Fun with Foil

I love playing with aluminum foil. There are so many cool craft uses for this stuff. We used it this morning to make Nicholas' hand print. He first outlined his hand on tracing paper then we put the tracing paper on the piece of foil and used a small wooden dowel to "draw" the traced line on the tracing paper while pressing down just enough to emboss the foil underneath. You could do this without the tracing paper step but I wanted to also emboss his name and date and I wouldn't have been able to figure out how to write that backwards for the embossing to show correctly.





Now for you Star Wars fans out there, we also tried to use aluminum foil to make a model of Hans Solo frozen in Carbonite. Cool idea but our Hans Solo action figure is too small to be able to get a lot of detail from it. Also our foil needs to be just a little thicker because we tore through it when we started to work on his legs. Still a neat idea though.....

The Last Staple is Out!

Nicholas got his last staple out this morning. He was very nervous this time because he knew it would probably hurt. It did. The doctor had a hard time getting this staple out so he had to try a couple of times before he got it. And it especially hurt because some hairs were right around the staple and he couldn't help but pull on a few little hairs in order to get the staple out. Oh, it just tore at my heart to hear my little baby boy crying. When it was all done, I saw his little lip was still trembling. I hope this will be a learning opportunity for why we don't run in the house.

I let him pick where he wanted to go for breakfast. I gave him a few choices and he picked IHOP. I think this was his first time at IHOP. He loved it! They had so many choices on the menu and even lots of choices of different flavored syrups. Of course, he had to try each one. His favorite is now strawberry.



After breakfast, we spent some time playing at a friend's house then headed home for nap time....although Rachel was the only one that actually slept. This afternoon she started having a little cough and maybe some congestion in her nose. I hope she doesn't have a cold!

For dinner tonight, we went to our old favorite BBQ restaurant. I say it is our "old" favorite because we actually found a new BBQ restaurant that we like even better. But our old favorite is closer and we had a coupon for a free pulled pork platter so we couldn't pass it up.

When our waitress came up to our table, she asked...

Waitress: "Have you eaten here before?"
Stuart: "Oh, yes. All the time."
Nicholas, in a matter of fact tone: "But we haven't been back here because we found another BBQ restaurant that we like more!"

I was so embarrassed but it was so funny that I couldn't help but laugh out loud! Gotta watch those 4 year olds. They will just tell it like it is!

Rachel's First Doll

Rachel has a sweet little doll that was given to her at the baby shower at Stuart's job. It is her first doll (and it even says, "My First Doll" on her outfit). It has stayed in her crib since she was born and she's always enjoyed looking at her. Now that she can reach for toys, she likes to pick up her dolly and hold her before drifting off to sleep. We think she must be teething because lately she chews on everything she can. Unfortunately, dolly has been getting the brunt of the chewing. Poor dolly....

Staples Come Out!

After school I took Nicholas to his pediatrician to have the staples removed. I planned ahead and got him a little Transformer action figure for him to hold to hopefully distract him from the pain.



Once we got into the exam room, I gave him his new toy. He was excited and didn't seem nervous at all about the staple removal. I'm pretty sure that he didn't have a clue that it might hurt to have them removed.



So then I felt bad that he was so happy and oblivious to what was to come. But he got clued in rather quickly and got nervous as soon as the doctor leaned forward to start the removal process. He ended up sitting in my lap with my arms around him while he squeezed my hand. He cried and tightened up each time one of them came out. For one of them, the doctor seemed concerned because it started bleeding a little. The doc decided to leave one staple in that was in the middle of the wound because he wasn't convinced that it was completely healed underneath. We'll go back Friday to have the last one removed.

Quote of the Day

"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time." - Leonard Bernstein

Wow! With that being said, I should be able to conquer the world!


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