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12/16/2004 Archived Entry: "congested"

Tabitha is currently taking a morning nap on my bed, which is both good and bad. Good because she needs it, bad because she wakes up in a positively foul mood, which really defeats the purpose of a nap. She has a bit of a chest cold, which is one reason why she's tired, and we took Chris to work this morning, which is the other reason she's tired. We're going to go ahead and go to the birthday party today. I'd rather keep her home, but she rarely gets to see this friend and she really wants to go. She knows to cover her mouth and not touch anyone and I'll be there anyway to remind her if necessary. It should be small and not too long as it's at a restaurant at noon. So it's lunch and opening presents and I assume a cake and that should really be it, I imagine. The original plan was to go on to Disneyland after we picked up Chris, but that won't be happening. We'll go see the parade and fireworks another night, though I haven't a clue when.

Tabitha lost her second tooth yesterday. It was so wiggly in there and sitting at an odd angle so both Chris and I just told her to pull it out and she did! So the tooth fairy visited again and brought Tabitha one dollar and a new toothbrush (which will be the normal haul). So she's now missing her two front bottom teeth, a nice big gap, although the first one she lost can already be seen.

Tabitha isn't really up to lessons right now, which is a shame because the cursive is something that needs re-enforcement pretty much daily. She still loves learning it and is oh-so-excited to get to it everyday to learn something new. I finally! ordered Math 2 so we're waiting on that. She was happy to hear that she'll learn some multiplication in Math 2 as it's something that she's interested in. We've been talking about the concept anyway because set up a Scooby snack store the other day and I was showing her how to use the X on her cash register to figure out what we owed her when we bought more than 1 of the same Scooby snack. Also, yesterday she spent a bit of time at Birthdayz by Shindigz and was picking out items for her goodie bags for her birthday party next month. Since they were priced per item, we once again went over how to use the X on the calculator to figure out a total cost.

Christmas activities we've done recently include taking Tabtiha's Santa letter to the Post Office where they have a special mail box set up and making more paper chains yesterday. Our puzzle is coming along fine and Tabitha just loves working on it. I have the makings for gingerbread houses that perhaps we'll work on tonight since our other plans were thwarted. I also need to make a trip to the store and put together 12 little food goodie bags for her Daisy meeting tomorrow as it's their Christmas party.

Posted by Ami @ 12/16/2004 08:31 PM PST