...and Jim too.
Bob and Jim arrived safely in NY on Sunday. I am still in Phoenix working. I fly out on the 7th. I miss my super Bob kid. He tells me he misses me when I call him. Every day he has asked me "You come here tomorrow?" I keep on saying "not tomorrow, but in a few days". My heart just melts to putty. I have his picture from school on the refrigerator - the one that was next to his coat hook. I wish I could stretch my arms through the phone lines and give him a hug. But, hearing his voice and looking at his picture will have to be enough.
Bob is at my mother-in-law's house right now. He tells me about the geese over by the pool, how papa Chuck is in the house upstairs, and what he has to eat. He had a blast by Devin and Nikki's house since they have a swing set and a slide he could slide down. Not to mention "baby"
He goes to Annmarie's house on Saturday. He will have a blast - I know he will. In addition to the swing set that is there, one of her goats had two kids on Memorial day. I know he will think that is great. And if her horse lets him pet her, I am pretty sure he will be really excited. He was pretty happy petting a horse that was at the school for the school dinner through a gate. And we cannot forget his cousins. They are going to be really fun to play with.
I am falling asleep while writing this. I hope it makes sense. I will try and post again when I am more awake.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Almost to NY
Today was Bob's last day of school. He told me he had chocolate cupcakes and chocolate milk. He was very excited when he came home. I don't think he understands it was the last day of school. He brought home a scrapbook from school. It had some pictures of him with his friends at school - Kirstin, Brian, and Cameron, as well as pictures he drew. He likes to sit down and show them to us. He really likes the pictures - his "book". He tells us that he misses us when he is at school. Of course I tell him that I miss him when I am at work, so I think that is where he gets that from.
When we were swimming the other day, there was a golf ball on the bottom of the pool. Jim off-handedly commented that it was a really bad golfer for the ball to go in the pool. On the way back from the bus, the sidewalk goes by a tee-off for one of the holes. Yesterday, Bob stopped and said in a very loud voice - "bad golfers get golf ball in pool. You practice, get better!!"
Jim and Bob are leaving for NY on Sunday. I am going to have ten days of withdrawal from my baby Bob. Of course if you ask Bob, he will tell you that he is not a baby - "I'm big! - I'm not a baby". His sentences are getting much better. I tell him that he will always be my baby. I don't know how I am going to do - 10 days without my Bob kid. That is the longest period of time I will have been separated from him. I'm already going through withdrawal, and he is still here.
I am working tonight, so I don't have time to post more, but it had been a while since I last updated this blog. I hope to post again in a couple of days. Bob has been a handful this last week or so.
When we were swimming the other day, there was a golf ball on the bottom of the pool. Jim off-handedly commented that it was a really bad golfer for the ball to go in the pool. On the way back from the bus, the sidewalk goes by a tee-off for one of the holes. Yesterday, Bob stopped and said in a very loud voice - "bad golfers get golf ball in pool. You practice, get better!!"
Jim and Bob are leaving for NY on Sunday. I am going to have ten days of withdrawal from my baby Bob. Of course if you ask Bob, he will tell you that he is not a baby - "I'm big! - I'm not a baby". His sentences are getting much better. I tell him that he will always be my baby. I don't know how I am going to do - 10 days without my Bob kid. That is the longest period of time I will have been separated from him. I'm already going through withdrawal, and he is still here.
I am working tonight, so I don't have time to post more, but it had been a while since I last updated this blog. I hope to post again in a couple of days. Bob has been a handful this last week or so.
Friday, May 11, 2007
We have had a busy, fun-filled week this week. The temperature broke 100 degrees yesterday (Thursday) so we used the air conditioner for the first time. We are on the first floor of a three story building, so it took a while for our apartment to heat up. We did not need the AC until after the sun went down and we were trying to go to sleep. We put the AC on at bedtime for a couple of hours and that is all we really needed. Tonight, we put the AC on when we went swimming - about an hour or so, and that is probably all we will need. We just have to cool off the house so it can gradually heat up during the day. I fear when the temperature goes up into the one-teens. That might be a bit challenging. At least our bedroom stays cooler than the rest of the house. It only has one outside wall, and I know both our neighbors on either side keep their AC cranked 24/7. Needless When I sleep during the day, it generally does not get very hot. Jim also installed a ceiling fan in our bedroom which has been a godsend. We already have one in our living room that came with the apartment.
Some juvenile delinquents tried to jump off an oversized flowerpot filled with dirt to jump into the big pool near the front office here. In doing so, he/she knocked the pot into the pool and broke it. They had to pump all the water out of the pool (there was no cleaning it), and now they have to refill it. They have, of course, closed off the area. Of course this is the area that the gym ("fitness center") is located. Needless to say, we cannot go to the gym. When they were re-surfacing the pool back in February, they still let us go to the gym. There was no water in the pool then. Now they won't let us go to the gym because the pool is empty. They do not make any sense. At least the pool closest to our apartment is still open. We went swimming today and we had a blast. Bob swims very well with his life vest on. He kicks his feet and paddles with his hands. He does a good job swimming laps. He is pretty fast for a three year old.
I am working on Sunday, so we celebrated Mother's day today. We went out to eat to Uno's for a late lunch/early supper. Bob kept on looking at the patio and seeing the misters he kept on getting worried saying "smoke". We have taught Bob that he should stay away from smoke, because where there is smoke, there is fire, and fire is hot and can burn you which would hurt. We had to go outside and show him the misters - that it was just water, not smoke. He thought it was neat, especially since you walked under the mist, it was wet, but you stayed dry (the water evaporates almost as soon as it hits you).
Bob was a bottomless pit at Uno's. He had about three (small - Uno's sized) pieces of pizza, as well as the tomato and some croûtons from my salad. We then went to Costco and they were giving out samples as usual. Bob devoured the samples and was acting like he didn't just eat three pieces of pizza. Then, we came home and he had to have some milk and yogurt because he was starving to death. He also had a huge bowl of cereal, cereal in a cup, and toast with jam for breakfast. He had a fruit cup, trail mix and some cheese for lunch before we left the house to run errands as well. I think he is having a growth spurt. Jim and I had a doctor's appointment the other day and Bob had to get on the scale to get weighed and get his height measured as well. He was up to 32 pounds (2.5 pounds more than he weighed at the end of his stomach bug last week). He is now 40 inches tall (in the beginning of April, at the doctor's office, he was still 38 inches tall). Even though he gained 2.5 pounds in a week, he is still way too thin. His ribs and his sternum stick out way too much. He resembles a CPR manikin. I refuse to give him junk food to make him gain weight though. He looks like we never feed him. The child really does not stop eating. He also does not stop running around the house or the golf course. Energy is wasted on the young.
We keep on telling Bob that he is going to NY to see his grandmas and papa's. He keeps on packing bags of toys to bring to grandma and grandpa's house. Of course he winds up unpacking these bags because he wants to play with those toys again, but it is really cute.
When we were at Costo, Bob informed me that my car has dirty tires. He pointed at a pile of tires that were $200 each and told me that I needed to get those new clean tires. I asked him if I could just go to the carwash and clean the tires that were on the car. He told me no.
I hope everyone is doing well, and I look forward to coming to NY to visit in a couple of weeks.
Some juvenile delinquents tried to jump off an oversized flowerpot filled with dirt to jump into the big pool near the front office here. In doing so, he/she knocked the pot into the pool and broke it. They had to pump all the water out of the pool (there was no cleaning it), and now they have to refill it. They have, of course, closed off the area. Of course this is the area that the gym ("fitness center") is located. Needless to say, we cannot go to the gym. When they were re-surfacing the pool back in February, they still let us go to the gym. There was no water in the pool then. Now they won't let us go to the gym because the pool is empty. They do not make any sense. At least the pool closest to our apartment is still open. We went swimming today and we had a blast. Bob swims very well with his life vest on. He kicks his feet and paddles with his hands. He does a good job swimming laps. He is pretty fast for a three year old.
I am working on Sunday, so we celebrated Mother's day today. We went out to eat to Uno's for a late lunch/early supper. Bob kept on looking at the patio and seeing the misters he kept on getting worried saying "smoke". We have taught Bob that he should stay away from smoke, because where there is smoke, there is fire, and fire is hot and can burn you which would hurt. We had to go outside and show him the misters - that it was just water, not smoke. He thought it was neat, especially since you walked under the mist, it was wet, but you stayed dry (the water evaporates almost as soon as it hits you).
Bob was a bottomless pit at Uno's. He had about three (small - Uno's sized) pieces of pizza, as well as the tomato and some croûtons from my salad. We then went to Costco and they were giving out samples as usual. Bob devoured the samples and was acting like he didn't just eat three pieces of pizza. Then, we came home and he had to have some milk and yogurt because he was starving to death. He also had a huge bowl of cereal, cereal in a cup, and toast with jam for breakfast. He had a fruit cup, trail mix and some cheese for lunch before we left the house to run errands as well. I think he is having a growth spurt. Jim and I had a doctor's appointment the other day and Bob had to get on the scale to get weighed and get his height measured as well. He was up to 32 pounds (2.5 pounds more than he weighed at the end of his stomach bug last week). He is now 40 inches tall (in the beginning of April, at the doctor's office, he was still 38 inches tall). Even though he gained 2.5 pounds in a week, he is still way too thin. His ribs and his sternum stick out way too much. He resembles a CPR manikin. I refuse to give him junk food to make him gain weight though. He looks like we never feed him. The child really does not stop eating. He also does not stop running around the house or the golf course. Energy is wasted on the young.
We keep on telling Bob that he is going to NY to see his grandmas and papa's. He keeps on packing bags of toys to bring to grandma and grandpa's house. Of course he winds up unpacking these bags because he wants to play with those toys again, but it is really cute.
When we were at Costo, Bob informed me that my car has dirty tires. He pointed at a pile of tires that were $200 each and told me that I needed to get those new clean tires. I asked him if I could just go to the carwash and clean the tires that were on the car. He told me no.
I hope everyone is doing well, and I look forward to coming to NY to visit in a couple of weeks.
Friday, May 4, 2007
We had a poop!!
Bob went poop on his potty tonight before going to bed!!!! We sang. We danced. We laughed. We cried. Bob got a movie with a choo choo train. Bob got a tootsie roll. Bob got thrown up - up - in the air. Bob got lots of hugs and kisses. We told Bob how proud we were of him. Now, if we can get him to go in the potty more....
Thursday, May 3, 2007
A yucky day
Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Things have been crazy and I have been working a lot.
The title of this post is a yucky day. Actually, it was a yucky weekend. There has been a stomach bug going around in school, and Bob was a lucky winner of the stomach virus. It started at three in the morning and ended late Sunday morning. I did take him to the pediatrician's emergency office hours on Sunday morning because Bob started running a low grade temperature. The pediatrician gave us some more tips, and if he lost more weight by Monday morning, then he would need IV fluids. Bob weighed 33.5 pounds last week. He was down to 29.5 pounds on Monday morning, but he was holding down fluids by then, so I decided that I did not want to put him through the trauma of getting an IV. The damage Bob did to the rugs from throwing up was worse than Q. We are going to rent the Rug Doctor again tomorrow. At least we have leftover shampoo.
I do have to say that Bob is so skinny now. He looks like the pictures of Ethiopian children that you saw on TV in the eighties. He doesn't have the distended belly, but his ribcage and his sternum sticks out. I tried to get him to drink Pediasure, but he won't drink it. I now mix it half pediasure and half (chocolate) ovaltine milk, and he drinks it. There is underweight, and there is anorexic. Bob looks anorexic. 29.5 pounds is too tiny for a 38 inch body. He is three and a half and is still wearing 2T clothes. Most of his pants are too short because 2 year olds are a lot shorter than Bob. 3T fits him height wise, but then he has to pull up his pants up every other step. At least shorts fit him.
I have to get going. Bob wants to play. I will try to post again a lot sooner that I did this last time.
The title of this post is a yucky day. Actually, it was a yucky weekend. There has been a stomach bug going around in school, and Bob was a lucky winner of the stomach virus. It started at three in the morning and ended late Sunday morning. I did take him to the pediatrician's emergency office hours on Sunday morning because Bob started running a low grade temperature. The pediatrician gave us some more tips, and if he lost more weight by Monday morning, then he would need IV fluids. Bob weighed 33.5 pounds last week. He was down to 29.5 pounds on Monday morning, but he was holding down fluids by then, so I decided that I did not want to put him through the trauma of getting an IV. The damage Bob did to the rugs from throwing up was worse than Q. We are going to rent the Rug Doctor again tomorrow. At least we have leftover shampoo.
I do have to say that Bob is so skinny now. He looks like the pictures of Ethiopian children that you saw on TV in the eighties. He doesn't have the distended belly, but his ribcage and his sternum sticks out. I tried to get him to drink Pediasure, but he won't drink it. I now mix it half pediasure and half (chocolate) ovaltine milk, and he drinks it. There is underweight, and there is anorexic. Bob looks anorexic. 29.5 pounds is too tiny for a 38 inch body. He is three and a half and is still wearing 2T clothes. Most of his pants are too short because 2 year olds are a lot shorter than Bob. 3T fits him height wise, but then he has to pull up his pants up every other step. At least shorts fit him.
I have to get going. Bob wants to play. I will try to post again a lot sooner that I did this last time.
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