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September 10th, 2008 | by Jessie | Leave a comment

Happy birthday to my best brother Jacob! He’s a brilliant structural engineering student studying at ISU and he’s 22 today. I love you.

Second day of preschool yesterday. Jude handled it much better than his first time. I got a little more insight into just how badly he behaved his first day. Upon picking him up yesterday, the teacher admitted on the fit scale, last week’s fits were at a 10. You know, the kicking and screaming on the floor type. Nice. I wanted to hide, but instead I just chuckled and apologized. Today she said there were a still a few fits, but she estimated they were at a 3. Ok, I can live with a 3 for now! I can tell at home he’s becoming more aware of the tantrums. I’ve started saying, "Ok, Jude, you can throw a fit, but you have to go into your room to do it… or you can continue eating, playing, walking, fill-in-the-blank with us." It’s been effective for the time being.

I have a dentist appointment this afternoon for a cleaning. I’ve been a bad girl and haven’t been flossing regularly the last, oh… 6 months since my last appointment. Because I use a Sonicare (shout out!) I think I don’t have to floss. It’s not true, but I dedicate so much time to brushing, I don’t want to take the extra 30 seconds to floss. I don’t like wrapping the floss around my fingers (I never know how much to take) I don’t like putting my fingers in my mouth, and I don’t like opening my mouth that wide to accommodate my fingers. So there. I know I’ll get scolded.

I’m diligently plugging away at the quilting of the grandmother’s flower garden quilt. It’s taking a long time – it’s a big quilt, but I’ll be done soon. Then I’ll start binding it using a knife edge or self-binding technique which I’ve never done, so another adventure will begin. I’ll blog about it, I’m sure.

My dearest and I are going with friends and a few family members to a concert in Omaha Saturday night. Okkervil River. I’m so excited. We’ve only been into their music for about a year or so and this is the first opportunity we’ve had to see them live. Here’s a video if anyone is interested.