Wordless Wednesday

Bumbles Bounce

Ok, so she's not a Bumble, but she sure bounces!  Rose has recovered so amazingly quick from her tonsil/adenoid surgery.  She bounced right back.  I ended up sleeping with her last night, and the only one snoring was me.  Snoring gone - check.  Soar throat gone - check.  Speech clearer - check.  Breathing easier - check.

We got to partake in regular Christmas activities, she is eating normal foods, and playing up a storm.  Mom had wrapped 10 small gifts, and each time she took her medicine without complaint she got to open one.  We got a lot of mileage out of that.  Of course, she started asking for her medicine so she could open a gift.  That's how druggies start I think...

She also learned just how very much she is loved by many many people.  The phone calls, cards, gifts, emails all helped to perk her up, we are so fortunate to have so many caring friends, neighbors and family.  Thank you to everyone we heard from, she was really humbled by it all.

Merry Christmas!

Wordless Wednesday

Goodbye Tonsils and Adenoids - Update

Tomorrow (Monday) Rose is having surgery to remove her tonsils and adenoids.  Most doctors and her dentist have been astonished that she can even breath, her adenoids are so large.  Please send positive thoughts her way for a successful removal and recovery.  It is outpatient, so we will be back home later Monday.  Will try to post as soon as we are home so you will know how things are going.

Fa la la la la laaaaaa!

Update - well, we are home and she seems to be doing fine, on the couch having a Wendy';s Frosty.  Woke up a little po'd from surgery, so they hooked her up with mom & dad asap to calm her down.  That's our feisty girl!  Got there around 9:00, left at about 3:15.  She's pretty excited because they gave her a bag of hospital stuff, like cap, gloves, fake syringe etc.  Wait til she finds out how out of control mom's been shopping for little gifts to perk her up.  I've done my part to help support our economy :)

"Nibble me shivers!" and other Rose-isms

For the past few years these silly Rose quotes have gone into our Christmas letter to family and friends.  Putting this years on the blog to keep letter from being really long:

"I have a milk-stash" (mustache)

When asked how a booboo on her lip was feeling: "It feels like it needs me to sit on your lap."

"Wart hog Day" (Ground hog Day)

"Lip Glass" (Lip Gloss)

"Forksticks" (toothpicks)

When told to put some clothes on: "I don't need to wear clothes, because it was really hot where I was born (Hunan, China) and I have all that heat stored up in me."

"Twirlouette" (Pirouette)

"Sun riser" (Sun Visor)

"Nibble me shivers!" (Shiver me timbers!)

"Unihorse" (Unicorn)

"I'm playing pull-a-war with the dog" (tug-o-war)

"Look!  They are hip hopping" (hip hop dancing)

"I'm ship shaping my room" (cleaning her room)

"Is that how astronauts kiss?  By rubbing noses?" (Eskimos)

"Flamingo dancing" (Flamenco)"

"Marote" (the remote)

"At least I don't get a wedgie sitting on the chair with no undies"

"Mom is at Oriental Trading today for her new job" (orientation)

"Are you a bunny hunter Dad?" (bounty hunter, Star Wars video game)

Picture this...

It's about midnight.  Your daughter is in bed, you hear her yell "Mommmm, I have to go the bathroom!".  Why she feels the need to announce this everytime, even in the middle of the night is a mystery.  You watch her come out of her room, whiz right past the bathroom, and head for...the kitchen?  She opens the refrigerator.  She opens the freezer.  The freezer is on the bottom.  You see her pull her pants down, turn around and try to sit in the freezer.  You quickly yell to get her attention and escort her to the proper place.  Turns out she is sleep-weeing or something.  Eyes are open but no idea what she just about did, nor any recollection the next morning.

Must now go examine the freezer to make sure this was the first and only incident...probably a good thing she announces when she has to go so we can be on the alert.  Let's just hope she doesn't try this while the oven is on.

Wordless Wednesday

The dog is on the kitchen counter!

Yesterday Doug went to pick up Sasha's cremains from the vet.   She's on the counter.  In a box.  It's the one time it's ok that the dog is on the counter.  Ok, I have a sick sense of humor.

The vet sent along the poem "Rainbow Bridge" and on the sheet of paper they had put a pawprint in ink of Sasha's actual paw.  Pretty sweet.  If you've never read the poem, grab a hanky and hit this link.

That's nothing though.  I have a butt print of Sasha's actual butt.  In the snow.  Here it is:

For book club we read the book "Every Last Cuckoo".  There is an older woman in the book who takes pictures outdoors of nature, and they are extreme close ups of unusual things (like Moose poop, or moss on trees, etc) so you don't always know exactly what you are looking at.  Kind of abstract but striking.  Just like my photo...heehee.

Look Mrs. Johnson, there's reindeer!

Cute story alert...

Most of you know I serve lunch at a local elementary school.  Earlier this week we had a real snowy afternoon.  A first grader was in class, and was trying to tell his teacher that there were reindeer outside, but the teacher just figured, oh, with Christmas and all, the children's imaginations are running wild.  After much insistence though by the child, the teacher looked and there were four deer standing  outside the window!

One of them had to be the same male deer that one day was startled by a train and came running up out of the weeds and was running straight for my stopped car at traffic signal by the school.  Scared the pants off of me, and then it made a sharp turn and ran down the road  Big buck with a huge rack of antlers.  I love animals.

Wordless Wednesday

Fun piece of software out there that you can make these "Word Clouds" with.  I made this one from www.snapshirts.com.  Looks at your website and pulls words.  Other sites too will take something you've typed, like a document, and do the same thing.  Neat idea for a scrapbook page element.

Anyone read The Onion?

Totally tongue-in-cheek.  Us lunch ladies get no respect.  

Two Teens Held In Lunch-Lady Mocking Incident

AUGUST 26, 1998 | ISSUE 34•04

JASPER, IN–Jasper Junior High School became the site of the nation's latest incident of teen ridicule Tuesday, when a pair of lunch ladies was brutally mocked by two students while serving breaded chicken patties and tater tots with fruit cup or raspberry-cobbler surprise. The students, eighth-graders Alex Byner, 14, and Dan Mattson, 13, have been detained for questioning. They have not yet been formally charged.

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Jasper, IN, eighth-graders Alex Byner (left) and Dan Mattson are detained in connection with the brutal mocking of two cafeteria lunch ladies, including 69-year-old Agatha Klogeil (inset).

According to school officials, lunch ladies Birgit Szlach, 54, and Agatha Klogeil, 69, were ladling gravy onto the trays of Byner and Mattson when the youths opened fire with a barrage of insults, "giggling, pointing and making fake vomiting sounds clearly directed at the cafeteria employees."

"What we have here is a couple of kids looking to exploit the inherent dumpiness of school-cafeteria workers for their own humor purposes," school principal Milton Leyner said. "Trying to make themselves feel like big men by picking on the lowest of the low. It's sick, that's what it is." While most details of the mockery are still not known, it is believed that the teens focused primarily on the lunch ladies' appearance, cracking wise over their leathery skin, hideous hairnets and shapeless, mustard-yellow frocks. Particularly amusing to the teens was the German-born Szlach, who, with her squat, blockish frame and tree-trunk ankles, resembles a barn.

For the rest of the silly article, click  here.

Anniversary gift

Doug got me this great handbag for our anniversary (I gave him Raving Rabbids TV for the Wii hee hee).  I had dropped a big hint several months ago, but he likes to ignore my hints and surprise me instead.  But this time he took it to heart, and boy am I glad.  What's even better, I was totally NOT expecting it.

The embroidery on these bags is done by ethnic minority women in Hunan, the western part of the province in China that Rose is from.  A couple from the United States has hooked up with the women to help them sell their handicrafts to earn much needed money.  If you want to get an idea of the culture from that area of China, their website is www.shenaini.com.  If you click on "Visit the Artists" you can scroll through photos of the area.

How fun is this?

My friend Mary picked up this Lego Advent calendar for me at the Lego store at the Mall of America.  I so can't wait until Monday when Rose can start opening them.  Behind each door is a small figurine that she gets to assemble.  Way too cool.  How come I didn't get these things when I was little??

Wedding Anniversary

Today is our wedding anniversary.  Happy Anniversary Doug!  8 years ago today we were in Las Vegas.  A limo picked us up at our hotel, took us to the registrars office, and then over to The Little White Wedding Chapel.  The ceremony lasted a whole 60 seconds I think.  That evening we went to dinner at Wolfgang Puck's restaurant and then over to Treasure Island hotel for a Cirque Du Solei show.  If I remember right, we had 2nd row seats and couldn't have had a better time.  This is after Doug had to pull me away from a winning slot machine.

Our original plan was to get married in a hot air balloon.  We had it all setup, but Doug had come down with a bug the day we got to Vegas, and he didn't think his stomach would be able to handle it.  We only had a little window of time for the hot air balloon ride because of weather conditions, and there was no way he was going to be better by then.  We promised the woman that was so helpful taking our reservation that we would come back in 10 years and renew our vows in a balloon then.  Hmmmm...that's only 2 years away.  

We also had gone off to Vegas with only our families and about 4 coworkers knowing.   We were working together at Visi.com at the time.  When we came back to work, I wore a t-shirt that said "Just married at the Little White Wedding Chapel" on it.  Alot of people thought we were joking, but then I showed them my ring.  That was fun!

We had a brunch just with family at Campiello's in Uptown the Sunday after we returned.  We had asked for no gifts other than a Christmas ornament to decorate our tree.  We now have wonderful memories each Christmas when we put up the tree.

Rose is off to her friend Cate's house, and Doug and I will be going to dinner (probably Vescio's or The 50's Grill).

Rosebud and I went swimming this afternoon, and then came home cold, hungry and tired.  Had a yummy snack (McFlurries!) and then snuggled in bed and fell asleep.  Ahhhh, my kind of day!

Looking forward to the next 8 years with my handsome, kind, loving husband.

Dogs DO have belly buttons!

According to Wiki Answers:

"The umbilicus (commonly called a navel, or belly button) is a scar caused when the umbilical cord of a newborn baby is removed. It appears on all placental mammals;and though it is obvious on humans, on most other mammals, including dogs, it appears as a thin hairless line."

Which reminds me...if you have an outie, you are pretty lucky to have such a nice car :)

I'm new at this and testing out how to add photos.  Here is little girl on her first day of kindergarten.

Why I named this blog Do Dogs Have Belly Buttons?

Over the years my husband and I have kept record of what we call Roseisms - funny expressions, questions and observations our 5 year old daughter Rose has come up with.   We read through some of them to get an idea for our blog name, and that question made us both laugh and smile.

Some other possible contenders were:

Cinderella Cheese (Mozzerella Cheese)

Little Bo Peek (Little Bo Peep)

Unihorse (Unicorn)

I'm licking your leg (I'm kicking your leg)

Can you speak squirrel mom?

Fruit snacks in the poo pot (Winnie the Pooh cookie jar)

Now I need to go google to learn if dogs have belly buttons.   I told her to go ask her dad, but it turns out he doesn't know.