Making all the night wakings worthwhile...
Apr. 8th, 2006 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaFrom the title, you thought this would be a sappy post about Alex hugging me and calling me Mommy, right?
Nope.
The reward for making it through nearly a full year of parenthood is this:
Man, it's a good thing that we're doing her birthday presents tomorrow, because how could I wait an extra two days to play with this?
See those buttons by the handles? When you push them, voices and sound effects right out of a 50's sci-fi movie inform you that you are cleared for landing or welcome you to Jupiter or warn you about astroids. Or you can push the ignition button, and hear "3-2-1 blastoff!" accompanied by sounds, vibration, and a lit-up afterburner.
I am trying to remind myself that this is a toy Alex will have to grow into, and that she might not be too crazy about it tomorrow. That's okay. Michael and I are crazy about it already.
We also got her a shapes puzzle and a four-book set by Sandra Boynton. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shandralyn, please tell Sam that the set includes Alex's first copy of But Not The Hippopotamus.) Of the things that we're giving her, I think she'll like the puzzle best right now and the Radio Flyer Retro Rocket best longterm. (I just like to say "Radio Flyer Retro Rocket." Radio Flyer Retro Rocket!)
Sadly, the pictures we took of me standing next to my citation abstract at my San Francisco conference were some of the least flattering pictures of me ever. But here's what the abstract itself looked like on display. I kept the blue ribbon.
Last, but not least, I give you shark fin and jellyfish sushi:
When we were in San Francisco we went to Isobune, which apparently was the first sushi restaurant in the United States to have the sushi travel around the bar on little boats. You grab whatever looks good. I grabbed this because it just looked so outrageous, and because I wanted to try something I (a) had never had before, and (b) was unlikely to find in Maryland. The absolute deliciousness was an added bonus.
Nope.
The reward for making it through nearly a full year of parenthood is this:
Man, it's a good thing that we're doing her birthday presents tomorrow, because how could I wait an extra two days to play with this?
See those buttons by the handles? When you push them, voices and sound effects right out of a 50's sci-fi movie inform you that you are cleared for landing or welcome you to Jupiter or warn you about astroids. Or you can push the ignition button, and hear "3-2-1 blastoff!" accompanied by sounds, vibration, and a lit-up afterburner.
I am trying to remind myself that this is a toy Alex will have to grow into, and that she might not be too crazy about it tomorrow. That's okay. Michael and I are crazy about it already.
We also got her a shapes puzzle and a four-book set by Sandra Boynton. (
shandralyn, please tell Sam that the set includes Alex's first copy of But Not The Hippopotamus.) Of the things that we're giving her, I think she'll like the puzzle best right now and the Radio Flyer Retro Rocket best longterm. (I just like to say "Radio Flyer Retro Rocket." Radio Flyer Retro Rocket!) Sadly, the pictures we took of me standing next to my citation abstract at my San Francisco conference were some of the least flattering pictures of me ever. But here's what the abstract itself looked like on display. I kept the blue ribbon.
Last, but not least, I give you shark fin and jellyfish sushi:
When we were in San Francisco we went to Isobune, which apparently was the first sushi restaurant in the United States to have the sushi travel around the bar on little boats. You grab whatever looks good. I grabbed this because it just looked so outrageous, and because I wanted to try something I (a) had never had before, and (b) was unlikely to find in Maryland. The absolute deliciousness was an added bonus.
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Date: 2006-04-09 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-09 02:50 am (UTC)(and I love the Pandas)
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Date: 2006-04-09 02:54 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-04-09 03:22 am (UTC)must get off my butt and send alex the present i bought for her in russia. in august.
also, i don't eat shark fin. sharks and i have a deal. i don't eat them, they don't eat me. *nods*
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Date: 2006-04-09 03:34 am (UTC):)
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Date: 2006-04-09 04:20 am (UTC)We love But Not the Hippopotamus also. Hee! And also Moo, Baa, La La La!. Sandra Boynton is a delightfully silly person. :)
Have you read He Came with the Couch? It's not a Boynton, but it's one of my new favorites. It makes me snarf through my nose.
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Date: 2006-04-09 04:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-09 05:06 am (UTC)Say, that IS fun.
Yay blue ribbon and fun sushi!
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Date: 2006-04-09 05:37 am (UTC)*nods firmly*
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Date: 2006-04-09 09:08 am (UTC)I am jealous. My kids are too big for them now.
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Date: 2006-04-09 09:21 am (UTC)May this April and May be far easier for everyone than last. Happy birthday, Alex and parents :)
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Date: 2006-04-09 11:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-09 11:39 am (UTC)We've got the Radio Flyer tricycle, which is a lovely thing, but it's not a rocket.
They grow so fast, these babies.
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Date: 2006-04-09 11:54 am (UTC)Wow, it seems like just yesterday that you were going to be pregnant forever, and now she's walking and trying to unlock doors and turning a year old! How did that happen?
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Date: 2006-04-09 11:58 am (UTC)There was a particularly annoying feature in which, every time the front axle turned all the way around, it pushed a button that made one of the sound effects go off. But we fixed it with a coin and a piece of duct tape. Now it only makes sounds if you purposefully push a sound effect button.
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Date: 2006-04-09 11:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-09 12:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-09 12:44 pm (UTC)TOYS.
That is so cool!
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Date: 2006-04-09 01:49 pm (UTC)-J
Isobune
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Date: 2006-04-09 02:22 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-04-09 05:14 pm (UTC)In general, though, I don't mind noise from toys as much as some other people I know do. On my "possible birthday presents" list was a tambourine and a xylophone, for example, although I didn't wind up finding any that I thought were appropriate for this age.
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Date: 2006-04-09 05:15 pm (UTC)Re: Isobune
Date: 2006-04-09 05:17 pm (UTC)Of course, we arrived just as it opened, so everything was immensely fresh. I don't know how they keep track of when they should take uneaten sushi off the boats.
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Date: 2006-04-09 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-09 05:20 pm (UTC)I mentioned "But Not The Hippopotamus" to
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Date: 2006-04-09 05:20 pm (UTC)Re: Isobune
Date: 2006-04-09 05:28 pm (UTC)Some of the best sushi I've ever had in Tokyo was at a conveyor-belt restaurant.
And if you want something special at one of those restaurants, just ask one of the chefs. He'll generally be more than happy to make it for you, and put it on the right denomination plate.
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Date: 2006-04-09 05:28 pm (UTC)I think she's too wide to fit in
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Date: 2006-04-09 06:41 pm (UTC)That is just distilled AWESOME! Lucky girl! Happy Birthday, Alex!
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Date: 2006-04-09 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-09 08:32 pm (UTC)Congrats on the blue ribbon!
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Date: 2006-04-09 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-10 01:52 am (UTC)Just this afternoon, E was given a musical ball thingy as a late birthday present, and my SIL said
"I hope this doesn't become one of those toys you hate because of the noise." Hey, it's cool - it has an OFF BUTTON. That's all I need. :)
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Date: 2006-04-10 08:15 pm (UTC)I love the rest though! Especially the "rocks and rocks and rocks to sleep" I love Boynton's furtive little bubble eyed critters!
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Date: 2006-04-10 08:21 pm (UTC)