Gia’s sleeping choice for nap today makes a little more sense than last night.
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Sleeping Anywhere
We got Gia a cot to sleep on while traveling this week, since she’s pretty much out grown the pack n play. She sleeps on a cot at daycare, so she should be used to it. I put her to bed tonight, and I stayed with her a while to make sure she didn’t get out of bed. She seemed okay, so I left while she was still laying there counting to herself. We heard her talking for a while on the monitor, but she never fussed and fell asleep pretty quickly. I went back to check on her later, and this is what I find. She got off her cot, crawled under the bed, and fell asleep there. If you look closely, you can see her drool mark on the pillow on the floor.
I pulled her out and put her back on her cot.
Santa
We stopped by the mall to see Santa on our way out of town. It was great going in the middle of the day in the middle of the week, there was no line.
We even got half a smile out of Gia.
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Turkey Tuesday
Today at daycare they had Thanksgiving Lunch for the parents, so I got to eat (separately) with both Valentina and Gia. They were both excited to see me in the middle of the day, which was nice. Valentina sat in my lap and ate mashed potatoes, stuffing, green beans, apples, and even a little turkey. She tried everything and ate a ton.
Gia, on the other hand, only ate baked apples and pumpkin pie. Here she is shoving a big slice of apple in her mouth. I tricked her into taking a bite of potatoes and she spit it out. I think she would’ve liked it if A) I hadn’t been there to distract her, and B) the apples hadn’t been on her plate from the start. Lessons learned for Thursday. This will be the best Thanksgiving ever!
We’re heading to Mark’s house tomorrow. I’m going to try to post frequently while there, because there are a bunch of new features in the iOS app that need to be tested, so I’ll hammer on those with the iPad. This post here is being written on the new Mac desktop app. I like it a lot, you should check it out! Windows and Linux clients are coming soon.
Sleep
Both of the girls have colds, so they’ve been waking up in the middle of the night a lot more than usual. V woke up at 3 and I tried/failed to get her back to sleep, so Jen had to nurse her. Jen also had an early appointment today and needed to be out of the house by 6:45am. But that worked out well because it meant she was already up when G woke up at 6:15 asking for “mommydaddy bed”. So I brought her back into our bed and she slept for another hour+. Outstanding.
V woke up for real around 7 as well, and she had a 100.4° fever. So I decided to keep her home today. Even without Tylenol her fever was already dropping by the time I got back from dropping G at school, so she’ll be fine.
But if she’s staying home, I’m putting her to work. Here she is rearranging furniture:
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Proudly Powered by Coffee
Enjoying an afternoon cup of coffee in my new mug. These have been sold out in the WP store since I joined Automattic, but I happened to notice they had a few in stock the other day, and I jumped on it. Checked back half an hour later and they were gone.
Worth noting: it’s not a two-tone mug…my phone’s camera has a nice artifact where you can see a line across the middle where the color slightly changes. I need to get a new phone, this one is falling apart.
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Grump Face
She was excited to get all her books in the car, but not so happy about having her picture taken.
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Jammin’ Java: Update
I posted yesterday that we went to Jammin Java to see Red Wanting Blue. They were awesome. It was an acoustic show, which I was expecting to be low key, but they had a ton of energy. And I really like the lead singer’s hat. I think I should get one.
Jammin Java
We’re at Jammin Java in Vienna tonight to see Red Wanting Blue for an acoustic show. It’s intermission right now. The opener was fantastic. Morningsiders. Hopefully the headliners live up to the standard. Jen’s seen them a bunch, since their from Ohio, but this is the first time I’ve seen them.
I’m writing this while Jen is getting more drinks…lest you think I’m being anti social by blogging instead of interacting.
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Little Gymnast
November is “bring a friend” month at Little Gym, so Gia has been tagging along with RMG, and she’s loved it. I think we’ll sign her up for real next month.
And since the last couple days I’ve been neglecting to feature my other daughter, here’s a picture of Valentina eating a cracker:
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Skit Skat Skoodle Doot 