In an effort to break her of her attachment to M-O-M, Leah will be spending Saturday and Sunday at Grandpa and Grandma Robran's farm. Will she warm up to Grandpa? Will she come home unscathed? Will she eat more than just ice cream and Cheerios? God only knows. We can just pray that she gets along with Grandpa, otherwise it could be a long weekend.
Grandparents are a funny creature. They know full well what is good for the kid, but they go against better judgement and do something just the opposite. Like naps. 'Ah, the kid doesn't need a nap, back in my day..' Blah Blah Blah. Back in their day they told us to nap every hour on the hour. Their craziness either comes from one of two places - either they could care less how crabby the child is when they send them home because she's not THEIR kid, or...they truly ARE crazy. My money is on the latter.
Now before any of you grandparents get all pissed off and scratch me off your Christmas list(by the way a new St. Croix rod would be nice), keep in mind I'm just making generalizations here (I was actually talking about the OTHER grandparents *wink* *wink*). When they become 'grand' parents, they seem to graduate to a level above the lowly 'parent' and are now considered 'EXPERTS' in the field of child rearing. Had you or your siblings not had a child, they would have no one to exert their vast amount of parenting knowledge on, making them just 'parents' and subject to the ridicule of THEIR parents. Therefore, by you having a kid, the monkey is now off their back since they have proven they can produce offspring that are capable of procreating. The torch has been passed, and a tradition continues. I've already determined that when I'm a grandparent, I'm going to be the nuttiest SOB on this side of the Mississippi..."Hey kids, ever have a whiskey sour?" "Let me show you how to make napalm out of a marshmallow..." and so forth.
Regardless of the craziness that will ensue on the Robran farm, Leah will undoubtedly have a blast. She's looking forward to playing with cousin Allie and getting dirty in Grandma's flower garden. Maybe Grandpa can con her into going for a ride on the tractor - who knows what's in store. All I know is the Kimmer and I get a weekend of peace and quite, which will probably be filled with conversation about how much Kim misses Leah. So my hope is that Kim makes it through the weekend, Leah comes home alive, and we all get along in the end.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
19 Months of Terror!
Well it's been 2 months since our last post, which is probably indicative of how busy Leah has been keeping us.
At the end of June, Leah completed her Water Babies class and is now as comfortable as a sea otter in the water. Baths are a lot easier now that she's not afraid to get her head wet. She'll be taking her 2nd Water Babies class the end of this month.
The past 6 weeks were filled with fun, tears, and mud as Leah kept busy with our neighbors' twin great-grandchildren. Check out the pictures on Picasa for pics of the pizza party and pool pictures (http://picasaweb.google.com/jkrobran). She had a lot of fun with Alex as they exchanged girl talk and played with their dolls. It was sad to see them go but our neighbors' can now sleep easy.
July 4th weekend was filled with tears and laughter. Our cousin Jason died in a motorcycle accident on July 3rd, so the Robran family was together for yet another funeral. However, as Jason would have had it, we had fun on July 4th by firing off fireworks at uncle Kevin's farm. Leah was glued to the display of fireworks as Kevin avoided injury.
As far as terror goes, she is getting slightly better. In the most recent weeks she has been extremely attached to Mommy, screaming bloody murder if Kim is not within arm's reach. However, being the strong parents we are, we have laid down the law and are not picking her up whenever she raises a fuss. So we have to put up with a bit more screaming, but it is starting to subside. Someday, maybe someday, she'll be a well behaved, productive member of society. Someday...
On a more positive note, she is getting smarter by the day. She's putting together many two-word phrases (i.e. Daddy Work, Mommy Work, Kacie Poop). It isn't even worth listing all the words she knows because she's picking up more and more every day. We can go through a book and she'll label just about everything in it. You say it, she'll say it too. Which tends to be a problem in some situations (who would have thought 'Ass' would be such a popular word among 19 month olds?).
At the end of June, Leah completed her Water Babies class and is now as comfortable as a sea otter in the water. Baths are a lot easier now that she's not afraid to get her head wet. She'll be taking her 2nd Water Babies class the end of this month.
The past 6 weeks were filled with fun, tears, and mud as Leah kept busy with our neighbors' twin great-grandchildren. Check out the pictures on Picasa for pics of the pizza party and pool pictures (http://picasaweb.google.com/jkrobran). She had a lot of fun with Alex as they exchanged girl talk and played with their dolls. It was sad to see them go but our neighbors' can now sleep easy.
July 4th weekend was filled with tears and laughter. Our cousin Jason died in a motorcycle accident on July 3rd, so the Robran family was together for yet another funeral. However, as Jason would have had it, we had fun on July 4th by firing off fireworks at uncle Kevin's farm. Leah was glued to the display of fireworks as Kevin avoided injury.
As far as terror goes, she is getting slightly better. In the most recent weeks she has been extremely attached to Mommy, screaming bloody murder if Kim is not within arm's reach. However, being the strong parents we are, we have laid down the law and are not picking her up whenever she raises a fuss. So we have to put up with a bit more screaming, but it is starting to subside. Someday, maybe someday, she'll be a well behaved, productive member of society. Someday...
On a more positive note, she is getting smarter by the day. She's putting together many two-word phrases (i.e. Daddy Work, Mommy Work, Kacie Poop). It isn't even worth listing all the words she knows because she's picking up more and more every day. We can go through a book and she'll label just about everything in it. You say it, she'll say it too. Which tends to be a problem in some situations (who would have thought 'Ass' would be such a popular word among 19 month olds?).
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