I took those damn meds again this morning and I'm nauseous as hell. Again, I don't know if it is from having so much beer yesterday, or the pill itself. I'm gonna stay on it for the next few days and see what happens, to figure this out one way or another.
What a wonderful weekend Julia and I had. Friday night I picked her up and my mom sent the albums filled with photos from her trip and birthday party up north a few months back. I brought those along and we went to ToysRUs to get the Aladdian DVD for Gina. Well we get to the movie section and here I am like an ass not being able to find the movie. I started to wonder that if we were going to go to the mall to have to find it, or where the hell was an employee to help me? No need, as that little angel, so priceless, comes around and goes 'Daddy, I found it!" I thought 'No way', and sure enough, bless her heart, she grabs me by the pinky finger, walks a few steps and bends down and goes 'look! there it is.' Sure enough that was it. Couldn't believe it. So funny. :)
We went to the treehouse McDonalds for some fun there and headed home. She got out her markers and she was on the floor and goes 'daddy, watch.' And she WROTE HER NAME on the paper and I almost fell down. Saying the letters as she is writing them, and did it five times on the sheet of paper. Wow, I was blown away. SO, we then focused the whole weekend on letters. We started writing them on paper and playing and I could tell she didn't want to go to sleep. But by this time it's 930 already, so we played a bit more, I got her calmed down and into bed, a few stories later, and night night. After I saw her write her name, wow, like I said, just blown away. The kid is SO smart and we were doing tracing of the letters and shit like that, identifying them, her writing them, me writing them. It was a LOT of fun and I really got into it as far as teaching her. I had delicate patience and understanding and I think it worked out great. I heaped on the praise thick as she most definitely deserved it. She did so so good and I am proud to say that she walked out of here yesterday knowing how to write a slew of letters she didn't on Friday (E, F, P, R, G), although some are still too hard for her (S, M, N, W). Bless her heart, so proud of her. I love her SO much.
Gina's birthday party was a smashing success. Julia and I had such a good time. It was at a nature preserve/zoo called Oatland Island, close to home. I never been there before but Julia said she was with her school. Well the party was great but the owners know Gina, thats why the party was there, and they took us on a tour to see some of the animals. So me and Julia rode shotgun in a 4wheeler, which she LOVED. We saw panthers (and they were huge), cranes, and Julia's favorite, the bear. They fed them and gave them water and she (and I) were just enthralled by the whole ordeal. Man, they even got damn buffalos there! Tanya and I have already spoken about the four of us going so we can go during the day and see all the animals they have. It was a great party, Julia had cake and soda so she was all fired up, me and her danced, we snuck into the library, Gina loved her present and Julia loved giving it to her -- and bless Gina's heart, she noticed and mentioned that Julia wrote Ginar's name on the card (I showed her how). We left about 8:30 and the kid was so sugared up from the party that she didn't go to sleep until after 10. More letters and she was just screaming while she was talking! Hysterical! Yeah, she didnt have too good of a night, but hey, it's all in good fun.
OK, back to work. I'll finish this later. More to tell.
I'm back. :)
Sunday we had a good morning and did more letters and played and also tried to clean up the house a bit, although that was more daddy than Julia :) She told me -- and even told her grandma on the phone -- that she 'didn't want to go back to Mommy's house, she wanted to stay at Peanut's house'. Breaks my heart. I took her back and it just sucks watching her go away, ya know?
I went to watch the Eagles game afterwards, and they won although they didn't look too good in doing so. I then had a cookout afterwards and Tina, Ali and Ginar came over and Carl and his wife and family stopped by as well. Things went well and I had a lot of fun and deserved to blow off some steam on Sunday after having the Mouse all weekend. :)
Not much else going on. I just had a great weekend with the kid. I got my tickets in the mail for the hockey game today, work wasn't too bad, and I'm gonna pick up the Mouse from ballet in about an hour. Tonight, I'll hit the gym and probably tan as it is fading, come back and eat, shower, and pretty much call it a night. I'm pretty tired and still kinda nauseous but we'll see.
Have a good night everyone. :)
