I realize that it's not even Thanksgiving yet, but we gave Georgie her main Christmas present today. It's a play kitchen. She got it so early for two reasons: 1. We'll be having Christmas in Texas, so we can't have her open it on Christmas morning anyway, and 2. Due to H1N1 we've really scaled back how much playground/playgroup time she gets and we kind of feel bad for her.
Well, she likes it quite a bit. In fact, she literally played with it all morning, over 5 hours straight. She did quite a bit of dishes and also cooked us tortillas and pasta. She makes tortillas in a sauce pan in the oven. It's a special kind.
Speaking of H1N1, we managed to get Georgie vaccinated yesterday and now all three of us have gotten the shot. Georgie will need a booster in a month though. She's too young for the mist version, so we ended up going all the way to North Carolina for the kind she needs. We left Friday at 2pm, stayed in a hotel in Henderson, NC, then got to the clinic 25 miles from there at 6:30am and were the 4th ones in line. We were done by 8:30am and home by 1pm. It was a whirlwind but much worth it for the peace of mind.
In other news, my brother Adam finished his first marathon today (the Rock N Roll San Antonio Marathon). We are very proud of him.
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What a cute little kitchen! (Not to mention a darling little girl...) I like the tile back-splash, especially. Must be so fun watching her pretend.
(Nikki, did you have a little kitchen when you were little? Kinda seems like you did.)
Adam - what an accomplishment! Good job! I've considered training to WALK a HALF-marathon. IF I ever do it, that'll be the closest I come to your athletic accomplishment (which is close enough for me...!). Good job.
(At what point do parenthetical comments become NOT parenthetical and capable of being their own, non-parenthesized, stand-alone ideas? Thirty percent of total comments? Fifteen percent? I think I'm close, whatever it is.)
(But I like parentheses. They're the perfect excuse to keep going. It's like saying, "I know this isn't important. Don't think I'm just rattling on or interjecting mindlessly, without consideration for the reader. I HAVE considered the reader, and I KNOW I'm interjecting, but these here parentheses have granted me the right." And because by using parentheses I've signaled to you that I'm aware of what I'm doing, I've sort of taken away the reader's right to criticize me for it, because I've said, in a sense, "Bear with me".)
Annie is sleeping now; can you tell? 'Seems I never have time to write this much. And now that I have time, I can't seem to stop myself. (Maybe I should post on my own blog instead of hijacking yours.)
(Thanks.)
~Darla
(RE: Deleted comments above: This posted 2 or 3 times, then I deleted too many of the repeated comments.)
Thanks, Darla! Yeah, it is fun to watch her pretend, to see what she comes up with on her own, without any prompting from us. I too love the back-splash. The kitchen is wooden, not plastic or particle board, which makes it nice.
(I didn't have a kitchen, but once Santa brought me some kind of baking set -- pans and I think some powdery stuff to bake in them. Like a pretend oven that actually worked or something. It was one of my favorite Santa gifts, maybe my favorite one.)
I wholeheartedly agree with your analysis of parentheses, by the way. :)
(Too tired to write anything funny or clever myself!)
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