Bad bench! Bad bad bench!

We had a bit of a scare on Wednesday when we went to Target at Serramonte. M was fussy when I took her out of the car and as we walked from the car to Target. So I set her down on the bench outside Target so I could grab some water or snack from my backpack. While I was getting into the backpack, I heard a cry from her and found her on the ground behind the bench!! The bench had a big gap in the lower back part, and the bottom of the bench was short in that it didn't really go all the way back either. So M had wiggled enough to fall through that big gap and landed on the concrete floor behind/under the bench. Oooooh, she was NOT happy about that. She must have bumped her lip/mouth on the way down because she ended up with a bruise under her lip, plus a cut on the inner side of her lip where it was bleeding. She was lying down when I saw her, but it looked like her head was OK. So I held her, calmed her down, wiped off the blood, gave her some water. After a while I think she was OK. Treated her to a nice cool refreshing Strawberry & Creme Frappuchino from Starbucks, and then she was walking around the mall. Yep, she seems OK. I was worried about her sleeping through the night, but she slept ok.

I will have to remember to avoid benches and chairs with big gaps in the back. They're so dangerous!!!

M has quite a lot to say these days, she's turning out to be quite the chatterbox. She tries to repeat what we say. We have to really be careful of what we say around her. Was changing her diaper the other day and referred to Desitin diaper rash cream as "butt paste", which she tried to repeat, "buh buh." She says, "wah wah," with the correct intonation for flower (which has a much different demanding tone from her, "wah! wah!" or, "wah wah?" which means, "where are you," or, "where are you going?". She says, "dah doon," with the correct intonation for thank you. She can say things like ball and door. I think the one and maybe two syllable words are easier for her. She still hasn't quite gotten banana right; she says, "nanana," or "ba!", but even combining the two different syllables. Yet she has her own language too. Lately she has been saying, "mabu mabu. ga ga? doe doe doe." No idea what that means. She's been saying, "mabu mabu," for a while now and we think it's usually when things are going well, she's happy, etc. She sometimes says, "ga ga?" while we are watching The Wiggles, particularly during the Quack Quack song, so we always thought she was trying to say, "quack quack." And then later on she added, "doe doe doe," which we thougth was her attempt to sing along with the Knead Some Dough song.

The Wiggles is still her favorite thing to watch on TV. Now she will try to let us know that she wants to watch it by waving her hands/arms in a certain way and/or waving her hands with pointed fingers (can you point your fingers and do the twist?). If she had it her way, she'd be watching The Wiggles all day long. Of course we won't let her do that.

Right now I am sipping a cup of Lupicia 8506 Tokio green tea which is described as, "green tea delicately flavored with sweet berries." It's not bad, but I think I prefer the 8223 Grapefruit Green a little more. They're both very good flavored green teas. Their teas come in inverted pyramid shaped tea bags which give the tea plenty of room. And the tea bags still smell so aromatic even after you are done with it.

Earlier this week I tried their 5223 Sakuranbo black tea. It is described as, "black tea with fresh Japanese cherry flavor. Its sour-sweet aroma is taste-catching and its cute topping with the image of red ripened cherries is also eye-catching. It's good, but I seem to be more into green teas lately.

Am currently trying to decide whether to make another 3AM Cable Hat, or do a simple rollbrim hat in mostly stockinette. I could use the "mindless" knitting of the latter cuz I'm having a hard time concentrating on knitting right now. Yes, we're still using the car as a "prop" to get M to sleep, but she has become increasingly resistant to the car, and I there have been times where she is clearly tired, yet she managed to stay awake while I'm driving around for an hour! So I'm not getting as much knitting as I would hope while she is napping in the car.

On Tuesday we had a power outage around 12:30pm. I was about to give M her lunch, and then maybe go for a little car ride. Then the power went out and my next thought was, "omigosh, how am I going to get the car out of the garage??" Well the power came back on in about an hour, and we left the house after that.

Don't forget to set your clocks back one hour this weekend...

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