August 12, 2011
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Expect The Unexpected
TALES FROM THE BRAT FARMIt wasn’t my day I guess. It was not supposed to be a Chewlee-sitting day but ended up that way. The Princess called me from work and said she had been asked to stay (Fridays are busy days there) and she had no one to take Chewlee. Of course, being the Grandma that I am, I was glad to have her. My thighs were feeling fine and my feet were so-so.
The first thing Chewlee did was take off her shoes and she put them under my desk. At least we would know where they were later on. When she sat on my lap, she sat still. There was very little wiggling because, when that started, I got up and she had to kneel on my chair to play her games. She wasn’t comfortable doing that so she would sit still again for a long time before the wiggles started. At least my thighs and feet are just fine now that she has left to go home.
The Princess said her boss told her she only had to stay until 8 since the bulk of their business seems to fall off around then. I looked at her and said *sure* with my tongue in my cheek. The bad thing about food service is its unpredictability. I put Chewlee in the bathtub around 8pm since she had been bugging me but I had to make sure the Princess wouldn’t be on her way by then. Chewlee took her Mermaid Barbie in with her and another Barbie doll. They both had been in the tub with her before tonight I could tell. She played happily with them, even washing their hair. I managed to pry her out of the tub after I shampooed her hair. Then it was dress her, brush out that long hair of hers and I braided it for her. Her hair is so fine and long that it is constantly getting in her way. It has even gotten caught under her arms when she’s sleeping.
I’ll get her again tomorrow. That’s my long day with her. I’ll have her almost 12 hours and I will be totally wiped when she leaves. She was cute today helping me to make dinner. She kept leaning over on her stool to hug me and tell me she loved me. I made a vegetarian spaghetti sauce and I let her help saute the onions and then put the veggies I had cut up into the pan. She wasn’t really fond of the smell of the garlic I had crushed and cut up though.She stirred, I seasoned and then added the cut up tomatoes (yes, I added fresh tomatoes since I certainly have enough of them around here…
). Then it was simmer for about an hour and a half. When I made the spaghetti noodles, she wanted some of them with just a little bit of butter and salt and pepper. We salt and peppered together, as uaual. She just HAS to help. Then she whisked her paper plate off to the computer room in time to watch her movie.She just loves *How To Train Your Dragon* and watching it with her is a real treat. She gets very excited when she knows an action part is coming up. She doesn’t want me to miss it so she will say, *Watch, Grandma! Watch!* She questions everything she doesn’t understand. She got all upset that Hiccup, the hero, was hurt but was glad his dragon was there with him when he woke up because he (Hiccup) didn’t know he was injured.
Tomorrow she wants to watch a baby triceratops and I think she means one of the characters in *Land Before Time*. There is a little one in that who is one of the main characters in the group of young dinosaurs. She asks what kind of dinosaurs each of them is but there are two that are a product of someone’s imagination. I am pretty sure they are not true images of dinosaurs that lived. It’s just a cute series but I do hate the fact that she takes it so seriously.
She got upset tonight to find out that she was going to lose her teeth one-by-one as she got bigger. I tried to tell her that they only got loose when the new, adult teeth were ready to come in. She said, *I don’t want to lose my teeth!* and she sounded just like Sharp Tooth in the movie. She figured out by herself that he was a tyrannosaurus and that Little Foot was a brontosaurus. We’ve watched *Walking with Dinosaurs* often enough that she knows the names AND what they look like in general. She also knows that Sarah is a triceratops and she likes her a lot even though I think she’s a bit of a snob and a stinker. She should be called Sharp Tongue….LOL
Love you all. Have a great Saturday.
Comments (2)
Your day sounds like my moms sometimes , when she’s watching my sisters kids Cx. But your vegetarian spaghetti sauce sounded nice :O ~
Thanks hon, it was very good and you can add a lot of different veggies to it. I actually found it was really better with macaroni and simmered all together just enough to soften all of them. Yum! I had four kids of my own but our house was the magnet for most of the kids in the neighborhood. It was a good thing I learned to cook for a crowd when I was a kid growing up (I am the oldest of seven kids) because I cooked for my family and their friends, too.. At least their parents always knew where their kids were…..at my house!!!! But most of the time, it was fun really.