Quick Takes

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Yesterday, a terrifying thing happened. Our dresser fell on top of Hannah. (She is fine!) All of the drawers fell out and hit her but I caught it just before the actual dresser landed on top of the drawers. A glass jar candle that was sitting on top broke just inches from her face. We're fortunate it was a very lightweight dresser, that I was right there when it happened, and that she wasn't hurt. But what if.....

I remember reading about a little three year old girl who died while her parents were sleeping because her dresser fell on top of her. Her twin sister was even sleeping in the same room. When I read it I vowed to secure all of our furniture to the walls immediately. We already had the bookshelves secured, our dresser was the only thing left that needed to be anchored. We put it on the "to-do" list and it never got done.

Please, secure all your furniture to the wall. Guardian angels are wonderful, but we don't want to have to depend on them. Do it today. Do not put it off.

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On a much lighter note, anybody have any good tv show recommendations? I am not someone who really enjoys tv. We hardly turn ours except to let Hannah watch Barney. But I have gotten into a few shows lately and I find that the short break every few days really helps. I love Downton Abby, obviously. Really enjoyed Once Upon a Time on Netflix. And I just finished the second season of Call the Midwife on PBS. But now I'm without a good series. Suggestions? It has to be available to be watched on Netflix or somewhere else online for free.

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I cannot wait until Hannah is verbal enough to warrant her own regularly occurring "verbatim" type post here on the blog. Reading other people's kid's quotes are some my favorite type of posts. Especially when you know the kids and how adorable they are. For now, I'll just devote one take to Hannah's cute comments.

Hannah: Hannah yite Paul. (meaning, "I like Paul")
Me: Awe, you like Paul?
Hannah: Me too!

And while watching a lizard crawl up to the roof (which we talk about every.single.day. [they are probably just trying to get away from Hannah.] Look, that lizard is going to the roof. I bet the lizards are the roof. Lizard-roof. Lizard-roof. She even threw her plastic lizard onto her own roof where obviously belongs.)

Me: Oh Hannah, where do you think that lizard is going?
Hannah: (blank stare)
Me: I bet that lizard is going to the ______
Hannah: Library!

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Tuesday morning was rough for us this week. I decided we needed to get out of the house before it got any worse, so we drove to the park that's just two minutes away (no, I cannot walk to it. it's already in the 90's here!) When we pulled up we saw that they had bulldozed the playground! What? We had just been there a few days before. I'm going to call and ask if they are getting rid of it all together or (hopefully) putting in a new one. Needless to say, our morning didn't get much better.

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Tuesday afternoon, however, was great. We took a trip to the library (because obviously it was on Hannah's mind). Just like her daddy's, Hannah's cheeks get really red when she's hot and it was so hot that afternoon that she was red just from walking from the house to the car. When we walked into the library she threw open her arms and shouted "yibaewy boots!" (that's "library books" fyi) loud enough for everyone to hear. As she walked through the study area to the kids' section she was so excited that she waved at a random man and said "hi!". He smiled and turned to his friend and said "Did you see..." I thought he was going to finish his question with, "that cute little girl?" or, "how friendly she was?" Instead he said, "Did you see how red her cheeks were!?"

Oh Rosie, you certainly live up to your nickname.

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I found a great deal of support from the comments on Wednesday's post about bonding with Paul. Thanks so much to everyone who made me feel not-crazy. If you've struggled at all with bonding with your kid(s) I suggest going back and reading the comments. Especially the sweet comment from sayin' i love you about love as a choice. So very true! I was loving Paul by feeding and clothing him, even though there weren't any mushy feelings that came with it.

I meant to include this video on the post and forgot. But now you get to enjoy it today. You're welcome.

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I really want to write about how great Paul has been sleeping. But, One: that pisses off people whose kids are not sleeping. Rightfully so. Two: No one really wants to read about the length of his naps or nursing intervals. And Three: it will surely change drastically and immediately for the worse if I so much as brag for .2 seconds on how great it is. 

So I will just say.....Happy Weekend! Thanks as always Jen!