Control, Poison

I have a new entry in my phone. It's under Control, Poison. My sister Holly called and told me she saw it on THE DOCTORS that everyone should have the number in their phone for poison control. http://safety.lovetoknow.com/Poison_Control_Phone_Number# 1-800-222-1222 She thought I would already have it in there. She was wrong!

Chatty Claire-sey

Claire has really started to ask me questions which are cute and annoying on a level. Here are some of her favorites:

• What you doing?
• How are YOU!?
• WHERE ARE YOU? (Our house seems so big to her!)
• Go get mail now? (LOVES to help me get the mail. She figured out she can push her shopping cart out to the mailbox and "carry" it in for me. One or 3 babies usually rides along.)
• Go bye-bye now? (LOVES to go anywhere?)
• Take bath now? (Would swim all day if I let her!)
• More candy? More candy? (We normally don't have candy around the house, but we still have like 80 lbs of it left from Josh's booth at the Schmooza Palooza. I'm hoping Halloween will get here soon, so we can get rid of it. Hiding it doesn't work anymore. She knows it is still in that cupboard. Although, she doesn't like nuts or Carmel stuff so that limits what she will eat! I actually am too nervous to give her nuts still, but she doesn't like Twix or Milky Ways...I think the carmel is too gummy for her.)
• Go to Leche? See babies? (She loves going to LLL to see babies! I can't wait till she gets her own baby in April. I totally see her calling it her baby, too! hehe!)
• Daddy be home soon? (Sometime she will say this before even getting out of bed in the morning, but she knows Daddy will be home eventually!)
• Call Holly (or whoever) ? (She loves to hear people talk and gets a huge grin on her face. Sometimes she will be quiet but she knows there is someone talking to her!)
• Not a question, but tonight I made a quiche for dinner. Claire was super pumped to try the pie. Little did she know it had ham, cheese, eggs, and veggies, and nothing sweet about it. :) "No want this one. Want Chalk-late one Mommy!!!!" The funny thing is I can't remember ever making a chocolate pie in the past couple years....we must have had one someplace that was chocolate or she wouldn't know what PIE is. I hate crust in general so pie is something I don't really make, and if I do, it's like a quiche with only a bottom crust that I don't have to eat.
• I go Home Depot? (SHE LOVES THOSE ORANGE CARS. Seriously...I need to see about walking home with one one of these days. KIDDING. But it's probably only about a mile. Totally do-able. :) Wouldn't that be something walking around the neighborhood on a daily walk with an orange shopping cart car from Home Depot. Hehe.)
• I go story time? (Her other favorite obsession. PLUS she loves to look at the fish they have there.)
• OUTSIDE? OUTSIDE? OUTSIDE? (Started asking for outside about this time last year. LOVES the outdoors. We hang out on the patio at least once a day in addition to walking. My brother David asked why I was so tan when I saw him at the Popcorn fest. Ha. I have a toddler and no fence. :) That says it all!)

Little Misunderstandings

Here are a couple funnies I had to post about before I forget!

Friday we had a rainy morning. We went out to get the mail, and it turned into a worm hunt. Claire had a blast looking at them, esp. if they were moving and wiggling around. Then I made her some Ramen noodles for lunch and cut them up. They are VERY squiggly noodles. She looked funny at the bowl and asked in her little toddler questioning voice, "Those WORMS Momma?"

The other story is also about food...kind of. She had a wad of dried oatmeal on her cheek, but she wasn't letting me wipe it off. She likes to run away screaming, "No wiping my face!" So I just left it, but then she felt it and kept touching it. Finally, she goes, "Momma, I gotta pimple." I thought this was hilarious too.

Bellies and Babies Expo

Yesterday, Claire and I attended the Bellies and Babies Expo http://www.belliesandbabiesexpo.com/ in downtown Indy. It was a blast of course. We got a ton of free pens and paper! Let me tell you, I am set for the next year! In addition, I got more free usuable cloth bags, a sippy cup, junky little toys that Claire can play with until they break like a little wallet thing, 3 hardcover books (Super-nice!), toothbrushes, toothpaste, cleaning products samples, wipes samples, tons of booklets/handouts, etc, etc... They had classes/seminars you could go to, a free daycare area, a Gymboree play area, and, and .... booths galore! They were doing belly painting too! Think "face painting" but instead the canvas is a big prego belly! They all looked super cute! There were a lot of Colts-themed bellies! The ladies would roll their shirts up and walk around with a painted belly! Very brave! We were also one of the first 1,500 people there so we got a free Fisher-Price toy (valued at $10). Of course there was a catch...you had to visit 3 certain booths to get a stamp, go to one session, and vote on your favorite nursery from the 4 displayed that were designed by decorators. So I did all that and let Claire pick the toy. She picked an Ernie plush doll which we don't have any Ernies so she was very excited. Plus, most of the booths had candy, so she was sucking on a sucker most of the day. :) They did have "Free Daycare" by KinderCare. I thought Claire would be fine staying in there while I went to one sessions on "Taking Charge of your Birth" or something titled like that...well...she wasn't...she was a complete sobbing red-faced wreck 50 minutes later when they called me. Great. So they had tried to text me. I have texting blocked. I.Hate.TEXTING. It's the former teacher in me. Texting is so freaking highschool in my mind. Either send me a real email or call me. NO TEXTING. Anyways...it's the only time I've ever regretted not have texting...they said sometimes texting will work when the phone signal is poor. Well...there is no phone signal in this concrete encrusted building. Argh. So they had tried calling me. Then they tried to come in the room but it was dark, and they didn't want to bother the group. They were doing some mediation exercise. And I swear I thought I heard Claire crying, but I thought I was being paranoid. I was going to go see if it was someone about her, but I had already left the room once when I thought someone was waving at me...ha...they weren't...so anyways, when I had left the room, then my phone was able to ring in the hallway. Argh...so then of course she refused for me to leave her in the church nursery this morning after having been fine in there for months. Oh well...hopefully it's a phase!?! They were like, "She wasn't like this the whole time...just off and on..." That's not much of a consolation. Now I feel terrible for leaving her in a completely strange place with a bunch of complete strangers. Oh, and she didn't want them to hold her...she wanted to sit in her stroller crying "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy, I want my Mommy." I'm glad she had least had her stroller...something familiar.