If I Blogged 30 Years Ago

In this wonderful age of electronics we now have blogs to record our lives and how our kids are growing. Back in the stone age when our kids were growing I felt the need to write down at least some of what the kids were doing and I did it in a little spiral notebook.


Here is what Karen and Christy were doing when they were Sophie’s age.

Karen:

“Mommy didn’t buy lettuce today. She got a cucumber instead because lettuce was too much a gallon!”

At the beach Karen likes to go under water with me. She counts “1-2-3-4-5” and then ducks under the water with eyes open and a big smile on her face. She knows to turn her back to the incoming waves so as not to get water up her nose. She likes to make believe my back is her bed and crawl up there and “go to sleep”. Up on the beach she likes to make a cake out of the sand. She also learned that if you wiggle your toes it is impossible to cover them up with sand.

In the pet department of TG&Y Karen wanted to know why the fish flew like birds?  I showed her the goldfish and she said that was like Big Bird. She remembered Big Bird has a goldfish named Goldie.

When I come back from travel I give the kids the little bars of "Sweetheart" soap from the hotel.  Karen told Penny , Mommy, I got some "Darling" soap."

Karen can point out and read the words "EXIT" and "BOO".

Karen told me that “poo, P begins with poo”. She went on to tell me (correctly) what words began with P, S, T, B and L.

Karen can reach the light switch now. I told her she was getting big and she said “and strong, too.” “Daddy, I am you and you were me.”, meaning I used to be as small as her.

Christy:

“I’m not crying, my eyes are only watering.”

Christy is potty trained. Our use of lollipops as incentive was what we needed. She makes sure she gets her “poo-poo candy” (lollypop) when she goes. She went potty at the Montessori school and there was no toilet paper. She said, “They gots to get more paper here but life’s rough all over, isn’t it?”

Christy found the box for our Disney books. She said, “I think I found the house for the mickey mouse book” After watching Heidi on TV Christy started crying like crazy. We asked her why and she said, “because the end is over”

Christy likes to jump off my shoulders int the water at the little beach. She can actually swim well under water.

Christy wrote the letters W, V, Y and D nicely proclaiming “Daddy, look I made a good V”,etc. She also knows the sounds of the letters L, B, P, T, and S.

Christy got her hands dirty and told me we had to wash her hands because her “thumbs were blurry”.

Christy likes to make believe she is Snow White.

That’s it for now. I think I’ll try to do this every couple of months until it’s no longer cute. It gives me a way to more permanently record what I wrote about the kids many years ago.