Psychotomy

Whilst working on the computer stuff (under the desk, that is), Kiir went upstairs with DK to start getting him ready for bed. Apparently while she was in the bathroom brushing her teeth, he wandered out and pushed open the gate. It doesn’t latch quite securely, unfortunately.

Then he proceeded to play around the gate for a bit, we think. We’re not sure what happened in between, really. He was upstairs with her, then there was thumping and bouncing. He fell down the stairs, landing (LUCKILY) on the pile of shoes and baby slings and my office bag, which is just a padded laptop case filled with papers instead of laptops.

He started screaming and took a little bit to calm down, then started going up and down the stairs again like nothing happened. Thank god for the crap and clutter at the foot of the stairs, or this could have been a MUCH less pleasant trip to the ER :/

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So, each night DK’s been getting a snack around 9:30, and it’s moved up to 8:30 the last few days. The reasoning being that he needs a bit of a snack after dinner to let him sleep through to a reasonable time. Like 4am instead of 2 :o

Tonight, however, he seems to have decided that he just wasn’t TIRED after his snack. B/c he came back downstairs after going up for bed. I don’t know if it’s because I didn’t give him any cheese tonight, which he usually gets although he doesn’t always eat it. Or maybe it’s because we had quesadillas for dinner and it wasn’t as filling as other nights. Or maybe he just slept late this morning and isn’t tired yet.

But I do know that he came down, we played some Word Coach on the Wii (I’m still vague on why we didn’t return that, as it’s not really a “game”, per se, and there’ll be other educational things, or heck Word Coach III, on the Revolution r2 by the time DK’s really looking at it), then K and I took DK on a walk (or DK and I took K on a walk, or something). Now he’s been wandering around the living room for another half hour. He still doesn’t seem tired.

I’d play Culdcept Saga, or Lost Odyssey, or work on my Lego Star Wars achievements, or something. But the X is upstairs in the bedroom. Has been since Monday evening.

OTOH, he’s currently eating a box of books … I may need a new box for those before I donate them. I definitely need something to replace them in the corner, since I use them to keep him out of the cables and wires with my computer and the server and a mess of crap that’s convenient to toss in that corner :o

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So, today was the first day that the Pick Your Own (Larriland Farms) was open for picking. Strawberries are starting to come into season, and they had about an acre of ripe ones.

We decided to take DK out. I remember going strawberry, and possibly blueberry, picking with my mom at a farm up near White’s Ferry (? There’s this ferry, see, that we rode on the way to my great-grandmother’s, I think it was White’s Ferry (Yes. Yes it was, in fact, White’s Ferry)). Funny thing is? I don’t, really, like any of the berries fresh. I like them in jam, occasionally pies. But I really have no idea why I was picking fresh strawberries :o Other than I was 8 or so and it was lots of fun

So I wanted to take DK out. And he actually LIKES the berries, too! I’d like to get my mom out with him, but maybe later in the season. Or next year, when he could maybe pick some, and walk back to give them to her while she sits and holds the basket. Maybe.

Anyway, at 2$/lb for up to 20lbs (after 20 it gets some cheaper, but seriously? Like I need 20+lbs of strawberries?) we went down the row they put us in. We went today because the site suggested that they might not have any left tomorrow from opening weekend. Of course, with ~20 acres of strawberries, I imagine they’ll have plenty by next week again ;)

They were assigning rows, but a little after we started some other folks showed up and started wandering back and forth across our row. Grr. But they seemed to be trying to catch up to someone, so when they stopped to yak we jumped around them for the rest and it worked out ok.

In the end, he ate half a dozen (maybe a little more) strawberries whilst we worked. And we bought 11lbs of strawberries :o

Kiir has pics up of DK Picking, Eating, and Admiring the strarberries. And then some of him Exploring the fields, and then Mugging for the camera too :)

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