Friday, September 12, 2008

Words and Weening

Odin doesn't nurse at all anymore. He still whines for it sometimes, and claws at Alyssa's shirts, but most of the time you can distract him and he's fine. His favorite food lately is PBJs. He has lots of words, too. He knows that the oven gets hot and he shouldn't touch it. If food is hot, he'll tell you that he can't eat it yet. He says Cool when something cool happens. Bucket is his favorite word right now because we got him a huge toy been and made a game out of cleaning up his room. You can ask him for specific things and he'll fetch them for you. We asked him to put the yellow block in the bucket and he did. Then we asked him to get Alyssa's phone and he brought it to us. Then he was playing with my keys and he lost them and I was looking for them so I asked him to get them and he went and found them for me and brought them to me. When he can't get through a door, he'll ask for keys and if you give them to him, he'll try each one until it works.

I have a beenup2 now. Beenup2 is a service for hosting your photos. It's like an album and it can show you things about the picture, like when it was taken or where. The cool thing is, you send pictures from your phone right as you take them. It's a way of showing your friends and family what you've been up to. Since we don't get the internet much to upload new photos, and I don't always have a camera with me, it's my new way of keeping track. I'll still take pictures with the good camera and put them in the albums we already have, but this I can do more often because I only need my phone. Here's a little badge they generate:

Checkout what I've BeenUp2!

Times have been a little hard lately; because of the move we didn't get our food stamp renewal stuff so we had to fill out the forms late and we still haven't got them (should've gotten them on the 6th). We're surviving. Friends and family are helping us a bit with food but it will be so nice when we don't have to worry about it. We get our financial aid money in 2 weeks or so, so even if we don't get the food stamps for some reason, we'll be able to buy groceries. Plus, we'll have more money this term beause we're both 2nd year at the U of O so we'll be fine. And we'll even have enough money to buy plane tickets so Odin and I can finally meet Alyssa's dad.

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