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same_skyI am not paying $9.07 to ship a $14 bottle of sunscreen. I'm just not going to. I am having a desperately hard time forking over the $14 in the first place, but we have decided to stop using potentially cancer-causing chemicals on/for Evelyn as much as is feasible and practical. I bought some California Baby soap for her, but we're still using our old lotions... just using them much less (only when she really needs lotion and not as a matter of her bedtime routine.) There is so freaking much to worry about, you know that? Like, the guilt induced by slathering my kid up with sweet-smelling Johnson's lotion, or realizing that her bottles and pacifiers (neither of which she used much, or for very long) had BPA in them. Quick, is anyone surprised that I would take to the worrywart aspect of parenting like a duck to water?
Silence. Crickets chirping. Ahh, but you do know me.
Speaking of ducks, I tried to get E to say "ducky" today. She said, "Kckk." She's big on K sounds these days. M is teaching her to say ormbunke of all the bloody things in the world to work on. (It means fern in Swedish--he was using one of our hanging ferns to tickle her nose with.) In Evelyn language, ormbunke = kookoo. Last week, she said cookie. She has NO IDEA what a cookie is. I'm not saying this because I want you to know that I'm a great parent who would never feed her a cookie. We did give her some cookie once or twice, but I adore cookies and therefore I never make them, lest I eat them all. However, we never talked about cookies. She got a singing cookie jar shape-sorter for her birthday, and it sings about cookies, so she calls it "cookie". (pronounced k-ckie). Really cute. She isn't doing too badly with the language acquisition so far, I don't think. I have been expecting her to be delayed because of the bilingual thing. Maybe it's because we're not giving her enough Swedish exposure. Maybe I should go worry about that for a while too. Ha! Tricked you; I've been worrying about that for YEARS already!
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carrieb, I bought a strawberry pot the other night. And, that is pretty much the end of that story, it seems. And this post, since I can't think of anything else to say. I was going to add pictures to fill it out but the server is dead. Ahh, well.
Silence. Crickets chirping. Ahh, but you do know me.
Speaking of ducks, I tried to get E to say "ducky" today. She said, "Kckk." She's big on K sounds these days. M is teaching her to say ormbunke of all the bloody things in the world to work on. (It means fern in Swedish--he was using one of our hanging ferns to tickle her nose with.) In Evelyn language, ormbunke = kookoo. Last week, she said cookie. She has NO IDEA what a cookie is. I'm not saying this because I want you to know that I'm a great parent who would never feed her a cookie. We did give her some cookie once or twice, but I adore cookies and therefore I never make them, lest I eat them all. However, we never talked about cookies. She got a singing cookie jar shape-sorter for her birthday, and it sings about cookies, so she calls it "cookie". (pronounced k-ckie). Really cute. She isn't doing too badly with the language acquisition so far, I don't think. I have been expecting her to be delayed because of the bilingual thing. Maybe it's because we're not giving her enough Swedish exposure. Maybe I should go worry about that for a while too. Ha! Tricked you; I've been worrying about that for YEARS already!
In my quest to be just like
carrieb, I bought a strawberry pot the other night. And, that is pretty much the end of that story, it seems. And this post, since I can't think of anything else to say. I was going to add pictures to fill it out but the server is dead. Ahh, well.
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Date: 2008-05-22 04:33 pm (UTC)I knew you'd understand. ;) Thanks for the offer, I would totally take you up on it if I didn't think it would end up more trouble than it was worth. :)