Last Tuesday, Georgie was jumping on the couch, fell and landed face first on our carpet. She was a little shocked and hurt, but totally fine after about a minute. Her nose was red, but didn’t seem to be too bad at all. Then on Wednesday morning when I went to get her from her crib, her nose was covered with rug burn! My heart went out to her, but she was such a star and didn’t even notice, unless she looked in the mirror at which point she was reminded of ‘hurt nosey’ and then started to call it ‘chocolate nosey’ because of the color of the scab. Oh toddlers!!
Did you read Bringing Up Bébé? It was one of my most favorite parenting books. I read it while I was pregnant and loved it for so many reasons – it’s written by a journalist so the writing is excellent, it reads more like a novel than an instructional parenting book which is refreshing, and so much of it just made sense to me. Of course once Georgie came along I forgot to re-visit all of the pages I had earmarked, an then I came across this blog post from one of my favorite mom blogs and actually said out loud, ‘oh yea, the yogurt cake!’ The book includes a recipe for yogurt cake, which is a really easy (and sort of healthy) cake that you make with your kids. (All French kids, true to form, can basically bake it on their own by their second birthday.)
I am a creature of habit in every sense of the word. Once I find something I like, I will like it for a long, longggg time before I get sick of it. This is true of my purple cut off Gap shorts that I wore all summer long when I was 12 years old (hehe, remember Emily?), this is true of my years-long obsession with this, and it’s true of my most beloved thing to eat for lunch: a turkey and swiss cheese sandwich.
