Five for Friday - Early Edition

Remember Early Edition?  Wasn't the Coach from Friday Night Lights on it?  My friend Brad also did a two part guest spot on it, and those two episodes were the only ones I ever watched.  Anyway.

1. Maria cracked her wrist last week.  She bent the bone in her left wrist, which is not uncommon for little kids, I guess, the combination of hollow but bendable bones are ripe for bending.  My sister mentioned that Pink song about being not broken, but bent and now I think about it all the time.  She fell off a slide at VBS, of course the last day.  I went to get her and she wanted to stay for lunch, so I set her up and went to get the other girls and I looked over and she was pressing her arm into her belly, leaning over and eating like a dog.  That's when I knew something was up, ha!  I took the three girls to the ER, it took 3.5 hours, but they were all pretty good and really, two weeks of a splint is nothing, she is fine and has been since she got the splint, no cast, no worries, it's fine.  She went to ballet the next day!
2. She had such a conniption fit this week I began to wonder if she was crazy.  Then I talked to some preschool moms and they all seemed to think it was normal, but man.  She was in the toy room and I heard a LOUD CRASH.  I went in and she was, like, running across the room, fear and guilt in her eyes.  I asked her what happened and she said NOTHING!  I WAS JUST STANDING THERE AND NOTHING!  I DID NOTHING!  This went on for a while and finally I said, well, the hell with it, I'm not going to talk to you if you're just going to lie.  Then for the next 10 minutes, she laid on the floor, screaming I AM GOING TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH!  I AMMMMMM GGOOOOOOOING TO TELLLLLLLL YOOOOOOOU THE TRUUUUUUUUTH!  I was like, um, okay, but when?  DO TELL!  She calmed down and told me a sad tale of how she grabbed one book but 50 fell down and I said big deal, Maria!  I don't care if something falls, I want to see if you're okay, there is no reason to go on and on like that.  Ay yi yi.  
3. I cut her bangs this week and they look really good, if I do say so myself.  
4. I keep complaining about this but I got her tuition email this week, about how to set up payment. You can pay four different ways - all at once, in two payments, in four payments, or every month.  But get this - there is no incentive to pay it all at once.  WHO would do that?  Why would you give all that money away if you get nothing for it?  Dumb.  
5. She has some neighbors over right now, they went to Vacation Bible School this week but they all learn the same music and they're in there singing.  It's super cute.  

Five for Friday - Monday Holiday Edition

1. Maria is all finished with her antibiotics from her recent ear infection.  She made up a song, it goes "I get to take my medicine, my medicine, my medicine.  I get to take my medicine, my medicine!".  I have no complaints about her taking her medicine, obviously.  
2. My friend Roxane gave me a bunch of size five and four clothes that were her daughter Harper's.  The girls get super excited going through these hand-me-downs, it's really cute.  Yesterday, Maria fashioned herself a complete Hello Kitty outfit to wear to church - Hello Kitty shoes, skirt, shirt, underwear and sweater!  She went over the list of clothes several times during Mass, including her trying to show me her underwear.  In church!  She is pretty good in church but she's so, so loud.  She is incapable of whispering.  
3. This will be her last week of preschool, ever.  She just goes Tuesday and Wednesday and then she's finished with regular preschool, forever.  This space for silent thanksgiving.
4. Yesterday they slept until 8:00 and today 7:50.  This is so, so late for Maria, and I really appreciate it.  
5. Maria got a new bike!  It was a complicated endeavor.  Ever since Veronica got her bike for her birthday, Maria has been going crazy.  Veronica has a 14" bike and Maria's is only a 12" and now it seems super small.  It's driving her crazy and she's mentioned it a few times.  So I told her, we could get her a new-to-her bike, but we'd have to trade her old one in.  We took her bike to Once Upon a Child yesterday (which Maria kept calling the Little Child store) and got $25 for it, which is *really* good, but they had no bikes with training wheels except DIEGO, which was unacceptable, as you can imagine.  We went to ANOTHER OUAC, but they had no bike with training wheels.  Maria was getting frustrated and I was too, it was raining and I had left Mike home with everyone else, so we just went to Target and I spent $77 on a Hello Kitty 14" bike.  We left Target and I saw a Goodwill, so I told Maria let's just stop and look and if they have a bike there, we'll get it and return the new one.  We found a great bike, a 16" Huffy that had training wheels and Maria tried it and liked it, so we got it and now I am $15 ahead!  I'll miss that cute little Radio Flyer bike we got her, but she is super cute tooling around on that giant bike, too.  

Five things for Friday

Ha, for a minute I forgot whose blog this was.  But it's Maria's.  Here's five things about my little darling this week.

1. She has an ear infection.  She's so, so crazy.  Yesterday, she went out with my mom in the morning and they went to IHOP for lunch.  Tuesday it was Veronica's birthday and Maria said to her "Veevsy, let's go wherever you want to go for lunch" and Veronica said "okay, how about IHOP?!" and Maria screamed and cried - NOOOOOOO!  CHUCK E CHEEEEEEESE!  Ha!  My mom does NOT want to take her to CEC every damned week of her life, so she told her they can go once a month and THAT went over like a lead balloon.  Anyways.  So they went to IHOP and the library and then came home and Maria mentioned that her 'ear hurt'.  I said what do you mean, your ear hurts?  She said NOTHING!  It's fine!  It doesn't hurt!  So we went to Marta's so she could get ready for tap and ballet.  On the way there, she was bragging about how SHE went more places than VERONICA, RIGHT?  RIGHT, MOMMY?  I swear, she was still trying to get even from the IHOP incident!  Crazy.  So anyways, I told her let's just go home and skip tap and she said no, she was FINE.  I said, well if you need me tell Marta and she'll call me and of course Marta called me like five minutes after I left and said Maria was afraid she was going to through up.  Mike picked her up and when I got home she was warm and pale and I asked which ear hurts and she quick pointed at her left one.  So sure enough, we went to the Urgent Care and saw Dr. Pakistan of my Felicity-baby-days and he said her temp was 100.4 and that she had 'quite a bad' ear infection.  She is a tough guy, right?  She's doing well now, taking her medicine, etc.  
2. I went out to lunch today with some friends and I left the three girls with Mike.  I texted him not long after I got to lunch and he told me two friends came over and then by the time I got home, TWO MORE friends were over, so it was him and our three, and four neighbors, ha!  Maria is what you call a social butterfly.  
3. She's going to a birthday party tomorrow night, a girl from her class is turning five.  I just told her tonight because she makes my life a living hell if I tell her things too soon.  
4. They were up way before 7:00 today, I think it was like 6:00 but I was beat from Felicity getting up at 5:30 so I didn't even know what was going on.  She was up early and had ballet today and ran around all day and she was STILL up late tonight.  Tough guy, as I said.  
5. Even when she's sick, she is still a lot of fun.  I was telling my friends today, I am so excited and even though a big, BIG part of that excitement is that she won't be HERE, mostly I am excited for her.  I know she is going to love it.  I feel like this is what we've been working toward - she's going to go somewhere every day, and she's going to meet a bunch of different people, and she's going to be so tired.  Maybe she'll play a sport.  Ooh I can't wait!  I wish it were August right now.  

Five things for Friday

Here's some things about Maria this week.  I am TRYING to be better about updating, I swear.

• Maria had her end of school year party this week, on Tuesday night.  She had a HIGH OLD time, there was horseback riding, there was a petting zoo, lots of food, face painting, a music playing area, which was a big hit.  Her last party there!  
• Also, a first and last for her was this Muffins with Mom thing at her school.  She talked and talked and talked about it, there were going to be chocolate chip muffins, lemon muffins, or cinnamon, and we could have WHATEVER kind we wanted.  We could have iced tea OR water, whatever we wanted!  We sat at the table, it was beautifully decorated with a picture of her, a placemat that she made, and she served me.  Then they did a little thing, they recited a poem, sang a song, and said HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY!  It was v. cute, the pictures are from that day.  
• Both Maria and Veronica have been staying up too late, and getting up too early, which results in big jerkiness around here most every day.  It stinks.  
• Maria is doing well in Intermediate Ballet but I don't know how she's doing in Tap and Ballet class, because every time I go (usually Marta takes her), she spends half the time of the class coming out to tell me (in no particular order) that her feet hurt, her hand hurts, she is hungry, she is thirsty, she is tired, she has a cough and she is not feeling like doing tap.  Marta says she never comes out when I'm not there.  
• I asked Maria what the fifth thing should be and she said that Mommy is going to text Erika to see if I can go over there.  She is like a DOG with a BONE, and she is driving me to an early grave.  What will happen first, I always wonder?  Will she go off to Kindergarten and get out of my hair for longer or will I lose my mind?  Will I be found wandering the streets of my neighborhood, babbling about how Mommy can't go anywhere else that day?  You never know.  

Video - Maria's Original Song

She's Making a Rainbow to Make It Love:

Five Things from Last Friday

Okay, Maria is the last blog I want to update for Five Things for Last Friday, but of course it's Monday.  Also I'd like to put up some video and I will, I promise!  But it's hard because I have to upload it and that takes forever and then I have to link to it, and I usually forget in the middle that I'm doing it.  Also I just looked at the clock and I have to wake up Felicity and go get the girls so this will have to wait, but I swear I will finish before Monday is out!  Sheesh!  It's five measly things!

OK I'm back and I have to leave again in five minutes.

1.  I was looking at Maria's will be Kindergarten class' web page and I'm so excited I can't stand it.  They are studying Jackson Pollack in art class, they are learning about grouping numbers in Math, etc. etc.  I just know she's going to do so well.

2.  She is getting really good on her scooter!  She does tricks and everything!

3.  Next week there is a Muffins with Mom program at her school, it's an end of the year thing, it sounds super cute.  After school today she said, in Her Loud Voice:  MOM!  THERE IS A MUFFINS THING NEXT WEEK AND YOU CAN COME!  AND HAVE A MUFFIN!  Ha!  Okay, then.  Her teacher said I can bring Felicity, ay yi yi, I said okay but you'll be sorry.

4.  We signed a bunch of cards recently, for Mike's mom, my Dad, Maddelena, and she signs everyone's name.  We only have to tell her how to spell Felicity, everyone else, she remembers.  Genius.

5.  Her favorite songs for me to sing right now are The Rainbow Song that Dorothy Sings and The One About the Cat?  Don Cato?  

Nickels

The other day Maria asked me if she had nickels on her face and I was like, nickels?  I was picturing nickels on her face, trying to imagine what in the hell she was talking about.  She asked if I had nickels on my face and she was looking and looking, ostensibly for .. nickels.

Freckles.  I forget what made us figure it out but finally we realized she was asking if she had freckles.  She cracks me up, because even though I've corrected her, she is sticking with nickles!  She's so funny and tough, she will not let a little thing like not knowing a word get in the way of her saying a word.