The Dirty Dozen: 12 Details from the Weekend

--> attempted to conquer a veritable Everest of laundry

--> placated (with varying levels of success) an irritable baby and who knows why? is it teething, allergies, insect bites, rainy day syndrome?  we wondered and wondered....

--> discovered a new DEET-free insect repellent that smells less like a chemicalized lemon and more like a cinnamon stick

--> watched in awe as baby Pearl stood on her own holding onto mid-air for at least 10 seconds

--> went to the movies for the first time in 5 months

--> loved the Huckabees movie and was the only one laughing in the theater any number of times

--> examined a Stokke KinderZeat at a store in Rice Village

--> bought some warm clothes for our girl to wear on our 2 upcoming trips to places with winter

--> bought an autographed copy of Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman for $10

--> caught Pearl using her sign language (More! More!) for the first time

That's my report. Feel free to add your own list in the comments section below.

Comments

[Chloe]

I know my daycare provider does sign and I think Lilliana does sort of an All Done sign. It is so cute... LOL...

UGH on the Laundry...me and DP go about once a month... and have that many clothes... not a fun time!!
And we have to go to a laundromat... yuck!

[Robyn]

love the kinderzeat. love IT. though currently, our toddler is boycotting it. odd wee one.

i got it on ebay. new. saved on shipping cuz the seller was here in Austin.

i'm braindead...so, i can't remember when we got ours....ummmm..i think at like...17 months.

[elswhere]

More! More! Such a useful sign ;-)

I know baby sign is sort of trendy (at least it is around here), but it seems like a really *good* trend, you know? Like, it actually helps kids communicate, which is pretty exciting for everyone. Sarah loved signing and still uses it occasionally (especially for "please," when she's tired of saying it out loud.)

[Jack]

Well, what movie did ya see?

[Suzanne]

Could you share the name of the insect repellant? The ones I've encountered are a wee bit too pungent for my kids. They repel insects, sure, but they also knock out anyone in a 2-foot radius!

[Elise]

"More" was our first baby sign! A great one! She still uses it sometimes now too even though she's a pretty good talker. And the standing is pretty exciting too!! What an eventful weekend - isn't it funny when a kid does about ten new things at the same time one day? I always think it's no wonder why they crash so hard at night - it must be totally exhausting to do so many new things every day. As adults, we would be terribly cranky if we had to process the kind of information overload that kids have to deal with every day.

[Moxie]

We loved Huckabees, too! Laughed all the way through it. It totally hit me the same way The Graduate does, but in a completely different way. As we were walking out of the theater my husband was saying, "I can't wait to watch it again a few times to try to figure out what all the tangled loose ends are" and I was saying "I love the way it was all wrapped up so neatly at the end, as if it never even happened." And then we looked at each other and said, "Were we watching the same movie?"

[Robin]

The DEET-free lotion I found is made by the people who make Baby Orajel so it's in the baby section of the drug store. The line is called Gentle Naturals, the product, Deet-Free Bug Repellent.