Monday, May 23, 2005
Good for a laugh (thanks to Maddie)
I'm not sure how many of you read the post from when we were in China when I (Brian) had 'a moment' while changing my first poopy diaper. Sheira thought it would be cute to take a picture of me struggling while reaching for the wipes while I have Maddie's legs up in the air and a nasty diaper full of poop. I'm a big believer of what goes around, comes around.
On Sunday, we're visiting our friends Ean, Michelle, and their baby Jillian and having a wonderful time. Maddie is going from what thing to the next and enjoying chasing the cats. In the middle of chasing the kitties, she stops by Sheira and holds onto Sheira's leg. A few seconds later Sheira says, "what just spilled on my foot?" It wasn't a spill but Maddie peeing right into Sheira's sandal. There was a literal puddle inside this sandal. I could not stop laughing. What was amazing was that the pee somehow managed to totally skip Maddie's shorts, went right down her leg and into Sheira's sandal.
There are no pictures of the event but it was still worth sharing with everyone.
Maddie goes back and forth on choosing when to stand up and when to walk. The last couple days she decided, "nah...I already did a few steps. I don't need to do any more." Although when lured by pieces of American cheese, she will take a couple steps from the couch to the middle of the room where I am to come get it AND take it out of my hand to feed herself. A little bit at a time......
On Sunday, we're visiting our friends Ean, Michelle, and their baby Jillian and having a wonderful time. Maddie is going from what thing to the next and enjoying chasing the cats. In the middle of chasing the kitties, she stops by Sheira and holds onto Sheira's leg. A few seconds later Sheira says, "what just spilled on my foot?" It wasn't a spill but Maddie peeing right into Sheira's sandal. There was a literal puddle inside this sandal. I could not stop laughing. What was amazing was that the pee somehow managed to totally skip Maddie's shorts, went right down her leg and into Sheira's sandal.
There are no pictures of the event but it was still worth sharing with everyone.
Maddie goes back and forth on choosing when to stand up and when to walk. The last couple days she decided, "nah...I already did a few steps. I don't need to do any more." Although when lured by pieces of American cheese, she will take a couple steps from the couch to the middle of the room where I am to come get it AND take it out of my hand to feed herself. A little bit at a time......
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
AHHHHHHHHH where does the time go?
Ok so with camp coming Both Brian and I get busier as we will be moving up there in a month----
Maddie took steps on her own !!!! So even though it was between me and Brian and we had to REALLY encourage her she did it like 10 times and took about four steps each time so..I guess that is walking...... Of course Brian went running for the video camera to capture the moment (once we thought she 'got it'). By the time he got back, which was only a couple minutes, Maddie had enough of walking and went from laughing and enjoying the excitement of walking to a near complete crying meltdown. Guess we'll have to wait until she's in a much better mood to try again.
Also, she has gotten VERY CLINGY... All she wants is to be held by Mommy...which I always wanted but now wonder what was I thinking?
That's it for now-- Smiles-
Sheira
Maddie took steps on her own !!!! So even though it was between me and Brian and we had to REALLY encourage her she did it like 10 times and took about four steps each time so..I guess that is walking...... Of course Brian went running for the video camera to capture the moment (once we thought she 'got it'). By the time he got back, which was only a couple minutes, Maddie had enough of walking and went from laughing and enjoying the excitement of walking to a near complete crying meltdown. Guess we'll have to wait until she's in a much better mood to try again.
Also, she has gotten VERY CLINGY... All she wants is to be held by Mommy...which I always wanted but now wonder what was I thinking?
That's it for now-- Smiles-
Sheira
Friday, May 06, 2005
My first mother's day-- let the festivities begin
I have noticed something-- I feel no real difference in my world now that I am a mother verse knowing about Madeline coming and not physically having her but to the rest of the world I am now officially someone's mother and therefore I have been invited to the party...
literally the tea party at her school....The one where all the mommies talk like we all know what the other is talking about...Which at times it is a universal experience but other things are so innately personal the no other mother could understand them. So, today was my first mother's day experience I went to Maddie's daycare center mother's day tea......
so the tea really was Maddie squirming to get down from my arms and then when I put her down pulling on my pants leg to get back into my arms-- which is a game we seem to play for about 24 hours out of every day :-)
The difference was not really what Maddie thinks of me it was what I THINK about being ME now that I am a mother....and to be honest the only thing I had in common with the women in the room was I am a mother like them-- how we got to be there, our social differences, even our language was different but being a mom well that was the common factor.. WEIRD you spend your whole life trying to find people you have stuff in common with and then you get/have a child and you have something BIG in common with half the planet---:-)
So we sat together and then we all went back to work....And the tea..They didn't even remember to make it-- hehehe they had coffee and muffins but no tea-- :-)
As this weekend starts I have been thinking a lot about my entering this mommy world and the BIGGEST changes in me have been related to my family... The ideas I have about the women in my life who have helped raise me ...Aunts, teachers, and grandmothers and most importantly for me my mother & my sister...They are who really have helped turned me from some lady who is adopting a child and into a mother...two VERY different experiences..... And it has not been over the past few motnhs that they have had this impact -- it has been over the past 33 years--- WEIRD that you are training for a job you never even think about until it is upon you... Well let me say that I hope Madeline is as lucky as I am because I truly believe it take a village or a community or a planet to raise a child
She already has some solid people in her life...Her birth mother who is brave enough to give her a better life, the orphanage who helped her grow into the infant we "got" ; the women in her day care center-- Alex and Jasmine who are EXTREMELY important to both of us...Her Grandma Marlene who is perhaps the most important person she will ever meet cause what Grandma Marlene taught to me I am now teaching to Madeline,
Her Nana,
her Aunt Alana
Aunt Jen
Aunt Sara
Aunt Karin
Aunt Debbie
Aunt Judy
Aunt Erica
Aunt Robin
Aunt Randie
Aunt Jen K.
Aunt Sharon--
WOW look at all the AMAZING women she gets to meet and only in just 1 year on this planet--
So on this weekend where I get to celebrate my finally becoming Maddie's mother I want to thank all of you as well as G-d for this experience cause the fact is that I feel like the luckiest woman every day and now I even get to celebrate a special day- well overall that is pretty cool :-enough babbling- Sheira
literally the tea party at her school....The one where all the mommies talk like we all know what the other is talking about...Which at times it is a universal experience but other things are so innately personal the no other mother could understand them. So, today was my first mother's day experience I went to Maddie's daycare center mother's day tea......
so the tea really was Maddie squirming to get down from my arms and then when I put her down pulling on my pants leg to get back into my arms-- which is a game we seem to play for about 24 hours out of every day :-)
The difference was not really what Maddie thinks of me it was what I THINK about being ME now that I am a mother....and to be honest the only thing I had in common with the women in the room was I am a mother like them-- how we got to be there, our social differences, even our language was different but being a mom well that was the common factor.. WEIRD you spend your whole life trying to find people you have stuff in common with and then you get/have a child and you have something BIG in common with half the planet---:-)
So we sat together and then we all went back to work....And the tea..They didn't even remember to make it-- hehehe they had coffee and muffins but no tea-- :-)
As this weekend starts I have been thinking a lot about my entering this mommy world and the BIGGEST changes in me have been related to my family... The ideas I have about the women in my life who have helped raise me ...Aunts, teachers, and grandmothers and most importantly for me my mother & my sister...They are who really have helped turned me from some lady who is adopting a child and into a mother...two VERY different experiences..... And it has not been over the past few motnhs that they have had this impact -- it has been over the past 33 years--- WEIRD that you are training for a job you never even think about until it is upon you... Well let me say that I hope Madeline is as lucky as I am because I truly believe it take a village or a community or a planet to raise a child
She already has some solid people in her life...Her birth mother who is brave enough to give her a better life, the orphanage who helped her grow into the infant we "got" ; the women in her day care center-- Alex and Jasmine who are EXTREMELY important to both of us...Her Grandma Marlene who is perhaps the most important person she will ever meet cause what Grandma Marlene taught to me I am now teaching to Madeline,
Her Nana,
her Aunt Alana
Aunt Jen
Aunt Sara
Aunt Karin
Aunt Debbie
Aunt Judy
Aunt Erica
Aunt Robin
Aunt Randie
Aunt Jen K.
Aunt Sharon--
WOW look at all the AMAZING women she gets to meet and only in just 1 year on this planet--
So on this weekend where I get to celebrate my finally becoming Maddie's mother I want to thank all of you as well as G-d for this experience cause the fact is that I feel like the luckiest woman every day and now I even get to celebrate a special day- well overall that is pretty cool :-enough babbling- Sheira
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
An exciting evening - who are we kidding?
This evening, we had an appointment to look over our proofs of pictures of Maddie. As we're waiting we get a phone call from the photographer to say he has a flat tire and can't make it and needs to reschedule. We kinda planned our evening around this so it a was a little annoying that they couldn't get their flat fixed and keep the appointment. Oh well...
Now what to do with all this 'free time' we have? Should we go shopping? Walk around the mall? Go to Denville and get some ice cream? Nah....we have a more exciting idea than that! CLOSET CLEANING!!!!! Ok...it wasn't the most exciting or entertaining activity we have done but realizing what we could keep, what we could get rid of, and how to best utilize our space made the time productive. Thanks to Sheira and The Container Store we are well on our way to an organized apartment.
While we are moving between rooms and putting stuff away, Maddie is in her crib watching us and waiting for us to pick her up again. She seemed to enjoy mommy and daddy get frustrated with the amount of stuff that we own. A few times she would laugh when daddy dropped something or had a tough time putting stuff in the Pack Mate (tm) bags.
One final note...I was reading Bleeding Fiction, which is brilliantly blogged by my friend Jason and he posted a link that I thought I would share here as well. It's called Overheard In New York, which is still my favorite city in the world. Check it out!
Now what to do with all this 'free time' we have? Should we go shopping? Walk around the mall? Go to Denville and get some ice cream? Nah....we have a more exciting idea than that! CLOSET CLEANING!!!!! Ok...it wasn't the most exciting or entertaining activity we have done but realizing what we could keep, what we could get rid of, and how to best utilize our space made the time productive. Thanks to Sheira and The Container Store we are well on our way to an organized apartment.
While we are moving between rooms and putting stuff away, Maddie is in her crib watching us and waiting for us to pick her up again. She seemed to enjoy mommy and daddy get frustrated with the amount of stuff that we own. A few times she would laugh when daddy dropped something or had a tough time putting stuff in the Pack Mate (tm) bags.
One final note...I was reading Bleeding Fiction, which is brilliantly blogged by my friend Jason and he posted a link that I thought I would share here as well. It's called Overheard In New York, which is still my favorite city in the world. Check it out!
Monday, May 02, 2005
GOBBLE GOBBLE
Well, Monday morning....YUCK...And the weather here is YUCKY!!!
Although I did dress Maddie in the CUTEST outfit today..Explain to me how when she looks cute I feel good-- STRANGE!
Over the weekend we went up to Lake Como, PA...Where the camp I run is and the weather was GROSS but Maddie got to play around outside a bit and we saw the BIGGEST turkeys I have EVER seen...I swear they must have been 50 pounds each.....I will try to post a photo of them tonight
The funny story with this is that I (Sheira) got the bright idea that we should feed them...I thought Maddie would think it was fun....OK they were ATTACK turkeys...They came after us and what did I do? I RAN like HELL!!!!! OOPS forgot my daughter in her stroller and my husband who was my knight in a wet raincoat and kept shaking our golf umbrellas at the birds so they would not come near Maddie and I am running and screaming "get away-- get away".. We got away and Brian then pointed out that I saved my own tush and left our daughter to fend the turkeys off herself.. OK OK I have officially FAILED the first mommy test... It was instinct I SWEAR I just ran like Hell and thought Brian would take of the rest.. GULP I feel guilty though... One day if Maddie ever reads this I hope she knows that I would have killed those bags of feathers if they had really come after her....
You all would have DIED laughing we were running around like LOONS and screaming and these stupid turkeys are GOBBLING SOSOSO loudly....
AHHH Maddie's first adventure at camp-- :-)
Well that's is for now-- Sheira
Although I did dress Maddie in the CUTEST outfit today..Explain to me how when she looks cute I feel good-- STRANGE!
Over the weekend we went up to Lake Como, PA...Where the camp I run is and the weather was GROSS but Maddie got to play around outside a bit and we saw the BIGGEST turkeys I have EVER seen...I swear they must have been 50 pounds each.....I will try to post a photo of them tonight
The funny story with this is that I (Sheira) got the bright idea that we should feed them...I thought Maddie would think it was fun....OK they were ATTACK turkeys...They came after us and what did I do? I RAN like HELL!!!!! OOPS forgot my daughter in her stroller and my husband who was my knight in a wet raincoat and kept shaking our golf umbrellas at the birds so they would not come near Maddie and I am running and screaming "get away-- get away".. We got away and Brian then pointed out that I saved my own tush and left our daughter to fend the turkeys off herself.. OK OK I have officially FAILED the first mommy test... It was instinct I SWEAR I just ran like Hell and thought Brian would take of the rest.. GULP I feel guilty though... One day if Maddie ever reads this I hope she knows that I would have killed those bags of feathers if they had really come after her....
You all would have DIED laughing we were running around like LOONS and screaming and these stupid turkeys are GOBBLING SOSOSO loudly....
AHHH Maddie's first adventure at camp-- :-)
Well that's is for now-- Sheira
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