Matthias: *burps* I burped.
Me: What do you say when you burp?
Matthias: ... Buuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrp.
Kaitlyn: I made this for you.
Justine: Is this a drawing of me?
Kaitlyn: Yes!
Justine: I'm... an angry tornado.
Kaitlyn: You're a happy heart!
Gretchen: Does Pennsylvania have monsters like the Pennsylvania in the movie?
Me: That's Transylvania.
Me: We're on the road!
Matthias: Yeah, but not on the grass. Or the trees.
Me: I need you to get the little broom and sweep up your fingernail clippings so that Theodore doesn't eat them for a snack.
Olivia: Aww, why can't we just put them under something?
Me: I like your haircut. Grandma did a good job.
Matthias: Yeah, and you do a bad job.
Kaitlyn: It's a Google Home Minion!
Angelina: You get cuter every time I see you, do you know that?
Matthias: Yeah.
Kaitlyn: He doesn't know very much.
James (a friend, not the uncle): I'm happy!
Kaitlyn: You wouldn't be happy if your whole body was covered with fire.
24 June 2020
07 June 2020
May 10-June 7
You can tell things are getting busier around here again because my blogging has taken a hit. It was not destined to last. We've started interacting with people again. Our in person game nights are still fewer than they used to be, but we have had a couple. The biggest difference right now from pre-coronavirus is that we're not going to public things, which is absolutely fine with me. At this point in the year normal daily obligations would have been finished anyway since school and dance both wrap up in May. We attended Catholic Mass in person last week as a family. We also got permission from the Orthodox Bishop to have up to 25 people at a service, so we were able to go to Liturgy this weekend.
Theodore says Mama. He's been playing with different sounds for a while now, but we're pretty sure Mama actually means me. At least sometimes. He says dadadada, but doesn't mean Bryan yet. His favorite noises are a high pitched happy screech and a tongue clicking sound.
Matthias's potty problems are improving. He takes a low dose of daily Miralax to help him and has finally been convinced that sitting on the potty isn't in and of itself painful. We've talked a lot about how he has special juice to make his poop feel better because his Miralax was always in kool-aid. Now that we've run out of kool-aid we just use water and he still calls it juice. Except that it's been a bit mangled in translation, so when he sees me preparing his glass he excitedly exclaims, "Is that juice to feel my poop?!" Yes. Yes, it is.
We finally went back to the store. The last time I went grocery shopping was March 20. Bryan went on March 29. And then we waited. At some point it became more of a challenge then anything else. We emptied the deep freezer and defrosted it. We ground the last of our wheat. We finished off several of those bulk food buckets I keep in the pantry. I made some interesting dinners that were just random ingredients thrown together. I learned that you have to substitute 1 3/4 cups of powdered sugar to replace 1 cup of regular white sugar. We have chocolate granola now because I used chocolate syrup to provide the sweetness. We had originally planned to try to make it until June. I thought we'd get there. But Bryan got tired of oatmeal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, and some variation of rice and beans for dinner. So he snuck out of the house with Matthias before I woke up on Saturday, May 23, and went to Walmart. Each of the kids got a solo trip with dad to the grocery store. We made it one day shy of eight weeks. In fairness, our meals did improve in quality. I went to Aldi to fill in the gaps on the 28th. Now we're probably back to a somewhat regular grocery shopping regimen.
Olivia had an eye doctor appointment and with her glasses on she can read the 20/20 line with her bad eye! They told her she has to keep using the eye drops for the next three weeks, but if she can still read 20/20 at her next appointment then she's done. She was disappointed to still need the drops, but is happy to have an end in sight. She is a little worried that she'll have to give up her glasses once her eye is fixed. I guess she's attached to them by now. :)
Matthias runs around in bare feet all the time. All the kids do, actually, which baffles me because I don't even walk around the house in bare feet. I wear shoes. Always. The kids have nicely calloused feet, though, and have to be reminded to put on shoes if we're going somewhere where they might be expected to get out of the car and walk into a public building. Anyway, Matthias managed to get a series of splinters in his feet and they were buried deep enough that we couldn't get them out. I took him to the doctor (and found out that he's 36 pounds) and they dug/cut three splinters out of his poor little feet. He's better now, and they recommend foot wear.
Pictures:
Matthias's potty problems are improving. He takes a low dose of daily Miralax to help him and has finally been convinced that sitting on the potty isn't in and of itself painful. We've talked a lot about how he has special juice to make his poop feel better because his Miralax was always in kool-aid. Now that we've run out of kool-aid we just use water and he still calls it juice. Except that it's been a bit mangled in translation, so when he sees me preparing his glass he excitedly exclaims, "Is that juice to feel my poop?!" Yes. Yes, it is.
We finally went back to the store. The last time I went grocery shopping was March 20. Bryan went on March 29. And then we waited. At some point it became more of a challenge then anything else. We emptied the deep freezer and defrosted it. We ground the last of our wheat. We finished off several of those bulk food buckets I keep in the pantry. I made some interesting dinners that were just random ingredients thrown together. I learned that you have to substitute 1 3/4 cups of powdered sugar to replace 1 cup of regular white sugar. We have chocolate granola now because I used chocolate syrup to provide the sweetness. We had originally planned to try to make it until June. I thought we'd get there. But Bryan got tired of oatmeal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, and some variation of rice and beans for dinner. So he snuck out of the house with Matthias before I woke up on Saturday, May 23, and went to Walmart. Each of the kids got a solo trip with dad to the grocery store. We made it one day shy of eight weeks. In fairness, our meals did improve in quality. I went to Aldi to fill in the gaps on the 28th. Now we're probably back to a somewhat regular grocery shopping regimen.
Olivia had an eye doctor appointment and with her glasses on she can read the 20/20 line with her bad eye! They told her she has to keep using the eye drops for the next three weeks, but if she can still read 20/20 at her next appointment then she's done. She was disappointed to still need the drops, but is happy to have an end in sight. She is a little worried that she'll have to give up her glasses once her eye is fixed. I guess she's attached to them by now. :)
Matthias runs around in bare feet all the time. All the kids do, actually, which baffles me because I don't even walk around the house in bare feet. I wear shoes. Always. The kids have nicely calloused feet, though, and have to be reminded to put on shoes if we're going somewhere where they might be expected to get out of the car and walk into a public building. Anyway, Matthias managed to get a series of splinters in his feet and they were buried deep enough that we couldn't get them out. I took him to the doctor (and found out that he's 36 pounds) and they dug/cut three splinters out of his poor little feet. He's better now, and they recommend foot wear.
Pictures:
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