such a poser

She's a poser, but only for like 2 seconds and then on to something else. Then maybe a pose for a second and it's gone. So I caught her taking a quick break on the couch, and then gone again of course.


I've recently decided I don't hate cooking as much as I thought I did, but I hate cleaning the kitchen after more than I thought I did, and I only like grocery shopping at Costco or Superstore where there is more to lookat than just food. So there is no increase or decrease in meals made at all, much to the dismay of Derek I'm sure.

On the topic of food, I really want Alli to like oatmeal. I like it in the winter. And it's so easy to make. We started out with cream of wheat and she loved it, but I don't really like it that much. I've heard you have to try new foods 15 or 20 times before you can say your kid doesn't like it. Well, I've been at since October. I try it once or twice a week. I tried plain oatmeal. I tried lots of different flavors. I tried adding yogort or fruit. I tried cold and hot and inbetween. No luck. I'm sure I've made it to the 15-20 mark by now. She has finished a bowl maybe 3 or 4 random times. The rest have been a few bites and she's done. So I'm wondering if I should keep with the trying. I'm a little sad about it. This week I decided to let her feed it to herself. She mostly just dipped the spoon adn pretended to eat. Sure she looks happy like shes enjoying it, but that was about the only real bite she took before things got crazy and oatmeal was everywhere but in her mouth.



At least once a day Alli heads over to her piano and chair. She pulls out the chair to the middle of the room and tugs at the piano, but she can't really move it by herself. I move the piano in front of the chair and she sits at it and plays and dances. It's cute. Tonight I had the Primary songs on. Alli likes to "sing" along for a minute or two. I was just playing the songs from my itunes and after the primary songes were over what else is next but Prince. So the first song on my list of course is Kiss. At first she just started smiling and really boucing her legs. It was hilarius. Then she started rockin out and running around and dancing. I was all by myself laughing. It reminded me of just the other day, we were in the car. The song Da Funk by Daft Punk came on. I turn around and see Alli bobbing her head along. She seriously rocks out to all that kind of music with a beat and good base. I better get it on video one of these days.



If anyone decided to jump on the declutter and organize your house train with me, I hope you saw Oprah today. She had on the guy who wrote the book I was looking at in Costco last week. That house on the show would make you feel just fine about any secret mess you are hiding. In my cleaning this week I have decided I don't have to to much clutter. Mostly I just don't have places for a lot of things, which is the way it goes in an apartment I guess. Now what I really need is to organzie.