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Post by monkeyroo on Aug 13, 2013 13:30:05 GMT -5
My first blog!
We just got a new puppy, DS has been asking for a puppy named Bolt since he could talk, so that is her name. She is still in the che everything stage and DS will lay on the floor and let her nah all over him, and laugh about the dog wanting "a tasty, lovely dinner." DD just runs and screams "BAD CHEW, I'M A BAD CHEW BOLT-BOLT!"
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Post by jemila on Aug 13, 2013 17:38:54 GMT -5
LOL!!!! How fun!!!
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Post by gadgetgirl on Aug 14, 2013 4:06:10 GMT -5
lol! That's really sweet.
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Post by monkeyroo on Aug 15, 2013 8:23:29 GMT -5
Yesterday my Bible study group took the kids to the Children's Museum. They loved it! Penny (the Roo) loved the little tea party room, and the Native American room. She played the drum and made up a song;
The buffalo was lost in the forest
then it found our teepee,
our bigger bigger teepee.
Not too bad for a not quite three year old!
Lewis (my monkey) loved the bubble room, and the fake tornado.
Then we to eat at a place called Raymond's that I had heard good things about. It was so yummy! They had a carrot souffle that was amazing! I ate a second helping of that instead of dessert.
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Post by amalthea on Aug 16, 2013 5:21:07 GMT -5
Cute song!
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Post by bunkie68 on Aug 17, 2013 7:15:28 GMT -5
I love kids' creativity!
And carrot souffle is the noms. I could eat that stuff by the bowlful. I keep telling my kids it's fabulous and they should try it! They don't listen. LOL
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Post by amalthea on Aug 17, 2013 8:57:50 GMT -5
Oddly enough, the fastest way to get D&E to try any food is to remind them that they've never had it before. They L-O-V-E trying new foods! They've even tried calamari (which they love), Brussels sprouts (which they don't like) and sushi (D likes, E doesn't).
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Post by monkeyroo on Aug 17, 2013 14:56:34 GMT -5
Bunkie, so do I! She was telling me stories at breakfast this morning. And carrot souffle will be made at my house next week! The kids liked it, I told them it was like sweet potatoes, and they ate and liked it.
Amalthea,I wish my kids would try more new things, but they are still young and the logic of "How do you know you don't like it, you've never had it." doesn't work quite yet.
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Post by amalthea on Aug 17, 2013 15:35:16 GMT -5
I have to admit that it's part being part pure deceit.
My parents weren't that strict with me re: food (part of the blessing AND curse of being one of the youngest of a large family), so I always said that I would be. Snowy and I started being firm pretty much from the start of solids.
As for the deceit part, one time, when she was about 5, Deborah decided that she didn't like pork (she never really had it at that point). I had bought some barbeque boneless pork ribs and hid the box (she was already an excellent reader). After she ate them and "LOVED" them...I showed her the box. That is when she figured by herself that trying is the only road to liking, and we haven't had a problem since.
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Post by jemila on Aug 21, 2013 13:57:09 GMT -5
I have always made my kids eat at least 3 bites of everything on their plates. They all love vegetables now. Even my 2 year old will devour veggies like they are his favorite candy.  They get excited when they can have baby carrots as a snack. I'm not sure how we got them to like veggies, except just making them taste them. 3 bites gets them past the "I'm gonna hate this stuff!" stage, and gives them a chance to really taste things and decide for themselves. When we've discovered something they just really don't like, we don't force them to eat it. But, initially, there is the 3 bite rule. |
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Post by monkeyroo on Aug 22, 2013 11:03:07 GMT -5
I do have a one bite rule. If they don't try everything then they don't get anything else. If I make something new I do make something they love, and when they eat all of that I make them try other stuff on their plate, if they really don't like it I'm ok with them not eating it.
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Post by monkeyroo on Aug 23, 2013 9:51:36 GMT -5
What a week! Last Friday night Lewis screamed ALL. NIGHT. LONG! I'm pretty sure his ear drum ruptured, he had a pretty nasty ear infection. Thankfully our Dr. office runs a weekend clinic, and our pediatrician was there last Saturday.
The kids have been sick off and on for about three weeks now, so we have gotten in the habit of watching too much TV. So now that everyone is well I'm having to break that habit, which is leading to some pretty winey kids (mainly Lewis, Penny is happy in her own little world playing with her fingers)
Yesterday Penny had a dentist appointment to check on her cavities, they don't want to fill them yet if they don't have to because she is so small and they don't want to put her under anisthisa. For some unknown reason I made the appointment for 8:30, and even though the kids wake up at 6:30 it is hard to get us out of the house that early because something always happens. Well, yesterday was no exception, I went to load the dishes into the dishwasher and a mouse had made a nest. Not only had the mouse made a nest, but it HAD BABIES! IN MY DISHWASHER! My husband was already at work, so I had to deal with it myself. The whole time I'm scooping them into a bowl Penny is just saying "Aww cute! Babies!" She didn't see them, they where covered in their nest, but the word baby sent her into uber girl mode. The mice where put into a bowl, then the bowl into a plastic bag, then the plastic bag flung out into our field. Later that day I googled baby mice to show Penny a picture of them so she would stop being sad that I killed the babies. She is no longer sad because they are so creepy looking, Lewis however is very sad because he thought they looked "cool" He then told me that the mommy and daddy mouse went on vacation, and we were suppose to take care of the babies. I told him they chose the wrong people.
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Post by monkeyroo on Aug 23, 2013 14:10:58 GMT -5
My dog killed a turkey in our backyard. We don't have a turkey, and we don't have wild turkeys. So it is a mystery as to how said turkey got into the backyard. I'm tired of having to scoop up dead (and unwanted live) things. Wiping young kids buggers is about as gross as I can handle...
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Post by bunkie68 on Sept 6, 2013 21:38:10 GMT -5
Oh, poor Lewis! I hope he's better now.
And have mercy, I don't know what I'd have done with a nest of baby mice in the dishwasher. I think you handled it pretty well.
How old is Penny? Julian had a cavity on a baby tooth. He was 10 at the time, and the cavity was pretty close to the nerve, so he didn't just want to wait for that baby tooth to fall out, but there didn't seem to be much point in filling a baby tooth. The permanent tooth was close enough to the surface that our dentist was OK with pulling it.
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Post by monkeyroo on Sept 9, 2013 14:58:31 GMT -5
Thank you, and Lewis is all better, then I got an ear infection and now I'm all better too!
Penny will be three next week, so her teeth will be there for a good number of years. The dentist is just wanting to get her bigger so that either the anisthisa is less of a worry (she only weighs 25 pounds!) or that she will be big enough to just use gas.
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They get excited when they can have baby carrots as a snack. I'm not sure how we got them to like veggies, except just making them taste them. 3 bites gets them past the "I'm gonna hate this stuff!" stage, and gives them a chance to really taste things and decide for themselves. When we've discovered something they just really don't like, we don't force them to eat it. But, initially, there is the 3 bite rule.