Odin and I were making pizzas together just now when he came back from our room with a bleeding lip! He cut himself pretty big and it was bleeding a lot but we gave him an ice cube to suck on and it stopped pretty quick. We got Boboli crusts and we made pizzas together. His has cheese and olives, mine has cheese, feta, broccli, and onions. Then we sprinkled olive oil all over them and now we wait!
We took him to the doctor yesterday to see why he had so much snot, and found out it was just a virus and not an infection, which we feared. He's been eating a lot and the doctor noted that his growth was impressive.
I got my paper pack and scored 100%, with a note from the teacher that he would guaranty I'd ace every paper I ever wrote in college if I kept writing like I did for that paper. He used to teach Advance English Composition at UCLA so I figure he knows his stuff. With finals approaching, homework is declining a little as we wind down the end of the term in preparation for our tests, so there's a little less work.
Sadly, we weren't able to fulfill any of our Thanksgiving plans. We even worked out a last minute option to be driven to my mother's but that's about to fall through. Still, we get to hang out with Dad in the company car, and he's spent the last 4 or 5 Thanksgivings alone because we made arrangements with other family members, so I think it'll be good for him.
Odin will be hanging out with June a lot more pretty soon. We didn't hear from Brandy and John for a while, and we were too busy with school, but they just had a baby a few days ago which they lost due to complications, so we're helping them cope and they'll be coming over to hang out once our homework is over with.
Oven's beeping, gotta go get the pizzas!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
New phone number!
We're getting a land line installed. Our apartment is set into the ground a bit, so we never get cell reception unless we go outside. We're going to have a line coming in through the normal telephone jacks, so we'll have clear calls. There's no long distance, yet. It costs extra and we don't know if we'll add it. (For now, we'll still use our cell phones if we want to make a long distance call, and if that gets too annoying, then we'll add it to the land line.)
We don't actually have it installed yet, it'll be a day or two. If you want to know the new number, go to http://spunkytofu.googlepages.com/newnumber and fill out the form. It's just a couple questions so I know that some spam-bot doesn't get our phone number from the blog and give it to a dozen telemarketers to call us. When we've got it, I'll email/call/text everyone who wanted the number. I'll also send my cell in case you are long distance for us so we can still get your calls without it costing extra.
We don't actually have it installed yet, it'll be a day or two. If you want to know the new number, go to http://spunkytofu.googlepages.com/newnumber and fill out the form. It's just a couple questions so I know that some spam-bot doesn't get our phone number from the blog and give it to a dozen telemarketers to call us. When we've got it, I'll email/call/text everyone who wanted the number. I'll also send my cell in case you are long distance for us so we can still get your calls without it costing extra.
Favorite Videos
Well, I haven't posted in a while because of all my homework, and it's been made clear to me that some people really like it when they can read more on this blog, (Hi Gradma!) so I thought I'd put this picture up.
Lately Odin has been going through the phase of having favorite videos to watch, and we have to watch them over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over.......
And then we watch them again.
We don't mind, it's really cute. And the great thing is that they teach him a lot. He just got over watching a video that went through the alphabet and played classical music while explaining numbers, colors, animals, etc, and now he's on one that's a clay-mation based on the Little People toy set he's got a few items from. As I type this, he's working on his 7th viewing of it today already.
Grandma Paula brought over a booster seat that's been working great. He go tired of his high-chair and we got tired of how messy and grimmy it was. The booster seat lets him sit in one of our chairs (which he was obsessed with when he got tired of his high-chair) and it has a removable tray so clean-up is really easy. (I don't know why we didn't do this sooner!) Odin had been getting used to knowing that he could only eat food if it was on his plate (a new development we were really happy about) so now he wants it on the tray. You can prepare him a sandwich on the tray and he'll go sit down in the chair and you can just feed it to him that way.
He's got tons of new words now, and he's trying really hard to string sentences together. He's gotten a lot better with cups so he can walk around and drink from them without spilling. He also remembers EVERYTHING so we can't walk by a store he's ever gotten a snack at without having to go in there for a snack....
As for what's going on with us, just most of what you'd expect. Schoolwork is bearing down hard, especially as dead-week approaches. Alyssa lost her backpack but it was returned with her text books and homework inside. We're lucky she forgot to bring the Laptop that day or we'd be out $1300 worth of computer. I've been neglecting to turn in homework lately because I've been so sick. And being sick has made it impossible to catch-up on everything I missed. But oh well.....
We're trying to find a way to come to Portland over Thanksgiving, but we just don't know how easy it's going to be....
That's all for now, I have to get Odin ready to catch a bus and meet Alyssa for Pizza. That's another thing, he's had pizza every day this week....
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| From Family pix 11/5/08 11:22 AM |
Lately Odin has been going through the phase of having favorite videos to watch, and we have to watch them over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over.......
And then we watch them again.
We don't mind, it's really cute. And the great thing is that they teach him a lot. He just got over watching a video that went through the alphabet and played classical music while explaining numbers, colors, animals, etc, and now he's on one that's a clay-mation based on the Little People toy set he's got a few items from. As I type this, he's working on his 7th viewing of it today already.
Grandma Paula brought over a booster seat that's been working great. He go tired of his high-chair and we got tired of how messy and grimmy it was. The booster seat lets him sit in one of our chairs (which he was obsessed with when he got tired of his high-chair) and it has a removable tray so clean-up is really easy. (I don't know why we didn't do this sooner!) Odin had been getting used to knowing that he could only eat food if it was on his plate (a new development we were really happy about) so now he wants it on the tray. You can prepare him a sandwich on the tray and he'll go sit down in the chair and you can just feed it to him that way.
He's got tons of new words now, and he's trying really hard to string sentences together. He's gotten a lot better with cups so he can walk around and drink from them without spilling. He also remembers EVERYTHING so we can't walk by a store he's ever gotten a snack at without having to go in there for a snack....
As for what's going on with us, just most of what you'd expect. Schoolwork is bearing down hard, especially as dead-week approaches. Alyssa lost her backpack but it was returned with her text books and homework inside. We're lucky she forgot to bring the Laptop that day or we'd be out $1300 worth of computer. I've been neglecting to turn in homework lately because I've been so sick. And being sick has made it impossible to catch-up on everything I missed. But oh well.....
We're trying to find a way to come to Portland over Thanksgiving, but we just don't know how easy it's going to be....
That's all for now, I have to get Odin ready to catch a bus and meet Alyssa for Pizza. That's another thing, he's had pizza every day this week....
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Pictures and new stuff!
I decided that it takes too much time to name each photo and tag them all with who's in them and sort them by when they were taken and on what day and do all that junk. I used to do it so that all the photos would be sorted and we'd know when they were from, but that takes too long, it's more fun to just take them and upload them. That's why I haven't put photo's up for a long time; because I wanted to sort them nicely (because of my OCD) but now I don't care. I just want to get them up there for viewing. So from now on I'll just create a new album every time I batch-upload new photos and it'll be named with the date I uploaded it so we'll know when there's new ones. The one I just now put in there is here:
There's some great shots of Odin in there, like in his Halloween costume:
And in his new crib!
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| Family pix 11/5/08 11:22 AM |
There's some great shots of Odin in there, like in his Halloween costume:
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| From Family pix 11/5/08 11:22 AM |
And in his new crib!
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| From Family pix 11/5/08 11:22 AM |
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