Kids and pets
Kaitlyn:
We were talking recently about medicine and I said almost all medicine when I was a kid was cherry flavored. This led to conversation that led to Kaitlyn's weird quote:
"If I lived in the stone ages or whatever it was called when you were young I would have hated it. You didn't have iPhones, you didn't have computers. They didn't have good TVs. They didn't have good Kindles. They didn't have good sprinklers." (Not true)
Alee:
We forgot some things on the way to 5th grade meet the teacher (my phone and her headband... Mine was a little more important since Seth and Carolyn were home alone and needed to be able to contact me). We turned around to go back home and run in to get the things. Alee said, "I'll run in to get my headband, but you don't run Mom, because then you'll have to go to the bathroom and we don't have time for that."
(True, but I've got goals to get back in shape!)
The turtle:
We got him a fish (another pleco) to take care of the algae in the tank, so we also got a little tank decoration for the fish to hide in.
The turtle has already snapped at him a few times and will not leave his little broken ship hiding spot alone! Grrr! He also keeps pulling up the mat in his habitat and trying to eat it. I wish I could give the turtle time out!
The kids are not allowed to name the pleco in case this one dies too; I do not want tears. I told him they could call it the vacuum.
Two older ladies at the store were helping me load my groceries at the register the day I bought the fish (because Gideon HAD to be held in the store that day) and were talking to me. Found out I have 6 kids and saw the fish. One laughed and jokingly asked if I didn't already have enough mouths to feed. :)
Alee's obsession:
She has this obsessive fear about things getting into her mouth lately and the consequences if something does. (I find this funny since everything went into her mouth for about 3 years straight. So many chewed up flip flops... It was like we owned a dog!) Anyways... Here are some of her comments to give example. This is just the past 3 days. (My comments or explanation where needed is in parenthesis.)
(Couldn't find dropped earring.)
What if it got in my mouth?
I was rubbing (my hand) on my mouth and it came off (a tiny scab). What will happen if it got in my mouth?
I was opening the Dawn and I put it on the counter and some shooted out. What if some got in my mouth?
I bumped into the side of the tank. What if turtle water got in my mouth? Or I might have accidentally stuck my hand in the water. (Did you?) No. Or I might eat the fish; like if his tail fell off and I ate it. What would happen?
(I think that has been my favorite so far!)
This morning I had a poptart. What if I ate the wrapper? (Wouldn't you know if you ate the wrapper?) What if a small piece was sticked to the poptart and I didn't know and it got in my mouth and I ate it? What would happen?
When I was spraying it, it got on my feet. What if it gets in my mouth while I'm sleeping? (Bug spray intended to be used on people that I let her use around the bed so she would stop worrying about an earwig possibly coming into her room and climbing up into her bed.)
A stick blew away. What if it got in my mouth? (Oh Alee) What if it did?! (It was nature; I'm sure you'll be fine.) Oh ok.
I accidentally sprayed her (meaning a stuffed animal) with bug spray* and Kaitlyn slept with her and she fell on my head this morning. What if it (the bug spray residue from 36 hours ago)got in my mouth? (*The kind of spray you put on people to go outside, the night before last.)
(It didn't. You're fine.) Can you wash her anyways to be sure?
This has been going on for weeks. I'm curious to see how long she frets over consuming something harmful by accident. I'm also curious how this got started. I'm very much into washing hands before eating and after using the bathroom and such, but she's taking her wellness to a new level.
Faces in the family:
Several people have said Gideon looks like Alee as a baby. Apparently, Google photos agrees! When I searched Alee's face (I have tags and it follows the person through all ages), Gideon's photos are mixed with Alee's. I'll have to figure out how to tell Google they're two people!
The opposite is true with Kaitlyn. I have to regularly merge photos of her into the same tag because Google face recognition thinks it's 2 different people. (I have to do this with other people occasionally, but with Kaitlyn the most.)
We were talking recently about medicine and I said almost all medicine when I was a kid was cherry flavored. This led to conversation that led to Kaitlyn's weird quote:
"If I lived in the stone ages or whatever it was called when you were young I would have hated it. You didn't have iPhones, you didn't have computers. They didn't have good TVs. They didn't have good Kindles. They didn't have good sprinklers." (Not true)
Alee:
We forgot some things on the way to 5th grade meet the teacher (my phone and her headband... Mine was a little more important since Seth and Carolyn were home alone and needed to be able to contact me). We turned around to go back home and run in to get the things. Alee said, "I'll run in to get my headband, but you don't run Mom, because then you'll have to go to the bathroom and we don't have time for that."
(True, but I've got goals to get back in shape!)
The turtle:
We got him a fish (another pleco) to take care of the algae in the tank, so we also got a little tank decoration for the fish to hide in.
The turtle has already snapped at him a few times and will not leave his little broken ship hiding spot alone! Grrr! He also keeps pulling up the mat in his habitat and trying to eat it. I wish I could give the turtle time out!
The kids are not allowed to name the pleco in case this one dies too; I do not want tears. I told him they could call it the vacuum.
Two older ladies at the store were helping me load my groceries at the register the day I bought the fish (because Gideon HAD to be held in the store that day) and were talking to me. Found out I have 6 kids and saw the fish. One laughed and jokingly asked if I didn't already have enough mouths to feed. :)
Alee's obsession:
She has this obsessive fear about things getting into her mouth lately and the consequences if something does. (I find this funny since everything went into her mouth for about 3 years straight. So many chewed up flip flops... It was like we owned a dog!) Anyways... Here are some of her comments to give example. This is just the past 3 days. (My comments or explanation where needed is in parenthesis.)
(Couldn't find dropped earring.)
What if it got in my mouth?
I was rubbing (my hand) on my mouth and it came off (a tiny scab). What will happen if it got in my mouth?
I was opening the Dawn and I put it on the counter and some shooted out. What if some got in my mouth?
I bumped into the side of the tank. What if turtle water got in my mouth? Or I might have accidentally stuck my hand in the water. (Did you?) No. Or I might eat the fish; like if his tail fell off and I ate it. What would happen?
(I think that has been my favorite so far!)
This morning I had a poptart. What if I ate the wrapper? (Wouldn't you know if you ate the wrapper?) What if a small piece was sticked to the poptart and I didn't know and it got in my mouth and I ate it? What would happen?
When I was spraying it, it got on my feet. What if it gets in my mouth while I'm sleeping? (Bug spray intended to be used on people that I let her use around the bed so she would stop worrying about an earwig possibly coming into her room and climbing up into her bed.)
A stick blew away. What if it got in my mouth? (Oh Alee) What if it did?! (It was nature; I'm sure you'll be fine.) Oh ok.
I accidentally sprayed her (meaning a stuffed animal) with bug spray* and Kaitlyn slept with her and she fell on my head this morning. What if it (the bug spray residue from 36 hours ago)got in my mouth? (*The kind of spray you put on people to go outside, the night before last.)
(It didn't. You're fine.) Can you wash her anyways to be sure?
This has been going on for weeks. I'm curious to see how long she frets over consuming something harmful by accident. I'm also curious how this got started. I'm very much into washing hands before eating and after using the bathroom and such, but she's taking her wellness to a new level.
Faces in the family:
Several people have said Gideon looks like Alee as a baby. Apparently, Google photos agrees! When I searched Alee's face (I have tags and it follows the person through all ages), Gideon's photos are mixed with Alee's. I'll have to figure out how to tell Google they're two people!
The opposite is true with Kaitlyn. I have to regularly merge photos of her into the same tag because Google face recognition thinks it's 2 different people. (I have to do this with other people occasionally, but with Kaitlyn the most.)
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