Whee! Weekend

This past weekend we went to one of our favourite stores... Build-A-Bear Workshop!

We got a mailer a few weeks ago with some new, seasonal, Valentine's bears that they had, so of course we had to go and buy some new bears.

I was already 99% sure of the bear that I wanted, Momma G wanted to look around first, and Emi was saying she wanted a penguin. When we walked in Emi found the penguin she wanted, but while Momma G and I were looking around she found a bear [And for some reason I can't find the links on the BABW website] she really wanted.

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The bear of her choice is a "Bake Shop Bear", one of the special bears that they have out now, I think for Valentine's Day. Emi's bear is a confetti covered cupcake bear, that comes with its own cupcake. The bear that I had already picked out was also a "Bake Shop Bear", a pink sugar cookie bear, that comes with its own sugar cookie. Momma G picked out a koala... Until Emi brought her a blue donut "Bake Shop Bear" that comes with its own donut. Momma G tried to tell Emi that she really wanted her koala until she realized that Emi wanted our bears to match like they had pictured in the mailer.

There was a longer line than usual to get them stuffed, but we kept ourselves entertained by making our bear-skins talk to each other, because that's why we get bears, so they can play and talk to each other, and us.

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On the way to the train we stopped to buy some pretzels to eat on the ride home. On the ride home Emi asked to play with iZiggy II. While Emi was playing whatever she was playing [I don't know what she was playing not because I wasn't paying attention to her but because she knows how to switch games and all the games on the iPhones are Emi approved so I let her have at it] I was talking to Momma G about how in the mornings Emi will grab iZig2 and just start playing games, cuddled up next to me or leaning on me, while I slowly come to consciousness to the sounds of Angry Birds and German flash cards. I asked Emi if she knew how to say "Apple" in German, since it's the first word in the food category and that seems to be the one she uses most, but she didn't know so we all kept munching on our pretzels.
Then, out of nowhere, Emi says she knows how to say "Pretzel" in German.

"You do?"

"Yeah! Brezel."

I didn't know off the top of my head what the German for "Pretzel" is, so I pulled out iZiggy, opened my German flash cards app, and looked it up.

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She also told me how to say "Cauliflower" yesterday. "Blumenkohl".

Amazing how small ones absorb that sort of stuff.
Emi also plays with the French flash cards app, but I'm not sure which she uses most. Of course, now that I know she's actually paying attention and not just listening to it, we do it together. And, of course, since I've been wanting to learn German for, like, ever, at this point, I admit we do the German most.

After we got home I emptied out our main stuffie container to bring the bottom stuffies to the top so they can get a turn to be played with, but before I could put them all back in, someone decided to lay on them.

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That's why we go to Build-A-Bear.


Now for a couple more cute pictures from the past few days...

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Emi, Anna Cupcake, and iZiggy II

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Toes!

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Pearly whites!

Stressed Much

These past few weeks I've been ridiculously stressed. I haven't blogged about it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I've pretty much had a nervous stomach every day for maybe the past three weeks, have had no appetite for [healthy] food -- I managed to gain a pound last week, and I've been breaking out like a freshman pizza-face.
Not to mention my hair. My hair usually falls out, stressed or not, but I tend to get scratchy when I'm stressed. Two main spots usually, back of my head by my neck, and up by my temple. I'll scratch at it so much they'll bleed and scab, after they start flaking, looking dandruff-y... On one spot on my head.

Earlier this week I made a joke to Mommy that come my endoscopy, my GI is going to find ulcers from all the stress, I laughed off my pimples with my friends after karate, and I even thought about texting one of my friends to say that I'm so stressed if I were in my 30s I'd start worrying about graying.
I didn't send it though, because they would have been like "You're 20-freaking-3 years old! Twenty-three year olds don't get gray hair. Stop bitching!" because some of my friends can be joking d-bags like that.

Last night I noticed some flakes by my temple and while I was dusting them off and checking my scalp I noticed something.

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Yep. A gray hair. For real. It's not a long one, just a short little hair, not noticeable unless pointed out, and even then it's a search.

Then this morning I was doing my hair before going out when...

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Another one. This one is a long one. An all the way down one. It even curls with the rest of my hair. But it's still not noticeable.

Now, I don't know how grays work. Does the whole strand go gray at once? Or can a strand be half gray, half colored? Because then that would mean that the second one has been around for a while...?

I'm still not sure how I feel about this new color I'm developing. Mommy was super proud of her gray hairs, even stopped colouring her hair, but she was already in her 30s when they started popping out.
A lot of the people I went to high school with also have their own grays, so I'm not alone. Maybe us Millienials really are the most stressed generation.

Bedtime Words

On Tuesdays I'm at karate from 5:30pm to 8:45pm. I don't usually get home until 10pm or 10:30pm. Way after Emi's already asleep. I tell her I'll come in and give her a kiss when I get home, but honestly I usually don't so as to not wake her up.

Today I got home, watched Flashpoint, twice, and then, in the middle of Criminal Minds, who stumbles out but a little SleepyBean.

"*crying* Mommy! You didn't say goodnight when you came home!"

"*in soothing Mommy voice* I came in and snuck you a kiss but you didn't wake up." Totally lying, btw.

"But you were supposed to wake me up! *more crying*"

"Okay. I promise to next time. Let's go tuck you back in."

I lay her down on her pillow and pull the blankets up to her chin. I give her more kisses than she can count [And she can count pretty high] and then we say bedtime words at  half past midnight.

Bedtime words are always sweeter when she asks for them.

CBS Cares

Since we don't have cable anymore, and for some reason our antenna doesn't get ABC, we've been watching most of our prime-time TV on CBS. I don't remember what we were watching, but there was a commercial with Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne with Ozzy saying that he's always wanted to fly to NYC and have a colonoscopy.

*snort* Somehow little ol' me managed to have something the Bloody Prince of Dahkness wants but hasn't gotten yet. Ha!

Needless to say Momma G and I looked at each other and shared the same "Wait... What?" look and thought it was a joke. Because, really, what network is going to give a colonoscopy as a prize? Who wants one of those? And the laxative you have to drink, and the food you can't eat? Yeah, I'm so going to send in my entry right away.

Then, recently, I was obsessing over a Cold Case episode I didn't pay attention to, searching for when the next air date is, when I saw the same ad, except on the internet. Of course this time I opened it and read, and even looked to see what exactly one has to do to enter the sweepstakes, because I think I'd like another colonoscopy. Not.

Well, I never watched The Osbournes and for the most part live under a rock, so I was surprised that Sharon had colon cancer and that's why they're doing the CBS Cares sweepstakes and that it's totally real and for people 40-79 years old. So yes, enter if you can, because you never know what they'll find.

I guess if I want another colonoscopy I'll have to beg my doctor.

Seriously though.
My GI took biopsies all throughout the procedure and every one of the biopsies had these eosinophil cells, so now he wants me to see an allergist [Which reminds me I need to call for a referral -- thanks, blog!] because I could have an allergy and not even know about it [Not sunflower seeds, the horror!], send in various sample for testing of other things [Seriously, I'll spare you the details, but I did do that one already], and finally have an endoscopy, which is scheduled for February 10. Kind of soon, so I'm trying not to panic.

I just keep trying to live in the now, and maybe those cupcakes I promised Emi we'll bake for our Valentine's Day Party will get baked a week or so early.

Obviously Not

First post of 2012 posted over a week into the year? Obviously blogging wasn't one of my New Year's Resolutions...

I meant to post on Friday, after Emi's follow up visit with her new pediatritian. How Emi's ears are looking fine, no fluid. How Emi got so used to taking her bubble gum flavoured medicine that when we finished it she'd still remind me to give her her dose. And especially how Emi's created her own imaginary friend named Amy and it's her birthday pretty much every day. She's turning 5 tomorrow. I think we'll have a tea party to celebrate it.

Then I also wanted to update the header. I planned on doing that this past weekend since it was a whole week of doctors or being busy, but failed and I probably won't get to it this week either, and I'm also thinking about maybe making it less Emi-centric, because even though she is the center of my universe, there are other things in my life. And also because Emi doesn't stay still long enough for me to get pictures of her anymore. Even when she poses, it's that lucky one shot out of 30+ that's the keeper.

I also want to maybe set up a mobile layout for my blog, but I'm in no rush for that.

Yes, I mean to do a lot, I really, really want to. But this month my main goal is to go down a belt notch. And to start going to bed before 2am. Starting off with small goals, right?

Anyway, good luck with all your resolutions, everyone! Feel free to share goals and game plans. You might help someone else out with theirs!