crying

today at lunch lilly announced to scott, adelle, and i:  

it's okay to cry, but not scream.

yes lilly big girls do cry.

About me

So I have been posting a lot about the girls.  The funny things they have been saying, the funny things that they have been doing, needless to say they are doing really well.

So I just wanted to take a second and tell you all how I'm doing.  Well let's just say the girls are far more interesting.  I'm fine, but really boring.  My day usually consists of sleeping in and being a mom, not very glamorous (as many of you know), but I really do love it! 

I've made three goals this week to, hopefully, make me a better mom.  (For this week anyway)

The first is no TV for me.  I find myself wasting so much time watching nothing!

The second is listen to only uplifting music.  You know the stuff that soothes the soul, Enya, Classical etc.

The third is be home by 5:00 p.m.  I find myself not being a very good mom, when we all roll into the house at 8 or 9 o'clock rushing bed time and not focusing on my girls, but more I can't wait for them to go to bed so I can watch such and such a show.

So after setting these goals for myself yesterday and living it the first day I have to say I'm exhausted!  I've forgotten how much work it is to be a real mom instead of just a pregnant woman that has two kids you have to feed and make sure they don't hurt anyone.  Owell the end is near.  And then I'll be even busier with three kids. 

It's a good thing I love it!

I had no idea!

While playing on pbskids.org today I noticed Adelle putting together a pattern on things on a blank portion of the screen.

I told Adelle that she was making a lovely pattern, she then corrected me with the following:

"it's a collage, that's French" 

now you know!

Lillyism

it is still so funny to me how sponge-like kids are. since i have been pregnant scott and i have talked to the girls about how there is a baby in my tummy and lilly has decided that there is a baby in her tummy too. 

lilly has also noticed as i have progressed through this pregnancy there have been things that i cannot do as much as i used to.  one of which is carry lilly and there is now very little space on my lap for her. i also can't carry things that are very heavy etc.

as mine and lilly's "pregnancy" have progressed i have found that my three year old has become more helpless than me.  when asking her to do things to help me out (granted she's three the tasks aren't too daunting: carry your toy in from the car, pick up your clothes) i often hear the response:

"i can't i have a baby in my tummy"

then on mother's day she came up to my dad poking out her tummy and said:

"can you feel my baby?"

as i have mentioned before my children LOVE looney tunes, and continue to pick up new words and sayings that have come from that show. as we were discussing lilly's baby at the dinner table we asked her what her baby's name is.  she then responed very quickly:

"canasta"

Weak constitution when it comes to blood

I have always been one of the those people that is facinated by blood, surgeries, and how the body works.  I have not trouble giving blood for my doctor appointments and even watch the blood leave my body into the small vials. (After they poke me. I'm not that sadistic, or is it masacistic.)

Scott has always been very much the opposite.  He does not like anything to do with that. 

Adelle and Lilly I believe have followed in their father's footsteps.

Adelle screams at the sight of blood, hers or anyone elses. (Once Lilly had a nose bleed and Adelle was crying harder that Lilly.)

Well after getting up one afternoon (yes afternoon).  I noticed Lilly in the bathroom and red stuff all over her leg and foot.

I went over to her and saw that she had picked off a small scab and was bleeding.  I then proceeded to grab the first aid kit to clean her up. I placed her on a small step stool, cleaned her with alcohol, neosporined the bandaid, and bandaged the small wound.

As I was cleaning up the mess Lilly squaked as if she was going to cry and fell to the side hitting her head on the toilet. I then noticed that she was in pass out mode, eyes rolled in the back of her head, body limp, mouth doing weird things.

I proceeded to place her on her back as she came too crying "My head, my head"

My only explination is the blood.  Too bad my girls couldn't follow in my footsteps.  Owell we know that nursing or becoming a doctor is not in the future for these two girls.

Adellesims

Saturday night last week we came home and our landlords were outside on their porch.  Adelle then went up to say hello to the kids, and we discovered that their little boys tooth was pulled by his mother leaving a small gap where the tooth was.

When Adelle asked to see why he had a piece of toilet paper in his mouth, she looked into his mouth seeing the small gap, turned to his mother and said:

"I would not have done that if I were you"

Another Looney Tune quote of the day

As running around the yard "Good thing we have Blue Cross"

A few nights ago Adelle was giving us so much trouble going to bed keeping Scott and I awake until 11:00 pm (and we have early church, not good for a pregnant woman).

Then at about 7:00 am Adelle came and climbed into bed with Scott giving him a big kiss saying:

"Sorry Daddy for crying so much last night, and keeping you awake."

Not one of my favorites of Dr. Laura. I don't know why but I had a hard time getting into it at first. I think it might have been my veiw on God and Jesus Christ and hers (She being Jewish and I'm a Latter-Day-Saint). But I was also suprised as to how much the two religions have in common (I knew nothing about the Jewish faith other than they don't belive Jesus Christ is the Son of God). Once I did get into it I did like it. She had a lot of really good advice, there were some quotes that I absolutely loved! It made me think how much better life would be for everyone if we followed the commandments a little more closely.
But I don't know if it was my pregnant brain or not, but I was sure glad I finished it and could move onto something more interesting.

memory lane

today while talking with scott's sister, becky, i was reminded of when adelle was little.  when one would ask her a question she would respond in one of two ways.

repeat the question you just asked (i.e. do you want a cookie? do you want a cookie?) that would be in the affirmative.

then for the negative was "no?"  it was always in the form of question, like i don't know if i'm supposed to be saying no but i'm going to test my boundaries.

that's my adelle!

Ewww...

I cannot understand children's facination with their nose and boogers.  

Yesterday Sarah was over visiting with me and Lilly proceeded to announce:

"I had a runny nose, and I picked it."

Thank you for sharing Lilly!

Kill the wabbit!

I love Looney Tunes.  I remember watching it as a child with my dad and him laughing his guts out! As I have grown i have had the opportunity to share mine and my dad's love for Looney Tunes with my girls.  

On New years day this year the Cartoon Network had a marathon on Looney Tunes, and thankfully, to my parents DVR, they recorded the entire thing.  Now when we go to my parents the first thing adelle asks for is to watch Looney tunes. She has become very familiar with the classics of Looney Tunes and one of her favorites (as well as mine) is "What's Opera Doc?"  If you are not familiar with this Looney tune it is the one where Elmer Fud is dressed up as a Vicking and is chasing Bugs as they sing different pieces from Richard Wagners operas.

A couple of days ago the new IHOP commercial for their strawberry pancakes (or something) came on and the most famous piece of music in the cartoon is also the theme music of this commercial. So being effected the way she is and having the incredible memory that Adelle has  I hear her singing along to the music of the commercial:

"Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit."

Funny how music effects this kid.