Eating Day

Every once in awhile Jupiter has an eating day, where she pretty much eats nonstop all day long. Yesterday was that day.

She woke up around 6am, demanding oatmeal. I demanded that she eat the banana kept on her windowsill for the purpose of fulfilling a hunger pang. (note: she was up early again.)

Demanding that she eat the banana did not work.

I made oatmeal. I fed her oatmeal. In bed. She said she was going back to sleep.

She didn't. I did; briefly.

By 7am we were up for the day. At 8:30, she wanted more oatmeal.

At 10am she broke into the bag of pirate booty. I gave her a gladware container of pirate booty.

She ate two more containers of pirate booty after that. Now the bag is 1/3rd gone.

She went outside for 40 minutes.

She came in and ate half a can of dinosaurs.

She ate 5 chocolate covered pretzels.

She ate 1 and 1/2 kiwis.

She ate two pieces of peanut butter toast.

She ate 4 chicken nuggets.

She ate an oatmeal cookie.

Then she ate 1/2 a yogurt tube at bedtime, but couldn't finish it.

Boom!!!!!!!

So today, Mimi brought over Jupiter's food thermos. The one from Wednesday which she haden't been able to get open since. The one Jupiter put the apple juice in with the fried rice she didn't like because it tasted too much like rice. She didn't know if it was broken or if Jupiter just closed it with her super strong muscles.

I tried to open it. I banged it on the counter and then tried to open it. So I got a cheese spreader and tried to get it between the thermos lid and the metal side of the bottle to see if I could break the seal. Jupiter dragged Mimi to the living room to show off her cat. I got the lid a little looser, so kept working at it.

BOOOOOOOMMMMM! The lid exploded off the top of the thermos and flew accross the dining room. Scared me to death. Fortunately the lid was pointed at the farthest point possible, and not at my face, at Jupiter's face (where she normally would have been climbing all over me wanting to help) or the ceiling which would now have a giant hole in it.

I'm not quite sure what caused the thermos to create such a super vaccum seal. Unless Lina's apple juice and rice fermented into some kind of vaccum packed moonshine.

Lesson learned.

Yesterday I woke up

Well, actually I woke up twice. I woke up at 4:30, realized I could sleep another hour, and buried the alarm clock under the pillow so it wouldn't wake up Jupiter when it went off.

It didn't.

I had forgotten to set the alarm entirely and woke up at 6:20.

Really, we should be OUT of the house at 6:20. At the very least, we should be leaving the house.

I skipped the shower (though I did brush my teeth and all the really important stuff). I went and poked Jupiter so she would wake up. She didn't.

I ran to the kitchen and tried to find Jupiter's lunchbox. No lunchbox. Maybe we left that at Mimi's yesterday. I threw her snacks and some clothes into a store bag (I used them for the cat box. But I used a clean one for Jupiter's clothes and food. No worries.). I threw them in the car, started the car, and went to get Jupiter.

She was awake. Not suprising, since I'd been running through the house like a herd of elephants.
We got in the car and drove to Mimi's house.

No lunchbox. No thermos for hot canned dinosaurs for lunch. I try to convince Jupiter to eat hot lunch. It's supposed to be pizza Friday.

Mimi pulled out a long retired lunchbox from I don't know when, and a thermos from last year which may or may not have been designed to keep hot food hot.

I cruised to work. Ten minutes late. Not too shabby for being up 50 minutes late.

At 10:30 I looked in the mirror and decided to wear my hat for the rest of the day.

At the end of the school day, the check out teacher delivered Jupiter to the room where Mimi was working that day. Jupiter did not have the lunchbox she had brought to school that day. She thought it was in the check out room. They trooped back to check out. The check out teacher appeared with Jupiter's regular lunchbox she had apparently left there the day before. Then they had to troop to Jupiter's regular classroom to retrieve the spare lunchbox.

One of the kindergarten teachers laughed in the hallway until she cried at the lunchbox saga.

Normally I'm glad that Jupiter won't touch hot lunch with a 50 foot pole. But some days, it would be convenient.

Today, Saturday morning, Jupiter was up at 5. AM.

Why???

Is it a defiant thing? I'm going to sleep when I can't sleep and wake up when I can sleep?

That must be it.

Photopost Friday in Sepia

Someday I will have current pictures....when I remember to bring the camera with me.

True Dialogue

"Jupiter? Why didn't you eat your fried rice at lunch today?"

"Because it still tasted too much like rice."

"So, wait. You like fried rice because it doesn't taste like rice?"

"Yeah. And, I can't eat the leftover rice from lunch, because I put my apple juice in it."

"Why did you put your apple juice in it?"

"Because I couldn't throw the apple juice away."

(I should have known to stop earlier. But I couldn't help myself.)

"Why didn't you DRINK the apple juice?"

"I didn't want it." (Duh).

"Well, then why did you open the apple juice if you didn't want it?"

"Well, I did want it then. Then I didn't want it."

School calls

Yesterday, the school called twice. In one day.

But it wasn't bad. Not that my heartbeat doesn't start racing as soon as I see any number that ends 183- on my phone.

The first call, at 11:15, was from the school social worker. Jupiter has been making such good choices at school that she will graduate from the behavior check in/check out sheet on Friday. Jupiter is happy about this.

The next call came at 2:15. Jupiter had a vision screening and did not pass the distance vision part of the screening. The school nurse called to tell me in case Jupiter might be worried about it and not give me the form she was sending home. I like the school nurse. I hung up and called the eye doctor to add Jupiter to the appointment I'd made for myself two days before. Two specialist co-pays in the same day.

I got the form (Jupiter handed it over willingly. I'm not sure she was aware she did not pass the screening) and it said her vision was 20/50 in one eye and 20/60 in the other eye. I always figured when she put her face right down to the paper she was just blocking all the extraneous stimuli.

My uncorrected vision is 20/400. Just for perspective. Although the number of things I can do in the dark without bothering to turn on a light suprises me sometimes.



I can't imagine Jupiter with glasses. I can see her taking them on and off all. day. long. I can see her taking them off and spinning them in the air. I can see her throwing them in the air and catching them. But actually wearing them, I'm having a hard time envisioning.

Side note: I got my glasses in third grade. The first time we went to the ocean that summer, I looked out over the water and promptly asked my mother "When did they put that island out there?"

Update on hiding things in stores: I drove to work this morning and they were STILL asking that question. They almost NEVER run the same topic for two days in a row.

And for those commenters who feel bad because they have done this (:)).....today a man called who went to a big box hardware store during an ice storm and found a generator. He did not have enough money for the generator, so he made himself a nice sign that said "Motor Blown", went to the bank, got more money, and went back to get his generator he had hidden in plain sight.

I ask you: if you were going to look for a generator, why wouldn't you bring enough money with you to buy the generator? It's not like a generator is an impulse buy or something. You pretty much have to intend to buy one ahead of time.


And update two: the radio co-host who hid the purse in the store for three weeks is now planning to return the purse back to the store because it is not big enough.

I kid you not.

Hiding Things

This morning, after I dropped Jupiter off and attempted to make my commute through the "light" falling snow, the radio station announced their call in topic for the day.

Hiding things in stores to go back and get later. Waiting for it to go on sale, don't have enough money with you, whatever. Apparently the radio show co host did it with a wallet three weeks ago.

And I thought Jupiter was the only one who did that. She's been doing that since she could enter stores not riding in the cart. My favorite was the can of Pringles she hid in the drugstore (behind some other bags of chips). Two days later, she went and retrieved it.

Now she does it with clothes. I keep hoping she'll forget. But she never does.