I've started playing a game called Stockstars. They give you $100,000 in play money and you invest it on the stock market. The game tracks everything for you EXACTLY as though you had real money invested. I've made roughly $6000 in one week!!! That being said, I was down more than $10,000 at one point. YIKES. I've learned quite a bit already. First of all, I've learned that it would be unwise for a stay at home mom to quit her day job to become a day trader. I've had several good trades turn ugly when I unwisely decided to play with Paul or change his diaper, instead of watching my stock. You'll find Stockstars on the Financial Post website.
Finn: Has learned to refer to herself as "I". As in... I want it, I want it, I want it!!!! Also she has learned to put on her jacket herself. She lays the jacket in front of her. Puts her hands in the sleeves and flips it over her head. GENIUS!!! I'm referring to her babysitter who taugh her this cool trick.
Paul: He is giggling like crazy when we play together. He can roll over onto his side... but chooses not to roll right to his belly. He hates being on his belly.
My Dad: (Keep in mind that my Dad was probably less than 30 years old when this happened) Once when I was a little girl, my dad was cleaning my ears with a q-tip. I guess he pushed too hard and I started to cry. He proceeded to tell me that he had lost the q-tip in my ear. Naturally, I completely believed him. In fact, I believed this to be true for years. Until, one day when I was many years older it occurred to me that it could not possibly be true. I asked him about it many years later and he had no recollection of telling me that he'd lost a q-tip. But he thought it was funny that I had believed that for so long. The moral of the story is that kids believe anything their parents tell them.
Finn: Has learned to refer to herself as "I". As in... I want it, I want it, I want it!!!! Also she has learned to put on her jacket herself. She lays the jacket in front of her. Puts her hands in the sleeves and flips it over her head. GENIUS!!! I'm referring to her babysitter who taugh her this cool trick.
Paul: He is giggling like crazy when we play together. He can roll over onto his side... but chooses not to roll right to his belly. He hates being on his belly.
My Dad: (Keep in mind that my Dad was probably less than 30 years old when this happened) Once when I was a little girl, my dad was cleaning my ears with a q-tip. I guess he pushed too hard and I started to cry. He proceeded to tell me that he had lost the q-tip in my ear. Naturally, I completely believed him. In fact, I believed this to be true for years. Until, one day when I was many years older it occurred to me that it could not possibly be true. I asked him about it many years later and he had no recollection of telling me that he'd lost a q-tip. But he thought it was funny that I had believed that for so long. The moral of the story is that kids believe anything their parents tell them.
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