The Negotiator

You know having kids is such a blessing..... most days. On days like today, however, when you realize that you need to purchase a new keyboard because the one you're currently typing on has had an unfortunate accident. Oh wait, that would be "accident"... you know Abby loves those finger quotes. Everything is either an "accident" or a "kinda little bit broken" by an "accident" of course. Anyway, apparently, computer keyboards don't respond well to "juice baths". For one it makes the keys all sticky which really slows down the speed of my typing. More importantly it renders some keys totally useless. These are keys I like. Keys I use multiple times a day. These are shortcut keys. Like my email key. Now I have to actually use the mouse and click on my email icon to get my email to load. I have a very small computer time window and the loss of that key alone is taking precious seconds away from my surfing/emailing/blogging/blog reading time. My ctrl key has also lost it's ability to function. That means no more ctrl-alt-del-ing when a program freezes up. That means no more multi-picture uploads to flickr. That one hurts the most I think. Losing the ability to move, copy, delete, upload multiple things at once. I still hold down the ctrl key in vain, hoping against hope that it will start working again. Abby's piggy bank sure is taking a hit this week. First she had to fork out $10 to replace Maya's thrush medication. Now she has to come up with $14 (on sale) to get Mommy a keyboard in which all the keys work. I think she's upstairs rolling her pennies right now. She better hurry, that sale ends today.

Oh I'm just kidding, she's not really rolling her pennies. No, currently she's sitting in the living room hating me because I wouldn't let her eat Smartfood for breakfast. The alternate choices of pancakes or toast did not meet with her approval. So breakfasts talks have broken down and she appears to be contemplating a hunger strike. One less meal a day I have to cook is fine by me.

Breaking news; she has agreed to drop the Smartfood issue and instead is requesting birthday cake.... served, I'm sure, with milk as part of a balanced breakfast.

Birthday cake has been denied.

Both sides have finally agreed on bread, eaten straight up out of the bag. There was some discussion back and forth on whether the crust would be eaten as well..... and yes, this just in, the crust will be eaten.

Both sides are now declaring victory. The one side for "getting their own way". The other because it knows that she's actually eating whole grain bread even though looks and tastes like white bread. Sneaky aren't I?

Abby's celebrating her win by singing Who Says You Can't Go Home, by Bon Jovi, featuring Jennifer Nettles. Although I can't quite convince her that they're singing it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright and not shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up.

Let's not forget about Maya. She had her two month check up yetserday. The doc was very happy with her progress for being a over month early. Abby was only 3 weeks early and gained weight so slowly. She just met her goal of tripling her body weight by 1 and was just over 15 pounds. Maya is already 11 pounds 8 ounces. She's also added 2 inches to her length. The government of Canada has added 3 new vaccinations to the mix so Maya had two needles yesterday. One in each chubby little thigh. The doc warned that second one, Prevnar, stings when it's administered. I didn't think she could scream more or louder than she did with the first shot, but oh my did she ever. They could hear her in the waiting room. She didn't do too badly for the rest of the day. She's be content for a while and then burst out screaming for a few minutes. Luckily she seemed to have it all out of her system by bed time and slept reasonably well last night.