ups & downs

[flea]

Dillo has, perhaps a little belatedly, hit the 18 month old cling and whine phase. He cries a lot when I leave for work; this afternoon I could hear him halfway across the Kroger when I took off after some rice cakes. (Incidentally, it is our week to provide snack (fruit/veg plus carb/protein) for 20 kids daily at Casper's (public) school. It's kind of expensive to provide fig newtons, rice cakes, apples and such for 20 kids.) The last two nights, if he'd had his druthers, he would have spent the entire night with my breast in his mouth. As it was he was up every 2 hours (which did lead to the amusing "Up mama dada!" comment he made at 5:30 am. We wrangled him back down.)

We're having incredible wind now, but before it got bad we spent a couple hours yesterday afternoon and this morning outside, enjoying what is basically spring weather. It will freeze tonight, but we've got blooming daffodils in the early spots. I have started my ineffectual shrub-pruning. Maybe this year I will buy a ladder; my mother sent me $100 for no reason this week...

Casper has been full of good energy with all this outside-ness; in inside news, we borrowed a disc of Looney Tunes, all Bugs Bunny, from the library and she thinks it is very silly. In not very pleasant news, she pooped in her underpants Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday after school, while with Beth the after-school care person, playing outside. And Saturday morning started the day by peeing in an upholstered chair for no apparent reason, probably ruining it. I think we're going to take her in to see Dr. Betty; although I suppose it's possible there's some physiological reason for all of this, I kind of doubt it. In any case Dr. Betty may be helpful. I would attribute some of it to Beth giving notice, but it's been building up for a while. (For after school care, it's looking like the Y, which seems good and is a good deal financially, though the transportation is an issue.)

And they fight a lot. Squabbling right now. She pushed and yells, he whaps. We separate them. Repeat. I'm tired after this weekend, but I so wanted to stay up to watch the Jennifer Ehle Pride & Prejudice...

Comments

[serrana.livejournal.com]

*blinks* They expect the parents to provide group snack? That...kind of sucks. Of course, it seems like these days the parents are expected to provide darned near everything....

I sympathize about the potty thing. Yesterday the (sick) baby peed on me, which is pretty much the first time ever (this child is so continent, and hates being messy, that I know he's feeling really bad when he has an accident like that) and his sister started making fun of him for it. I fixed her with a gimlet eye and said, "Of all the people in all the world, you are the last person who gets to remark on anyone else's excretion habits."

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

Must be nice to live in a school district that assumes that everyone has the spare cash to be able to afford to feed an entire class for a week. Yeesh.

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking! Isn't anyone on the reduced-lunch list? What are they supposed to do, feel embarassed and say "Oh, I can't afford that"? That's shitty.

And I'm guessing my old favorite of "ants on a log" is probably right out due to peanut allergies, eh?

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Our school has no school-wide peanut policy, as far as I know, and peanut butter is on the suggested snack list. I was surprised by this!

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is, the school is actually like 60% free/reduced price lunch, and when we have field trips with a fee, the teacher sends a note asking us to contribute double if we can to sponsor a less fortunate student in the class. I have no idea what the deal with the snack is. But I'd bet we spent $40 on stuff at the grocery today.