Baby's "Baby" has an accident
My Baby (who is still potty training) suffered a spill and her "Baby" bore the brunt of it. So we wrapped her in a pillowcase and put her in the wash - just like we do with our delicates ...and takkies. Sadly, "Baby" didn't fare as well as those delicates or takkies! She emerged limb-less and with hair in a tattered polyester mess. I first tried conditioner and then fabric softener to try and save the tresses, but in the end realised that "Baby" would don a headscarf for the rest of her days...
To aid her mobility, we built her a wheelchair.
The kids see people in wheelchairs at Church and around the stores. I just felt that this could bring some people's every day life a little closer to home. With super duper patience, Dear Husband built a chair from wood pieces and "Baby" is now sitting pretty. Of course, a visit to Home Depot afterwards made us realise that we could've used ready made wheels at least and cut down the production time by half the night!
I know that kids just playing with a doll may not comprehend the full impact of life without limbs, but I'm hoping that it will at least sit with them (no pun intended) and possibly increase their awareness about what we have and how that helps us every day, as well as compassion for those who don't have it as easily as we do.
Our First Thanksgiving
On Thursday we celebrated our First Thanksgiving as a family and in America, no less! We woke up pretty early to pull straight (just short of painting the house, I'd say!) and finish the cooking. E hid his Thanksgiving Game notes around the house and J set out her handprinted table runners. Baby made sure to keep rearranging them!
We enjoyed Turkey with trimmings and Beef curry for those less inclined to eat the bird followed by Chocolate Cake for Pa's birthday and Kentucky Derby Pie if you still had space! We were all feeling that "Festive-post lunch-feeling" so we went our separate ways to lay down and rest. We reconvened at dinner time for Round 2.
We thoroughly enjoyed having everyone together for a special day such as this - and twice in one day too! As Dear Husband said, we have 5 weeks to recover from this party. (I don't think we need to eat turkey again in a hurry...)
In other news, it was snowing so hard this week that we had to cancel our regular Tuesday trip to Story Hour. Such a pity, as we were looking forward to new books. I may have mentioned before, but this weather means: get wet and cold outside or stay warm indoors and fight cabin fever with books. I will almost always choose the latter. I'm learning though that sometimes it's great fun to brave the cold and be a sport outside...also, it's just silly to be out on the roads when there's slippery ice and poor visibility. I want to be known as being brave, not stupid. So let's hope this Tuesday is clear!
My Baby (who is still potty training) suffered a spill and her "Baby" bore the brunt of it. So we wrapped her in a pillowcase and put her in the wash - just like we do with our delicates ...and takkies. Sadly, "Baby" didn't fare as well as those delicates or takkies! She emerged limb-less and with hair in a tattered polyester mess. I first tried conditioner and then fabric softener to try and save the tresses, but in the end realised that "Baby" would don a headscarf for the rest of her days...
To aid her mobility, we built her a wheelchair.
The kids see people in wheelchairs at Church and around the stores. I just felt that this could bring some people's every day life a little closer to home. With super duper patience, Dear Husband built a chair from wood pieces and "Baby" is now sitting pretty. Of course, a visit to Home Depot afterwards made us realise that we could've used ready made wheels at least and cut down the production time by half the night!
I know that kids just playing with a doll may not comprehend the full impact of life without limbs, but I'm hoping that it will at least sit with them (no pun intended) and possibly increase their awareness about what we have and how that helps us every day, as well as compassion for those who don't have it as easily as we do.
Our First Thanksgiving
On Thursday we celebrated our First Thanksgiving as a family and in America, no less! We woke up pretty early to pull straight (just short of painting the house, I'd say!) and finish the cooking. E hid his Thanksgiving Game notes around the house and J set out her handprinted table runners. Baby made sure to keep rearranging them!
We enjoyed Turkey with trimmings and Beef curry for those less inclined to eat the bird followed by Chocolate Cake for Pa's birthday and Kentucky Derby Pie if you still had space! We were all feeling that "Festive-post lunch-feeling" so we went our separate ways to lay down and rest. We reconvened at dinner time for Round 2.
In other news, it was snowing so hard this week that we had to cancel our regular Tuesday trip to Story Hour. Such a pity, as we were looking forward to new books. I may have mentioned before, but this weather means: get wet and cold outside or stay warm indoors and fight cabin fever with books. I will almost always choose the latter. I'm learning though that sometimes it's great fun to brave the cold and be a sport outside...also, it's just silly to be out on the roads when there's slippery ice and poor visibility. I want to be known as being brave, not stupid. So let's hope this Tuesday is clear!
Glad you had a good Thanksgiving! And loving the special Baby!
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