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| 23:02pm 17 July 2009 | |||
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Because Cash stayed up until almost 11. I am amazed that my child went from saying NO numbers on wednesday morning to being able to answer questions like these by friday night "How many cats do we have?" "TOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" "How many fingers is mamma holding up?" "FYE!" "What number is Gordon the Engine?" "FOOOOOOOOOOOOR!" "How many noses do you have?" "WUNNNNNNN!" It's awesome. New words for the day are "STORE" "RED" and "YAY!" which accompanied by clapping. Easter era video of my little bunny doing some hopping and nose wiggling Similar actions, but with bunny ears on |
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| de tanto bailar, bailar, al suelo me voy a sentar | ||||
| 23:03pm 16 July 2009 | ||||
So, my child who used to refuse to repeat anything, ever, no matter how I tried, actually repeated the entire ABCs after me (aside from J, Q, and W which he claims not to be able to say) multiple times yesterday. It's funny though, because the first 2 or 3 times we did it, I had reinforcement that my constant telling him what words start with what letters and using alliteration to teach him about words that start with the same letters actually had sunk in. Because it went like this "Can you say A?" "AYYYYYYYY!" "Can you say B?" "BEEEEEEEEE!" "Can you say C?" "... .... .... CAT! CAT! CAT!" I was deeply impressed. He also said all the numbers, from 5 to 1 when we were doing a "5 more minutes until we go inside" countdown last evening. And then I said "my goodness Cash, aren't you a clever boy?" when he counted all the tigers on a page of his book and came up with the correct number (4) he said "CLEVER!" back to me. So 23 letters, 5 numbers and "clever" all in one day, after all this time of adding maybe a word a month. I think we're on the talking train! ( porque estoy desbaratado, que buena la conga va ) |
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full| with a woo woo woo and a clackity clack clack | ||||
| 22:22pm 14 July 2009 | ||||
We got the movie Waltz With Bashir via Netflix today, I am really looking forward to seeing it. So my friend had a baby girl on the 30th, I went over there with a big ol' pan of pasta today as bribery. I figured if I handed her a pan of pasta, she'd have to hand me the baby. It worked. Oh my gosh, so tiny and precious. I think I caught baby fever from her. ( the busy little engine is a-comin' down the track ) |
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happy| will there be a lake, will we see a boat? | ||||
| 23:03pm 13 July 2009 | ||||
What will I do when Daisy of Love ends? And why do I like this stupid show so much? I think Riki Rachtman adds a lot to it, he's a great host. Cash is just adding words like crazy nowadays. Everyone said it would happen and I believed them, but it's cool to finally have it happen. Today he started saying "ball" and"cookie", last night it was "blue". Mo Willems is pretty much a genius. I don't get why his books are SO hugely appealing to children, but there's not a one that Cash doesn't want to read over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Currently the Elephant & Piggie book I Will Surprise My Friend and Time to Pee are his faves, we have to read them about 700 times each, per day. At the end of this post is a video of us reading the latter. With Cash providing the "PEEEEE!"s at appropriate moments. ( will there be a mountain, or a mountain goat? ) |
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headache-d but otherwise good| Saturday Picture Post: Frozen Treats Edition | |||
| 23:13pm 11 July 2009 | |||
 ( NOM NOM ICE CREAMS ) |
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| can i sail through the changing ocean tides? | ||||
| 22:55pm 09 July 2009 | ||||
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} itsajhthing, good luck tomorrow, I hope everything goes well!Cash says "BOOK" and "PEE" now. Which is good, since I got him the Mo Willem's book TIme To Pee today. He adores it. We read it about 7 times in a row, with him contributing the word "PEEEEE!" on every page. He loves to pee int he potty. If I could just get him interested in pooping there too, we'd be golden. No pun intended. ( can i handle the seasons of my life? ) |
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thirsty| she said baby, forever, but i don't like to be alone | ||||
| 22:44pm 07 July 2009 | ||||
We still only have one vehicle, so Sean had to take the Jeep to work. Luckily my friend Ashley was going to Pier Park with just Tyler today, leaving the baby at home with her sister. So she had room for Cash's car seat and was able to drive us too. Mr B was tickled to pieces to go fir a ride in a car with his friend Tyler! When he realized we were actually driving away with them, he just started to laugh and laugh. He kept pointing to Tyler and saying "Yi-yi-yi-yi-yi" which is what he calls Tyler. They both pointed out all the big trucks, red and green lights, and boats we passed on the way. We saw Charlotte's Web, the 2006 Dakota Fanning version, which really is quite a good adaptation. Cash liked it, he wore himself out snorting every time Wilbur was on the screen. He likes Charlotte too. THankfully he's not old enough for me to be forced to explain her death to him. Ashley had to do some consoling of Tyler at that point. ( so don't stay away too long ) Poll #1426666 PB&B Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All A peanut butter & banana sandwich is a _______________ thing to eat |
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50 (71.4%)| Pampered Chef | |||
| 22:33pm 06 July 2009 | |||
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Second to last time I pester y'all about this! I am helping out a friend of mine who is had a baby girl tuesday. She sells Pampered Chef (the mamma, not the baby!) and is going to have a hard time doing anything for the next month (obviously, and she has a 2 year old as well) so I'm doing what I can to keep her sales up during the first few weeks when she will be otherwise occupied. Her baby actually had to go back into the hospital yesterday (though she is going to be okay) so I am hoping I can get her some sales a nice surprise for her to find when things settle down a little. If you buy $60 worth of stuff, you get a free peeler of your choice, from one of 5 styles (I LOVE the serrated peeler). Anyhow just click the link below and put in "Lily McGinley" as the host's name, then click my name on the next page and you'll have the whole catalog to browse. I'd super appreciate you having a look to see if there's anything you can't live without! Anytime between now and July 17th. http://www.pamperedchef.biz/hubbell Trained professionals are waiting to take your order!  Thanks a bunch y'all! |
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| Saturday Picture Post: Beach Baby Edition | |||
| 23:13pm 04 July 2009 | |||
Mr B loves him some fun in the sun ( who doesn't, really? ) |
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| 4 nibbles - Have a carrot? | |||
| if what you're shoveling is company then i'd rather be alone | ||||
| 00:10am 03 July 2009 | ||||
Looks like Sean's truck is going to be done tomorrow, so we've been blessedly spared any further taking to/picking up from work trips. There's a family picnic on base tomorrow, Sean volunteered me to make mac & cheese, so I did that tonight. I sampled so much of it, I don't think I'll eat any tomorrow. Oh ha ha, who am I kidding? Cash & I picked blueberries at a friend's house today. Tonight we had vanilla Blue Bell topped with them, strawberries and whipped cream. Yummmmmmmmmmy! ( resentment always goes much further than it was supposed to go ) |
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thoughtful| a woman of kindness with bracelets of jade | ||||
| 23:23pm 01 July 2009 | ||||
Cash thinks if you whistle, you're asking for a kiss. I discovered this quite by accident. I am not much of a whistler, but he's recently fallen in love with the book Snuggle Puppy by Sandra Boynton. So I was whistling the tune to him while I was getting him dressed and he was so interested in the noise, he turned around to see how I was doing it and saw my lips all puckered up so he planted a big smooch on them. So I kept starting to whistle and he kept kissing me. I wasn't sure if it would work for other people too, so I told Sean to try whistling at Cash last night and sure enough, he got attacked by Mr Kissyface. He was tickled, he doesn't generally get the hundreds of kisses a day that I get, so h was happy to have a means to get some on demand now. So, most of y'all know my FiL is a big bald biker who likes pink. He doesn't have the pink motorcycle anymore, but he still has a lot of pink clothing etc. It's kind of his signature, because he likes to get people's attention, and a big old biker guy in hot pink tends to achieve that. Some of y'all may also remember when he had his motorcycle accident and needed to wear Crocs (because of his ankle injury that prevented him from wearing normal shoes) I got him some hot pink ones. Well he wore them to Winn Dixie the other day and a lady in line, after standing behind him and staring at the shoes for a good 2 minutes said "I like your shoes...are you gay?" DOUBLE-YOU-TEE-EFFFF?!?!?!?!?! Who says that???? I so would have replied with "That's a great blouse, who do you like to have sex with?" Rude stupid people. ( in china or japan, her choices are made ) |
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moody| legs crossed on the red serge setee | ||||
| 23:45pm 30 June 2009 | ||||
stopityoumonkey ? cleverkitten? Can't find it. Anyhow, thank you, I finished it sunday at Books a Million and really loved it. It gave me some closure on Tara Road too!Okay, so tell me if you agree on this one. Saturday there was theme day on Lifetime Movie Network (which is ALWAYS on in my nail salon, I don't watch this at home). The theme was "Robbin' the Cradle" and had a jaunty little martini glass logo. Okay, fine, I get that some of LMN's target audience would like to fantasize about running off and having a fling with some hot guy in his 20s, I get it. That goes along with the tongue in cheek theme name and the martini glass logo, right? But then in the midst of your "Ohhh saucy!" Robbin' the Cradle! Yeah!" schedule you put.....the Mary Kay LeTourneau story? Are you KIDDING ME?! She molests a 12 year old, ruins his life, makes him a father twice over before he's old enough to vote, gives birth to a baby in prison, ruins her own marriage and the lives of her other 4 kids...and you put her story next to "vacation romance with young hardbody hotel employee" type films like Flirting with Forty and How Stella Got Her Groove Back then blanket them all in your cutsey little Robbin' the Cradle theme? I don't go around writing hotly worded letters to television stations normally, but I was pretty grossly offended by that. What do you think? ( sat next to nothing and she looked right through me ) |
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content| Pampered Chef | |||
| 22:53pm 29 June 2009 | |||
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Just wanted to put this out there, I am helping out a friend of mine who is having a baby TOMORROW. She sells Pampered Chef and is going to have a hard time doing anything for the next month (obviously! she has a 2 year old as well) so I'm doing what I can to keep her sales up during the first few weeks when she will be otherwise occupied. If you buy $60 worth of stuff, you get a free peeler of your choice, from one of 5 styles (I LOVE the serrated peeler). Anyhow just click the link below and put in "Lily McGinley" as the host's name, then click my name on the next page and you'll have the whole catalog to browse. I'd super appreciate you having a look to see if there's anything you can't live without! Anytime between now and July 17th. http://www.pamperedchef.biz/hubbell Thanks a bunch y'all! Mr B is placing his order by phone  |
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| Saturday Picture Post: Playground Party Edition | |||
| 13:45pm 27 June 2009 | |||
 ( fun times! ) |
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| and if i cannot sleep for the secrets i keep it's the price i'm willing to meet | ||||
| 23:23pm 26 June 2009 | ||||
So, British people, what we call corn, y'all call sweetcorn. I was just idly wondering, while feeding Cash his near daily nibblets, if there's other kinds of corn sold there? Just plain corn? Bittercorn? Saltycorn? Aside from popcorn, I mean. Not being big on corn in its natural form myself, I never investigated this while living there. Watched Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist tonight. I wasn't sure if I'd like it or not, but we figured we'd give it a try. It's kind of in the same vein as Juno, not just because of the Michael Cera, but because it's that same modern snarky sarcastic teen hipster comedy. But I enjoyed it a lot more than I enjoyed Juno. Juno, I was pretty much done with after I saw it, but I'd watch this one again if I came across it on cable. ( the end of the night never comes too quickly for me ) |
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good| life's better now than it was back then | ||||
| 00:00am 26 June 2009 | ||||
water_melanie! Such a lot of bad celebrity news on your birthday, but I hope you had a happy one anyhow!Is it just me, or has 2009 been absolutely brutal in terms of death? And personal finances of course. Just in general, so many bad things have happened to so many people, both famous and regular, ever since the calendar turned. I have felt sorry for Michael Jackson for a long time, he was really just never allowed to be a child and was a seriously messed up person. Fame did him no favors, I think. It's sad for his family that he died, but I can't help but wonder if maybe his children won't be better off? I know that sounds horrible to say about anyone losing a father, but their life just seemed so bizarre with the masks and everything, I wonder if maybe they can have a little normality now. Though, depending on who gets custody of them, that may not be possible. So, in lighter news, rustyangel's comment made me realize that I don't think I shared this already. Whenever Sean takes a shower, Cash lurks around the bedroom and waits for the water to go off. When it does, he runs like a chubby little madman to the nightstand and picks out a pair of underwear, then carries them to the bathroom and gives them to daddy. He is partial to the red boxer briefs and the American Eagle ones with birdies on.( if i was them i wouldn't let me in ) |
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okay| you said i wasn't cheap, you paid me twenty pounds | ||||
| 23:45pm 24 June 2009 | ||||
He does love to GO. The change in his demeanor once he got mobile was so shocking, he spent his first few months of life just flat mad that he couldn't get anywhere. Once he learnt to roll over, he got cheerier and his disposition just improved markedly with every step toward total mobility. Sean got so mad at me for watching the big Jon & Kate rerun last night. I just wanted to see what everyone else had been talking about the night before. He said I should not be contributing to their exploitation of their kids and general asshattery. And I totally get his point. All this awfulness had made them even more rich and more famous and it's such a shame that their kids are going to have to grow up with everyone having seen the break-up of their parents marriage on national television. I find them both equally awful. ( you promised to put me in a magazine, on every table in every lounge ) |
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thankful| admiral halsey notified me he had to have a berth or he couldn't get to sea | ||||
| 23:45pm 23 June 2009 | ||||
Evelyn's mommy dropped her off early because she had an appointment and me and some of the other moms agreed to keep an eye on Evelyn through the party so she could go TCB. Evelyn settled in on the sofa ottoman watching Elmo and Cash came in to see what she was up to. He watched for a second, then climbed up on the ottoman with her. He gave her a look, then scootched himself a little closer. Looked again, to see if she was paying attention. She was still watching teevee, so he scootched a little closer. Then he looked at me, looked back at her, reached out & held her hand. Just sat there casually watching Elmo with her and holding her hand for like 10 minutes. I did not think I was going to see my child holding hands with a pretty girl on my sofa in front of the teevee for another 10-12 years! Of course my camera batteries died about 2 seconds before he reached for her hand :( ( i had another look and i had a cup of tea and a butter pie ) |
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satisfied| girl on a carousel, she spins black rain pouring down | ||||
| 23:53pm 22 June 2009 | ||||
Cash learned a new word on saturday. Now we have this conversation "Hey Cash, can you say baby?" "BAY-BEE!" "Very good! Are you a baby?" *vehement head shaking* "You're not? What are you?" "BIG!!!!" So cute. ( and she doesn't notice me at all ) |
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rushed| Happy Father's Day! | |||
| 23:45pm 21 June 2009 | |||
 ( few more from the shoot ) |
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