July 24, 2011

  • What The Hell Is Going On?


    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    I have no idea what happened but apparently Xanga posted two things for my blog yesterday.  One had just the title.  The second one was the full blog.  I apologize for that because I am sure Xanga will blame me for it.  I just don't see how it could have been.  I did it all in one sitting with no detours.  But, I deleted it today when I became aware of the problem.  Thanks to my sister, Bratsis2.  Sorry about that Sis.

    Chewlee spent the night, as you know.  Around 4:30am, this little hand touched my face and it was Chewlee.  I asked her what was the matter as I lifted the covers and let her climb into bed with me.  She said, *It's lonely in that room, Grandma.*  I just smiled and we went back to sleep.   We slept until 9am and then got up to eat breakfast since we were both hungry. 

    Chewlee makes me a bit nuts about her breakfast.  She waves off normal things like cereal, eggs and waffles (of which we have plenty) and tells me that she wants *something different*.  So, I go for things like grilled cheese or soup.  Know what she came up with?  Toast and jelly.    I didn't think it would actually fill her up but some days she is starving (at least it seems that way) and others she just needs a little bit of *something*. 

    Later, at lunch time, she said she wanted something with noodles....long noodles.  Know why?  I've seen her so it wasn't a puzzle to me.  She likes to slurp them.  Doesn't matter whether it's chicken noodles soup or spaghetti.  She just wants that and nothing else will do.  Luckily, she settled for the Campbell's chicken noodle soup even though she really wanted long noodles.  I told her that the Beast was making spaghetti and we would eat that for dinner.  She brightened up over that and said, *I LIKE spaghetti!*    The Beast actually cooked up some spaghetti noodles just for her and didn't break them like he usually does.  That made her very happy later when we ate. 

    She was in the bathtub when it was ready and she saw me walk into my room with a bowl of spaghetti.  She is always tough to get out of the tub but not today.  When she saw me eating, she was READY!  She really, really wanted those noodles. 

    She's gotten so great about letting me brush her hair.  She loves for me to play with her hair and that was kind of how it started.  Who doesn't love that?  With her long hair, when I start to stroke her head and play with it, she gets all shivery and doesn't want me to stop.  It was how I got her to sleep one day even. 

    The Beast made his spaghetti today and I usually just love it.  But, I told him today that I don't know what he did to it that was different but it wasn't as good as normal.  He said he threw in some neckbones and didn't really look at the package but he swears he thinks they might have been goat, not pork.  I told him that they probably WERE pork since I don't think our Walmart carries goat. 

    He usually uses beef ribs and I like that better.  The spaghetti was greasier than normal, too.  I think Chewlee would have eaten more if it had been his normal recipe, too.  I doubt he will be experimenting with it in the future.  I will eat his regular recipe every day until it's gone but I will probably only eat this once more (for lunch tomorrow....or maybe dinner again).  The Beast doesn't do leftovers except for turkey fixings around Thanksgiving and ham any time....LOL.

    I told you about Chewlee liking to play this pop the balloon game on Pogo.  Well, today she told me she wanted to learn how to play the tile game she watches me play.  It's actually a type of mahjong, if you know what that is.  It's called Mahjong Safari because the tiles are animals that you match.  She begged and begged me so I figured I would let her try it and see that it is harder than she thinks. 

    I put the game on easy and spent the first two games helping her find the pairs of animals and telling her about the no-no's of the game.  She had the mouse and did all the clicking.  The one thing that struck me while she was working on the games was that it would be a good game to develop her small motor skills (which I discovered needs some developing while watching her).  I then let her do a game by herself after I selected one that was VERY  easy and had lots of obvious pairs.

    Imagine my surprise when I found out she did very well, although I did have to point out to her a couple times that she couldn't cross over other tiles to make a pair.  But I didn't point out anything to her and she still won the game. 

    She got so excited, she immediately started another one...but she just HAD to click through the different puzzles to see what her choices were.  I had to remind myself that this was just a 4 year old and I have seen adults that didn't *get it* as well as she did.  My mother-in-law leaps to mind and that was for a simple bingo game online.  May she rest in peace but she seemed to stay very confused and didn't get the whole idea of clicking the numbers with the mouse. 

    When the Princess came to pick up Chewlee, Chewlee ran into my arms to be picked up so she could hug and kiss me.  She had kept putting her fingers in my ears today and then laughing up a storm.  It was a game to her (of course) and I would put my hand over my ear.  I was watching her out of the corner of my eyes and I would turn quickly and scare her.  When she laughs a deep, real laugh, she always gets the hiccups.  It's a little quirk of hers and I love to make her laugh that way so....when I kissed and hugged her, I stuck my finger in one of her ears to make her laugh.  I figured let her mother deal with the hiccups for a while.  I had to do it all day long. 

    No Chewlee tomorrow so I have a lot of things I need to get done.  Laundry leaps into the picture, for one.  My feet are slowly getting much better and I am getting feeling back in them, too.  I hate that numb sensation.

    Love you all.  Be careful during all these hot days.  I've said it before....keep hydrated with lots of water, which is best.  Have a great Sunday.