Wonderful thoughts.

Mom (Lexie's Grammy) is having a skin graft to "fix" a leg injury that happened a couple weekends ago. She seriously ripped a triangle of skin from her leg. That's a whole other story I hope to post soon. Lex and I were on the way home Sunday from an work project when I told her that post surgery, Grammy would have a"device" on her leg that would have to be plugged into the wall to help the healing process of the graft. Lexie's response was..."What!! She's not a T.V.!! they can't just keep her plugged into the wall. She's not cable!"

Smoke and Mirrors

Stuff is a great word. Please don't pin that on me... I miss some great George Carlin takes on humanity. I love information and all the technology that brings it to everyone, BUT, back to earlier concepts please. Raise children, crops, and not taxes.

Now I really am pissed. I tried a couple times to type up some thoughts (on my MAC) into my old, aged blog, and I think the lack of compatibility did not work in my favor... I should not try to post from here. I'm not MAC smart enough. Suffice it to say/type that I had some pissy thoughts on humanity, tried to convey them via my blog and MAC did not support. damn you steve jobs and your great set of working well stuff. If this post works then I don't know. OK then.

So what

Wow.

My daughter is talking to squirrels right now.  It's pretty amazing.

Weekend fun

Yesterday Lexie attended a birthday tea party.  Each birthday party guest was instructed to bring a doll or stuffed animal to attend the mini-tea party.  Lexie had a great time.  After we got home (Lexie walked while I drove beside her, reminded me a little of Rocky in training) Sam came over to visit.  We were going to play Wii, but the controllers were out of batteries.  I happened to spot the beading kit my neighbor Joanie gave me.  The girls had some fun putting together some earrings and bracelets.  I now am sporting a pair of really cute earrings that my very own seven year old daughter made for me.  As a result, we may go back to the mall today to get her ears re-pierced.  Maybe this time she will take better care of them, and I will keep closer watch on them.

Lexie quote of the day...

"I am not a minion!"

Talking to caregivers

Decent weekend.  Highlight was watching classic B movie "Pod People" via MST3K.  Lex tried to keep up with the sarcastic commentary for a while even. 

Lex met a new friend Saturday night.  One house down from John's lives an 8 year old girl named Brianna.  When Brianna went to walk the family dog (Gizmo), her and Lexie met up and hit it off.  The next day Lex was impatient to go out and play with her again.  John, Lex and I went to the mini-field up the block and practiced some softball.  On the way back to the house, Brianna came out to let Gizmo relieve himself.  None of us noticed that she was in her pajamas.  This fact might have led us to realize that she wasn't out and ready to play, but we missed it.  The four of us headed back to the play area and they played more ball.  Eventually Brianna's mom came out of the house calling her.  Ooops.  She got in a bit of trouble for going out to play without notifying her mom.  She wrote Lex a really sweet note apologizing for not being able to come back out and play. 

Drama world:  It seems as though Alexis and Emma (friend from "Y") have been looking for some adventure.  About a week ago, Lexie asked me to write down what the clock looked like when it was midnight.  I thought this a semi-strange request, so I filed the thought for later.  She copied my 12:00AM. onto her own piece of paper and went back to playing.  Next she is drawing maps from Y camp to Emma's house.  Then Sunday night she puts an envelope on the kitchen table and tells me not to open it until the morning.  I forget about the envelope, and in the morning Lex put's it in the garbage and tells me she did it wrong and she's going to re-do it.  Last night, she puts another envelope next to my purse on the hall table, and tells me, again, not to open it until morning.  At that point, something maternally instinctual kicked in.  I opened the trash and pulled out Sunday night's envelope.  "I am gon Mom. PS I wont come home."  After slight heart failure, I grabbed the other envelope and went into her room.  After asking her what this was all about, and opening the second envelope in front of her, much drama ensued.  Tears shed, hugs given, she swears it is a game her and Emma were playing, I talked on the phone with Emma's mom.   Phew, not liking that one bit.  Emma's mom and I agreed to mention it to the teachers at the Y for backup support.  Eeeeks.

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer true...

Lex is having a blast with this new season of Girl Scout Daisies.  This troop is bigger than the last, and she is in at the upper end of the ages.  She feels more confident this time around.  She had her first meeting last Monday, and didn't want it to end.  Of course....she enjoyed the activities, but would rather have just played the whole time.  Grammy spruced up her vest and added the new patches from last year. I'm just as excited as her.

Last weekend we had a great time.  Started off Friday night with John teaching Lex how to play farkle, with real dice and a dice cup.  Next, an attempt at Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with Lex falling asleep at some point (we still haven't tried to watch it again....yet).  Next morning, breakfast in bed a'la McD's, while watching MIBII.  John drove Lexie up to Washington house, I followed in about 45 minutes. We spent a wonderful day traveling to, from, at at Maryhill Stonehenge.  At dinner in Lyle.

I signed Lexie up for Softball in the Spring.  She really wants to do it.