I have now seen "Meet the Colors" four times. I am consoled by the knowledge that tomorrow, we will be watching "Meet the Letters". At least there will be 26 of those rather than eight. We also went out to the lake behind their house to feed the ducks, but the ducks kept running away so we went to the park instead. I don't think anyone wins points for that.
Where is January going? New Year's Day was two weeks ago already. School will start Tuesday. And I need more tea.
I promised you a progress assessment on my Resolutions, and I'm waiting for the base coat on my nails to dry, so here goes:
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Still Swimming
I made quite a pretty penny babysitting Little Kid last week, and I'll be making more this week by not missing a day. On Thursday I managed to get her out of the house and to the park about a five minute walk away. +1 to Lissa for accomplishing this amidst protests of "I don't wanna go outside!" because of course, she was quite happy once she got out there.
Thursday and Friday she wanted to "watch colors", which I found out is a preschool preparation video designed to teach toddlers their colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, and white) while simultaneously driving anyone over the age of eight out of their freaking minds. Click here to view a two-minute segment, and then realize that this is repeated eight times (and there are other, equally mind-numbing segments following). I've seen it three times within a two-day span. +1 to Little Kid for making me crazy.
Thursday and Friday she wanted to "watch colors", which I found out is a preschool preparation video designed to teach toddlers their colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, and white) while simultaneously driving anyone over the age of eight out of their freaking minds. Click here to view a two-minute segment, and then realize that this is repeated eight times (and there are other, equally mind-numbing segments following). I've seen it three times within a two-day span. +1 to Little Kid for making me crazy.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
You Actually Wanted To Do Stuff?
Lissa is still horizontal.
I went to bed at 9:30 last night and (except for getting up to grab the phone to inform my client that I would not be coming to her house today) did not get out of bed until 2:30 in the afternoon. I woke up at least four times during the night (drink water, pull Octuple Rainbow over head, return to sleep), and probably could have slept a lot later into the afternoon... but the phone I'd picked up was still beside my bed, and someone called my house. Booooo.
I've gotten nothing done today. If I feel up to it, I'll work on the angora swatch after posting this. Or maybe I'll just go back to sleep. The only problem with me at this point is the headache, and I think I'm still dehydrated.
So in order to feel like I'm actually accomplishing things, I'll take a quick run through my resolutions for the month. Ready? Here we go.
I went to bed at 9:30 last night and (except for getting up to grab the phone to inform my client that I would not be coming to her house today) did not get out of bed until 2:30 in the afternoon. I woke up at least four times during the night (drink water, pull Octuple Rainbow over head, return to sleep), and probably could have slept a lot later into the afternoon... but the phone I'd picked up was still beside my bed, and someone called my house. Booooo.
I've gotten nothing done today. If I feel up to it, I'll work on the angora swatch after posting this. Or maybe I'll just go back to sleep. The only problem with me at this point is the headache, and I think I'm still dehydrated.
So in order to feel like I'm actually accomplishing things, I'll take a quick run through my resolutions for the month. Ready? Here we go.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Lissa V. Little Kid
Lissa: 0
Little Kid: 0
Note that I don't actually consider adult/kid, parent/child, or sitter/sittee relationships to be confrontational by nature. I'm just having fun.
Right now I have a two-week babysitting job. To get there, I drive through a bunch of farmland (singing loudly and drinking tea because the scenery is really boring and zoning out at 65 miles per hour [~104 kilometers per hour] is a bad plan) until I get to this adorable little village. Little Kid is two years old, and I am charged with keeping her busy and happy for four to six and a half hours, depending on the day.
One of the things I'm supposed to do is put her down for a nap after lunch. Yesterday, even though we could tell that Little Kid needed some sleep, she refused to nap because she "wasn't tired". By the end of the afternoon she was so zonked she would just stand around because she couldn't remember what she was doing and didn't have the energy to do anything. Adorable, yes. But it meant that if she couldn't pull her shoes off on the first try she was bordering on tears. Not so cute. +1 to Little Kid for successfully avoiding naptime in a funny way.
Lissa: 0
Little Kid: 1
Today, she admitted to being tired, at about ten o'clock. She still didn't go down for a nap though, because she wanted to "sleep with Mommy" and her mother understandably refused. She was working, after all. She was pretty much zonked the whole time I was there, to the point where when we were laying on the floor reading giant board books, she kept putting her head down on the book like she was just going to fall asleep there. I didn't blame her. I've done that myself. +1 to Little Kid for successfully avoiding naptime in a cute way.
Lissa: 0
Little Kid: 2
Little Kid: 0
Note that I don't actually consider adult/kid, parent/child, or sitter/sittee relationships to be confrontational by nature. I'm just having fun.
Right now I have a two-week babysitting job. To get there, I drive through a bunch of farmland (singing loudly and drinking tea because the scenery is really boring and zoning out at 65 miles per hour [~104 kilometers per hour] is a bad plan) until I get to this adorable little village. Little Kid is two years old, and I am charged with keeping her busy and happy for four to six and a half hours, depending on the day.
One of the things I'm supposed to do is put her down for a nap after lunch. Yesterday, even though we could tell that Little Kid needed some sleep, she refused to nap because she "wasn't tired". By the end of the afternoon she was so zonked she would just stand around because she couldn't remember what she was doing and didn't have the energy to do anything. Adorable, yes. But it meant that if she couldn't pull her shoes off on the first try she was bordering on tears. Not so cute. +1 to Little Kid for successfully avoiding naptime in a funny way.
Lissa: 0
Little Kid: 1
Today, she admitted to being tired, at about ten o'clock. She still didn't go down for a nap though, because she wanted to "sleep with Mommy" and her mother understandably refused. She was working, after all. She was pretty much zonked the whole time I was there, to the point where when we were laying on the floor reading giant board books, she kept putting her head down on the book like she was just going to fall asleep there. I didn't blame her. I've done that myself. +1 to Little Kid for successfully avoiding naptime in a cute way.
Lissa: 0
Little Kid: 2
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