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mangofandangoYesterday we went to the Mardi Gras parade downtown. It was a bit too windy and damp, but it was fun to do anyway for a little while.
Burlington's Mardi Gras is a funny thing. It's sponsored by Magic Hat, and they really emphasize the "family-oriented" aspect - and there were a lot of families. Small children had so many beads they could hardly walk. ;) Floats were, and always are, very PG, and they fling things like Terra chips and moon pies into the crowd along with beads. Price Chopper threw bananas (what?). At the same time, it's Mardi Gras, and Magic Hat is a brewery, and Burlington is a college town...so we were surrounded by drunk 18 year olds. Mostly, that made me feel cranky and old. ;) They moved to a more "fun" part of the parade route after a while and we got cold and slipped away, walking through the mall to warm up on our way to Church Street. When we came out, we started for a coffee shop...and then THEY CAME. The parade had ended and a hordes of college kids marched up the street chanting and playing a drum Heh. Then a girl opened her apartment window and started flashing the crowd...and I felt a little bit older for laughing at them as I ducked away with my family for a bowl of soup at City Market, away from the crazy. :)
Today Eleanor and Adele spent some time at our house while their parents were at a party. We had a really nice time.
It has been snowing like crazypants all day, and it is supposed to continue. We may be snowed in tomorrow, which is a bummer because we will have to miss Sophie's yoga class and it will throw off Ryan's work-from-home schedule which messes with my week. None of these things are a huge deal, I am just increasingly grumpy about snow and its associated annoyances. Oh yeah, and the forecast was for up to TWO FEET.
Lastly...how can I tell if Sophie is getting her 2 year molars? We've been working on canines for seriously two months and they are finally all in, THANK HEAVENS. However, she's still having periods of what I interpret to be quite a bit of pain - she rubs her face, she wakes up yelling, her nose is running, etc. Her tantrums/emotional outbursts also get much louder, higher-pitched, long-lasting and frequent - and then if I give her painkillers, they stop or get much milder. I see no sign of an ear infection and no fevers or anything, but I also don't see any signs of teeth where 2 year molars should be.
I guess I am musing about this out loud in part because for the first time I am worrying that I am medicating tantrums and not pain. Maybe it's just that tantrums are getting more intense? But I guess the fact that painkillers calm her down after a little while means that there's pain. That and all the teething signs.
You know, if it is her molars, I'm actually TOTALLY HAPPY. Because even if it takes another couple of months to get them in, when they're in, we are DONE for a while. (Right?) And I feel like Sophie has been in pain her whole life...because mostly,she has. First colic and its related stuff, the mastitis, then teething. FOR SERIOUS. She can be so amazingly pleasant, and I think if the pain were gone she'd be that way a lot more of the time.
Sorry, tangent over now. Happy weekend everybody. Oh, and if you're into getting emotionally invested in silly fandom voting things
at FANDOM MARCH MADNESS (I also voted Liz Lemon but I can live with Troy winning. And I love Seth Cohen but Blair would so totally reduce him to ashes. And Veronica is winning so I'm cool there. and and and and and.)
Burlington's Mardi Gras is a funny thing. It's sponsored by Magic Hat, and they really emphasize the "family-oriented" aspect - and there were a lot of families. Small children had so many beads they could hardly walk. ;) Floats were, and always are, very PG, and they fling things like Terra chips and moon pies into the crowd along with beads. Price Chopper threw bananas (what?). At the same time, it's Mardi Gras, and Magic Hat is a brewery, and Burlington is a college town...so we were surrounded by drunk 18 year olds. Mostly, that made me feel cranky and old. ;) They moved to a more "fun" part of the parade route after a while and we got cold and slipped away, walking through the mall to warm up on our way to Church Street. When we came out, we started for a coffee shop...and then THEY CAME. The parade had ended and a hordes of college kids marched up the street chanting and playing a drum Heh. Then a girl opened her apartment window and started flashing the crowd...and I felt a little bit older for laughing at them as I ducked away with my family for a bowl of soup at City Market, away from the crazy. :)
Today Eleanor and Adele spent some time at our house while their parents were at a party. We had a really nice time.
It has been snowing like crazypants all day, and it is supposed to continue. We may be snowed in tomorrow, which is a bummer because we will have to miss Sophie's yoga class and it will throw off Ryan's work-from-home schedule which messes with my week. None of these things are a huge deal, I am just increasingly grumpy about snow and its associated annoyances. Oh yeah, and the forecast was for up to TWO FEET.
Lastly...how can I tell if Sophie is getting her 2 year molars? We've been working on canines for seriously two months and they are finally all in, THANK HEAVENS. However, she's still having periods of what I interpret to be quite a bit of pain - she rubs her face, she wakes up yelling, her nose is running, etc. Her tantrums/emotional outbursts also get much louder, higher-pitched, long-lasting and frequent - and then if I give her painkillers, they stop or get much milder. I see no sign of an ear infection and no fevers or anything, but I also don't see any signs of teeth where 2 year molars should be.
I guess I am musing about this out loud in part because for the first time I am worrying that I am medicating tantrums and not pain. Maybe it's just that tantrums are getting more intense? But I guess the fact that painkillers calm her down after a little while means that there's pain. That and all the teething signs.
You know, if it is her molars, I'm actually TOTALLY HAPPY. Because even if it takes another couple of months to get them in, when they're in, we are DONE for a while. (Right?) And I feel like Sophie has been in pain her whole life...because mostly,she has. First colic and its related stuff, the mastitis, then teething. FOR SERIOUS. She can be so amazingly pleasant, and I think if the pain were gone she'd be that way a lot more of the time.
Sorry, tangent over now. Happy weekend everybody. Oh, and if you're into getting emotionally invested in silly fandom voting things
at FANDOM MARCH MADNESS (I also voted Liz Lemon but I can live with Troy winning. And I love Seth Cohen but Blair would so totally reduce him to ashes. And Veronica is winning so I'm cool there. and and and and and.)
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Date: 2011-03-07 03:07 am (UTC)Your Mardis Gras sounds classy with the no flashing and all. I have never been to a "real" one but I think I'd get punched or something for laughing at drunk people.
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Date: 2011-03-07 04:28 pm (UTC)2. My nephew just turned two and I am gonna take care of him for a few days when his little brother is born and I am SO EXCITED and also a little terrified of the "terrible twos"