Sara: “Do you think they named Elmo so it sounds like ‘L M N O’?”
Evie: “P! P!”
Stayin’ Alive
Just an interesting little tidbit, it turns out that if you are performing CPR it helps to keep the song “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees in your head, because it has the perfect rhythm for the chest compressions. This is very convenient because I think if I were performing life saving CPR on somebody, I probably couldn’t do anything to keep Stayin’ Alive out of my head. It also mentions that “Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen will also work, however, it is a little less…optimistic.
Link courtesy my lovely wife who actually told me about it some time ago, before there was even a link on CNN.
Wait, so are you saying Brett Favre isn’t God?
Are you getting sick of hearing about my kid yet?
It seems like every time I turn around I have to write another one of these updates. She’s just learning things so fast it is hard to keep everybody up on it!
She says a lot of words now, well over 100. My favorites are the really long words like “applesauce”, “exercise”, or “avacado”, and I’m also a fan of “monsters”.
If you ask her to count something that you see in a book for example, she will carefully point to each one and say, “two three”. You’ll get the same answer if you ask her how many of something there are. “Evie, how many clocks do you see?” “two, three.”
She is eating a little better now, especially if she can eat off of her mommy’s plate. She LOVES tomato sauce. So any kind of tomato chunks or spaghetti or anything like that, she wants to eat. Unfortunately everwhere the tomato sauce touches her skin she gets a rash.
She likes to eat the little jars of Gerber meat. Because they have a picture of the Gerber baby on them, she calls them “babies”. “Evie, what do you want to eat?” “Babies!” Sounds a little sadistic. Maybe I can get a bumper sticker, like “My baby ate your baby”.
She can correctly identify the color “orange”, but I think that’s the only one. She can point to the orange crayon or play the orange key on her piano/xylophone (side note, her piano/xylophone is probably the greatest toy I have ever had…but I digress). We think she learned that particular one because she has these alphabet books that she got for her birthday. O is one of her favorites because she likes to say “hoo hoo” on the owl. So we read that book a lot and it also has a page of oranges.
So she has some favorite letters that she can reliably find if you ask her. Her favorites are X, O, F, B, H. The last 3 are mostly due to the fact that we picked up a couple of random letters in a book set at a used book sale and the books have Elmo in them. So we’ve read them about a million times.
Based on all these letter books, she has lately gotten into the “ABCBs” song. She likes you to sing it and then when you get to X she yells “Exth!” I don’t know how she remembers where exactly in the song that falls, but there it is. She sometimes sings her own version of the song which roughly goes “A B C B FG..” and then a few more random letters that she’s already said, finally ending in “B B B B B…”
She will draw with crayons now, but she insists every picture is of a cat (Well, actually, the other day she also added a fishy). She is consistent though, even when she’s shown a picture she has drawn previously, she points to it and says, “Cat!”
We bought her a Halloween costume, so we will probably have pictures of that shortly.
Life changer
Did you ever have a life changing event? Like perhaps you came close to death and you realize that you’ve been wasting your life?
Well, the other day I was at Baja Fresh and I went to fill up my giant, 99 cent refillable cup and I was just about to start filling when I realized I had accidentally almost filled it with diet caffeine FREE coke! I said, “Blech”, made the face that Evie is making at the top of this blog, and moved over to the regular diet coke.
Then, it happened. My awakening.
Why wouldn’t I drink caffeine free? Caffeine isn’t added for flavor. I’m not in some situation where I need to stay awake. Seeing as I am not a pre-teen boy anymore who thinks it is cool to drink 8 Mountain Dews and stay up all night, there really is just no reason to be putting caffeine into my body. All the sugar (yeah right, try high fructose corn syrup, or worse) etc. is bad enough, why add more chemicals? Why does anybody? I don’t know. But I made a decision right then to stop drinking caffeine pop.
I mean, I won’t be crazy about it. I’ll drink it when I have it. I’ll drink it if I’m driving and trying to stay awake. But I’m going to choose caffeine free from now on, when I can. You know, the funny thing is that my mom used to always drink caffeine free diet coke and I thought that was just about the most disgusting thing I could imagine. “Why drink pop at all?” I said. And here I am arriving at the same point. How did I get here?
Well, I used to think I would never drink diet pop. Tons of people told me, “oh, once you get used to it, you won’t go back” but I told them they were crazy. Then I switched to diet during a weight loss competition. Sure enough, when I tried to switch back I couldn’t. Regular pop just tasted too sweet or something somehow. I really couldn’t believe that it happened, but it did. Then, the caffeine realization and here I am.
I don’t know, maybe I’m growing up. But I have to think that it was some marketing ploy or something that made me think I wanted the caffeine in the first place. What other reason could there be? But now my eyes are opened! Viva la revolution!
