Saturday, June 13, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Kindergarten shots....
Oh my gosh, my baby is growing up! Makes me want to cry... Gracie needed to have her Kindergarten shots in order to go to school. Several weeks back her best buddy Jyllian got her shots and had to get four shots. Jyllian told Grace how bad it was, and Grace was just terrified. I told Grace I'd call the doctors office and see how many she had to get... the news was bad - four.
I didn't want to trick Grace and get her to the doctors office and spring the shots on her, so I told her we would have to go and get them, but I'd tell her when she was getting them so she'd know a head of time. She seemed okay with that; I really wanted to make sure she doesn't end up hating the doctors office like I still do! When I was little either mom thought it was best not to tell me, or she didn't know - but I always associated the doctors office with the possibility of a shot so I never wanted to go. I only go now b/c as a grown-up I figure I can say NO and be heard:-) At our last doctors visit for Eva I talked to Celia (PA) to see if they could write Grace a script for Emuel cream, I'd figured this was a long shot - but I know they use it on children in the ER, clinical trials, etc... she said yes!
So Grace's shots were scheduled for Friday June 12th @ 4:00 p.m. - just thinking about her going was making me sick. But Matt had the bright idea (really bright doesn't do it justice -- AMAZING idea!) when he picked Grace up from Bible School on Thursday evening...
Matt: "Gracie, I've got a great idea... how about we surprise Mommy and get you ready for kindergarten?"
Grace: "Yeah!"
Matt: "You know what that means?"
Grace: "Yep, I have to get four shots."
Matt: "Afterwards we can come home and get Mommy & Eva and we'll all go for ICE CREAM!!!"
So Thursday evening Grace comes in saying, "I'll have a surprise for you tomorrow Mommy!" I tried to get her to tell me, but she wouldn't spill the beans:-) I arrived home from work on Friday and Matt said, "Gracie I need to go get some gas, want to come w/ me?" And they took off - about an hour later Grace came limping through the door saying, "Mommy I have a surprise for you - I'm ready to go to KINDERGARTEN!!!!"
Matt said she was amazing, she cried just a little bit but did a great job (I'm CERTAIN better than I would have done!) she had to get three shots, four vaccinations but they were able to combine one of the shots with another one.
Grace was vaccinated for the following:
I didn't want to trick Grace and get her to the doctors office and spring the shots on her, so I told her we would have to go and get them, but I'd tell her when she was getting them so she'd know a head of time. She seemed okay with that; I really wanted to make sure she doesn't end up hating the doctors office like I still do! When I was little either mom thought it was best not to tell me, or she didn't know - but I always associated the doctors office with the possibility of a shot so I never wanted to go. I only go now b/c as a grown-up I figure I can say NO and be heard:-) At our last doctors visit for Eva I talked to Celia (PA) to see if they could write Grace a script for Emuel cream, I'd figured this was a long shot - but I know they use it on children in the ER, clinical trials, etc... she said yes!
So Grace's shots were scheduled for Friday June 12th @ 4:00 p.m. - just thinking about her going was making me sick. But Matt had the bright idea (really bright doesn't do it justice -- AMAZING idea!) when he picked Grace up from Bible School on Thursday evening...
Matt: "Gracie, I've got a great idea... how about we surprise Mommy and get you ready for kindergarten?"
Grace: "Yeah!"
Matt: "You know what that means?"
Grace: "Yep, I have to get four shots."
Matt: "Afterwards we can come home and get Mommy & Eva and we'll all go for ICE CREAM!!!"
So Thursday evening Grace comes in saying, "I'll have a surprise for you tomorrow Mommy!" I tried to get her to tell me, but she wouldn't spill the beans:-) I arrived home from work on Friday and Matt said, "Gracie I need to go get some gas, want to come w/ me?" And they took off - about an hour later Grace came limping through the door saying, "Mommy I have a surprise for you - I'm ready to go to KINDERGARTEN!!!!"
Matt said she was amazing, she cried just a little bit but did a great job (I'm CERTAIN better than I would have done!) she had to get three shots, four vaccinations but they were able to combine one of the shots with another one.
Grace was vaccinated for the following:
- Diphtheria, Tetanus (Lock-jaw) & Pertussis (Whooping Cough) -- aka: DTaP
- Polio (IPV)
- Measles, Mumps & Rubella (MMR)
- Chickenpox
Conner Prairie w/ Daddy...
Today the girls went with Matt to Conner Prairie - their last day before Brenda comes home. Matt said they had so much fun (I love when he's home w/ them and they do a "memorable" activity). While at CP they took a hot air balloon 387 feet in the air - on the 1859 Balloon Voyage.
It was too cute when I got home they were both talking about it - Eva kept saying BALLOON and pointing up! Boy days w/ dad are fun!!!
The pic below was taken by Daddy while 387 feet in the air:-)
It was too cute when I got home they were both talking about it - Eva kept saying BALLOON and pointing up! Boy days w/ dad are fun!!!
The pic below was taken by Daddy while 387 feet in the air:-)
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Rob - lookie!
Oh no... why can I not learn? I mean seriously, was Grace's lipstick incident still not fresh in my mind? I should have know - Grace was two when it happened, be on the look out Eva's just turned two, a disaster is just around the corner... but no, can't learn from my mistakes can I?
I'm over at Nanni's typing up minutes from my recent Start-up meeting. I'd been meaning to get them done now for days, and since no one sleeps at my house it wasn't going to happen there. I'm busy typing away thinking Eva is being super good -- typing my notes at warp speed when I hear Rob say, "oh my gosh - have you seen this???" I was like, "seen what?" And I turn around...
Eva apparently was busy just not busy being good. Mom has this, oh who knows what it is, but it swings and draws in a large dish of very very fine sand... Sand that in the past has been a total magnet for both girls. Eva has nearly emptied the dish full of sand! It's everywhere... all over the table, all over and in between the wood floor, all over the carpet and the leather chair. Apparently, it was something she was rather proud of b/c w/ Rob passed the office she said, "Rob, lookie!" Like, gosh this has been hard work - destroying Nanni's office while Mommy is busy working. Geese I spent nearly as long cleaning up the mess as I did typing the minutes. You'd think I'd learn:-)
I'm over at Nanni's typing up minutes from my recent Start-up meeting. I'd been meaning to get them done now for days, and since no one sleeps at my house it wasn't going to happen there. I'm busy typing away thinking Eva is being super good -- typing my notes at warp speed when I hear Rob say, "oh my gosh - have you seen this???" I was like, "seen what?" And I turn around...
Eva apparently was busy just not busy being good. Mom has this, oh who knows what it is, but it swings and draws in a large dish of very very fine sand... Sand that in the past has been a total magnet for both girls. Eva has nearly emptied the dish full of sand! It's everywhere... all over the table, all over and in between the wood floor, all over the carpet and the leather chair. Apparently, it was something she was rather proud of b/c w/ Rob passed the office she said, "Rob, lookie!" Like, gosh this has been hard work - destroying Nanni's office while Mommy is busy working. Geese I spent nearly as long cleaning up the mess as I did typing the minutes. You'd think I'd learn:-)
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Aren't sprinkles just a train wreck waiting to happen??
Okay so as you can see the girls have my talent for cooking:-) We tried making ice cream cone cupcakes. They turned out so-so, not the best looking cupcakes... but once they are iced they look a lot like an ice cream cone. So the girls wanted to decorate them, so I iced them and passed them off to the girls to decorate (on their new picnic table courtesy of Nanni & Poppy!). They were having a ball... that is until Grace had a cone and Eva didn't. So I let Eva have the cake (I'd poured the left cake mix into a round cake pan) Eva was happily sprinkling away when I hear Grace say "NO Eva!"
Eva had poured her entire bottle of sprinkles on the cake and was patting them in - a very skilled technique:-) When she realized the icing was sticking to her hands she started licking it off, of course it didn't take Grace long to realize that was a lot more fun than what she was doing... needless to say I had a huge MESS when they were done. But I guess one of those events that once you're on the train and it's not stopping you might as well enjoy the ride:-)
Here is the recipe for you inspired bakers - courtesy of Mia!
you just do a regular cake mix...
then pour them into the cake cones about 2/3 full
then bake in preheated oven @ 325 for 30 minutes!
put 12 of them in a 9x13 pan standing up side-by-side so that they don't fall.
they don't rise all that much...and after you ice them, they really do look like ice cream cones ;) we used sprinkles but the mini chocolate chips would be cute too :)
Eva had poured her entire bottle of sprinkles on the cake and was patting them in - a very skilled technique:-) When she realized the icing was sticking to her hands she started licking it off, of course it didn't take Grace long to realize that was a lot more fun than what she was doing... needless to say I had a huge MESS when they were done. But I guess one of those events that once you're on the train and it's not stopping you might as well enjoy the ride:-)
Here is the recipe for you inspired bakers - courtesy of Mia!
you just do a regular cake mix...
then pour them into the cake cones about 2/3 full
then bake in preheated oven @ 325 for 30 minutes!
put 12 of them in a 9x13 pan standing up side-by-side so that they don't fall.
they don't rise all that much...and after you ice them, they really do look like ice cream cones ;) we used sprinkles but the mini chocolate chips would be cute too :)
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