Stella still asking to pee. She has expanded her vocabulary and it is adorable. Kuby (kirby) GutDob (Good Job) EEEEEEn (Ian) and the other kids plus a firm "noooooo"
Daron is on Twitter. @dwelfeld. Password is hippohippo which is tender and ironic given one of his first tweets was @IDF Gaza is going down. Despite the brazen tweet, most of his tweets blend snarky with kiddy and I am in awe. I love the he wants to hear and be heard. Please @Jets tweet back.
Dorothy had a Princess party because of a House Party kit I got through work> Rachel, Eliana, and the Tabuouche twins were here and it was sweet.
Ian and Daron rocked back to school teacher conferences. So proud of them.
Sunday looked like this:
Parent teacher conferences (many)
Flu Shot
Shiva visit
Parent teacher conferences
Basketball
Hockey
Princess Party
Ian homework
Wouldnt have it any other way
Monday, November 19, 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Stella peed!
Every night before the bath I put her on the toilet and count to 10. Tonight, at 3, there was pee! 15 months. I think she was pretty surprised.
Tonight was parent night at Dorothys dancing school. Daron and Stella came because MIke waws pickign up hockey.
Stella loved the dancing and marched around the room saying hi to people and other babies. Daron looked at me and said "She's speed dating" - huh? How did he get that term?
We started turning off the hallway light so I can sleep better and Dorothy keeps asking me why I can't sleep when it is too sunny.
Tonight was parent night at Dorothys dancing school. Daron and Stella came because MIke waws pickign up hockey.
Stella loved the dancing and marched around the room saying hi to people and other babies. Daron looked at me and said "She's speed dating" - huh? How did he get that term?
We started turning off the hallway light so I can sleep better and Dorothy keeps asking me why I can't sleep when it is too sunny.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Hurricane Sandy.
Hurricane Sandy. Monday -Friday with no power, followed by a snow storm mini blackout. What a way to end October.
We were cold but fine, Stella took to running through the house in a flashlight in the dark.
Daron is now on Twitter. One kid won't talk to his classmates in the street, the other is prepared to tweet to the world. Couldn't love them both more. So endlessly fascinated by our kids.
Stella loves her siblings. Says "EEEEEEan, Daaaden, Darty and Mommea and Debbie and Daddy" and she laughs and now yells and runs around like an energizer bunny.
Dorothy decided to cut bangs. She also thought of the song "I won't give up on you" and hopefully her class will sing a song, do a project and share with a class deeply harmed by Sandy.
Jets struggling which is hard on Mike.
The other day Dorothy handed me papers from school but it was in the morning rather than evening before "This is from yesterday. If you see tomorrows in here it means today."
We were cold but fine, Stella took to running through the house in a flashlight in the dark.
Daron is now on Twitter. One kid won't talk to his classmates in the street, the other is prepared to tweet to the world. Couldn't love them both more. So endlessly fascinated by our kids.
Stella loves her siblings. Says "EEEEEEan, Daaaden, Darty and Mommea and Debbie and Daddy" and she laughs and now yells and runs around like an energizer bunny.
Dorothy decided to cut bangs. She also thought of the song "I won't give up on you" and hopefully her class will sing a song, do a project and share with a class deeply harmed by Sandy.
Jets struggling which is hard on Mike.
The other day Dorothy handed me papers from school but it was in the morning rather than evening before "This is from yesterday. If you see tomorrows in here it means today."
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Its October
Daron is 9. Funny and 9. And smart. And so funny- snarky really. He is enjoying 3rd grade so far, he and Ian are still close as ever and he got that crazy flying fish from Caleb and Stephanie for his birthday.
Ian is in E2K, got accepted to a special science and math and made the Yavneh hockey team! We are so excited, probably more than he is. We did just miss his first TABC hockey game tonight.
Dorothy is making some new friends at school. Her biggest fears are lunch (how could I give her things like pancakes and cereal in a bag for lunch- those are breakfast foods!- and the laughing boy - a mysteriuos kid who laughed at her at lunch? but he's handsome? not sure). Also walking down the hall after the bus. A teacher named Victoria seems to have been assigned to get Dorothy to and from the bus.
Stella. Bella. Stella Bella. Bells, or per Ian .. "fleishnik" -- the bookends are adorable buddies. A lot of the time, she prefers to the kids to us. She has said versions of "E" "Daden" and "Darty" before "mommy" although today I am "Mamey" -- she also says eyes, ears, nose, belly - or can point to them and head and diaper and her vocabulary is really growing! Except when Ian reads books to her in a jibberish that sounds like Russian and always includes "chicken flakes".
I am in a whole foods phase for the past few months. It should probably be noted.
Ian is in E2K, got accepted to a special science and math and made the Yavneh hockey team! We are so excited, probably more than he is. We did just miss his first TABC hockey game tonight.
Dorothy is making some new friends at school. Her biggest fears are lunch (how could I give her things like pancakes and cereal in a bag for lunch- those are breakfast foods!- and the laughing boy - a mysteriuos kid who laughed at her at lunch? but he's handsome? not sure). Also walking down the hall after the bus. A teacher named Victoria seems to have been assigned to get Dorothy to and from the bus.
Stella. Bella. Stella Bella. Bells, or per Ian .. "fleishnik" -- the bookends are adorable buddies. A lot of the time, she prefers to the kids to us. She has said versions of "E" "Daden" and "Darty" before "mommy" although today I am "Mamey" -- she also says eyes, ears, nose, belly - or can point to them and head and diaper and her vocabulary is really growing! Except when Ian reads books to her in a jibberish that sounds like Russian and always includes "chicken flakes".
I am in a whole foods phase for the past few months. It should probably be noted.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
And we have walking. 10-20 steps at a time. Stella lifts her feet high and marches/waddles proudly to and from siblings. She does best when holding something - even if it is not attached to anything at all.
It's like she waited for Ian.
Today Daron was staring at her across the Shabbos table and said, in all seriousness, "are you sure she's a girl? She looks like a boy?" Dorothy was confused enough to ask if we knew? how we knew and Daron realized certain body parts dictate as Dorothy asked when we knew she was a girl. He gently explained.
Today, there was battle in the playroom, redone by me a few months ago with IKEA. Daron and Dorothy wanted to race cars but each had a vision of the race track that conflicted with the other.
With an audience, Daron did his best to compromise offering several solutions, simplifying to one on the yellow carpet, the other on the boarder. That was no good for Dorothy who held her ground, complaining. When i asked what it was she wanted - she emphatically responded "both" " i want to race on the yellow carpet and the blue" - Daron continued to offer land for peace until finally she agreed to the yellow carpet - a far larger space than the boarder- and yellow was where Daron had begun. Do i fault her for not being a wall flower? Or applaud?
Intensely rewarding to have Ian back. Little mini snippets of camp activity discussed- but mostly it is enjoyable to make food that is good - i have cooked more in the past week than the entire month since Daron and Dorothy don't eat much. Same time, she asked for spinach leaves today, he is no longer taking Miralax and both are in a fight to 10 stickers for trying new things.
Still nursing Stella morning and night, tried to ditch morning today but was really uncomfortable most of the day. Tough to cut back emotionally and physically.
It's like she waited for Ian.
Today Daron was staring at her across the Shabbos table and said, in all seriousness, "are you sure she's a girl? She looks like a boy?" Dorothy was confused enough to ask if we knew? how we knew and Daron realized certain body parts dictate as Dorothy asked when we knew she was a girl. He gently explained.
Today, there was battle in the playroom, redone by me a few months ago with IKEA. Daron and Dorothy wanted to race cars but each had a vision of the race track that conflicted with the other.
With an audience, Daron did his best to compromise offering several solutions, simplifying to one on the yellow carpet, the other on the boarder. That was no good for Dorothy who held her ground, complaining. When i asked what it was she wanted - she emphatically responded "both" " i want to race on the yellow carpet and the blue" - Daron continued to offer land for peace until finally she agreed to the yellow carpet - a far larger space than the boarder- and yellow was where Daron had begun. Do i fault her for not being a wall flower? Or applaud?
Intensely rewarding to have Ian back. Little mini snippets of camp activity discussed- but mostly it is enjoyable to make food that is good - i have cooked more in the past week than the entire month since Daron and Dorothy don't eat much. Same time, she asked for spinach leaves today, he is no longer taking Miralax and both are in a fight to 10 stickers for trying new things.
Still nursing Stella morning and night, tried to ditch morning today but was really uncomfortable most of the day. Tough to cut back emotionally and physically.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
7.22
Stella started to stand a while ago but life is so full it is hard to write!
She says " woo woo" "uh oh" "meow" has six teeth.
We want to visit Ian at visiting day and it was just incredible to see him. First order of busienss was he took us deep into the woods to find salamanders. we had to leave the stroller by he bunk. Daron and Dorothy followed with incredible enthusiasm as Mike held Stella and I held a smile as we followed him to the tune of "mumble mumble poison ivy" and "mumble mumble salamandar" but even as we spoke to him on Sue's cell phone as we were minutes away from camp he asked if Avery Lijah and Grey were with us becuase he wante to show us salamandar way.
Turns out he has never seen a salamander there and we are still not sure why he had opportunity to venture so far back behind camp, but overall (aside from wheezing and coughing and seeming exhausted) he was OK. And it was wide open arms and smiles and "Smelly stelly" for Stella. By the end of the day all fo the kids were crawling with Stella across the lawn at Moshava. It was hard to leave him there. I cleaned out the plastic bin under his bed, all the while flabergasted that I was the mom. I seem incapable of accepting that I am the mom - when I think a mom should clean out his bin, it seems impossible that I am that mom, yet I find myself inexplicable drawn to the bin, cleaning out pretzel bits.
Stella started to stand a while ago but life is so full it is hard to write!
She says " woo woo" "uh oh" "meow" has six teeth.
We want to visit Ian at visiting day and it was just incredible to see him. First order of busienss was he took us deep into the woods to find salamanders. we had to leave the stroller by he bunk. Daron and Dorothy followed with incredible enthusiasm as Mike held Stella and I held a smile as we followed him to the tune of "mumble mumble poison ivy" and "mumble mumble salamandar" but even as we spoke to him on Sue's cell phone as we were minutes away from camp he asked if Avery Lijah and Grey were with us becuase he wante to show us salamandar way.
Turns out he has never seen a salamander there and we are still not sure why he had opportunity to venture so far back behind camp, but overall (aside from wheezing and coughing and seeming exhausted) he was OK. And it was wide open arms and smiles and "Smelly stelly" for Stella. By the end of the day all fo the kids were crawling with Stella across the lawn at Moshava. It was hard to leave him there. I cleaned out the plastic bin under his bed, all the while flabergasted that I was the mom. I seem incapable of accepting that I am the mom - when I think a mom should clean out his bin, it seems impossible that I am that mom, yet I find myself inexplicable drawn to the bin, cleaning out pretzel bits.
Dorothy went to her first Mets game today. She loved the ice cream, the guy that gets dunked in the water and had a good time. She is a swim obssesed Daron still hates to swim. Happy for him Ian comes home tomorrow.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Dog Tags before Summer Camp and an Ipod
A few weeks ago, Ian surprised me by asking about Mikey's dog tags. Later he asked where one gets them. I offered one to him and he nodded in humble request. I was slightly offput by the real purpose of a dog tag - but admit to thinking there was a plus side to him having that on when going away to camp. Regardless, what really got me was the request that was appearance related- a cool factor request. He is so damn good looking it is almost breathtaking - and here he is in wife beaters with his fit body and dog tags. He is still my little boy but glimpses of the teen he will be come through often these days. The request was another reminder. He makes so few requests - I was happy to comply. If only it hadnt taken weeks to arrive.
Speaking of which - he has mastered the art of delayed gratification - having saved nearly $200 for an ipod touch! I am so proud of him and really happy for him that he bought one for himself. Most of his friends have had them for a long time. I know he will take care of and take pride in his ipod. And I know he will be able to be in touch with Mommy this way too.
Camp. It is around the corner. I am happy for him - trying to be. But he will be missed during those four weeks.
We started a word of the week a few weeks ago after a friday night conversation that somehow turned from football to vocabulary. From Flatulants to circumvent and other words I can't spell- they are learning vocabulary worthy of the SATs which may be extinct by the time they get there.
Spencer and Jeremy came over today for a playdate. Jeremy is walking rather quickly if jerkily and speaking slowy but speaking! It is amazing. Too bad Spencer was hard to manage and the two of them fought about what to watch. Between Debbie and Stella and the twins and Dorothy and the boys asking me homework- and Mike's parents over- I missed the end of work and two calls and was a stress ball- but glad to see Jeremy is on the mend.
Dorohty had her recital- she was great! Pink eye aside, she looked beautiful and had a smile and confidence and remembered all of her moves.
Stella is standing by herself when not paying attention Debbie takes her to the park. Still talks on the phone too much. Still cleans really well.
Daron ate spinach - twice. THat is big news.
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