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| Saturday, July 4th, 2009 | | 8:55 pm |
Finished Pillow
I dunno if I wrote about this before, but I found a unicorn pillow on craigslist, (the seller was trying to get rid of her couch and said she'd throw in the pillow. -I just asked for the pillow.) Anyway I couldn't tell from the picture, but the pillow was in pretty bad shape. I was reluctant to touch the thing. I swear it had cat litter on it or something, and big holes torn in it. Not to mention all the nasty little cobwebby things on it. I promptly threw away the inside, turned the pillow inside-out, and tossed it in the washer. After that, I unpicked the outside to get rid of the frayed, ratty rope that bordered the outside, got some cross-stitching yarn, held bits of fabric on the back in the thin spots, and re-did the holes with the best matching colours I could find. Finally, I ordered the new trim on ebay, got a generic fleece pillow from the thrift store that was in better condition and washed it for the stuffing (actually cheaper than buying new fluff from the fabric store). And today I sewed it all together. Yay!  We had lots of family over today and yesterday, and last night we played a game called Whoonu. It's a little like Apples to Apples, in that you have to play to whoever is judge of that round. Anyway, Oliver looked at his cards, turned to me, and said "I win." I just raised my eyebrow at him. But when it was my turn, and I ranked the cards handed to me based on which I liked best, Oliver had given me "unicorns." He totally won. Which surprizes me, because one of the other cards was "stuffed animals" and if I didn't know which one I'd choose of the two, how did Oliver? The next round, he did it again, and when it was my turn and everyone handed me cards that they thought I wouldn't like, I was torn between "beef" and "airports" and ended up choosing airports. Oliver won again! How did he do that? Current Mood:  amused | | Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | | 5:01 am |
| | Monday, June 29th, 2009 | | 9:07 pm |
It just occurred to me that my relationship with Bina somewhat mirrors that of Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. The creature terrorizes villages and tells the doctor he will stop if Frankenstein makes him a friend. Similarly, and like a small tornado, Bina often decides the only thing that will keep her entertained is to go into "destructo-mode" and climb from one thing to the next, throwing things off shelves and out of drawers, and tossing everything within reach of climbing onto the floor. At which point she has nothing left to destroy or clutter, and she has too much pent up energy and ends up whining until Oliver has a brain annurism. From Mary Shelley: "What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but as [new and curious] as myself, and it shall content me.... I now see compassion in your eyes; let me seize the favourable moment and persuade you to promise what I so adrently desire." And so Bina got her baby brother! Yay! Current Mood: amused | | Sunday, June 28th, 2009 | | 12:59 pm |
Picture from yesterday
 Bina asked me for juice today, and Peanut was fussy, so I said "Bina watch the baby, and I'll get you juice" and I lied him down next to her. I was a little nervous, but she was very sweet. When I came back and gave her the juice and tried to take the baby back, she fussed at me and pat the empty spot next to her. Here's Bina carefully pushing Baby Brother in her toy stroller. :)  Here's the two men in my life, both kinda tired after playing russian roulette with couches yesterday:  I found an article online about how to reupholster our own furniture. I think we can do it. I'm excited to make them look like my couches on IMVU. Maybe I'll even sell my own unicorn tapestry pillows. Current Mood:  busy | | Saturday, June 27th, 2009 | | 1:18 am |
Two Months!
Sir Peanut is two months now. :)  Here's a video of him rolling over: (he's the little green blob, sorry it's so dark) Oliver got Soul Caliber 3, and baby Peanut likes to sleep on him while he plays. But here's the Peanut actually awake, and Bina in her jammies:  Note the spit up on daddy's shoulder. Here's a little smile: (yes, there's a castle on his shirt)  (Lookit his cute little toes! Sorry. Mommy moment.) Here's Bina reading in her book drawer after she's pulled it out, and all the books that were in it:  Here's Bina wielding her sword while wearing cupcakes:  Sleeping shot:  (I actually used that blanket when I was her age). Peanut sleeping:  Both babies:  In other news, I'm on a mission to get my sister a couch she likes, take the one she has now, and buy one that matches it I found on craigslist. Meantime, I found out there's a garage sale about 40 minutes away selling that little tikes castle playhouse in the morning, the one I wanted for "the kids." Wow. Plural. So is the drive worth it? I don't even know what they plan to sell it for. I guess I'll see how Oliver feels about it in the morning. I know he liked it too. Current Mood:  sleepy | | Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | | 9:55 pm |
I dunno how much I weigh, or what my waist measurement is right now because I have neither a scale, nor measuring tape, But! I am now comfortably wearing the same jeans I did to Boardie-con in Michigan. What year was that? Current Mood:  curious | | Saturday, June 20th, 2009 | | 9:54 pm |
Bina's been watching Sleeping Beauty this week. Today, when Prince Philip got his sword and shield from the faeries, she picked up a plastic sword and shield and swung it around excitedly when Philip swung his sword at the dragon. Oliver and I tied a rope around the waist of one of her stuffed dragons and swung it around for her while she vanquished it. She had a ball. :) And then I thought she was all worn out and ready to go down for the night, and she came into the computer room and asked me something. She had to repeat it for me, but she wanted to know "Where my sword?" Current Mood: amused | | Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 | | 4:57 am |
Sir Peanut's blessing
 Truly, this is the best picture I got of him in his blessing shirt. Sad, huh?  Here he is with cousin Johnny, wearing Johnny's hand-me-downs again. lol This is now my favourite shirt of his by the way. It has a little blue knight sitting on a cute dragon and weilding a sword. Today was Oliver's birthday, so we had a big family dinner and Bina got to play with cousins:  Here's Bina sharing her toys with her cousin (yay!) Here's Bina sharing her naptime with cousins (double yay!)  Here's Sir Peanut smiling a little bit.  He's smiled at me about twice now. We're going to be seeing a lot more smiling in the near future. :) Current Mood:  happy | | Sunday, May 24th, 2009 | | 11:46 pm |
Here's a bed I made today for IMVU:  Current Mood:  accomplished | | 12:54 am |
I updated my profile today, because in the last couple months, my dog died, my comic ended, Bina turned 2, and I had a baby! | | Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 | | 10:14 pm |
Here's the winning pic from today's renaissance faire that I'm going to have to turn into a portrait:  I'm hoping I can paint it so that Peanut's hand aren't in his face and Bina looks a little bit happier. We're really lucky to get a shot with two kids under the age of three in the same shot, facing the same general direction at all. lol | | Friday, May 22nd, 2009 | | 10:11 pm |
renaissance faire
the faire here was pretty small. It was the first time in this area. But we're grateful for it. :) We're going back tomorrow, but here's three pictures:  This one is supposed to be Bina doing the kiddie jousting.  She went from chair to chair knocking the helmets off. lol And this was my favourite:  Nope, this is not edited. lol Also, while we were there, we got a book for the babies. One where you can feel the dragons and look under flaps for them. We got that, and gold dragon plushie. Not much left to do tomorrow but watch the jousting and go through the dragon maze. Oh! And we need a good family shot that I can do a new portrait with. Cross your fingers. Current Mood: happy | | Thursday, May 21st, 2009 | | 5:28 pm |
Oliver was playing Dragon Quest Swords, and suddenly we noticed a character in the game actually pronounce his name. We both looked at each other like "woah! Did she just do that?" Yep. She did. But you know what? Oliver looked it up online. She calls everyone that, no matter what they enter as their name. Just weird that it was the same name Oliver's been using for characters for about ten years. We had our 3rd wedding anniversary yesterday. I organized and ordered us a wedding album online, but it's not here yet. My awesome mother-in-law watched both the babies all day, and Oliver and I spent most of the time driving around just talking and stopping into candy stores and thrift shops and at the end, we ate pizza in the same restaurant we had one of our first dates in (they even seated us in the same booth, -weird!), we watched X-men Origins in an Imax theatre, and came home. I had a great time, but I think Oliver would have liked to do something bigger. We have two kids now, and they're both under the age of 3. We're just not gonna get to do bigger things for another year or two. But for our fifth anniversary, we're going to Scotland! lol Peanut was having some problems. He was getting to the point where he was fussy unless he was eating. He was acting hungry all the time, until he'd finally throw up all over, and then he was content. We got him prescription reflux medication, and mylicon, but it didn't seem to be helping. Finally, I made a post about it on a moms forum and two of the responses said that sounded just like their babies, and they were both having issues processing the lactose. Babies apparently grow out of this after the first year, but that's not gonna help us now. So Oliver found a lactose-free milk-based formua, and Peanut's doing much better. I didn't think this was possible, but now I actually feel better about not breastfeeding. Current Mood:  tired | | Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 | | 9:43 pm |
A couple recent pictures
 Bina made me a card for Mother's Day. I told Oliver I wasn't really excited about Mothers day because my kids aren't old enough to make me cards. So he helped them. Bina, obviously, enjoyed herself immensely. Here's a shot of the roses Oliver got for me:  Here's the new one wearing Johnny's jammies. I think for livejournal I'll be calling him Peanut. He just looks like a cute little peanut to me. So here's the Peanut wearing his cousin's jammies:  Aaaaand, here's the costumes for this years Renaissance Faire!   Bina loves her dress. She wouldn't let me take it off. Her daddy has since bought her some really cute wings to go with it. He tookher shopping with him, and she was wearing them when they got home. So cute! And here's the Peanut in his armor jammies and plushie helmet:   Current Mood: accomplished | | Sunday, May 17th, 2009 | | 12:44 am |
I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button yesterday. I really liked it. We should own that one. But I probably only loved it for the last bit of the movie, that starts when Daisy gets a call from Child Protective Services. I felt like it was showing that when you really love someone, it doesn't matter to you how you love them. You will love them any way they need you to. | | Friday, May 15th, 2009 | | 12:01 pm |
If it was at all possible, Bina now actually has more energy. Current Mood:  frazzled | | Monday, May 11th, 2009 | | 6:22 am |
Bina's having ear surgery today. Her great aunt was talking to a friend, who was having some very similar problems with her own daughter, that we have with Bina. As it turns out, the little girl's ears don't drain like they should. She had a simple operation, she had tubes in her hears, and since then, she's been fine! So, we took Bina to this specialist, and he tested her ears. Apparently, the right drains a little slow, and the left... not at all. So she has an appointment this morning. Our instructions were to wash her with anti-bacterial soap last night, and she's not allowed to have food or drink two hours before surgery. The scary part is, even though the procedure is only 15 minutes or so, she will have to be put under, and to prevent infection, the room is sterile, and we're not allowed to be with her until afterward while she's recovering. This problem has been impeding her speech, her balance, her ability to get good rest, her inability to sit still, and we suspect it's the reason why she would wake up screaming at us and eventually throw up, -vertigo. Usually, a child with this problem will get chronic ear infections, and that's what leads to getting the tubes, but Bina hasn't had that problem. If she's going in the water, we'll have to put in ear plugs, which will be fun because every time she takes a bath now, she's starting lying back in the water until just her face isn't covered to relax. But other than that, and the relative scariness of her having surgery at all, we hope this was it, and that after this, we'll be able to have her sit on our laps long enough to read a little book, or not always wake up crying and angry. We hope she'll be able to speak more clearly, and that overall because she's able to rest and sit peacefully once in a while, that she'll be happier, and more patient. She's always been this way, it's part of who she is to me. I'm nervous. But I hope that when it's over, she'll still be Bina to me, -just happier. | | Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 | | 6:46 pm |
| | Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 | | 12:24 pm |
Bina said "Mommy!" Current Mood: happy | | Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 | | 7:42 pm |
Okay, here's the version with the crown instead.  |
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