At lunch today, I was taking one of those inane online surveys and it had a blank where you fill in your age. I actually typed in a "2" and had to backspace to put in the proper "3". My mind seriously forgot that I needed a "3" versus a "2".
They do say that your mind is the first thing to go in your old age.
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You might recall several months ago I said that I wanted to post a few times per year about Carissa’s Favorite Things. It’s been about six months since the original post, so here we go again….
Color: Still blue. Dark blue in fact.
Movie: As far as the traditional 90-minute continuous minute movies, she is into watching old Care-Bear movies. Like the movies I remember watching which is pretty cool.
TV Show: Clifford the Big Red Dog and Scooby Doo
Clothes: Carissa has thankfully branched out a little bit in her choice of clothing. She does like the comfy factor of T-shirts and shorts, but the T-shirt does not necessarily have to have a character on it. She is also willing to wear skirts which have previously been unheard of, but she does like them to have little built in shorts (which Momma likes too). She still of course enjoys her ‘PJ-days’ at Pa’s, but it can be Arial PJs now and not just Thomas or Lightening.
Place to go: Our latest Friday-off thing to do is the Children’s Museum. They have recently remodeled and have a great section called Kidtropolis where the kids get to play pretend at the bank, the grocery store, a restaurant, a vet, a TV studio, and a couple of other things. They also have a fun outside part where you build your own boat and watch it then go through a canal complete with locks.
Carissa also loves to go to the park. We have several within walking distance of the house which is really convenient. Hopefully, the weather will begin to get a little cooler to make it a nicer walk!
Thing to play: Carissa always wants to play-talk with her characters. She has characters sets from Mickey Mouse, Scooby Doo, Care-Bears, Peter Pan, Lion King, Princesses, Sleeping Beauty, and some others. She will pick out about five or six, bring them over to you, and ask “Momma, wanna talk?” It’s pretty cute, but I think I’ve really run out of things for Nala to say to Funshine Bear!
Song: She still likes all the Disney songs, but only the FAST ones!
Book: Definitely the Clifford and Scooby books. We also have several Disney compilation books that she likes to pick stories out of (always the animal ones, not the Princess ones!).
Favorite thing to do with Momma: We have our 'Friday-off' activities and she also likes to go to CVS with me! They have a car-buggy that she enjoys riding in! And, of course, Target where we also start out our trip with a blue-icee.
Favorite thing to do with Daddy: Travis has the Guitar Hero for his Xbox 360. He'll play the guitar and Carissa will dance to the music like a crazy lady. She definitely got her dancing skills (or lack thereof) from her parents! They also both really enjoy Incredible Pizza - the food and the games.
Favorite foods: Green beans, mac, pinto beans, spaghetti-os, carrots, french frys, nuggets, pizza, fish sticks, frozen waffles, bananas, hot dogs, lunchables – typical kids foods I guess. She is also getting better with at least trying what I’ve cooked for Travis and me.
Favorite candy: Gum, Kit-kats, Hersheys kisses, skittles
Favorite treat: Oreo or Chips Ahoy cookies. She is VERY GOOD about leaving the cookie untouched on her plate until she checks to be sure she’s eaten enough of her dinner.
Favorite toy: Her character box that we talked about before and her stuffed dogs. She has quite the dog-pack now – Clifford, Scooby, Bolt, Bailey, Oscar, Shelby, Boggs, Buster, Pluto, Blue, and Freckles are the ones that come to mind.
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Travis had a fairly quiet birthday this past weekend (at least compared to mine!). Friday night, we went to the Pasadena Rodeo BBQ cook-off to enjoy some delicious food prepared by my brother and his team. It is always a really good time out there! I am glad though that we bring Carissa, go early, and leave early – it ends up being a pretty raucous party! Jake came over to the house afterwards, and he and Travis attempted to beat Halo ODST. I don’t think they were successful.
Saturday, Carissa went to a charity walk for Juvenile Diabetes with her Aunt Valerie. She came home with flowers painted on her arm, a Scooby Doo stuffed dog that she is ‘borrowing’ from Dakota, and a Love-a-lot Care-bear so her Grumpy Care-bear will have someone to ‘talk’ to.
Later that afternoon, Grammy and Pawpaw were planning to come by the house on their way home from Illinois. They had already stopped once on the way home to pick up Hunter for a visit and wanted to snag Carissa for a sleepover. Carissa was so excited she was literally pacing back and forth from the front window to the living room asking ‘How much longer?”…. “Ohhhh, that will be too long!”….
Carissa safely on the way to Angleton, Travis and I went to Dee and Jake’s for burgers and games with them, Chris, and Margaret. The burgers and sausage were delicious along with the chips and dips. We played a new game called Luck of the Draw, a Game for the Artistically Challenged. I really liked because I finally could beat Travis at a drawing game. Although, when it has ‘Artistically Challenged’ in the title, I’m not sure if that is a good thing! We also played Loaded Questions, ate birthday cake, and then Dee fell asleep on the couch, so we all headed on home!
On Sunday, we watched the Texans lose a heartbreaker to the Jacksonville Jaguars, and then went to lunch at Pearland Town Center with Travis’s mom, Odie, Carissa, Hunter, Granny, and Pawpaw. We went to a new seafood place that I don’t need to go to again. I think Travis liked his dish ok, but mine was not so good. Even the rice had a weird flavor.
We then took the kids to Barnes and Noble to buy them each a book. Hunter really wanted to stop at the toy shop too, but we marched on to the bookstore. Hunter picked out a Transformers book while Carissa got a Scooby-Doo book. They also got a matching game with Halloween style pictures on the cards.
Travis and I then went shopping to complete his birthday present – new shoes and a belt. It stinks getting older, right? No more cool gifts! Practical ones from here on out!
On the way home, we stopped off at Starbucks for me and Kroger for him for tasty beverages. We got home and I gave Travis another one of his presents – the new Dan Brown book. He hasn’t put it down so it must be a good one!
All in all, I think he had a very Happy Birthday!
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I had the pleasure of dropping Carissa off at her preschool this morning – and I truly mean that without the hint of sarcasm. In the past, Carissa has always been very clingy with that cute bottom lip quivering, tears welling in her blue eyes, begging you not to leave. It was so bad, that at one time when she was at a little summer program, my dad brought her back to his house, called me at work, and said they weren’t going back. It was apparently just too hard on them both!
I don’t know if it is just the new class that she is enjoying so much that she is really starting to grow up…. Probably a combination of both…. But, this morning, we got dressed, packed up her lunch, and as we drove to the church, she pointed it right out, squealing “There it is Momma, behind that big tree, with the blue roof…. Pull in right there please, that is where Pa likes to park!”
We got out of the car, and she led me to the door, all the while talking in an authoritative voice about where to go, that Mrs. Kathy’s room was right next door to Mrs. Sandra’s, that we couldn’t talk loud in the hall because the babies might be sleeping, that she liked to stop and have a drink from the water fountain, etc.
We walked inside, and she instructed me to take a right, and we hurried along to Mrs. Kathy’s room at her insistence. We walked inside to find five or six other kids sitting around the table, gluing pinto beans to a piece of construction paper with a large “B” drawn on it in blue marker. Mrs. Kathy gave us both a big smile, complimented Carissa on her Brookfield Zoo shirt from Chicago, and invited her to the table and handed her a pile of beans and her own paper with the big blue “B”.
Mrs. Kathy commented to me about how nice it was to see me and how well Carissa is doing, how much she already knows, how she enjoys helping the others (but on her terms), what a sweet and smart girl she is, and just what a pleasure she is to have. She also had told me about how Carissa was the ‘leader’ of the class last Thursday and how much she really enjoyed that! I can only imagine how much my bossy little sweet-pea liked being the leader!
I gave my baby a kiss on the cheek, told her that Pa would pick her up after school, and I loved her. She turned up and smiled at me, saying, “Bye Mom! I love you too!”
I can’t even describe how my heart just swells when I hear those words. Swells with pride, delight, and love.
Mush-mush-mush, I know, but it is the honest truth!
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Carissa came running into the living room yesterday evening. She slid to a stop next to me, smiling, and says, “Momma, guess what? I love you!”, and then she grabs my hand and smacks a kiss on it.
I answer, “Carissa, guess what?.... I love you – MORE!”
With a roll of her blue eyes and a shake of her head, she responds without missing a beat, “No, Momma. My Granny-the-Great loves me more!” And, off she runs again.
(Speaking of rolling the eyes… Considering that my daughter has perfected it at three-and-a-half… I hate to see what the eye roll is going to look like at fourteen-and-a-half. *sigh*)
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