Don't be scared, smokey

Corinna recently taught Alice to say, “Okey-dokey, smokey.” Pretty cute, yes? But Alice has added her own adorable little twist. When Alice is tucked in in her crib she often says to us, “Don’t be scared. I won’t be scared.” This is usually uttered in a barely audible whisper. We’re not really sure where she got this; she certainly doesn’t appear scared, and we reassure her that nobody needs to be scared. Combine the two phrases and you end up with, “Don’t be scared, smokey.” Other cute things Alice has said recently: “I like your haircut Daddy. It makes you look handsome.” “You stay there, I be right back.” No problems with language development here.

Alice's first shower

Yesterday Alice and I had a shower together; normally I have a shower when I get home from work, and yesterday Alice decided to join me. It was pretty cute to see her taking off all her clothes and diaper (I’ve never seen her take off her diaper before). I think it’s cuz when Alice was at Marlene’s last week (the back up day home- Donna was off sick) she made a book called “keeping our bodies clean”, and one of the pictures in her book was of a person having a shower. I think I can now conclude the novelty has worn off; today we tried the shower again, and Alice cried and said she wanted out; this was of course before I even had the chance to wash my hair…

2 months later...

Today is Valentine’s Day- it’s been 2 days since we’ve heard Alice cough; we think she’s finally over her flu…knock on wood? We’re hoping to be rid of the aerobear this weekend (that’s her steroid puffer she’s been on for 2 months). Alice is very good at her aerobear, and often does it herself. The first few days she was on it, we had to force it to her face and make her breathe, it was aweful; much like the whole illness was. Alice didn’t eat anything for 9 days, didn’t even take a single step for 12. She just slept, sat in her chair and watched movies or be carried up/down stairs— Don and I’s arms were so sore! Alice was also so miserable the whole time she was sick, it was exhausting. There was so much crying, both by Alice and Mommy. It was hard to have Alice so sick, along with Don and myself. We were so grateful that my mother came up twice to help with Alice, once before Christmas and then again on boxing day. We couldn’t have made it through without her, thanks mom! Anyway, on happier notes, Alice had a fabulous Valentine’s Day. We got many treats and valentines from all the kids at Donna’s and went to Auntie Tammy’s after Mommy was done work. Nana, Papa and Auntie Rene were there, as well as Auntie Chrissy and Cassie. We decorated heart cookies and opened presents— it was just like Christmas! We are so glad to have our little girl back- healthy and happy, that’s all that matters.

pwsafe on Fedora Core 6

I’m a big fan of pwsafe, a command-line clone of Counterpane’s Password safe. To build pwsafe on Fedora Core 6 I did the following. As root:

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Photo Friday - Peaceful

Alice sleeping peacefully on the couch, Dec. 20, 2006. As some of you know, our family all had a nasty virus from Dec. 13th to … well … we’re mostly over it now. When this photo was taken, Alice had been running a fever off and on for a few days. The highest we saw was 40.9C – if her fever had been 41C two times in an hour we would have had to rush her to emergency. She didn’t go to emergency, but our family did go to the South Calgary Urgent Care Centre twice and Dr. Pow twice.

Lens Day - Experimental

Experimenting with a fresh pomegranate.

Photo Friday - Sisters

The Twisters and Alice, October 30, 2004. Alice was only 5 weeks old. Corinna on the left, Christina on the right. :-)

Our little girl is growing up!

This morning, Alice wanted some banana, so I got her one that was in the fridge; she said it was too cold, so I got her one off the counter; she said “it’s warm, mmmm really good.”. I asked her, “how did you get so smart?”. Alice replied, “I’m growing up”. And so she is!

168 Pages of Curious George

Alice recently received a present from the Marfleet family which included “The New Adventures of Curious George”. This was actually a collection of eight Curious George stories, and at 198 pages a very big book for a two-year-old. We opened the present yesterday morning. Heather said she still had the receipt in case we wanted to exchange the book. Yesterday while Corinna was doing a dinner party for 16 people Alice and I hung out together. By the time she went to bed, Alice and I had read the first seven stories (168 pages) of Curious George. We finished the remaining story this morning. Tonight, we started back at the beginning again and re-read the first three stories. Hey, Heather: I think you can throw out the receipt now.

Chipped Tooth

Yesterday Alice chipped her top right front tooth (maxillary central incisor). Alice was sitting in her booster seat before supper; she was tired and fooling around. She swung her head forward and banged her mouth on the table. Immediately she started to cry. Corinna and I both came running. I expected Alice to have a cut lip, but her lip was fine. As she clung to her mommy and cried I could see that the top of her tooth was chipped. It didn’t take long for Alice to stop crying, but Corinna and I were both pretty upset. Alice asked for her noodles (kraft dinner), so I got to work cooking my specialty. After a good supper of noodles we gave her some ice cream. It didn’t bother her tooth at all, so that’s good.