We had no plans for the day so we hopped the LIRR To Penn station. And came home. Yeah that’s all we did this morning. Teagan wanted to ride the train and it was freezing out so we went to Penn got some coffee and got a train home. We grabbed bagels for lunch and the kids were super happy!
Month: February 2015
T Started Collecting Microsoft OS Install Disks
T has always liked sorting through the CD’s that we have in the play room. MC likes having a CD player. She says it is easier for our baby sitter to use it vs our bluetooth speakers. She also likes it. I try to explain to her that our baby sitter with an Android phone who uses Pandora to listen to kids music is perfectly fine without a CD player. That is another story altogether. Since we have a CD player we have a ton of CD’s to go with it. Most of them are from my sister but we did buy a few kids music CD’s. Yes I know I am admitting that within the past 2 years I am one of the 5 people out there still buying CD’s. In my defense the first thing I do when we get one is to rip it so we can play it on iTunes.
T likes to sort through the CD’s. Until a few weeks ago these sorting sessions were few and far between. More recently she likes to take an entire pile of them and play with them on her table. We are rebels and don’t use jewel cases. Over the past few days she has been generally more physical with the CD’s. MC finally got concerned that T will damage some of the disks so told her she can’t play with them anymore. That didn’t go over well at all. This morning after she was told she can’t have the CD’s Teagan kept asking for them. My solution was to goto my storage and pull out some old CD’s and DVD’s I had. I found a bunch of old mostly Microsoft OS install disks. I have the ISO’s for everything and I don’t really intend on using any of these OS”s again anyway. If i did it would be in a Virtual Machine that i can use the ISO’s for anyway. Teagan was very happy with the new disks she can do whatever she wants with and the case for them. Now instead of messing up Music for Aardvarks she can beat up on Microsoft Windows 2003 Small Biz Server, or Windows Vista. She sat for about 30 minutes this morning at the dinning room table playing with them. She figured out that sitting up there is a safe place to get away from Amelia trying to get at the disks. Teagan’s most popular phrase recently is “No Amelia” when Amelia tries to take whatever it is Teagan is doing.
If anyone is thinking it, no I am not trying to start her early into Technology. If I was it wouldn’t be with Windows disks!
My Choice of an iPhone 6
When the iPhone 6 & 6 Plus came out I originally wanted the Plus. With my eyes I wanted as big of a screen as I could get. However I did have a Galaxy Note whoever version was out right after Teagan was born. I tried it for a few days and quickly returned it because it was unusable with one hand. Someone needing to hold a baby a lot having two hands free isn’t always possible. Those thoughts in my head and the fact that the Plus wasn’t really available right away led me to the 6. Even with the 6 i was concerned about its size. I need that one handed use. I was pleasantly surprised when I got the 6 that it is generally usable with one hand. The screen size was much better than my old 5.
This upgrade cycle I opted for the 128gig version. I had the 64gig for the 5 and the 4S before that. I may have had a 64 4 if they made them but I can’t remember. When I got the 5 I really needed the space. As I used it and day to day used my iPad more I found the storage not to be as limiting as it used to be. That being said I did come close enough to filling up all 64gig’s that I didn’t want to chance another year or more with that much space. I spend the extra money on the larger storage. I also opted for the white version this year. For a few years I kept wanting white but either canceled the order and changed to black or couldn’t get the white. This go round I didn’t want to make any excuses and I got the white.
So far I have been very happy with my choice. I even toyed with a 6 Plus for a few days last month. I confirmed my original thoughts that it was too big and I returned the phone. I made the right choice for me until next September. Then we shall see what else comes out.
The Story of T’s First Bed
T has been able to climb into Amelia’s crib for a while now. For whatever reason she doesn’t do it often and she hasn’t been able to get out on her own. We caught her on video doing it one day with our baby sitter who was supposed to find her playing in the crib after going to look for her. When that happened we knew our days of having a crib for T were numbered. Over the summer we were at my in laws and T climbed out of the pack and play and it was very challenging to get her to sleep now that she knew how to get free. When that happened we knew she would get out of her crib soon. Surprisingly more months went by and T was happy in her crib. She would climb into Amelia’s crib sometimes but typically would just say “uppie” her word for up please when she wanted to go into the crib. Oddly I would see her trying to climb into her crib every now and again but I don’t recall her ever getting in on her own. MC and I didn’t complain because having her in a crib was much easier than the alternative of a free range toddler once she got a toddler bed.
Flash forward to last Saturday (24-January) I walked into the girls room to let T out after a time out. Her room is typically her time out location since we can close the door and let her get some alone time. I opened the door and to my surprise I see T horozontal holding on to the top of her crib. Her leg was caught between the bars of the crib and she was about to fall. I grabbed her and got her down. At that moment I thought ok, she has outgrown her crib. I went to the video to see what she was doing prior to me walking in. I saw that she had actually climbed into the crib and was playing around and then got stuck as she was climbing out. That sealed the decision that T needed a bed and not a crib. My sister told me once the story of how my oldest niece got out of her crib and the recounted how she did it. At that moment my sister knew it was time for a bed and got one that day. I had a feeling for a while I would have the same revolution one day and that day was yesterday. Luckily the cribs that my mom bought for us are convertible into toddler beds. Before nap time we got some allen wrenches and took off the front crib bars. It was surprisingly easy to do. We then rolled up a towel and put it under the bed sheets by the open end of the bed. We read that this should help prevent T from rolling out of the bed. We then got her a pillow. T was excited for her new bed.
Excitement didn’t get her to nap in the bed though. As expected she ran around a bit but didn’t nap. We took her out after an hour. At bedtime she didn’t wander around that much and eventually went to bed. It wasn’t too bad but i think she was tired from not napping.
This week she did nap most days. There were a few nights where she would be calling us at the door before she went down to sleep but so far not any outrageous drama. We are thankful for that but T is generally good. A on the other hand I don’t know what to expect but we have hopefully a year to go with her before we find out.