Today was a fun and busy day for us. Seeing as I mainly only see Kylie on the weekends now due to her being in school and us living almost an hour apart, I generally try to make good use of the time we have. Each weekend I try to make sure we do some fun things and have a really good time together, today was no different. Today we started off the morning kind of casual, a little breakfast and some TV, then I announced that we were going to Jungle Java for lunch! Kylie loved the idea and was really excited to go again, Melissa was also really intrigued and looking forward to it as she had never been there before. The lunch was really good, and I hadn’t realized this the last time I was there because we didn’t eat anything there, but it was all pretty nutritious. Kylie had a hot dog (probably the lest nutritious thing on the menu) and Melissa and I both had wraps. Kylie couldn’t wait to run around and play with all the other kids that were there, but we had to eat lunch first, once she was done though she was gone! She had a blast running around and playing, and then it got even better because Melissa decided to go run through with her! Watching the two of them crawling through the tunnels, climbing the ladders and going down the slides really put a smile on my face. After about three hours running around and playing we decided it was time to head home, but the fun for the day didn’t end there. When we got home Melissa pulled out a surprise for Kylie and asked her if she wanted to help make some cookies. Granted they weren’t from scratch like Kylie is used to making, but it was still very fun and the cookies were yummy!
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Caught A Butterfly
Kylie caught a butterfly tonight as they were leaving diving/swimming practice. The picture was taken with a camera phone so it’s not the greatest, but this was the first time she tried to catch a butterfly, and she got it!
A Day At The Library
Today we decided to have a quite day, which means no use of the TV or anything that requires it. We have had days like this countless other times during which we play games, color, read, or go someplace. Today Kylie asked if we could go to the library, so that is what we did. We went over a browsed through the books and after finding a few Halloween books that interested her Kylie asked me to sit and read them to her, so we did that for a while. Then she asked if she could play in the children’s area with a few other kids, and of course I let her. While she played for a while I sat in a rather comfortable arm chair and read my book. After what seemed like a few moments I looked up to see a man walking in with a beautiful white dog that I knew Kylie knew from pre-school, so I went to get her. When she saw the dog she looked at me with a big grin and said “That’s Storm!” Storm is an assistance dog that has come to her pre-school on multiple occasions; and apparently he was at the library to meet with more people today. Kylie then went back to playing with some new friends she had made while Daddy read his book. It was a really fun and relaxing day and the time just flew by. By the time we left we had been there for slightly over 3 hours! I love my weekends with my daughter.
Where A Kid Can Be A Kid
Today I decided we were going to go have dinner at a special fun place that 
I knew Kylie would enjoy. As a surprise for her we went to Chuck-E-Cheese’s, and man did she have a blast! She was so excited and happy when we pulled up and she saw where we were. We went in and ordered our pizza and got a bunch of tokens, found a table that we could sit at and off we went to play games and have fun. Melissa and Daddy even played a few games too, mostly skee-ball to help get some more tickets for prizes. When all the tokens were finally spent and all the pizza eat and soda drank, Kylie was able to feed her tickets into the ticket muncher and go pick out a few small prizes. It was a very fun evening and we all had a great time, in fact, Kylie is already asking when we can go back! I forgot how fun this place can be, so maybe with winter approaching, we will be able to go back again. It will be nice to have this as a potential place we can go to in order to get out of the house.
Dresser Dashing
A few minutes ago Tiffany called me to tell me that Kylie tipped over her dresser, and it just missed falling on her. They were preparing to go out and Mommy told Kylie that she should go get her sweater because it was a little chilly out. Kylie said “ok” and went upstairs to get one. A few minutes later Mommy heard a loud crash and Kylie crying; Mommy had no idea she could get up the stairs so fast! When she got up there she found Kylie crawling out from under her dresser! What happened was Kylie went upstairs to her room to get a sweater to put on, but she decided that she did not want to wear the one that was already out. So she tried to get a different one. Her sweaters are in the top drawer of her dresser, but she can’t quit reach them, so she needed something to stand on so she could see inside her drawer. The closest thing at hand for her to stand on was the bottom drawer of her dresser. She pulled out the bottom drawer almost all the way, then pulled out the top drawer a little less and stood on the bottom to look in the top. This offset the weight of the entire dresser and pulled it towards her, falling over with her under it. Luckily her dresser was close to her bed and so it partially landed on that, making a little cave that Kylie had fell into. When Mommy got to the room Kylie was crawling out from this little cave and crying because she was so frightened. Thankfully she was not really hurt in this accident, all that happened was a scrape on her finger. However, she did learn a very valuable lesson and will not be standing on her dresser again any time soon.
Kindergarten Already
I can’t believe this day has come already, Kylie’s first day of kindergarten; before I know it she will be graduating and heading off to college. Today was only a half day, just so the kids could all get to know the lay of the school and where their room is, also to meet their classmates and teacher. It was great to see how excited Kylie was about going to school and meeting new friends. Mommy, Daddy, and Aunt Sissy all had a great time taking Kylie to school for her first day; Mommy and Sissy had fun remembering about when they went to elementary school at the same school. After school was over we all went out to Red Robin for lunch and ask Kylie about her first day. Kylie said she had lots of fun and met lots of new friends, she is already excited about going back tomorrow! Pictures from the morning are up and can be seen in the September 2010 gallery.
Four Days Later
I’m still in a lot of pain, not really sure how long it’s going to take for my back to calm back down this time, but the muscle relaxers Mom gave me seem to help some and my best friends is now officially my heating pad. I had to bring the trailer back to u-haul today though so I also went to Meijer and picked up some fabreze to spray the love-seat down with because it smells like smoke; guess that’s to be expected though, all things considered it’s not too bad. One day I am going to take Mom’s suggestion and go get an upholstery cleaner and give it a good cleaning. But that will definitely have to wait until my back is feeling a lot better, for now the fabreze will have to suffice. Now it’s time to get back to the heating pad.
First Pair of Glasses
Kylie got her first pair of glasses today, when she put them on she asked Mommy why the ground was all bumpy. The optometrist had warned Mommy that the curvature of the glasses might appear to distort things for a little while until her eyes adjusted to her new vision. Because of this she was trying to step over things that weren’t really there. However, after a few hours of wearing them, Mommy said she was no longer trying to step over things and she had adjusted very well. Kylie even asked to go to the library, which we take as a good sign. We think now that she can see better she will pick up reading a lot more quickly, both books and her sheet music.
Mommy Gets A Recap
Tiffany picked up Kylie about 9:30 this morning, and they were both very happy to see each other. Kylie told Mommy all about her trip to NY and seeing everyone, playing at the park with Tyler and then going to his house to play. She was so excited and happy with the trip, it was great to hear her talk so happily about it. She kept saying how fun it was and how much she wants to go back and see everyone again soon, hopefully we can all get together again soon.
After they left I spent a few hours on heating pads and then unloaded some more of the trailer, this time though I drove the trailer right up to the front door of the apartment, not sure why I didn’t think of that last night. Melissa came home from work and, after telling me how foolish I was for unloading the other items alone, we took the old couch out to the dumpster and brought the new love-seat in. On a side note Melissa was right, I definitely did not do my back any favors. More time on the heating pad and pain meds for me. -sigh-