bright was in love and in awe of this big kid that would actually play with him. Shay took on the big sister role quite well. I have lots of pictures but no time right now to download them. Bright has pinkeye. Boo! That put a damper on our last day together since I didn't want the three of them to fly home with a goopy eye.
This morning, since we decided it would be better to not infect the kids at Together Time, we went to pick blueberries instead at the Sugar Shack. We rode on a stretch golf cart up and down hills to get to the fields way out back where the picking was happening today. The variety that was in season was a little on the tart side, just how I like 'em. Bright practiced saying "pick" while grabbing huge handfuls of them and rolling them gently into the buckets. He was a great picker for about 20 minutes when he must have gotten hungry because he started putting those huge handfuls directly into his mouth. He had so many at one point that his lips couldn't close when he was chewing! After letting him eat almost his weight in berries we went to pay and we had gotten five pounds for 1.65 a pound. Not too shabby! We may go back tomorrow- those u-pick places bring out the greedy in me. I seem to just want all of them when I get there and it's hard to leave. Apple season is almost here. The Cider Mill is open which means a cup of cider and a cider donut are ready- for a 1.75. Yahoo!
So we are looking for potties for a boy. If anyone has any good suggestions of brands for a boy, please let me know. Bright is very interested in the one we got at a yard sale but there is no deflector for him and his bit and pieces don't quite make it into the pot.
TMI
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
New Skills
Bright's got three new teeth- putting his tooth count somewhere near 14 I think. The molars are really rough coming out but he is doing pretty good, if you don't count the night I had to sleep right by his crib on the floor for five hours. I woke up all cranky and stiff only to look up and see him staring down at me with a huge smile!
Tonight Andy told me we had something new to blog about- puzzles! Bright can now do all of his puzzles even without the pictures underneath. He doesn't need any help rotating the pieces and seems to do them fairly quickly.
Kyle, Pam and Shay come from Portland on Tuesday. Hooray! I am really looking forward to seeing them! I can't wait to see if Shay will play with Bright and Bright with Shay. He has playdates with Madeline on Wednesdays still and they are finally starting to acknowledge each other and check out what the other is doing and perhaps take away a toy or two. Fun to watch.
Lots of ice cream eating going on here. Seneca Farms has Boston Creme Pie ice cream now and we shared a medium bowl this afternoon between the three of us, then went back and bought a half-gallon and had another bowl each (Andy and I) right away. Then another for night time snack. Sign me up for one of those scooters when I have gotten too big from eating ice cream, please. Thankfully they will be closing down for the season in October, I think. Bad time to develop some crazy allergy to exercise now isn't it. I am still taking wacky doses of Claritin a day and keeping that dumb inhaler close by, just in case. Who wants to always have to think about all the "just in case"-es that could happen to a person.... ugh.
Off to watch some internet tv. We have survived so far without cable by getting netflix started back up. Football season may change things though.
Tonight Andy told me we had something new to blog about- puzzles! Bright can now do all of his puzzles even without the pictures underneath. He doesn't need any help rotating the pieces and seems to do them fairly quickly.
Kyle, Pam and Shay come from Portland on Tuesday. Hooray! I am really looking forward to seeing them! I can't wait to see if Shay will play with Bright and Bright with Shay. He has playdates with Madeline on Wednesdays still and they are finally starting to acknowledge each other and check out what the other is doing and perhaps take away a toy or two. Fun to watch.
Lots of ice cream eating going on here. Seneca Farms has Boston Creme Pie ice cream now and we shared a medium bowl this afternoon between the three of us, then went back and bought a half-gallon and had another bowl each (Andy and I) right away. Then another for night time snack. Sign me up for one of those scooters when I have gotten too big from eating ice cream, please. Thankfully they will be closing down for the season in October, I think. Bad time to develop some crazy allergy to exercise now isn't it. I am still taking wacky doses of Claritin a day and keeping that dumb inhaler close by, just in case. Who wants to always have to think about all the "just in case"-es that could happen to a person.... ugh.
Off to watch some internet tv. We have survived so far without cable by getting netflix started back up. Football season may change things though.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Where We've Been
It's been a little while since I updated.
Here are some things we have been doing: Trip to the Museum of Play
in Rochester, NY. Just about an hour from here. Kind of a spur of the moment trip for us but it worked out great. Bright slept on the way up there, 
woke up when we arrived and played for two hours solid before we had lunch and played some more. I ran into 2 people I used to work with at the Rochester School for the Deaf. Great to see them again- good reminder to brush up on my signing skills. I was a little rusty. Fortunately most of the deaf friends that I have are used to folks with little to no signing skills so they were patient with me while I got back into it. The Museum was really an indoor play center with all kinds of rooms-
a Wegmans shopping center where the kids got kid sized carts to drive around and pick out plastic replicas of foods with bar codes on them. They could then take them to kid sized checkouts and scan them themselves and print out receipts too. Bright loved that! He was really into driving the carts around.
A place to "drive" race cars was also a lot of fun.
You could also race matchbox cars and see who won.
There were two good sized salt water aquariums there.
There was a replica of the Sesame Street street with Big Bird and the stoop where the gang hangs out.
There was also a whole section of Clifford the Big Red Dog stuff. The neighbor where the stories take place, all the characters and a playground within it. You could deliver the mail to all of the houses and stores in the neighborhood, or play in the tool shed or make/take orders at the burger shack there.
I see that my boy has not learned to transfer the "Don't touch- the stove is hot" lesson to places outside of our home :)
There was also a random encounter with Clifford himself- scared the daylights out of Bright.
Among the other things there was a plane you could "fly".
A butterfly house that we did not go into because it is a timed admission thing that we did not get tickets for when we first go there and the wait was a hour, plus an extra $3 per adult.
There was a nook that had a computer in it that Bright could play with and not get scolded- he had never played with a mouse before since we have the laptop and no mouse.
We bought lunch there- pizza for Bright and I and a veggie burger that looked like meat and I had to ask to make sure it wasn't for Andy, which he declared to be the meatiest tasting veggie burger he had ever had, and also said it was good.
Drinks before heading home.... and the scene in the car on the way back...
Yup- that is some sort of choco-cookie on my boy- either an Newman O or an Oreo. and yes, he did pop the lense out of his sunglasses at some point too. So much more there to see and do another time.
We also just came back from trip to the Spray Park in Geneva and had a blast there also. Now I am pooped and gonna take a nap.
Here are some things we have been doing: Trip to the Museum of Play
in Rochester, NY. Just about an hour from here. Kind of a spur of the moment trip for us but it worked out great. Bright slept on the way up there, 
woke up when we arrived and played for two hours solid before we had lunch and played some more. I ran into 2 people I used to work with at the Rochester School for the Deaf. Great to see them again- good reminder to brush up on my signing skills. I was a little rusty. Fortunately most of the deaf friends that I have are used to folks with little to no signing skills so they were patient with me while I got back into it. The Museum was really an indoor play center with all kinds of rooms-a Wegmans shopping center where the kids got kid sized carts to drive around and pick out plastic replicas of foods with bar codes on them. They could then take them to kid sized checkouts and scan them themselves and print out receipts too. Bright loved that! He was really into driving the carts around.
A place to "drive" race cars was also a lot of fun.
You could also race matchbox cars and see who won.
There were two good sized salt water aquariums there.
There was a replica of the Sesame Street street with Big Bird and the stoop where the gang hangs out.
There was also a whole section of Clifford the Big Red Dog stuff. The neighbor where the stories take place, all the characters and a playground within it. You could deliver the mail to all of the houses and stores in the neighborhood, or play in the tool shed or make/take orders at the burger shack there.
I see that my boy has not learned to transfer the "Don't touch- the stove is hot" lesson to places outside of our home :)
There was also a random encounter with Clifford himself- scared the daylights out of Bright.
Among the other things there was a plane you could "fly".
A butterfly house that we did not go into because it is a timed admission thing that we did not get tickets for when we first go there and the wait was a hour, plus an extra $3 per adult.
There was a nook that had a computer in it that Bright could play with and not get scolded- he had never played with a mouse before since we have the laptop and no mouse.
We bought lunch there- pizza for Bright and I and a veggie burger that looked like meat and I had to ask to make sure it wasn't for Andy, which he declared to be the meatiest tasting veggie burger he had ever had, and also said it was good.
Drinks before heading home.... and the scene in the car on the way back...
Yup- that is some sort of choco-cookie on my boy- either an Newman O or an Oreo. and yes, he did pop the lense out of his sunglasses at some point too. So much more there to see and do another time.
We also just came back from trip to the Spray Park in Geneva and had a blast there also. Now I am pooped and gonna take a nap.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Name Change
Tonight is night #2 of no nursing for Bright. I decided it was time to wean him after a semi-scary incident last week Monday where I found out I have an odd allergy to exercise. Long story short- Monday we went for a good long walk in the morning. My legs started itching like crazy and got worse and worse. When we got home I felt a little tight in the chest and felt like it was getting a bit harder to breathe (might have just been from being a little scared though), ended up in the ER where they said I had Exercise Induced Uticuria and here's an inhaler, and you need to take antihistamines before you do anything resembling exercise again.... Great. Truth be told, it wasn't the first time I had ever felt that way, just really the worst though. The inhaler and the antihistamines aren't great for Bright so I figured that, coupled with the fact that he is nearly 17 months old, it's time to let go of that special time. This has been having an impact on our night time here. Bright has been super difficult to get to sleep which stinks because he had been doing so great as of late. Now it has upwards of an hour and a half to get him to sleep and he cries out Mama, mama desperately when I have left the room. So sad to hear. Andy doesn't cut it for him, not by a long shot. Sorry babe.
So we may need to change the blog to "I made milk..."
So we may need to change the blog to "I made milk..."
Friday, August 1, 2008
Canoe
Canoe is one of the words that Bright can say now. He has been saying a batch of new single words lately- canoe, shoe, chair, table, spider, mama, milk, and GI Joe. Thankfully mama came before GI Joe, or my spirits would have really been crushed. Andy collects them and Bright is very fond of them right now. He calls them "guy" and loves to shriek out GI Joe at random moments. Tonight Grammy and Grampy came and took Bright out for ice cream and play time at the park near the lake. Andy and I used that time to take the canoe out for a spin again. Good exercise and we got really sweaty just from wearing the life jackets- neither of us is a particularly strong swimmer so we don't mess around with the canoe and always wear the jackets. Party with pals tomorrow on the lake. Mama's tired and going to bed.....
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