Transferred from my other blog: The Adventures of Sisterhood.
First published: 6-25-12 at 11:29 AM EDT
Well, Kylie's sick again. We're not sure how, but before she got sick
she did have a great Saturday. I wasn't there for most of it, I was at a
pool with my teammates. However, Miss Kylie buggered daddy into taking
her to our neighborhood pool (or daddy offered, either way), and she
went swimming!
Kylie has this adorable little ladybug
floaty that you can see in the photo update from a few weeks back. When
at the pool, her time is divided between prancing around in that and
clinging to daddy when out of it. The float comes with this blue
overhead sun-visor like thing and it keeps her from becoming drowsy due
to the direct light and heat. When in daddy's arms, she gets submerged
up to her shoulders, and three times according to dad's count, up to the
tippy top of her head. Yep, Kylie got dunked in three times, and she
seemed to enjoy every one.
When they got home, Kylie
napped, snacked, and watched Elmo and Strawberry Shortcake. Then, after a
delicious dinner, she hopped (climbed) into the car with daddy to go
pick me up from my friend's house. After a half-hour car ride and
finally retrieving me, we headed back. In the car, I sang her songs. I
sang her the Wheels On The Bus, and she did her little dance to it,
rolling her arms over one another. I sang her the Itsy Bitsy Spider, and
her tiny fingers made pinch shapes and imitated a spider. When I was
done, she piped up with a quiet but demanding "ABCD!"
Dad
and I sang the ABC's probably over 15 times during that car ride. When
we say, Kylie, you try, she can get, ABCDE, which is pretty awesome. She
knows most of the alphabet already and can talk a lot. It's miraculous
how fast she grows.
- Chichi
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Monday, June 25, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Photo Timeline
Transferred from my other blog: The Adventures of Sisterhood.
First published: 6-11-12 at 9:35 PM EDT
Today, I just relieved my SIM card of 1.52 GB of photographs, dating back to Easter. For shutterbugs like my mom and myself, I'm really surprised that we left one card in for that long. I checked the memory space, and good thing I just cleared it, because the thin only holds 1.53 GB.
I realize that Kylie's photographs stop in about June. After this post, I'll also update the photo gallery, but here goes our lovely little timeline:
That took nightmarishly long to upload. They'll be up
in the gallery in no time, though. Enjoy! Also, Tuesday marks our
one-year anniversary of living in North Carolina.
First published: 6-11-12 at 9:35 PM EDT
Today, I just relieved my SIM card of 1.52 GB of photographs, dating back to Easter. For shutterbugs like my mom and myself, I'm really surprised that we left one card in for that long. I checked the memory space, and good thing I just cleared it, because the thin only holds 1.53 GB.
I realize that Kylie's photographs stop in about June. After this post, I'll also update the photo gallery, but here goes our lovely little timeline:
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| 4-8-2012: Easter at the park. We went for an egg hunt... |
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| ... but it was the wrong weekend. So we hung out here instead! |
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| 4-22-2012: Kylie turns 18 months old!! |
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| 4-28-2012: On the way to an art festival. Peek-a... |
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| Boo!! |
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| 4-28-2012: Mommy and Kylie at Lazy Daze |
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| 4-28-2012: Kylie taking a break from all the art on the slide |
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| 4-28-2012: On the way home from the festival |
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| 4-28-2012: Kylie shares her dandelion |
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| 4-29-2012: We got a bubble machine 'cause Mommy can't blow bubbles! |
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| 4-29-2012: Kylie playing with bubbles |
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| 4-30-2012: Happy birthday, Daddy!! |
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| 5-22-2012: Happy 19 months, Kylie. |
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| 5-22-2012: Look at my tummy, mommy! |
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| 5-27-2012: Kylie helps label boxes the night before we move. |
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| 6-9-2012: Kylie waving hello and good-bye to strangers coming out of Carrabba's |
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| 6-9-2012: She was fussing inside, so I brought her out. Evidently more cooperative out here! |
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| 6-9-2012: Ha-llo!! |
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| 6-10-2012: First time in the floaty |
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| 6-10-2012: Smile for mommy! |
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| 6-10-2012: Just chillin' |
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| 6-10-2012: Daddy trying to teach Kylie to swim |
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| 6-10-2012: My toys! All mine! |
Monday, April 30, 2012
Mosquito Magnet
Transferred from my other blog: The Adventures of Sisterhood.
First published: 4-30-12 at 11:32 PM EDT
A hummingbird can beat it's wings up to 600 times per minute. A mosquito beats it's wings between 300 and 600 times per second. Mosquitoes fly at 1 to 1.5 miles per hour and beat their wings in synchronization with their lovers. Personally, I also consider them the biggest pests on the planet.
When I get bitten by mosquitoes, the bite will swell to the size of that bone on the outside of my wrist. My wrists are pretty skinny, so that bone sticks out quite a bit. Kylie currently has two mosquito bites on her face as well as a scab from one she most likely had a mild allergic reaction to on her leg. Mosquitoes have been deemed by my family as the worst of pests, worse than large flies, worse than the mice that live in our crawlspace and visit once in a while, worse than roaches and termites. At least, these sentiments are shared by my mother, myself, and surely Kylie.
Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on earth. This isn't exclusively to humans; mosquitoes can carry a huge number of viruses, some of which are more harmful to animals like your dog and cat than yourself. They all require water to breed. Want to kill mosquitoes? Suck the moisture out of your house and wait 5 to 6 months, the lifespan of an average adult mosquito.
In the nature camp I attended 5 or 6 years ago, they required us to have DEET containing bug spray. An adventure club I was a part of in middle school also did. So what exactly is DEET? DEET doesn't actually kill the bugs. It doesn't even work well for every kind of mosquito. But DEET is safe to use on skin and clothes. It stands for N,N-Diethyl-meta-Toluamide, and even after decades of research, scientists are still unsure of how DEET works. It's assumed that they impair the insects' ability to detect life. Mosquitoes are able to sense carbon dioxide (that we output) from 75 feet away.
Despite their bad eyesight, other senses are sharp. Sense of smell is one of them, and mosquitoes use it well to their advantage. It's probably not as simple as using the awful sent to cover the scent of carbon dioxide, but something along those lines makes your number of mosquito bites decrease exponentially. I don't know, perhaps its as effective as claimed perhaps not. I, however, like to spray Kylie's surroundings and my clothes when going out summer evenings. I don't like to spray it directly on her because of her more sensitive toddler skin. Off! smells awful, but it's far more attractive than huge red bug bites.
-Chichi
First published: 4-30-12 at 11:32 PM EDT
A hummingbird can beat it's wings up to 600 times per minute. A mosquito beats it's wings between 300 and 600 times per second. Mosquitoes fly at 1 to 1.5 miles per hour and beat their wings in synchronization with their lovers. Personally, I also consider them the biggest pests on the planet.
When I get bitten by mosquitoes, the bite will swell to the size of that bone on the outside of my wrist. My wrists are pretty skinny, so that bone sticks out quite a bit. Kylie currently has two mosquito bites on her face as well as a scab from one she most likely had a mild allergic reaction to on her leg. Mosquitoes have been deemed by my family as the worst of pests, worse than large flies, worse than the mice that live in our crawlspace and visit once in a while, worse than roaches and termites. At least, these sentiments are shared by my mother, myself, and surely Kylie.
Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on earth. This isn't exclusively to humans; mosquitoes can carry a huge number of viruses, some of which are more harmful to animals like your dog and cat than yourself. They all require water to breed. Want to kill mosquitoes? Suck the moisture out of your house and wait 5 to 6 months, the lifespan of an average adult mosquito.
In the nature camp I attended 5 or 6 years ago, they required us to have DEET containing bug spray. An adventure club I was a part of in middle school also did. So what exactly is DEET? DEET doesn't actually kill the bugs. It doesn't even work well for every kind of mosquito. But DEET is safe to use on skin and clothes. It stands for N,N-Diethyl-meta-Toluamide, and even after decades of research, scientists are still unsure of how DEET works. It's assumed that they impair the insects' ability to detect life. Mosquitoes are able to sense carbon dioxide (that we output) from 75 feet away.
Despite their bad eyesight, other senses are sharp. Sense of smell is one of them, and mosquitoes use it well to their advantage. It's probably not as simple as using the awful sent to cover the scent of carbon dioxide, but something along those lines makes your number of mosquito bites decrease exponentially. I don't know, perhaps its as effective as claimed perhaps not. I, however, like to spray Kylie's surroundings and my clothes when going out summer evenings. I don't like to spray it directly on her because of her more sensitive toddler skin. Off! smells awful, but it's far more attractive than huge red bug bites.
-Chichi
Monday, April 16, 2012
Heat Wave
Transferred from my other blog: The Adventures of Sisterhood.
First published: 4-16-12 at 11:05 PM EDT
Here in North Carolina, really in all of Bible Belt America, it's been heating up. The last 3 days have been some of the hottest days we've had all year. My little sister, recovering from yet another ear infection, has not been happy.
Today's entry is about the in-between. Everyone knows and hates the in-between, when it's still pollen-y outside, air full of allergens, yet the sun is beating on our backs and torturing us with 90 degree weather, and mosquitoes start sneaking into the house. Neighborhood pools aren't yet open (though I don't think ours even has a pool). Here in the south, droughts have been recurring for the past few years, so no beautiful sprinklers either. What is there to do when the blithering sun is languishing even the most energetic of us?
My family and I took my little sister to the playground near our house a couple of times this weekend. Before it's too dark and too much of bug territory, we sneak a few hours in the sun. But those few hours have to be before noon or around 3 or 4. They must be oh-so-precisely timed or we'll be stuck in the heat on the walk back. Once we get to the playground, the slide is hot, the swing sets are as well.
In fact, everywhere is hot. Today, I struggled and winced my way into opening a doorknob to get into the studio at which I take music lessons. Kylie's car seat buckles, black colored plastic, is hot to the touch while buckling. I'm honestly surprised that she hasn't protested because of it, yet. The worst thing about all of this is that the worse has yet to come. Summer's not even begun, and we're already suffocating under the sun.
On another note, our grandmother arrived from China last Thursday. She'll be spending 6 months with us, primarily to help care for Kylie. She cared for Kylie between Kylie's 2 months and 8 months old, but Kylie's pretty much just re-met her. One of the shiest babies' I know, it took her less than 2 days to completely warm up to our grandmother. ♥
-Chichi
First published: 4-16-12 at 11:05 PM EDT
Here in North Carolina, really in all of Bible Belt America, it's been heating up. The last 3 days have been some of the hottest days we've had all year. My little sister, recovering from yet another ear infection, has not been happy.
Today's entry is about the in-between. Everyone knows and hates the in-between, when it's still pollen-y outside, air full of allergens, yet the sun is beating on our backs and torturing us with 90 degree weather, and mosquitoes start sneaking into the house. Neighborhood pools aren't yet open (though I don't think ours even has a pool). Here in the south, droughts have been recurring for the past few years, so no beautiful sprinklers either. What is there to do when the blithering sun is languishing even the most energetic of us?
My family and I took my little sister to the playground near our house a couple of times this weekend. Before it's too dark and too much of bug territory, we sneak a few hours in the sun. But those few hours have to be before noon or around 3 or 4. They must be oh-so-precisely timed or we'll be stuck in the heat on the walk back. Once we get to the playground, the slide is hot, the swing sets are as well.
In fact, everywhere is hot. Today, I struggled and winced my way into opening a doorknob to get into the studio at which I take music lessons. Kylie's car seat buckles, black colored plastic, is hot to the touch while buckling. I'm honestly surprised that she hasn't protested because of it, yet. The worst thing about all of this is that the worse has yet to come. Summer's not even begun, and we're already suffocating under the sun.
On another note, our grandmother arrived from China last Thursday. She'll be spending 6 months with us, primarily to help care for Kylie. She cared for Kylie between Kylie's 2 months and 8 months old, but Kylie's pretty much just re-met her. One of the shiest babies' I know, it took her less than 2 days to completely warm up to our grandmother. ♥
-Chichi
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